Special screening with filmmaker Philippe Falardeau in attendance Seven years after winning La Course destination monde, a Quebec TV filmmaking competition, Philippe Falardeau released his feature debut, the portrait of an unemployed engineer who allows his roommate to shoot a documentary about his job-seeking experience. With the biting humour he’s come to be known for, […]
Adam, amateur-dancer and saxophone player, decides to do a remake of a ballet titled Suite Canadienne by Ludmilla Chiriaeff, that was first broadcast nationally on Quebec television in 1958, featuring ballet dancers disguised as peasants, traversing a fantasized colonial rural scene. *RIDM 2023
Part of our cycle “Frank et Eleanor Perry: Marginalités latentes”, in collaboration with Hors Champ Screening followed by a discussion with actress, screenwriter and director Micheline Lanctôt During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the normal routines of a rural elementary school are thrown into a panic when the civil defense alarm sirens go off, warning […]
In a country offering almost no treatment services despite a crisis of addiction, Laila Haidari took the highly unusual decision to found her own pioneering addiction treatment center and a restaurant where all of the waiters are recovering heroin addicts. A deeply personal perspective on the global addiction epidemic, the film follows the labor of […]
New 4K Restoration This stylized and unglamorous French drama by Robert Bresson presents the Arthurian legend as seen through the eyes of Lancelot du Lac (Luc Simon), one of the most prominent Knights of the Round Table. After returning empty-handed from the quest to find the Holy Grail, the restless Lancelot begins an affair with […]
April 21st special screening with filmmaker Catherine Legault and artist Laurence Philomène in attendance A look at the intimate world of young non-binary trans photographer Laurence Philomène as they put together their first book, PUBERTY, a series of self-portraits documenting their transition during hormone therapy. Mirroring Philomène’s autobiographical approach, LARRY (they/them) highlights the cinematic power […]
ROMANCES D’ÉTÉ CYCLE New 2K Restoration During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio’s newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results. Based on Evan Hunter’s novel of the same name, LAST SUMMER offers a raw and unflinching […]
With her first film in a decade, the fearless 75-year-old French auteur Catherine Breillat (Fat Girl, The Last Mistress) proves she’s as provocative as ever with her Cannes-stirring film, which drives down the dark road of uncontrollable passion. A remarkably nuanced, radiant Léa Drucker plays Anne, an attorney who has plateaued in her marriage to […]
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. […]