This program is produced in collaboration with Jenny Cartwright Unframing Documentary presents sound works to be experienced in the darkness of Cinéma Moderne. For the second year running, cinema is taking a visual sabbatical. To tell stories through sound is to access an endlessly evocative power, akin to that of literature, and one that offers […]

The audio installation will be presented from November 15th to 26th before every screening. Only the following ticketholders will be able to witness the audio installation (by arriving 30 minutes before the screening) : B3, B4, B5, C3, C4, C5, D3, D4, D5. Vernissage of the audio installation Cinéma Moderne, novembre 2023 – November 18th, […]

An experimental sound, video and performative creation from Julie Faubert that unfolds from the very specific context of the Cinéma Moderne screening room in Montreal. Through sound images, live light framing and projected video sequences, the nature of the image is constantly questioned. Thanks to the interplay of quasi-synesthetic references, it is the dark room […]

New 4K Restoration All roads lead back to RINGU—the blockbuster Japanese horror movie that inspired a million nightmares (and ripoffs and remakes) with its phantasmic elegance. Television journalist Reiko investigates an urban legend about a cursed VHS tape that murders the viewer seven days after they watch it. As the mystery hits closer to home, […]

Based on the popular graphic novel by the North American writer Sara Varon, ROBOT DREAMS tells the adventures and misfortunes of Dog and Robot in NYC during the ’80s. *Academy Award Nomination (2023) – Best Animated Feature Film

Free screening for National Indigenous Peoples Day In collaboration with ONF Stories of resistance, strength and perseverance are laid bare in this examination of a dark day in Canadian history. At the height of tensions at Oka, Quebec, in 1990, Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) women, children and Elders fled their community of Kahnawake out of fear for […]

March 9th screening with writer-director Joëlle Desjardins Paquette and co-writer Sarah Lévesque in attendance After a difficult separation, Serge Jr. takes his daughter Lily, 9, on a truck ride across Canada. They head to Alberta and its legendary Badlands World’s Best Truck Rodeo, a race Lily and him have been dreaming about. On the road, […]

Rojek converses with some of the most important members of the Islamic State (IS), who are currently being detained in Syrian Kurdistan. As a backdrop, a country trying to stay vigilant as it struggles to recover from years of war. *RIDM 2022

4K Restoration Audrey Hepburn stars as the globe-trotting Princess Anne who is in the midst of a highly publicised tour of Europe’s capital cities. When she and her royal entourage arrive in Rome, she begins to rebel against her restricted, regimented schedule. One night, Anne sneaks out of her room, hops into the back of […]

A troubling exploration of the consequences of sexual assault that blends the clinical mise-en-scene of The Assistant with the powerful vengeance of Promising Young Woman, Rose Plays Julie follows the journey of a young woman in search of answers. After tracking down her birth mother, Julie finds out the horrific secret of her birth. This […]