Schedule
With Kim O'Bomsawin in attendance
Nitassinan
Nitassinan is a feature-length documentary that bears witness to the Innu people and affirms our history-past, present, and future. This film is a message of love for our territory, which saw our birth and which still accompanies us today, even in our dreams.
Free entrance
Doppelgängers³
The Armenian-Algerian artist Dr Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian takes us on a journey alongside her doubles, Myriam and Lucia, urging us to defy structures of power, reject planetary exploitation, and imagine diasporic, queer ecofeminist futures.
The Invite
Joe and Angela’s marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbours for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it all down?
Une photo à Saigon : coups de feu sur deux vies
Part history, part mystery, Saigon Story reveals the elusive connection between two families and one iconic photo.
With Amélie Hardy in attendance
Un renversement
Un renversement lifts the veil on the inner workings of women’s politics. Through intimate and unfiltered testimonies from emblematic Quebec political figures, the film reveals the obstacles, struggles, and power dynamics that mark their journeys.
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.
8½
One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s 8½ marks the moment when the director’s always-personal approach fully embraced self-reflexivity, turning one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema.
Samba Traoré
The only surviving accomplice of a gas station robbery gone bad, Samba Traoré flees the scene of the crime with a suitcase full of cash for his native village. There he attempts to make a fresh start while hiding how he came by his new fortune from those around him.
Tony
A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain heads to Provincetown to track down a former classmate he hopes to win over. Broke, he lands a job as a dishwasher and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life.
Nostos : Il Ritorno
A re-interpretation of the myth of Ulysses, the symbol of a man eternally torn between nostalgia for his past and a desire for discovery, between fear and enchantment, which, for Piavoli’s hero, is above all an enchantment with nature.
Last chance
Last chance
Late Fame
Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet, works in the post office. After an eager and flattering young admirer appears on his doorstep, Saxberger is beckoned into a coterie of twentysomething admirers who anoint him as a rediscovered genius.
With Serge-Olivier Rondeau in attendance
Les héritiers
By centring the voice of a colony of ring-billed gulls, The Inheritors disrupts the usual perspective of wildlife documentary and explores new ways of living and dying on a planet haunted by mass consumption and pollution.
La meilleure façon, c’est par accident
A young filmmaker delves into her dead father’s video archives. As the end of the world approaches, she now sets out to capture the extraordinary in the ordinary.
Last chance
I Want Your Sex
Elliot’s fantasies quickly come true when he lands a job with renowned artist Erika Tracy. When she breaks down office boundaries and takes Elliot on as her sexual muse and subordinate, their sexually charged relationship makes him question his own desires.
Shaun le mouton : la bêêête de la ferme
Just a few days before Halloween, the clumsy Farmer trashes the Flock’s beloved pumpkin patch! When Shaun turns mad scientist to fix the problem, things rapidly spiral out of control…
L’intérêt d’Adam
When 4-year-old Adam is placed in her care, Lucy is confronted with his mother Rebecca’s refusal to leave his side, despite a judge’s restriction against her. For the sake of Adam, Lucy will do everything in her power to help this mother in distress.
With Shelley Tepperman
Il Paese : le village
In a Sicilian village, residents await the return of loved ones who left half a century ago to build a better life in Montreal. While this long-awaited visit is bringing the semi-deserted village back to life, bittersweet feelings churn beneath the excitement.
With André-Line Beauparlant in attendance
3 princesses pour Roland
Three princesses for Roland — four people, one family. The director introduces us to Madeleine, Roland’s aunt, Nathalie, his cousin, and her daughter, Caroline.
Mirror
In Andrei Tarkovsky’s senses-ravishing odyssey through the halls of time and memory, the recollections of a dying poet flash before our eyes, dreams mingling with scenes of childhood, wartime, and marriage, all imbued with the mystic power of a trance.
Un renversement
Un renversement lifts the veil on the inner workings of women’s politics. Through intimate and unfiltered testimonies from emblematic Quebec political figures, the film reveals the obstacles, struggles, and power dynamics that mark their journeys.
Last chance
Agatha’s Almanac
Fiercely independent 90-year-old Agatha Bock lives alone on her ancestral farm. Despite health challenges, she defiantly tends to her land, planting and harvesting her expansive field of watermelons, beans, flowers, herbs, and vegetables entirely by hand.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
A fading slasher franchise is handed over to a young director for resurrection. But when she visits the original’s star, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.
With Francesca Lo Dico and Angela Argento Lo Dico in attendance
Il Paese : le village
In a Sicilian village, residents await the return of loved ones who left half a century ago to build a better life in Montreal. While this long-awaited visit is bringing the semi-deserted village back to life, bittersweet feelings churn beneath the excitement.
Last chance
Samba Traoré
The only surviving accomplice of a gas station robbery gone bad, Samba Traoré flees the scene of the crime with a suitcase full of cash for his native village. There he attempts to make a fresh start while hiding how he came by his new fortune from those around him.
The Invite
Joe and Angela’s marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbours for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it all down?
La meilleure façon, c’est par accident
A young filmmaker delves into her dead father’s video archives. As the end of the world approaches, she now sets out to capture the extraordinary in the ordinary.
Last chance
Nostos : Il Ritorno
A re-interpretation of the myth of Ulysses, the symbol of a man eternally torn between nostalgia for his past and a desire for discovery, between fear and enchantment, which, for Piavoli’s hero, is above all an enchantment with nature.
Last chance
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.
Last chance
L’intérêt d’Adam
When 4-year-old Adam is placed in her care, Lucy is confronted with his mother Rebecca’s refusal to leave his side, despite a judge’s restriction against her. For the sake of Adam, Lucy will do everything in her power to help this mother in distress.
Jardin d’enfants
The caring yet bustling environment of a kindergarten serves as the anchor for this deep dive into early childhood. The film takes us into the bubble of various children from ages 1 to 5, at a stage where self-awareness slowly shifts from ‘I’ to ‘We’.
Tony
A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain heads to Provincetown to track down a former classmate he hopes to win over. Broke, he lands a job as a dishwasher and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life.
Portal to Hell
Dunn’s life is interrupted when a portal to hell appears in his local laundromat. A demon follows and explains in no uncertain terms that he’s there to drag Dunn’s neighbor, Mr. Bobshank, to hell. Bobshank owes a debt. Helping people pay their debts is what Dunn does best.
The Invite
Joe and Angela’s marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbours for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark or lit the match that burns it all down?
Last chance
Last chance
Hemela
Eighty years, five countries, and one legendary restaurant: Hemela is a spirited, deadpan portrait of Montreal’s most irreverent Iranian matriarch as she cooks, commands, and reflects on a life lived entirely on her own terms.
Mirror
In Andrei Tarkovsky’s senses-ravishing odyssey through the halls of time and memory, the recollections of a dying poet flash before our eyes, dreams mingling with scenes of childhood, wartime, and marriage, all imbued with the mystic power of a trance.
Jim Queen
In the heart of Paris’s gay scene, Jim reigns supreme. But when a bizarre virus called Heterosis starts turning gay men straight, his reign ends overnight. Jim is left with just one unlikely ally: Lucien, a devoted scrawny twink with more loyalty than clout.
Last chance
Last chance
8½
One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s 8½ marks the moment when the director’s always-personal approach fully embraced self-reflexivity, turning one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema.
Une photo à Saigon : coups de feu sur deux vies
Part history, part mystery, Saigon Story reveals the elusive connection between two families and one iconic photo.
La meilleure façon, c’est par accident
A young filmmaker delves into her dead father’s video archives. As the end of the world approaches, she now sets out to capture the extraordinary in the ordinary.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
In this prequel to his groundbreaking television series, David Lynch resurrects the teenager found wrapped in plastic at the beginning of the show, following her through the last week of her life.
Shaun le mouton : la bêêête de la ferme
Just a few days before Halloween, the clumsy Farmer trashes the Flock’s beloved pumpkin patch! When Shaun turns mad scientist to fix the problem, things rapidly spiral out of control…
Plus rien n’est égal par ailleurs
Blending video art, documentary and music video, Martin Bureau’s film explores the abuses of Western society, at once ravaged by late-stage capitalism and unable to free itself from it.
Un renversement
Un renversement lifts the veil on the inner workings of women’s politics. Through intimate and unfiltered testimonies from emblematic Quebec political figures, the film reveals the obstacles, struggles, and power dynamics that mark their journeys.
Les héritiers
By centring the voice of a colony of ring-billed gulls, The Inheritors disrupts the usual perspective of wildlife documentary and explores new ways of living and dying on a planet haunted by mass consumption and pollution.
With André-Line Beauparlant in attendance
Le petit Jésus
This is the story of a miracle that never happened… This is the story of a family… This is the story of my handicapped brother… Actually, I think it’s the story of a storm. I was 11 when my brother was born. That was the day my father fell silent, and my mother stopped laughing.
Shock
A woman returns to the home where her first husband died, only to find her young son acting stranger each day. Something in that house wants her back, and it is using the boy to make sure she never leaves.
Coming soon
Suspiria
A young student uncovers dark and horrific secrets within the walls of a famous German dance academy. What spirals out from that simple premise is one of the most powerful and hallucinatory nightmares ever captured on celluloid!
The Psychic
Guided by a vision, a clairvoyant woman breaks open a wall in her husband’s house and discovers a skeleton hidden behind it. With the help of her psychiatrist, she sets out to uncover who the victim was and who put her there, until she begins to fear she may be next.
Pinocchio
Éric seems to be living the life he’s always dreamed of . . . until he gets arrested in Brazil, awaiting deportation to Canada. His sister gradually pierces the mystery surrounding her brother, who has mastered the art of deception as the ultimate way of life.
