New 4K Restoration Claire Denis drew on her own childhood experiences growing up in colonial French Africa for her multilayered, languorously absorbing feature debut, which explores many of the themes that would recur throughout her work. Returning to the town where she grew up in Cameroon after many years living in France, a white woman […]
On Christmas Eve, a huge, rambunctious extended Italian-American family gather upon their small Long Island hometown for what could be the last holiday in their ancestral home. As the night wears on, while hijinks and generational squabbles ensue, two of the teenage cousins take advantage of the chaos to sneak out into the wintry suburb […]
The whiplash, double-pronged “Chungking Express” is one of the defining works of nineties cinema and the film that made Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai an instant icon. Two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung), both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out restaurant stand, where the ethereal pixie […]
FERMETURE DES CINÉMAS Suite à l’annonce d’aujourd’hui, les bars, salles de spectacles et cinémas doivent fermer leurs portes à compter d’aujourd’hui 17h. Le café-bar et la salle de cinéma du Cinéma Moderne seront donc fermés du 20 décembre au 10 janvier et au-delà si la situation demeure ainsi. La sécurité de notre équipe et de […]
Quebec premiere Itto, a young Moroccan from humble origins, has adapted to the opulence of her husband’s family with whom she lives. Just as she was looking forward to a day of tranquility without her in-laws, supernatural events suggesting the approach of a mysterious presence throw the country into a state of emergency. Alone, she […]
Snapshots of daily life in two psychiatric units of the same hospital in Val-de-Marne, near Paris, focus on individual meetings between patients and caregivers. Nicolas Philibert films the caregivers with the same love expressed by Agnès Varda towards shopkeepers (Daguerréotypes) and highlights, in this second part of a documentary trilogy on mental health, the almost […]
World premiere Screening in presence of special guests At the dawn of her thirties, Mathilde crosses paths with Arnaud, a teenager searching for his biological mother. Together, they journey through the Saguenay region to find her, forging a deep friendship. Amidst abandoned houses, motels, and country roads, their realities intertwine, revealing buried emotions that call […]
Montreal premiere Screening in presence of special guests A family home in the countryside, with typical Quebec architecture, is the main character in Renée Beaulieu’s new film (Les Salopes ou le sucre naturel de la peau, Le Garagiste), which unfolds over ten years. The house was built by a loving father (François Papineau), who gradually […]
Canadian premiere Under a scorching sun, Purdey, seventeen, and her brother Makenzy, fifteen, portrayed beautifully by real-life siblings, are left to their own devices. Caught between the carefree spirit of adolescence and the harsh realities of adulthood, they must support each other in this journey of heartrending tenderness, which seems to be the last summer […]
Quebec premiere After leaving Haiti, a boy and his mother settle in a rural village in Quebec, where the child relies on his imaginary friend to understand the new world around him. Director of the mini-series Afro Canada (2022), which told the story of Canada from the perspective of Afro-descendants, Henri Pardo presents a highly […]