October 22: VOSTA Tensions rise between restless teenager Julija and her oppressive father Ante when an old family friend arrives at their Croatian island home. As Ante attempts to broker a life-changing deal, their tranquil yet isolated existence leaves Julija wanting more from this influential visitor, who provides a taste of liberation over a weekend […]
Following an esteemed decade working in short films, the Halifax-based filmmaker Heather Young delivers Murmur, one of the most remarkable Canadian films of 2019. Marked by its fixed camera, the film is a profound exploration of loneliness, following the emotional affective codependence of Donna, a woman in her sixties, who searches to alleviate her solitude […]
A quietly colossal achievement from one of contemporary cinema’s preeminent image makers. On a stormy night in the mountains of Greece, a pair of wayward young people abandon their newborn child. Taken in by a family of farmers, Ion grows up without knowing his father or mother. Years later, after a tragic accident, he is […]
New 2K Restoration Once only ordinary drama came between Lap (Joey Wong) and Rick (Kenny Bee). The lovers worked together at Lap’s father’s bar, where business was slow but enough. Then her father Cheung and Rick are coerced into one last job with the Triad that goes terribly wrong. Her father now a target wanted […]
After his mother’s sudden death, Zucchini is befriended by a police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home, filled with other orphans his age. At first he struggles to find his place in this at times strange and hostile environment. But with Raymond’s help and his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to […]
PETITS MODERNES PROGRAMMING – FREE ADMITTANCE FOR CHILDREN UNDER 12 When Satsuki and her sister Mei move with their father to a new home in the countryside, they find country life is not as simple as it seems. They soon discover that the house and nearby woods are full of strange and delightful creatures, including […]
In the brilliantly accomplished centerpiece of Rohmer’s “Moral Tales” series, Jean-Louis Trintignant plays Jean-Louis, one of the great conflicted figures of sixties cinema. A pious Catholic engineer in his early thirties, he lives by a strict moral code in order to rationalize his world, drowning himself in mathematics and the philosophy of Pascal. After spotting […]
June 14th screening with filmmaker Yan Giroux in attendance MY SON CAME BACK TO DISAPPEAR is the eponymous adaptation of David Clerson’s novel. This impressionistic film tells the story of Suzanne, whose isolated life in the forest is disrupted by the sudden return of her estranged son Mathieu, whom she hasn’t seen for so many […]
*As part of the Post-Moderne Ciné-club – choice of Pascal Plante August 5: Introduction & discussion with the filmmaker Pascal Plante, the producer Dominique Dussault and the swimmer and actress Ariane Mainville *LAST SCREENING* While young and in her prime, Nadia decides to retire from pro swimming after the Olympic Games to escape a rigid […]
New 4K Restoration – Director’s Cut Feature paired with short film DREI ATLAS (2018), directed by Miryam Charles Merging elements from DRACULA’S DAUGHTER (1936) with André Breton’s surrealist novel NADJA (1928), and fusing shimmering black-and-white 35mm with hallucinatory Pixelvision video, Michael Almereyda’s (Tesla, Experimenter, Hamlet) acclaimed cult film follows young vampire Nadja (Elina Löwensohn) as […]