Schedule
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.
Les perdants
Jenny Cartwright casts a critical eye on a political system that doesn’t offer everyone the same opportunities. For most, the race is over before it even begins. But, thanks to the way the electoral system is set up, the big losers are the rest of us.
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 Pablo Álvarez-Mesa, Erin Ryan, Charlotte Selb in attendance
La Laguna del Soldado
In this second installment of a trilogy exploring the emblematic figure of Simón Bolívar, Pablo Álvarez-Mesa takes a sophisticated, artistic look at the páramo and its history.
SOLD OUT
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.
LARRY (iel)
A look at the intimate world of young non-binary trans photographer Laurence Philomène as they put together their first book, Puberty. Beyond the story of individual transformation, the film chronicles a society that is likewise transitioning, evolving as it grows.
Vingt dieux
Totone suddenly finds himself responsible for his 7-year-old sister, and must find a way to earn a living. With his friends, he sets out to make the best Comté cheese, one that will win him the gold medal at the agricultural competition and 30,000 euros.
Il reste encore demain
In postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of her domineering husband.
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.
Free entrance - With Matthew Rankin in attendance
Le vingtième siècle
On the dawn of the 20th century, William Lyon Mackenzie King negotiates the obstacles on his path on the way to becoming prime minister of Canada. Then there’s his private life, dominated by his mother and torn romantically between a Quebec nurse and a British soldier.
Free entrance - Last chance
Une langue universelle
Winter. Somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg. Matthew leaves his job at the Québec government and embarks upon a mysterious journey to visit his estranged mother.
La Laguna del Soldado
In this second installment of a trilogy exploring the emblematic figure of Simón Bolívar, Pablo Álvarez-Mesa takes a sophisticated, artistic look at the páramo and its history.
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.
Vingt dieux
Totone suddenly finds himself responsible for his 7-year-old sister, and must find a way to earn a living. With his friends, he sets out to make the best Comté cheese, one that will win him the gold medal at the agricultural competition and 30,000 euros.
With Matthew Wolkow, David Rothenberg, Nour Ouayda in attendance
Chants de l’Est
An unfinished film is passed along from one friend to another. The dialog between them is a journey crossed by the swarming of the Great Eastern Brood X of periodical cicadas that prophetically emerge every 17 years in the United States.
Misericordia
Jérémie returns to his hometown for the funeral of his former boss. He decides to stay for a few days with the man’s widow. A mysterious disappearance, a threatening neighbor and a priest with strange intentions make Jérémie’s short stay take an unexpected turn…
Flow
Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences. They navigate the challenges and dangers of adapting to this new world.
Last chance
Chronicle of a Crisis
Sarah and Simon, a couple of young millennials, are facing the repossession of their apartment in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis in the province of Quebec.
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.
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.
Il reste encore demain
In postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of her domineering husband.
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.
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.
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.
LARRY (iel)
A look at the intimate world of young non-binary trans photographer Laurence Philomène as they put together their first book, Puberty. Beyond the story of individual transformation, the film chronicles a society that is likewise transitioning, evolving as it grows.
With Matthew Wolkow, David Rothenberg in attendance
Chants de l’Est
An unfinished film is passed along from one friend to another. The dialog between them is a journey crossed by the swarming of the Great Eastern Brood X of periodical cicadas that prophetically emerge every 17 years in the United States.
The Big Lebowski
Living nonchalantly in Los Angeles, Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski doesn’t want any drama in his life… Heck, he can’t even be bothered with a job. But, he must embark on a quest with his bowling buddies after his rug is destroyed in a twisted case of mistaken identity.
Coming soon
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.
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.
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.
