Canadian premiere Sister Nancy’s “Bam Bam” has been part of our collective consciousness for over 40 years, but what do we really know about her? Featuring tour performances, interviews, archival footage, and reenactments, this documentary showcases Sister Nancy’s resilience and her everlasting prominence in reggae and hip hop. In an industry notorious for silencing female […]
In collaboration with Cinema Politica Any dutiful music documentarian strives to frame their subject as a trailblazer and the voice of a generation. In this regard, filmmaker Madison Thomas and her team did not have to work too hard. Minutes into this joyous and loving portrait, it’s clear we’re in the company of an incomparable […]
DOUBLE BILLE In collaboration with Cinemania Calliari, QC Anita Aloisio | Canada, 2022 | 48 min For Real Ugo Mangin | France, 2022 | 54 min With Calliari, QC and For Real, Film POP presents two indefatigable performers leaping out of their comfort zones and towards new forms of expression. For Marco Calliari, an established […]
There are late bloomers and then there’s the Barefoot Diva, Cesária Évora. The Cape Verdean singer improbably escaped total poverty and obscurity at the ripe showbiz age of 50, when her undeniable talent and distinctive brand of morna—Cabo Verde’s traditional genre of music and dance—took the world by storm. Drawing on limited but staggeringly intimate […]
Co-presented by Main Film Quebec premiere Since 1989, the slowest metal band on the planet has conjured some of music’s most striking tectonic changes. Not only did the band Earth create a glacially paced subgenre of metal and play a pivotal role in the popularisation of grunge, but visionary leader Dylan Carlson also did it […]
Before catching Cymande live on opening night at Entrepôt 77, see them on the big screen, just down the street! Adding to the regrettably lengthening list of greatest bands you’ve never heard of, Getting it Back tells Cymande’s story, from conception to long-overdue rediscovery. A group of brilliant Afro-Caribbean musicians based in London, Cymande recorded […]
CANADIAN PREMIERE It’s no exaggeration to say that King Crimson is one of the most influential and revered musical projects of the 20th and 21st centuries. Among the earliest and most prominent prog-rock practitioners, the band debuted in 1969 and has endured for over 50 years, but not without a few staffing changes. Indeed, though […]
Co-presented by Les Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal Quebec premiere | Screening followed by a Q&A with local filmmaker Mustafa Uzuner Set in a tree-lined neighborhood in Montréal’s Little Italy, La Cancha offers a snapshot of a popular community basketball court and the locals who gather there. The film immerses us in the heart […]
In collaboration with Film POP, the PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art presents RASSEMBLEUR, a film program based on the power of gathering, whether to be guided through a moment together or to protest. The selection of works presented in RASSEMBLEUR navigates power structures historically, through archives, performance documentation, as well as contemporary art videos. This […]
Ticket sales from this screening will be donated to the Delia Arts Foundation, an organization safeguarding Palestinian culture and providing shelter and support to musicians in Gaza Quebec premiere Lyd by Rami Younis & Sarah Ema Friedland, is a speculative documentary that follows the rise and fall of Lyd – a 5,000-year-old metropolis that was once a […]