Screening with filmmakers Renaud Lessard and Barbara Ulrich in attendance Unforgettable in her role as the heroine of Gilles Groulx’s The Cat in the Bag (1964), Barbara Ulrich embodied the spirit of a youth yearning for change in a Quebec on the cusp of transformation. Dubbed “the girl with the cat” or “Quebec’s Anna Karina,” […]
Special screening with Marc-Joly Corcoran and Sylvie Longpré in attendance Sylvie Longpré has been known as “Quebec’s Barbie” for over 20 years, and for good reason: her devotion to her collection is matched only by the love of those who love what they collect too much. She shares with us her impressive collection, which she […]
New 2K Restoration Investigating the murder of the young Hanzel (Yul Servo), shot dead one winter night on West Side Ave, police detective Juan Mijares (Joel Torres) plumbs the depths of the Filipino youth gangs of Jersey city who trade in shabu – crystal meth. Talking to the boy’s mother, remarried to an American, to […]
As seen from the inside out through the eyes of a Mohawk teenager from Kahnawake, Tracey Deer’s new feature film offers a powerful and necessary perspective on the Oka crisis. Despite being only thirteen, Beans has a lot on her shoulders and has to juggle family obligations and inclusion in her new group of friends, […]
March 21st screening with filmmaker Kinga Michalska in attendance BEDROCK is a psychological journey across today’s Poland that weaves together stories of Poles living on Holocaust sites. Through a series of intimate encounters, this poetic film looks at the unsettling contradictions people learn to live with.
NOVEMBER 5: FRENCH DUBBED VERSION november 12: original english version Michael Keaton, Academy Award winner Geena Davis, Alex Baldwin and Winona Ryder star in director Tim Burton’s comic twist on supernatural horror tales–Beetlejuice. When a couple of nice, young homebody ghosts (Baldwin and Davis) try to haunt the pretentious humans who have moved into their […]
Free screening for National Canadian Film Day, in partnership with Festival du nouveau cinéma and Reel Canada, with filmmaker Trevor Anderson in attendance At a small-town middle school in Alberta, nobody can tell if new kid Robin is a boy or a girl. It’s not long before the youngster is in the crosshairs of Carter, […]
Special screening with filmmaker Trevor Anderson in attendance, followed by a Q&A with Matthew Rankin 1987: While the other students wonder if new kid Robin is a boy or a girl, Robin forges a complicated bond with the school bully, making increasingly dangerous choices to fit in. *Locarno Film Festival 2022
Staff Picks – Maxime Poulin (Communications officer) The conclusion of The Before Trilogy finds Celine and Jesse several years into a relationship and in the midst of a sun-dappled Greek retreat with their twin daughters and a group of friends. The couple soon find their vacation upended, however, by long-simmering problems that come to a […]