New 4K Restorations Screenings in collaboration with Hors Champ for the release of their new issue “Entrelacements de Jean Eustache” A DIRTY STORY (Jean Eustache, France, 1977, 50 minutes) Deceptively simple in form and content, Eustache’s Une Sale Histoire is a fascinatingly complex investigation of the relationship between fiction and documentary, verbal and visual storytelling, […]
The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turn his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not even for […]
Ernest Cole, a South African photographer was the first to expose the horrors of apartheid to a world audience. His book House of Bondage, published in 1967 when he was only 27 years old, led him into exile in NYC and Europe for the rest of his life, never to find his bearings. Raoul Peck […]
Petits Modernes rate – 10$ tickets Ernest et Célestine retournent au pays d’Ernest, la Charabie, pour faire réparer son précieux violon cassé. Ils découvrent alors que la musique est bannie dans tout le pays depuis plusieurs années. Pour nos deux héros, il est impensable de vivre sans musique ! Accompagnés de complices, dont un mystérieux […]
Traversing time, space and genre, Argentinian filmmaker Lisandro Alonso (Jauja) presents an elliptical meditation on the experiences of indigenous communities across the Americas. Opening in a dusty town of the Old West, reality soon transitions to contemporary South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation before finally landing in the jungles of 1970s Brazil. As the triptych unfolds, […]
Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as The Daniels, the film is a hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi action adventure about an exhausted Chinese American woman (Michelle Yeoh) who can’t seem to finish her taxes. *SXSW Festival 2022 *Nominated for 11 categories including Best Picture, Best Actress in a leading role (Michelle Yeoh) […]
February 17th screening with filmmakers Laurence Turcotte-Fraser and Priscillia Piccoli in attendance Montreal, Canada. One of North America’s last remaining affordable cities is now in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis. As a result, the face of homelessness is visibly changing. “Renovictions” are on the rise while demand in homeless day centres explodes. In […]
July 13th screening with filmmaker Mathilde Capone and queer spoken word artist Leïla Sofiane in attendance Since 2010, Parthenais has held within its walls the life of a whole queer community. They are gay, lesbian, trans, and they live together in Centre-Sud in the heart of Montreal, in a triplex that is falling apart. Between […]