Two old friends reunite for a quietly revelatory overnight camping trip in this breakout feature from Kelly Reichardt, a microbudget study of character and masculinity that introduced many viewers to one of contemporary American cinema’s most independent artists. Adapted from a short story by Jonathan Raymond and accompanied by an atmospheric Yo La Tengo score, […]
Co-presented by le Festival du nouveau cinéma A film that charts the artistic and personal relationship between Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala (At the Drive-In / The Mars Volta) through hundreds of hours of self shot footage filmed by Omar over the last 40 years. The film unflinchingly tackles the greater themes of success, addiction, […]
Co-presented by image+nation Quebec premiere To be or not to be a mother, that is the question. Milagros (37) stretches a carefree youth in her last years of fertility, while Jonathan (24) seeks solace on Grindr in order to overcome abandonment issues. Friendship and driving ease the disorientation caused by the deceptive freedom of the […]
In collaboration with Film POP, the PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art presents Fictional Revolutionary Leaders, a double bill including Gloria Camiruaga’s Popsicles (1984) and Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s Oriana (2022). Popsicles by Gloria Camiruaga is a short video produced during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, which lasted from 1973 to 1990. Camiruaga’s short […]
Presented in partnership with the PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art Problems of Leisure brings together seven works by Ilana Harris-Babou, most of them screened for the first time in Canada. In the last decade, the artist has reinvested popular video formats produced in turns by media conglomerates, ad agencies or individuals acting as influencers – […]
Co-presented by POP Symposium Co-presented by PRISM and Film POP Film POP, in collaboration with POP Symposium, presents the second edition of POP Music Video Showcase! Our Film and Sympo curators have carefully selected the very best music videos released in 2023-2024 by local artists and artists playing at this year’s festival. The eclectic lineup […]
This screening is presented in parallel with the exhibition Josèfa Ntjam: swell of spæc(i)es, presented from September 10 to January 11, 2026 at PHI. This futuristic cult classic offers a visionary journey through stories of reinventing Black identity, speculative cosmology, and cultural resistance. Ra, a messenger sent by the ancestors, accompanied by his Arkestra, embodies […]
Co-presented by the Goethe-Institut Quebec premiere Filmed during The Teaches of Peaches Anniversary Tour in 2022, this documentary seamlessly weaves together exclusive archival gems with dynamic tour footage to capture the transformative journey of Canadian Merrill Nisker into the internationally acclaimed Peaches. Starting from the inception of the stage show, the film provides an intimate […]
In collaboration with Fantasia Husband and wife filmmaking duo Beth B and Scott B are among the greatest artists of New York’s No Wave movement. Recently restored by MoMA, their Super 8 feature debut, The Offenders, is a simple and malignant crime story about a daughter’s kidnapping and her abusive, controlling father. A who’s who […]
Canadian premiere With director Alison O’Daniel in attendance A spate of robberies in Southern California schools had an oddly specific target: tubas. In this work of creative nonfiction, d/Deaf first-time feature director Alison O’Daniel presents the impact of these crimes from an unexpected angle. Blending documentary and fictionalised performances and set to an L.A. landscape/soundscape […]