An overwhelming sensory experience, emotional and brutal, Darius Marder’s first feature film, Sound of Metal, dives head-first into the universe of Ruben, a young drummer in a metal band. He sees his entire existence fall apart in the face of irreversible hearing loss. Forced to temporarily abandon his girlfriend Lou to join a community for […]
United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez captures the moment when […]
In collaboration with RIDM Both long-running and largely unknown to outsiders, the territorial conflict around Nagorno-Karabakh is a stubborn wedge between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which have continued to dispute the self-proclaimed Transcaucasian republic despite a 1994 ceasefire. Listening attentively to passionate voices on either side, Québécois director François Jacob paints an insightful portrait of ethnic […]
After the explosive charge of Chien de garde and its nocturnal Verdun, Sophie Dupuis returns with her powerful second feature film. Souterrain is a total immersion in a world Dupuis is familiar with: the mines of Val-d’Or. She traces the collective destiny of the hardworking community through intimate dramas, as characters grapple with family hardships […]
Every Sunday, the Vocal Vidas can be heard performing at El Morro Castle in Santiago de Cuba. The acapella quartet, composed of Koset Muñoa Columbié, Maryoris Mena Faez, Ana Josefina Hernández and Annia del Toro Leyva, is without question a national treasure beloved by audiences the world over. But for reasons glaringly economic and political, […]
January 25th screening with filmmaker Malek Rasamny in attendance Spaces of Exception is a documentary film that profiles the terrains of the Indian reservation and the Palestinian refugee camp, “spaces of exception” that have become essential in the struggle for decolonization and indigenous autonomy. Shot between 2014 to 2017, Spaces of Exception observes and juxtaposes […]
New 2K Restoration In the godforsaken satellite city of Tuen Mun. 13-year-old Cookie suspects she’s pregnant. Lately things have not been going her way. Her mother left; her father ignores her; her best friend is in reform school; and her boyfriend Is off selling bootleg VCDs in bustling Mong Kok. Flanked by her ride-or-dies Banana, […]
One of the most infamous, impactful, and gut-wrenching Japanese horror films ever made returns to the big screen! Recent widower (and movie producer) Shigeharu is looking for a new wife. But instead of going the usual route, he decides to hold “auditions” for a movie that doesn’t exist. Shigeharu quickly becomes enchanted with Asami, a […]
Before Dario Argento’s Deep Red, there was Mario Bava’s Blood and Black Lace. At the Cristiana Haute Couture fashion house, models and their boyfriends excel at the art of backstabbing, blackmail, and snorting cocaine. That is, until a faceless maniac embarks on a mission of death! After the one-two punch of Black Sunday and Black […]