4K Restoration Shot outside of Pittsburgh at a fraction of the cost of a Hollywood feature by a band of filmmakers determined to make their mark, George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead is one of the great stories of independent cinema: a midnight hit turned box-office smash that became one of the most […]
Free screening organized by Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC) for National Canadian Film Day. Free tickets must be reserved online in advance! Feature presented with short film NALUJUK NIGHT (2021) by Jennie Williams. It’s 2043. In a dystopian postwar future, Niska and her 11-year-old daughter Waseese, both Cree, are living on the run in the […]
35th Anniversary of Max Films Marcel has just been released from prison. His father Albert is now alone, and dying. Two corrupt policeman are after Marcel. Albert keeps dreaming about hunting, and as Marcel cannot take him to the woods, they go to the zoo at night. *Directors’ Fortnight – Cannes Film Festival 1987
Part of our late-night screenings, Bains de minuit! Film selected and presented by Ariel Esteban Cayer, film critic and festival programmer After a dazzling meteor shower, the Nightbeast lands near a small East Coast town, armed with his vaporizing ray gun and a goal of killing everyone who crosses his path. As area residents are […]
In partnership with Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Montréal 4K restoration In the role that won her the Best Actress award at Cannes, Giulietta Masina stars as “Cabiria,” a tough Roman streetwalker who, after a near-drowning by her pimp boyfriend, is swept off her feet by a square, but sympathetic, accountant…until a final disillusionment. Federico […]
New 4K Restoration Feature preceded by short film LET THE RED MOON BURN by Ralitsa Doncheva Over the course of a single nightshift, a West London hotel clerk (U.K. counterculture icon Jordan) plays silent witness to a nocturnal constellation of guests ranging from punk rockers and scenester magicians to seemingly staid businessmen and old-world gentry. […]
Curated specifically for Cinéma Moderne by the filmmaker himself, Nightsongs is a program of eight short experimental films by multidisciplinary artist Scott Barley. « Among the films here, the ones I am most proud of, are those which I describe as “nightsongs”, where the distance between the experience and the experiencer narrow into a unitive […]
A viral video of an 8-year-old Bulgarian artist catches the eye of a major art collector. Mihail is sent there, 30 years after leaving his home country, to assess the value of the girl’s work and confront the ghosts of his past. *Silver Bear for Best Screenplay – Berlin Film Festival 2026