Canadian premiere Screening with the film’s team in attendance One night, a woman in danger calls the police. Anna takes the call. A man is arrested. Weeks go by, as the justice system searches for evidence. Aly, Anna, and Dary confront the echoes of that night that they can’t seem to escape. Winner of the […]
World premiere Isolated in his residence room, an old man does everything in his power to see the woman he loves one last time. Quebecois filmmaker Robin Aubert (known for À l’origine d’un cri and Les Affamés) pays a touching and unprecedented tribute to the elderly, healthcare workers, and volunteers in long-term care homes (CHSLD) […]
North American premiere Screening with the filmmaker Adrien Beau in attendance When the Marquis d’Urfé, an emissary from the King of France, stops for the night at a remote Serbian mansion, he encounters a strange family awaiting the return of Gorcha, the father, who has gone on a mission against Turkish brigands. However, he has […]
Art-house agitator Gaspar Noé (Love, Enter the Void), whose reputation for shocking violence and explicit sexuality has been known to incite audiences to race for the exits, mesmerizes with his latest and most exhilarating provocation. Set in 1996 and based loosely on a true story, Climax depicts in hallucinatory detail the delirium — and depravity […]
Leo and Remi are two thirteen-year-old best friends, whose seemingly unbreakable bond is suddenly, tragically torn apart. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Lukas Dhont’s second film is an emotionally transformative and unforgettable portrait of the intersection of friendship and love, identity and independence, and heartbreak and healing. *Grand Prix […]
In collaboration with Cinéma Moderne, Vidéographe presents Pea Soup by Pierre Falardeau et Julien Poulin. Pea Soup is an ethnographic video on the Québécois tribe. The film is a collage, a puzzle, even, where interlocking images and sounds draw the portrait of a nation. Photographic images, text, and scenes shot in various locations such as […]
Le retour des Contes pour tous! Max, un entrepreneur de 12 ans se voit forcé de fermer son entreprise opérée de son garage et de déménager avec son père dans un village perdu en campagne. Quand Max fait la découverte de poules dans la vielle grange abandonnée de son cousin Charles, il y voit une […]
In collaboration with the FNC Following a breakup, Finnish grad student Laura takes the train from Moscow to Murmansk to visit an archeological dig. On board, she’s forced to share a compartment with a surly, vodka-swilling Russian labourer. A kind of Before Sunrise with much more heightened realism, Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen’s second feature affectionately […]