Une projection du Cinéma Public dans la cour du Livart dans le cadre de la programmation Bleu soir.

June 14 to August 25, 2026


Bleu soir:
Open-air cinema

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.

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International cinema


A New Love in Tokyo

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


Chocolat

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


Drunken Noodles

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


EXPMTL

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


La ciénaga

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


La Nouba des femmes du mont Chenoua

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


Macho Dancer

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


Mur murs

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


My Own Private Idaho

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


News from Home

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


Où est la maison de mon ami ?

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


Oublie pas le gruau

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


The Company of Strangers

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


The Last One for the Road

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


Waiting for Guffman

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


Yes Sir! Madame…

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

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