It’s Halloween evening in 1977 and late-night talk show icon Jack Delroy (David Dastmalchian, THE SUICIDE SQUAD) has a live broadcast planned that’s going to be unlike anything anyone’s ever experienced. He downright needs it to be, as he faces declining viewership. And tonight, Delroy’s going to deliver. On levels his worst nightmares can’t imagine. […]
Special screening with filmmaker Denys Desjardins in attendance Madeleine is 86. For the last five years she has lived at Château Beaurivage, a retirement home in Montréal-Nord. And she likes it there, a lot. She socializes with other residents and enthusiastically welcomes visits from her three beloved children. But when her mental state deteriorates and […]
February 20: discussion with filmmaker Simon Beaulieu In collaboration with RIDM White Noise is a hard-hitting auteur work that plunges viewers into a direct physical encounter with the information overload of daily life. A hybrid of documentary, experimental film and fiction, this disturbing roller coaster of a movie transforms the imminent collapse of our civilization […]
Presented in collaboration with the FNC In a province not so distant from ours, now controlled by a far-right government, the borders are closed and immigrants, now under threat, are desperate to get out. A Haitian woman hands over her young son to a thirty-something Quebec man before fleeing. With help from a Vietnamese former […]
An expertly staged chronicle of loss that explores the life of an elderly man who sees the foundations of his reality crumble day by day, The Father features a tour-de-force performance by the legendary Anthony Hopkins at the very height of his talents. Both unsettling and emotional, the debut feature by author Florian Zeller (who […]
Penchés sur une large feuille blanche quelque part entre Montmartre et Saint-Germain- des-Prés, Jean-Jacques Sempé et René Goscinny donnent vie à un petit garçon rieur et malicieux, le Petit Nicolas. Entre camaraderie, disputes, bagarres, jeux, bêtises, et punitions à la pelle, Nicolas vit une enfance faite de joies et d’apprentissages. Au fil du récit, le […]
New 4K Restoration In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him. An elegantly stylized masterpiece […]
*As part of our CONTES POUR TOUS cycle in tribute to producer Rock Demers* “Young Ralph James and his scheming friend Tommy Tricker collect stamps. But when Tommy snatches a rare stamp, Ralph discovers the secret of «stamp travel» to take him around the world and bring back the 75-year gone traveller Charles Merriweather.” – […]
June 3rd screening with filmmaker Alexandre Leblanc and actors Sophie Desmarais and Jean-Sébastien Courchesne in attendance June 11th screening with filmmaker Alexandre Leblanc in attendance Benjamin tells his ex-girlfriend, Angie, that he joined a cell of left-wing terrorists to get revenge on her former boss, who owns a right-wing radio station. His story blends conceptual […]
Journey to meet the former players of the Japanese women’s volleyball team. Now in their 70s, they used to be known as the « Witches of the Orient » because of their seemingly supernatural powers on the courts. From the formation of the squad in the late 1950s as a worker’s team at a textile […]