In theatre
Casa d’Italia – 505 Jean-Talon E
Landmark of the Little Italy neighbourhood, the Casa d’Italia is our anchor point to offer you more screenings, events and meetings. With Jean-Talon station right across the street, there’s no excuse to miss a good movie on the big screen!
Homegrown cinema
One day, from one sleep to the next, three women and three men from Africa find their place in Rome; Patience and Joan in squats, Destiny, Steve, and Souleymane in apartments, Mamadou in a park.
Robert Morin
Québec (Canada), Italy
language: Multiple languages
subtitles: French
75 min
Regards palestiniens: Returns
The final night of Returns is dedicated to the late Mohammad Bakri, who has been a pillar of Palestinian cinema and theatre for over five decades. Bakri’s final two works confront the concept of legacy when situated in the ongoing struggle for Palestinian liberation.
Mohammad Bakri
Palestine
language: Arabic
subtitles: French
66 min
International cinema
While writing a monograph on historical theories of memory, Béatrice, a respected academic, becomes beguiled by the allegedly true story of the Chronovisor, an occult device said to reproduce visuals from any point in history on a TV screen.
Jack Auen, Kevin Walker
United States
language: English, French, German, Italian
subtitles: English
100 min
International cinema
Isabel, a 17-year-old Ilokana, works at a posh country club outside Manila. New to the job, she wanders the immaculate grounds as members engage in a complex dance with the club’s subservient staff. But something is rotting beneath the pristine fairways of the elite resort.
Rafael Manuel
Singapore, United Kingdom, Philippines, France, Netherlands
language: Filipino, English, Ilokano
subtitles: English
100 min
International cinema
Nearly a year after her husband’s death, Haru rekindles her passion for social dancing and comes alive with her new teacher.
Josef Kubota Wladyka
Japan, United States
language: Japanese, English, Spanish
subtitles: English
122 min
Homegrown cinema
When Steeve was a young adult, his parents — members of Jehovah’s Witnesses — isolated him from the rest of the world before abruptly throwing him out on the streets. Today, he is still there. This unconventional barber lives and works out of his van, named HOMLES.
Bruno Chouinard
Québec (Canada)
language: French
96 min
Homegrown cinema
In a Sicilian village, residents await the return of loved ones who left half a century ago to build a better life in Montreal. While this long-awaited visit is bringing the semi-deserted village back to life, bittersweet feelings churn beneath the excitement.
Shelley Tepperman
Québec (Canada)
language: Italian, English
subtitles: French
75 min
International cinema
In the heart of Paris’s gay scene, Jim reigns supreme. But when a bizarre virus called Heterosis starts turning gay men straight, his reign ends overnight. Jim is left with just one unlikely ally: Lucien, a devoted scrawny twink with more loyalty than clout.
Marco Nguyen, Nicolas Athané
Belgium, France
language: French
85 min
International cinema
La bola negra spans nearly a century of Spanish history, telling the story of three men whose lives are intimately connected through desire, pain and love. Rich with Lorca’s poetry, it is an intimate love story and a sweeping exploration of memory, inheritance and queer history.
Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi
Spain, France
language: Spanish, English
subtitles: French
159 min
Homegrown cinema
A young filmmaker delves into her dead father’s video archives. As the end of the world approaches, she now sets out to capture the extraordinary in the ordinary.
Noémie D. Leclerc
Québec (Canada)
language: French, English
subtitles: French
111 min
Homegrown cinema
Through the detours of a correspondence project, we accompany young indigenous and non-indigenous people in a patient crisscrossing, between childhood and adolescence.
Guillaume Langlois
Québec (Canada)
language: French, Innu
subtitles: English
83 min
International cinema
In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika embark on a challenging and emotional road trip in a black Buick taking them across a Germany in ruins — from US dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar.
Paweł Pawlikowski
Poland, Germany, Italy, France
language: German
subtitles: French
82 min
Homegrown cinema
By centring the voice of a colony of ring-billed gulls, The Inheritors disrupts the usual perspective of wildlife documentary and explores new ways of living and dying on a planet haunted by mass consumption and pollution.
Serge-Olivier Rondeau
Québec (Canada)
language: French
79 min
International cinema
Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, NAZA reveals in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians. How does one group of people allow the total dehumanization of another? What do the inner workings of such a system look like?
Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
United Kingdom
language: English, Hebrew
subtitles: French
80 min
Homegrown cinema
Nitassinan is a feature-length documentary that bears witness to the Innu people and affirms our history-past, present, and future. This film is a message of love for our territory, which saw our birth and which still accompanies us today, even in our dreams.
Joséphine Bacon, Kim O’Bomsawin
Québec (Canada)
language: French, Innu
subtitles: French
78 min
Regards palestiniens: Returns
The second night of Returns is a shorts programme contending with how memory and recollection shape the intertwined histories and realities of Lebanon and Palestine. What happens to a story after each retelling? What defines the event after each recurrence?
Various filmmakers
language: Arabic, English
subtitles: English
78 min
Regards palestiniens: Returns
In lieu of visually reproducing the genocide in Gaza as a spectacle of violence, we focus on remembering through testimony: moments of boredom, anguish over limitations, reveling in music, being on the beach, and caring for community.
Mahmoud Nabil Ahmed
Palestine, Tunisia
language: Arabic
subtitles: English
82 min
Ages 5 and up
Just a few days before Halloween, the clumsy Farmer trashes the Flock’s beloved pumpkin patch! When Shaun turns mad scientist to fix the problem, things rapidly spiral out of control…
Steve Cox, Matthew Walker
United Kingdom
language: French
80 min
Tutto giallo
A woman returns to the home where her first husband died, only to find her young son acting stranger each day. Something in that house wants her back, and it is using the boy to make sure she never leaves.
Mario Bava
Italia
language: Italian
subtitles: English
95 min
Tutto giallo
A young student uncovers dark and horrific secrets within the walls of a famous German dance academy. What spirals out from that simple premise is one of the most powerful and hallucinatory nightmares ever captured on celluloid!
Dario Argento
Italy
language: Italian
subtitles: English
98 min
Enter the Videodrome
A misanthropic, struggling photographer just wants to watch TV and eat candy while his wife is out of town, but when a desperate old pal resurfaces, his plans are thwarted, with spooky consequences.
Clay Tatum
United States
language: English
104 min
International cinema
Following the finale of his TV series, filmmaker John Wilson sets out to make the definitive documentary on the history of concrete. But his foundation soon begins to crumble.
John Wilson
United States
language: English
101 min
Tutto giallo
Guided by a vision, a clairvoyant woman breaks open a wall in her husband’s house and discovers a skeleton hidden behind it. With the help of her psychiatrist, she sets out to uncover who the victim was and who put her there, until she begins to fear she may be next.
Lucio Fulci
Italy
language: Italian
subtitles: English
100 min
Homegrown cinema
Through cinematic landscapes and testimony from survivors, journalists, and witnesses, Kenya-Jade Pinto’s The Sandbox explores modern border control, where surveillance, AI, and militarization decide who lives and who dies.
Kenya-Jade Pinto
Canada
language: English, Arabic, Greek, Somali
subtitles: English
90 min
Boîte à surprises
In this prequel to his groundbreaking television series, David Lynch resurrects the teenager found wrapped in plastic at the beginning of the show, following her through the last week of her life.
David Lynch
United States
language: English
135 min
Homegrown cinema
Un renversement lifts the veil on the inner workings of women’s politics. Through intimate and unfiltered testimonies from emblematic Quebec political figures, the film reveals the obstacles, struggles, and power dynamics that mark their journeys.
Amélie Hardy
Québec (Canada)
language: French
77 min
Homegrown cinema
Mira is a solitary woman of few words. She travels the roads meeting desperate people with whom she seems to have forged strange death pacts.
Denis Côté
Québec (Canada)
language: French
118 min
International cinema
What begins as an intimate portrait of notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes, convicted of fraud, becomes a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss.
Nathan Fielder, Lance Oppenheim
United States
language: English
subtitles: French
175 min
