Schedule
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Elli et l’équipe des monstres
Elli, a little homeless ghost, must team up with a crew of outsiders in a mad quest to save not only all the monsters, but also her only chance of finally having a family of her own.
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Leila and the Wolves
Drawing on the Arab heritage of oral tradition and mosaic pattern, Leila and the Wolves combines fictional drama, archival footage, and fantasy sequences to explore the collective memory of Arab women and their hidden role in history both in Palestine and in Lebanon.
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Le temps
Across various timelines and locations, four characters weave a web of stories that explore human resilience in the face of environmental upheaval. This fable about the climate crisis transcends artistic boundaries to spark a dialogue between our past, present and future.
Harold and Maude
The story of the emotional bond between a death-obsessed young man from a wealthy family and a devil-may-care, bohemian octogenarian. Equal parts gallows humor and romantic innocence, Harold and Maude dissolves the line between darkness and light.
Chronicle of a Summer
In the summer of 1960, Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin set out to chronicle the everyday lives of Parisians using a mixture of intimate interviews, debates and observations.
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The Princess Bride
A kid, home sick from school, grudgingly allows his grandfather to read him a dusty storybook—which is how we meet the innocent Buttercup, about to marry the nefarious Prince Humperdinck, though her heart belongs to the handsome Westley. A fairy-tale classic.
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Nowhere
Gregg Araki’s Nowhere is a stylized foray into the nightmare world of adolescent highs and lows, but more than that, it functions as a study of an entire generation and the direction they’re headed. A reflexive inquiry into the destiny of the seemingly apathetic youth.
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Grand Tour
Rangoon, Burma, 1918. Edward runs away from his fiancée Molly the day she arrives to get married. During his travels, however, panic gives way to melancholy. Determined to get married and amused by Edward’s move, Molly follows his trail on this Asian grand tour.
RATS!
It’s 2007 in Pfresno, Texas. Raphael is in county jail following an arrest for graffiti. He’s a good kid. It’s just graffiti. So you can’t blame Raphael for the events that unfold after his arrest — the sting operation, the FBI… None of it is Raphael’s fault, but it is his problem.
No Other Land
Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist, has been fighting his community’s mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. His complex bond with Yuval, an Israeli journalist who joins his struggle, is haunted by the extreme inequality between them.
Irma Vep
A Hong Kong movie star arrives in Paris to play the lead in a remake of a classic silent crime serial. What she finds is a behind-the-scenes tangle of barely controlled chaos as egos clash, romantic attractions simmer, and an obsessive director drives himself to the brink.
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Belonging in Fragments
This double bill — Never Anywhere by Sophie Valcourt, Americans Smell Good by Emir Cakaroz — will be followed by a discussion with filmmaker Sophie Valcourt.
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Retrospective: Focus Palestine
Through these short films made mainly by Palestinian filmmakers, FIFEQ invites you to question your position as spectator through the prism of politics, images and filmic ethnography.
Paul
Prone to depression and social anxiety, Paul has found refuge in the servitude of women who take him in to do housework. By exposing his gently eccentric routines on social media, he fights loneliness and takes it one day at a time.
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Nani India
Nani India follows a French man married to an Indian woman as he documents his travels to his mother-in-law’s home in India. He explores the religious rites and traditions of his in-laws, the lives of the people they meet, their occupations, and their family stories.
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Retrospective: Indigeneity
FIFEQ invites you to question the ongoing colonial force at work in Canada and Quebec — and more specifically, its impact on the lives and bodies of Indigenous women and girls.
No Other Land
Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist, has been fighting his community’s mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. His complex bond with Yuval, an Israeli journalist who joins his struggle, is haunted by the extreme inequality between them.
Bande-son pour un coup d’État
A riveting essay film that illuminates the political machinations behind the 1961 murder of Congo’s leader. A moment when African politics and American jazz collided.
With Sara Mishara, Sarah Galea-Davis in attendance
The Players
It’s the summer of 1994 and Emily’s dream of becoming an actor is about to come true, when she joins an avant-garde theatre production. As the lines between artistic and personal relationships blur, Emily becomes trapped in the complex power dynamics within the group.
L’histoire de Souleymane
As he pedals through the streets of Paris, Souleymane repeats his story. In two days, he has to go through his asylum application interview. But Souleymane is not ready.
Hola Frida
Little Frida is the sunlight of her small Mexican village. When a polio diagnosis casts a cloud over her spirit, she is forced into the solitude of her bedroom. But it’s there that she finds solace in her imagination, a world brimming with color, flowers, and possibilities.
Je suis toujours là
Brazil, 1971, under the military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva, a mother of five children, is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers a violent and arbitrary act by the government. The true story that helped reconstruct an important part of Brazil’s hidden history.
No Other Land
Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist, has been fighting his community’s mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. His complex bond with Yuval, an Israeli journalist who joins his struggle, is haunted by the extreme inequality between them.
With Denis Côté in attendance
Paul
Prone to depression and social anxiety, Paul has found refuge in the servitude of women who take him in to do housework. By exposing his gently eccentric routines on social media, he fights loneliness and takes it one day at a time.
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Harold and Maude
The story of the emotional bond between a death-obsessed young man from a wealthy family and a devil-may-care, bohemian octogenarian. Equal parts gallows humor and romantic innocence, Harold and Maude dissolves the line between darkness and light.
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The Encampments
When a group of students at Columbia University launch a movement protesting the war in Gaza, they spark a nationwide uprising in solidarity with the people of Gaza. The Encampments sheds light on a moment that continues to make headlines today.
Bread Day + Paradise
Sergei Dvortsevoy’s early observational documentaries capture a time of transition in Russia and Kazakhstan in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union with a slow and steady cinematic gaze.
Billy
Filmmaker Lawrence Côté-Collins finds her attacker in prison. Billy is schizophrenic and his worst attack left two people dead. Their epistolary prison friendship sheds light on the truth about this mental illness which was neither diagnosed nor treated.
