An overworked and underpaid production assistant must drive around the city of Bucharest to film the casting for a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational company. When one of her interviewees makes a statement that ignites a scandal she is forced to re-invent the whole story. *Special Jury Prize – Locrano Film Festival 2023
Staff Picks – Ribs Beauchamp (café-bar) 4K Restoration Set on one block of Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy Do or Die neighborhood, at the height of summer, this 1989 masterpiece by Spike Lee confirmed him as a writer and filmmaker of peerless vision and passionate social engagement. Over the course of a single day, the easygoing interactions of […]
Special screening in partnership with DOC Québec, with filmmaker Ève Lamont in attendance If you’re in Montreal, it’s impossible not to see it. After making its way through a number of neighbourhoods, gentrification finally reached Pointe-Saint-Charles, along the Lachine Canal. Pressed forward by developers, luxury condo towers are springing up in the traditionally working-class neighbourhood […]
Special screening in partnership with DOC Québec Screening with filmmaker Catherine Legault in attendance Tyr and Jasa grew up in an artistic household where art was a way of life. Quirky and insightful sisters, Tyr is a musician and singer while Jasa is an interdisciplinary artist. Inspired by their great-grandmother’s recordings of Icelandic folk songs, […]
Part of our late-night screenings, Bains de minuit! Film selected by Paul Provencher (Kirouac), rapper and our very own Ciméma Moderne café-bar manager « The father, the mother and their three kids live at the outskirts of a city. There is a tall fence surrounding the house. The kids have never been outside that fence. […]
Dec 17, Dec 22 & Jan 2: Dolby Atmos sound – 18$ screening Dec 15, Dec 18, Dec 24: Dolby 5.1 sound – 15$ screening Get a first look at one of the year’s biggest films before its streaming premiere on December 24: an all-out satire of planetary proportions from american comedy master Adam McKay […]
In this lovingly crafted, wildly eccentric adaptation of a classic French fairy tale, Jacques Demy casts Catherine Deneuve as a princess who must go into hiding as a scullery maid in order to fend off an unwanted marriage proposal—from her own father, the king (Jean Marais). A topsy-turvy riches-to-rags fable with songs by Michel Legrand, […]
Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, Dos Estaciones follows iron-willed businesswoman María García (Teresa Sánchez), the owner of Dos Estaciones, a once-majestic tequila factory now struggling to stay afloat. The factory is the final holdover from generations of Mexican-owned tequila plants in the highlands of Jalisco, the rest having folded […]
In collaboration with Film Noir au Canal New 4K Restoration Has dialogue ever been more perfectly hard-boiled? Has a femme fatale ever been as deliciously wicked as Barbara Stanwyck? And has 1940s Los Angeles ever looked so seductively sordid? Working with cowriter Raymond Chandler, director Billy Wilder launched himself onto the Hollywood A-list with this […]