May 5th screening with filmmaker David B. Ricard in attendance Carrying the burden of three unfinished short films, David Ricard wants to give meaning to these “failures” and be free of them. This work is both an introspective deep dive and a survey of collaborators involved in these projects, whom he feels he has betrayed […]
2K Restaurations Delve deeper into the labyrinthine psyche of surrealist nightmare-weaver David Lynch with these unsettling, hallucinatory shorts that reflect the origins and evolution of his singular style. Spanning the early experimental and painterly works that laid the foundation for his cult sensation ERASERHEAD through his darkly absurdist web animation series DUMBLAND, these films are […]
David Lynch: The Art Life looks at Lynch’s art, music, and early films, shining a light into the dark corners of his unique world and giving audiences a better understanding of the man and the artist. As he says, “I think every time you do something, like a painting or whatever, you go with ideas, […]
Five centuries ago, anatomist André Vésale opened up the human body to science for the first time in history. Today, De Humani Corporis Fabrica opens the human body to the cinema. It reveals that human flesh is an extraordinary landscape that exists only through the gaze and attention of others. As places of care, suffering […]
Un conte de Noël plein d’action, tendre et décalé…Le film norvégien le plus populaire de ces dix dernières années! C’est bientôt Noël à Pinchcliffe. Comme tous les habitants, Solan et Ludvig attendent la neige. Hélas, elle ne tombe pas… Leur ami Féodor décide alors de fabriquer un canon à neige ultra-puissant! Mais lorsque l’ambitieux directeur […]
A two-act film directed by Khoa Lê Created at the Agora de la danse in March 2021, the two-act show by Dear Criminals TRAPPED IN A LULLABY is one of those creations that will never experience the exchange and communion with the audience. Born from a desire to explore different contexts of listening and to […]
In collaboration with RIDM Dear Jackie is a cinematic letter to Jackie Robinson, the first Black man to play in Major League Baseball, after a stint with the minor-league Montreal Royals, and a key contributor to the civil rights movement in the United States. The film addresses Robinson directly and recounts the current situation of […]
A businessman dies falling off a mountaintop. The lead detective in the case is amazed that the dead man’s wife doesn’t seem all that cut up, which to him makes her the prime suspect. Yet as the investigation goes along, he finds himself more and more fascinated by the attractive widow. Winner of the best […]
Suffering from a deep depression, actor Serge Thériault has isolated himself for seven years. With sensitivity and respect, the filmmakers focus their camera on Thériault’s wife Anna, his daughter, and a neighbour couple. The friendship inspires touching, beneficial solidarity, as well as a coordinated and patient attempt to help the popular actor emerge from his […]
New 4K Restoration Francesco Dellamorte (Rupert Everett) is the groundskeeper at a cemetery where the dead just won’t stay dead—and it’s up to him to deal with those who come back to life with a hunger for human flesh. But Dellamorte’s job soon becomes much more complicated when he falls for an enigmatic young woman […]