Aleksei is a young Belarusian on the run from a past he must bury. In a form of Faustian pact, he becomes a member of the French Foreign Legion in exchange for the promise of French citizenship. Far away, in the Niger Delta, Jomo is a revolutionary activist, engaged in armed struggle to defend his […]
*DOUBLE BILL Disintegration Loops David Wexler│États-Unis, 2021│45 min Between 2002 and 2003, against the backdrop of the still-fresh September 11 attacks, New York-based composer William Basinski released one of the most important recordings of the twenty-first century. Disintegration Loops, a series of four albums that Basinski finished the morning of 9/11, initially stemmed from a […]
Terence Davies double bill: discover director’s Benediction Winner of the Cannes ‘88 International Critics’ Prize. Loosely based on the director’s own family and upbringing, Distant Voices, Still Lives is an evocative account of working-class life in Liverpool, England during the ‘40s and ‘50s. Births, marriages and deaths — and an expressive use of music — […]
An overworked and underpaid production assistant must drive around the city of Bucharest to film the casting for a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational company. When one of her interviewees makes a statement that ignites a scandal she is forced to re-invent the whole story. *Special Jury Prize – Locrano Film Festival 2023
Staff Picks – Ribs Beauchamp (café-bar) 4K Restoration Set on one block of Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy Do or Die neighborhood, at the height of summer, this 1989 masterpiece by Spike Lee confirmed him as a writer and filmmaker of peerless vision and passionate social engagement. Over the course of a single day, the easygoing interactions of […]
Special screening in partnership with DOC Québec, with filmmaker Ève Lamont in attendance If you’re in Montreal, it’s impossible not to see it. After making its way through a number of neighbourhoods, gentrification finally reached Pointe-Saint-Charles, along the Lachine Canal. Pressed forward by developers, luxury condo towers are springing up in the traditionally working-class neighbourhood […]
Special screening in partnership with DOC Québec Screening with filmmaker Catherine Legault in attendance Tyr and Jasa grew up in an artistic household where art was a way of life. Quirky and insightful sisters, Tyr is a musician and singer while Jasa is an interdisciplinary artist. Inspired by their great-grandmother’s recordings of Icelandic folk songs, […]
Part of our late-night screenings, Bains de minuit! Film selected by Paul Provencher (Kirouac), rapper and our very own Ciméma Moderne café-bar manager « The father, the mother and their three kids live at the outskirts of a city. There is a tall fence surrounding the house. The kids have never been outside that fence. […]
Dec 17, Dec 22 & Jan 2: Dolby Atmos sound – 18$ screening Dec 15, Dec 18, Dec 24: Dolby 5.1 sound – 15$ screening Get a first look at one of the year’s biggest films before its streaming premiere on December 24: an all-out satire of planetary proportions from american comedy master Adam McKay […]
In this lovingly crafted, wildly eccentric adaptation of a classic French fairy tale, Jacques Demy casts Catherine Deneuve as a princess who must go into hiding as a scullery maid in order to fend off an unwanted marriage proposal—from her own father, the king (Jean Marais). A topsy-turvy riches-to-rags fable with songs by Michel Legrand, […]