*Screening dedicated to Black History Month A young artist living in New York, on the fringes of the financial district and its rushing crowds, tries to make a living sketching passers-by on the street. He survives on his meager means and has found refuge in an abandoned building. One night, on the corner of a […]

In collaboration with FNC  Leonardo and Sara, a young Afro-Cuban couple, are desperate to leave the island. They decide that the best way to emigrate is for Leonardo to seduce a foreign woman, get legal status in another country, and then send for Sara. The woman they choose is Nasim, an Iranian-Canadian divorcée who is […]

April 10th screening with filmmaker Sarah Baril Gaudet in attendance All SISTERS OF WRESTLINGS screenings to be paired with Québec short film FIRE-JO-BALL by Audrey Nantel-Gagnon FIRE-JO-BALL (Audrey Nantel-Gagnon, 2023, 16 minutes) Jo-Ann, a 57-year-old bartender, dreams of becoming a singer and actress. Oscillating between spectacular and intimate, between extra and ordinary, Jo-Ann infuses her […]

Caution: This film contains strobe effects Existing on the peripheries of horror, video art and landscape painting, Sleep Has Her House is an experimental and contemplative film object. First conceived as a gallery installation, this first feature from filmmaker/artist Scott Barley transforms nature and the elements into a dreamlike canvas that oscillates between dream and […]

Stephanie, a restless and vibrant actress, meets Gerard, an NYPD counter-terrorism specialist who’s an aficionado of experimental theater (and maybe out of his mind). Flirtation ensues, ends disastrously, and forces Stephanie to the ramshackle upstate home of musician Eleanor Friedberger, yet this supposed escape is infected by violent memories of her past life. Directed by […]

Deep in the Estonian forest, a group of women gather regularly to share their intimate experiences and most secret thoughts. This ritual, specific to the Võro community, is the entryway into Anna Hints’ film debut documentary feature, a world of flesh, heat and smoke. Amid the naked bodies, stories are told, sometimes harrowing, sometimes luminous, […]

A group of vigilantes called the “tobacco-forces” is falling apart. To rebuild team spirit, their leader suggests that they meet for a week-long retreat, before returning to save the world.

Summer at the Cinema cycle in collaboration with Séquences Joyce Chopra’s first feature film, in which a young Laura Dern reveals her immense talent to the public for one of the very first times, plunges us into a cinematographic summer where desire and danger come together. These memories of one adolescent summer are memorable not […]

July 8: Screening in presence of filmmaker Denis Côté Antonin, a talker and a schemer, is torn by his need to be in society and a desire to stay away from it. He becomes entangled as he confronts five surrounding women: his sister, his wife, his eventual mistress, a tax collector, and a student he […]

In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident. Trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, they have to resort to extreme measures to […]