Intrigued by a theatre artist’s creative process, a filmmaker tries—over 16 attempts—to make the film she wants. As the years go by, unexpected turns of events blur the boundaries between art and life. And the work emerges when we expect it least. From Montreal to the far reaches of the Canadian Shield, from the mountains […]

A crew of professional shoplifters take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven. It’s like community service.  

Veronica Lake 100th anniversary double bill Veronica Lake casts a seductive spell as a charmingly vengeful sorceress in this supernatural screwball classic. Many centuries after cursing the male descendants of the Salem puritan who sent her to the stake, this blonde bombshell with a broomstick finds herself drawn to one of them—a prospective governor (Fredric […]

Screening with filmmaker Rocko Zevenbergen in attendance, producer of Kenichi Ugana’s I FELL IN LOVE WITH A Z-GRADE DIRECTOR IN BROOKLYN, screening at Fantasia After a moment of total teenage angst, a young punk finds himself at odds with a psychedelic monster of his own creation.

Feature preceded by a 7-minute sneak peek of Jane Schoebrun’s TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow […]

Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack. *Berlin Film Festival 2024 *SXSW 2024

After the Soviet invasion of Prague, a young female photographer strives to break free from the constraints of Czechoslovak normalization and embarks on a wild journey towards freedom, capturing her experiences on thousands of subjective photographs. *Panorama – Berlin Film Festival 2024 *International Competition – Festival du nouveau cinéma 2024

BRAZIL, 1971 – Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva, a mother of five children, is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers a violent and arbitrary act by the government. Based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s biographical book, the film tells the true story that helped reconstruct an important part […]

In an age where music is constantly skipped, shuffled, or left playing in the background, Obscura invites you to slow down and return to the essence of listening: experiencing an album from start to finish, in total darkness, without distraction. As part of Montréal’s Nuit Blanche, we present an afterdark edition of Obscura featuring Space Is […]

À une époque où l’on saute des chansons à la chaîne et où la musique devient souvent un bruit de fond, Obscura propose de revenir à l’essentiel : écouter un album du début à la fin, dans le noir complet, sans aucune distraction. Grâce à un système audio de qualité cinéma, chaque son, chaque mot, […]