Temps Ø Screening with filmmaker Kenichi Ugana in attendance A motley crew of friendly, urban (and musically damn cool) punks exile themselves to the countryside to record their new album. Surrounded by cows, vegetables and aging farmers, the anachronism couldn’t be more striking yet against all odds, the social mix becomes a source of inspiration. […]
Les nouveaux alchimistes In a universe where human beings sleep during the coldest months of the year, a boy emerges prematurely from his hibernation into a snowy forest. Left to his own devices, he sets out to find his sister. Later, as spring blossoms anew and other humans gradually awaken, it’s his sister’s turn to […]
Les nouveaux alchimistes section Scattered across different countries, various young people drift through landscapes marred by capitalism, new technologies and invisible threats, their wandering seemingly endless. Seeking to escape dead-end jobs or simply find a livable environment, they amble toward a mystical, elusive future. Argentinian filmmaker Eduardo Williams picks up where The Human Surge — […]
Les nouveaux alchimistes After the nightmarish animated film La Casa Lobo (FNC, 2018), this Chilean filmmaking duo is back with a UFO (Unidentified Filmic Object), mixing live action, stop motion animation and puppets. In a large studio with pasteboard sets, an actress and a psychologist plunge us into the world of Miguel Serrano, a Chilean […]
Program 1: Saturday, October 8 – 5 pm Program 2: Saturday, October 8 – 7 pm The rate for the screening includes both programs and the master class. PROGRAMME 1 6 films | 80 minutes Rugburn Trevor Anderson | Alberta/Canada | 2005 | 13 min | English | French subtitles Jesse Jams Trevor Anderson | […]
Les nouveaux alchimistes “Set amidst the ruins of Yangambi—once a prominent scientific outpost deep in the Congolese rainforest—The Tree of Authenticity delves into the ecological legacy of Belgian colonial rule. Through archival materials, testimonies, voiceover narration and arresting visual compositions, filmmaker Sammy Baloji resurrects the overlooked figures of Paul Panda Farnana and Abiron Beirnaert, two researchers […]
Special Screening The FNC welcomes you to a relaxed screening of The Velvet Queen by Marie Amiguet and Vincent Meunier. In a comforting, adapted environment, this screening is open to everyone, especially neuroatypical people. Wildlife photographer Vincent Munier travels the Tibetan plateau with writer Sylvain Tesson (The Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin […]
FNC Explore and Les nouveaux alchimistes sections Screening with filmmaker C.S. Roy in attendance A female Neuroscience Researcher develops a rare form of melophobia after receiving an unsolicited portable media player loaded with music for testing in her laboratory and experiencing a musical Stendhal Syndrome. Witnessing her colleagues’ strangely changing behavior over repeated exposure to […]
National Competition The screening will be followed by a Q&A featuring members from the cast & crew. “Weaving threads between her native Colombia and adopted Canada, Lina Rodriguez (So Much Tenderness, National Competition FNC 2022) unfolds a sensitive autobiographical narrative in which her intimate immigration experience takes shape through the labyrinth of emotional memory. Through […]
Histoires du cinéma A reformed criminal opens a bar in a world ruled by violence. But his past soon catches up with him. Revenge, kidnapping, robbery and a gang war all converge on a man who, for a brief moment, just dreams of being someone else. When legendary filmmaker Hideo Gosha (Samurai Wolf, also screening […]