Regards italiens de Montréal

With the filmmakers in attendance

“Regards italiens de Montréal” is a programme of three feature-length films by Italian-Quebec filmmakers who, in their own way, reflect on the memory and heritage of a community that has been at the very heart of the development of our beloved metropolis. Whether political, poetic or historical, the traces left by these men and women have become anchored in the city’s cultural DNA with a strength and vivacity that command as much respect as they are impossible to ignore today. While Trois camarades de Montréal listens to three octogenarians with unshakeable socialist convictions and a proud militant past, Le jardin de Pupa invites us to meet Nonna Pupa, a woman renowned for transforming an illegal rubbish dump into a botanical garden in the 1980s. Finally, Caffè Italia, Montréal, a multi-faceted time capsule, alternates between archive footage, personal accounts and fictional scenes to paint a rich portrait of an unprecedented emigration process, that of the Italian community to Quebec, from the Second World War until 1985, the year the film was produced.

Co-presented with Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Montréal and Tënk.