Schedule
CANCELLED
Interdit aux chiens et aux italiens
Life in Ughettera, northern Italy, having become very difficult, the Ughetto family dream of starting over abroad. According to legend, Luigi Ughetto crossed the Alps and began a new life in France, changing forever the destiny of his beloved family.
Last chance
David contre Goliath
Trailing three unfinished short films like a ball and chain, David Ricard wishes to make sense of these “failures” and free himself from them. Both an introspective journey and an investigation, he embarks on a seemingly unequal battle against himself.
Fragile
Az works for an oyster farmer in Sète. He knows oysters by heart. In one of them, Az decides to hide a ring, to ask his girlfriend Jess to marry him. She doesn’t say yes. Fortunately, his band of friends is ready to do anything to help him keep his head above water.
With Alexandre Leblanc, Sophie Desmarais and Jean-Sébastien Courchesne in attendance
Les pas d'allure
Benjamin tells his ex-girlfriend, Angie, that he has joined a cell of left-wing terrorists to avenge her from her former boss, the owner of a right-wing radio station. Angie wonders if he’s just making it all up to win her back.
Ernest et Célestine : Le Voyage en Charabie
Our heroes return to Ernest’s country to have his broken violin repaired, only to discover that music is banned throughout the country…
Au-delà du papier
At a critical moment in the history of the written word, as humanity’s archives migrate to the cloud, one filmmaker goes on a journey around the globe to better understand how she can preserve her own Romanian and Armenian heritage, as well as our collective memory.
Saules aveugles, femme endormie
A lost cat, a giant frog and a tsunami help an unambitious salesman, his frustrated wife and a schizophrenic accountant save Tokyo from an earthquake and restore meaning to their lives.
L'audience
Having fled repression in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a family awaits the hearing that will determine whether they will be accepted as refugees in Canada. They try to rebuild their lives, in the sweetness of a daily life weakened by the threat of having to leave.
CANCELLED
Les Mille et une nuits
In a market, the young Nourredine is attracted by the young slave Zoumourrhoud. Against the young man’s expectations, the beautiful girl offers herself to him and introduces him to the pleasures of the flesh. But a man captures Zoumourrhoud to make her his slave.
LFFC: Short films
We are pleased to join forces with the Lebanese Film Festival in Canada to bring you this wonderful selection of short films, curated by the festival team.
Party Girl
Although Mary has little money, she always finds a way to spend her nights partying. After being arrested at an illegal party, she asks an aunt to bail her out. Aunt Judy finds her a job in her library so she can pay her back.
CANCELLED
Je, tu, il, elle
A young girl leaves her town after a difficult love affair and takes refuge in a room in another town. Later, she leaves this room, stops a truck on the side of the highway and spends most of the night with the truck driver, a man who could have been a friend.
With Cyril Bassil, Hiba Sleiman in attendance
Blush
Henri Najm is a Lebanese man living alone in Chicago, Illinois, searching for love. After receiving a work transfer to Atlanta, he accidentally meets an out of town, aspiring actress, Julia, who changes his perspective on life and how he lives it.
L'audience
Having fled repression in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a family awaits the hearing that will determine whether they will be accepted as refugees in Canada. They try to rebuild their lives, in the sweetness of a daily life weakened by the threat of having to leave.
CANCELLED
Les Contes de Canterbury
From the story of a nobleman struck blind after marrying a much younger and promiscuous bride to a climactic trip to a hell populated by friars and demons, this is an endlessly imaginative work of merry blasphemy.
A Comedian in a Syrian Tragedy
Fares Helou is one of the most famous actors in Syria. Persecuted for his political opinions, he leaves the country. But as soon as he’s settled in Paris, the pain of exile starts.
Saules aveugles, femme endormie
A lost cat, a giant frog and a tsunami help an unambitious salesman, his frustrated wife and a schizophrenic accountant save Tokyo from an earthquake and restore meaning to their lives.
Becoming Iphigenia
Nine young refugee women are brought together in a staging of Euripides’ tragedy. They discover that though they had left Syria to escape pain and possible death, they actually carried these wherever they went. This special screening will be preceded by three short films.
With Alexandre Leblanc in attendance
Les pas d'allure
Benjamin tells his ex-girlfriend, Angie, that he has joined a cell of left-wing terrorists to avenge her from her former boss, the owner of a right-wing radio station. Angie wonders if he’s just making it all up to win her back.
Flood + La terre de Gevar
A resident of a flooded city shares the sorrow of loss and relives the feeling of fear and powerlessness; Gevar learns to cultivate a plot of land in a new country.
Au-delà du papier
At a critical moment in the history of the written word, as humanity’s archives migrate to the cloud, one filmmaker goes on a journey around the globe to better understand how she can preserve her own Romanian and Armenian heritage, as well as our collective memory.
2012/Dans le coeur
What remains of the 2012 Quebec student protests? Little has changed in the decade that ensued. Rodrigue Jean and Arnaud Valade exhume images of the battles, recorded live and relayed through the mass media, that flared up as anger and indignation went head-to-head with the rhetoric of power.
L'audience
Having fled repression in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a family awaits the hearing that will determine whether they will be accepted as refugees in Canada. They try to rebuild their lives, in the sweetness of a daily life weakened by the threat of having to leave.
Party Girl
Although Mary has little money, she always finds a way to spend her nights partying. After being arrested at an illegal party, she asks an aunt to bail her out. Aunt Judy finds her a job in her library so she can pay her back.
Katak, le brave béluga
While his friends have all become white, Katak is still small and grey. To prove that he has grown up and to fulfill his grandmother’s last wish, Katak undertakes a perilous journey to the Great North.
The Colour of Ink
The Colour of Ink uncovers the medium’s mystery and power through the eyes of Jason Logan, a visionary Toronto inkmaker. Working with ingredients foraged in the wild—weeds, berries, bark, flowers, rocks, rust—he makes ink from just about anything.
Fragile
Az works for an oyster farmer in Sète. He knows oysters by heart. In one of them, Az decides to hide a ring, to ask his girlfriend Jess to marry him. She doesn’t say yes. Fortunately, his band of friends is ready to do anything to help him keep his head above water.
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
An incredible odyssey inside the human body. A film-experience bordering on the unspeakable, interspersed with multiple comments from doctors in the exercise of their function.
Coming soon
Rites of Passage
As part of the Champ libre series, we invited Pablo Alvarez Mesa to create a program around his film Infinite Distances. He selected works by Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Melanie Shatzky and Brian M. Cassidy.
Anyox
In an old mining town in northwestern British Columbia. Every day, the remaining residents reclaim the metal tailings, a by-product of the copper smelting process. Embracing the ephemeral nature of the town, ANYOX exposes considerable environmental degradation through tableaux vivants of grave beauty.
La ville d’un rêve
Montreal was born from a dream, the dream of people who believed in the possibility of creating a better world in New France. Who were these people? The answers can be found in a 17th century manuscript that is believed to be the hidden memoirs of Jeanne Mance.
