May 5th screening with filmmaker Julien Elie in attendance Five years after Dark Suns, Julien Elie returns with a rigorously researched work, asserting itself as a genuine cinematic piece. This time, he turns the spotlight on the regime of terror and violence forged by transnational companies, in collaboration with the Mexican government and organized crime […]
*As part of our CONTES POUR TOUS cycle in tribute to producer Rock Demers* “12-year-old Daphne is an exceptionally sensitive girl who knows how to sing to the whales and has dolphins as her best friends. Those spectacular undersea animals seem to respond to the sound of her flute. Daphne, known as Tadpole, will do […]
For the return of our morning screening series, Petits Modernes, the Cinéma Moderne is pleased to present La guerre des tuques (from La Fête productions and director André Melançon) as part of our new series, Tales for All, in tribute to producer Rock Demers. “La guerre des tuques (The Dog Who Stopped the War) tells […]
4K Restoration Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with La haine, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Koundé), […]
Special screening with filmmaker Philippe Falardeau in attendance Seven years after winning La Course destination monde, a Quebec TV filmmaking competition, Philippe Falardeau released his feature debut, the portrait of an unemployed engineer who allows his roommate to shoot a documentary about his job-seeking experience. With the biting humour he’s come to be known for, […]
Adam, amateur-dancer and saxophone player, decides to do a remake of a ballet titled Suite Canadienne by Ludmilla Chiriaeff, that was first broadcast nationally on Quebec television in 1958, featuring ballet dancers disguised as peasants, traversing a fantasized colonial rural scene. *RIDM 2023
This feature film by Gilles Carle is a classic of French-Canadian cinema. During the year’s worst storm, a humble snow-plow operator is forced to perform miracles, from clearing the streets to making his wife happy. Not to mention the multitude of errands in between. But Léopold is a happy-go-lucky kind of guy, and things usually […]
Part of our cycle “Frank et Eleanor Perry: Marginalités latentes”, in collaboration with Hors Champ Screening followed by a discussion with actress, screenwriter and director Micheline Lanctôt During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the normal routines of a rural elementary school are thrown into a panic when the civil defense alarm sirens go off, warning […]
In a country offering almost no treatment services despite a crisis of addiction, Laila Haidari took the highly unusual decision to found her own pioneering addiction treatment center and a restaurant where all of the waiters are recovering heroin addicts. A deeply personal perspective on the global addiction epidemic, the film follows the labor of […]