New 4K Restoration Bona, a young middle-class girl, quits school and family to move in with Gardo, an aging actor who works in low-budget productions. At first, she enjoys playing housewife until gradually,she comes to realize that he has actually cast her as the role of his slave. Directed by one of the pioneers of […]
Nov 29: in presence of filmmaker Caroline Monnet Screened with Caroline Monnet’s short film Mobilize (2015), in collaboration with the NFB In collaboration with FNC Mani, a law student, leaves the city for the northern Quebec reserve where she grew up. Seeking a referendum to end the prohibition of alcohol on the reserve, she’s soon […]
Free surprise screening – International Women’s Day The movie that rocked the foundations of the early Indie film world, this provocative, thrilling classic is a fantasy of female rebellion set in America ten years after a social democratic cultural revolution. When Adelaide Norris, the black radical founder of the Woman’s Army, is mysteriously killed, a […]
Sara and Jean have been in a loving, stable relationship for ten years. They are happy. He is her rock, someone she can hold on to. When they first met, Sara was in a relationship with François, Jean’s best friend. One day, Sara sees François on the street. He does not see her, but she […]
Éric Rohmer double bill: discover director’s The Aviator’s Wife! Rohmer uses the amorous misadventures of two girlfriends in the Paris suburbs to test the old adage in the final episode of his “Comedies and Proverbs” series. Taking an identifiable stab at a yuppie(ish) set, Rohmer’s witty Shakespearean roundelay involves the buttoned-up Blanche (Emmanuelle Chaulet, in […]
After altering the landscape of trash-horror history with BASKET CASE and FRANKENHOOKER, the brilliant Frank Henenlotter unleashed BRAIN DAMAGE, his ultimate Grimm’s Fairy Tale for perverted adults. This is a slimy, grimy, gore-soaked slice-of-NYC-life that follows a poor schmo who is addicted to a drug called Aylmer. But unlike heroin or cocaine, Aylmer is a […]
In this eye-opening documentary, celebrated independent filmmaker Nina Menkes explores the sexual politics of cinematic shot design. Using clips from hundreds of movies we all know and love – from Metropolis to Vertigo to Phantom Thread – Menkes convincingly makes the argument that shot design is gendered. Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power illuminates the patriarchal narrative codes that […]
Fouad is a 15-year-old Moroccan immigrant who loves soccer. On the other hand, Max, 27 years old, was born in Quebec. The destinies of Fouad and Max will cross in an explosive situation, in which both of them and the viewer will not escape unscathed. Respire is a suspense film that addresses racial tensions, economic […]
Part of our late-night screenings, Bains de minuit! Film selected and presented by Rafaël Ouellet, filmmaker (Camion, Arsenault & Fils). Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream: to take flight within the confines of the stadium. Brewster tells those he trusts of […]