4K Restoration With this giddily romantic, exquisitely stylized sophomore feature, Leos Carax cemented his status as one of the boldest filmmakers of his generation. In a world ravaged by STBO, a sexually transmitted disease only acquired by people having sex without any emotion, a rebellious young man (Denis Lavant) is recruited by a veteran criminal […]
Special screening – Double bill ME (Don Hertzfeldt, United States, 2024, 22 minutes) *QUEBEC PREMIERE* Don Hertzfeldt’s newest animated film ME is a 22-minute musical odyssey about trauma, technology, and the retreat of humanity into itself. Indiewire has described it as “soul-shaking” and “a triumph”. It’s Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt, United States, 2012, […]
Special screening – Don Hertzfeldt short film program ME (Don Hertzfeldt, United States, 2024, 22 minutes) *QUEBEC PREMIERE* Don Hertzfeldt’s newest animated film ME is a 22-minute musical odyssey about trauma, technology, and the retreat of humanity into itself. Indiewire has described it as “soul-shaking” and “a triumph”. World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt, United States, […]
November 7 screening with filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz in attendance Audrey Benac undertakes a ghostly research quest to revive the forgotten legacy of violinist Kathleen Parlow. From Toronto to Oslo, she seeks to reconcile her dying mother’s unfulfilled dreams with Parlow’s haunting past.
A raw, fly-on-the-wall documentary about Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-long journey in creating his self-financed passion project, Megalopolis. The bold and unrelenting epic returns in Mike Figgis’ portrait of Coppola’s creative process — weaving together archival material, unfiltered cast interviews, and a close-up view of how the legendary filmmaker drew from Roman history, political allegory, and […]
Little Modernes screening: 5 years and over A film about two mortal enemies – a little mouse Whizzy and Whitebelly the fox, who after an unfortunate accident, meet in animal heaven. They lose their natural instincts and become best friends. Their wish to stay together after they return to earth comes true, but they are […]
Feature preceded by short film A Crab in the Pool A CRAB IN THE POOL (Alexandra Myotte and Jean-Sébastien Hamel, Québec, 2023, French with English subtitles, 11 minutes) In a run-down neighborhood, Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves. A young adolescent, Zoe is a ball of anger haunted by […]
Sixteen years before Parasite, South Korean director Bong Joon-ho was making his first major film, a haunting and sulphurous thriller based on the real-life case of the first serial murders in Korean history. Combining horror and dark humour, Memories of Murder also marks the first collaboration between the filmmaker and his favourite actor Song Kang-ho, […]
Sixteen years before Parasite, South Korean director Bong Joon-ho was making his first major film, a haunting and sulphurous thriller based on the real-life case of the first serial murders in Korean history. Combining horror and dark humour, Memories of Murder also marks the first collaboration between the filmmaker and his favourite actor Song Kang-ho, […]