ROMANCES D’ÉTÉ CYCLE In 1963, Frances “Baby” Houseman, a sweet daddy’s girl, goes with her family to a resort in upstate New York’s Catskill Mountains. Baby has grown up in privileged surroundings and all expect her to go on to college, join the Peace Corps and save the world before marrying a doctor, just like […]
Aleksei is a young Belarusian on the run from a past he must bury. In a form of Faustian pact, he becomes a member of the French Foreign Legion in exchange for the promise of French citizenship. Far away, in the Niger Delta, Jomo is a revolutionary activist, engaged in armed struggle to defend his […]
*DOUBLE BILL Disintegration Loops David Wexler│États-Unis, 2021│45 min Between 2002 and 2003, against the backdrop of the still-fresh September 11 attacks, New York-based composer William Basinski released one of the most important recordings of the twenty-first century. Disintegration Loops, a series of four albums that Basinski finished the morning of 9/11, initially stemmed from a […]
Terence Davies double bill: discover director’s Benediction Winner of the Cannes ‘88 International Critics’ Prize. Loosely based on the director’s own family and upbringing, Distant Voices, Still Lives is an evocative account of working-class life in Liverpool, England during the ‘40s and ‘50s. Births, marriages and deaths — and an expressive use of music — […]
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. […]