Schedule

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Nov 27 Monday, November 27
18:00
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
20:00
May December
Nov 28 Tuesday, November 28
20:00
Militant cinema
Nov 29 Wednesday, November 29
18:00
Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant
20:00
Young Voices
Nov 30 Thursday, November 30
18:00
Les rayons gamma
20:00
Feminist Resistance
Dec 1 Friday, December 1
18:00
Les feuilles mortes
20:00
The films of Sylvie Laliberté
Dec 2 Saturday, December 2
13:45
RIDM Award Winners: Short films
15:30
Crowrã
18:00
Knit’s Island
20:00
My Animal
Dec 3 Sunday, December 3
10:30 Wardi
10:30 Wardi
Wardi et toute sa famille dans une scène du film Wardi (The Tower)

Wardi

Wardi, a Palestinian girl, lives with her whole family in the refugee camp where she was born. The day her beloved great-grandfather entrusts her with the key to his former home, Wardi fears he has lost hope of ever returning. How can she reconnect with that hope?

12:45 While the Green Grass Grows (FST)
RIDM - Grand Prize for National Feature Competition
La surimpression d'un lapin et d'une molécule d'ADN dans le film

While the Green Grass Grows

The cycle of life, death, and renewal is at the heart of this multilayered, epic, and intimate cinematic exploration, centered mostly around the filmmaker’s personal experience of losing his parents.

16:00 Militant cinema (FST)
SOLD OUT
Un film sous-titré en japonais représentant de jeunes palestiniens dans R 21 aka Restoring Solidarity

Militant cinema

The struggle for Palestinian self-determination was supported by radical left-wing movements worldwide, also in Japan. This is illustrated by a collection of 16mm films, which were dubbed and screened in Japan. R 21 AKA Restoring Solidarity draws on these documents.

18:00 Young Voices (EST)
SOLD OUT
Une image tirée de la vidéo Like An Event In A Dream Dreamt By Another

Young Voices

This short film program explores the worlds of Palestinian children and youth through an emphasis on different soundscapes and voices, from bombardments felt through vibrations in Gaza to video game sounds that simulate lived reality under colonial rule.

19:30 Feminist Resistance (EST)
SOLD OUT

Feminist Resistance

This final screening night centers around the stories of Palestinian women who have powerfully fought against and resisted Zionism. The two films presented respectively reflect on the experience of guerilla fighting and the haunting memories of imprisonment in Israeli jails.

Dec 4 Monday, December 4
18:00 May December

May December

Elizabeth, an actress, comes to meet the woman she’ll play in her next film: Gracie, a woman who, two decades ago, gave up everything for a crazy love affair with a 13-year-old teenager. The mirror game between the two women becomes a fascinating chase.

20:30 Les rayons gamma (EST)
Une jeune du quartier St-Michel dans une scène du film Les rayons Gamma

Les rayons gamma

There’s Abdel, whose quiet life is turned upside down by the arrival of his extrovert cousin, whom he takes in for the summer; Fatima, who longs for a more stable existence and is trying to get away from her bad associations; Toussaint, who, on a fishing trip, finds a bottle washed up with a message inside.

Dec 5 Tuesday, December 5
18:00 Past Lives (EST)
Greta Lee et Teo Yoo dans une scène du film Past Lives

Past Lives

Nora and Hae Sung, a pair of close childhood friends, are separated after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they reunite and grapple with notions of love and destiny.

20:15 Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant (EST)

Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant

A young vampire is unable to kill to meet her need for blood, but may have found a solution in a young man with suicidal tendencies.

Dec 6 Wednesday, December 6
18:00 Les feuilles mortes (FST)
Alma Pöysti et Jussi Vatanen dans une scène du film Les feuilles mortes de Aki Kaurismaki

Les feuilles mortes

In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance at a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is strewn with obstacles – from lost phone numbers and wrong addresses, to alcoholism and a charming stray dog.

20:00 My Animal (FST)
Bobbi Salvör Menuez et Amandla Stenberg dans une scène du film My Animal de Jacqueline Castel

My Animal

Heather, an outcast teenage goalie, falls for newcomer Jonny, an alluring but tormented figure skater. As their relationship deepens, Heather’s growing desires clash with her darkest secret, forcing her to control the animal within.

Dec 7 Thursday, December 7
20:30 Caiti Blues (FST)
Caiti Lord dans une scène du film Caiti Blues

Caiti Blues

Caiti Lord has a wonderful voice that she intends to use for more than just selling cherry cocktails. As madness grips the United States, in the most disturbing absurdity, Caiti feels a growing sense of asphyxiation. So Caiti sings. A blues.

Dec 8 Friday, December 8
18:00 Novembre
With Iphigénie Marcoux-Fortier in attendance
Une personne déguisée en ours dans une scène du film Novembre

Novembre

The filmmakers capture life stories and reflections, taking us on a unique geographical and human journey through a Montreal that seems inscribed in a kind of weightlessness. The film conveys the spleen of autumn, and perhaps of the times in which we live.

20:30 Monster (FST)
Sōya Kurokawa et Hinata Hiiragi dans une scène du film Monstre de Kore-eda Hirokazu

Monster

Young Minato’s behavior at home is becoming increasingly strange. His mother confronts the school management and sets the wheels in motion. Everything points to an abusive teacher, but is it really that clear-cut?

Dec 9 Saturday, December 9
13:00 Ma cité évincée

Ma cité évincée

A choral, intimate film, Ma cité évincée gives a voice to those who are living through the aftermath of real estate speculation in Montreal, one of the last major affordable cities in North America, during an unprecedented housing crisis.

16:00 Les feuilles mortes (FST)
Alma Pöysti et Jussi Vatanen dans une scène du film Les feuilles mortes de Aki Kaurismaki

Les feuilles mortes

In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance at a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is strewn with obstacles – from lost phone numbers and wrong addresses, to alcoholism and a charming stray dog.

18:00 Open Doom Crescendo
With Terry Chiu, Steven Lee in attendance

Open Doom Crescendo

In the wastelands of a devastated Montreal, a band of outcasts clash ceaselessly, in search of the Incarnation of Angst, which will provide them with their ultimate catharsis.

Dec 10 Sunday, December 10
10:30 Jules au pays d’Asha
Last chance

Jules au pays d'Asha

In 1940, young Jules and his family move to live with his uncle Jovite in northern Quebec. One day, Jules’ dog wanders into the nearby forest without his master. Jules must do the same to find his four-legged companion. Out in the wild, he meets a young girl named Asha.

13:00 Wardi
13:00 Wardi
Wardi et toute sa famille dans une scène du film Wardi (The Tower)

Wardi

Wardi, a Palestinian girl, lives with her whole family in the refugee camp where she was born. The day her beloved great-grandfather entrusts her with the key to his former home, Wardi fears he has lost hope of ever returning. How can she reconnect with that hope?

15:00 Caiti Blues (FST)
With Xi Feng (editor), Nellie Carrier (producer) in attendance
Caiti Lord dans une scène du film Caiti Blues

Caiti Blues

Caiti Lord has a wonderful voice that she intends to use for more than just selling cherry cocktails. As madness grips the United States, in the most disturbing absurdity, Caiti feels a growing sense of asphyxiation. So Caiti sings. A blues.

18:00 Retour à Normétal
Listening session with Nicolas Lachapelle in attendance

Retour à Normétal

On the occasion of a fishing trip, the members of the Lachapelle family return for the first time to the small mining town where they were born. In 55 years, the village has changed a lot, but the journey to rediscover the stories that shaped this family has just begun.

20:00 My Animal (FST)
Bobbi Salvör Menuez et Amandla Stenberg dans une scène du film My Animal de Jacqueline Castel

My Animal

Heather, an outcast teenage goalie, falls for newcomer Jonny, an alluring but tormented figure skater. As their relationship deepens, Heather’s growing desires clash with her darkest secret, forcing her to control the animal within.

Coming soon

Priscilla

When teenager Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone completely unexpected in private moments: an exciting crush, an ally in solitude, a vulnerable best friend…

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Simple comme Sylvain

Sophia’s life is turned upside down the day she meets Sylvain, an entrepreneur from the Laurentians who is the complete opposite of her lifestyle. She’ll leave everything behind to live this burning passion.

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Gremlins

A father offers his son an unusual pet, a Mogwai. The rules are simple: keep it away from water, bright lights and, most importantly, never feed him after midnight. But the rules are inadvertently broken, and the consequences multiply at an alarming rate.

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