June 14 to August 25, 2026
Livart courtyard – 3980 St-Denis
Cinéma Public and Le Livart present Bleu soir, a series of open-air screenings under the stars. Because a good film goes hand in hand with a good beer, Dieu du Ciel! is joining us as an official partner for the season.
International cinema
At the terminus of the Japanese Bubble era, Rei and Ayumi, both sex workers, strike up a friendship and lose themselves in a world dedicated to the pursuit of pleasure, camaraderie and the joys of hanging out in the perpetually horny districts of Shinjuku and Shibuya.
Banmei Takahashi
Japan
language: Japanese
subtitles: English
115 min
International cinema
Returning to the town where she grew up in Cameroon after many years living in France, a white woman reflects on her relationship with Protée, a Black servant with whom she formed a friendship while not fully grasping the racial divides that governed their worlds.
Claire Denis
France
language: French
subtitles: English
105 min
International cinema
Adnan, a young art student, arrives in New York City to flat-sit for the summer, where he begins interning at a gallery. As moments from his past and present begin to intertwine, a series of encounters—both artistic and erotic—open cracks in his everyday reality.
Lucio Castro
United States
language: English
82 min
VISIONS × Vidéographe
Created by artists from Montreal and the surrounding area, the works in this edition of EXPMTL, copresented with VISIONS and Vidéographe, have been drawn from the Vithèque collection, a vast repository of Vidéographe’s video history dating back to the 1970s.
Various artists
Québec (Canada)
51 min
International cinema
A muddy swimming pool in a country estate constitute the backdrop where the lethargic members of a bourgeois family spend their summer. A visceral take on class, nature, sexuality, and the ways that political turmoil and social stagnation can manifest in human relationships.
Lucrecia Martel
Argentina, France, Spain
language: Spanish
subtitles: French or English
101 min
Chergui
Engaging in conversation with other Algerian women, Lila reflects on the differences between their lives and her own.
Assia Djebar
Algeria
language: Arabic, Shawiya
subtitles: English
115 min
International cinema
Upon losing a reliable American client, 18-year-old gigolo Pol leaves his native province to try his luck in the soapy gay clubs of Manila. As Pol learns the ropes alongside fellow stripper Noel and savvy prostitute Bambi, he discovers more than his young mind bargained for.
Lino Brocka
Philippines
language: Tagalog
133 min
International cinema
In 1979, Agnès Varda created this kaleidoscopic documentary about the striking murals that decorate Los Angeles. Bursting with color and vitality, Mur murs is as much an invigorating study of community and diversity as it is an essential catalog of unusual public art.
Agnès Varda
France, United States
language: French, English
82 min
International cinema
Mike and Scott, two young street hustlers, embark on a quest along the grungy streets and open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home.
Gus Van Sant
United States
language: English
subtitles: French
104 min
International cinema
A mother writes to her daughter who has left for America. A mother writes to her daughter who has left for America. A small voice from a Europe that is still trying to be heard. Little music of life that we still hear but to which we can no longer answer from New York.
Chantal Akerman
France, Belgium
language: French, English
85 min
International cinema
Kiarostami takes a simple premise—a boy searches for the home of his classmate whose school notebook he has accidentally taken—and transforms it into a miraculous, child’s-eye adventure of the everyday.
Abbas Kiarostami
Iran
language: Farsi
subtitles: French or English
83 min
Opening film
The Barbarian believes he has only a few erections left before death. Cursed to a life in a thrift shop and haunted by family tragedy, he sets his sights on Marie, an alcoholic special-ed teacher. If he must go, he figures, he might as well go out in good company.
Olivier Godin
Québec (Canada)
language: French, Japanese, Arabic
75 min
Homegrown cinema
Seven elderly women find themselves stranded when their bus breaks down in the wilderness. They turn a potential crisis into a magical time of humour, spirit and camaraderie.
Cynthia Scott
Canada
language: English
100 min
International cinema
Two washed-up petty criminals spend their days drinking and reminiscing, until a chance encounter with Giulio, a drifting architecture student, launches them on a road trip through the Venetian plains.
Francesco Sossai
Italy, Germany
language: Italian
subtitles: French or English
100 min
International cinema
An aspiring director and the marginally talented amateur cast of a hokey small-town Missouri musical production go overboard when they learn that someone from Broadway will be in attendance.
Christopher Guest
United States
language: English
subtitles: French
84 min
Homegrown cinema
Born in Acadia to a French-speaking father and an English-speaking mother, Earl Tremblay grapples with a distinctly Canadian-flavoured identity crisis. Determined to resolve it, he starts filming his daily life, trying to find the same meaning in both English and French.
Robert Morin
Québec (Canada)
language: English, French
75 min
