Co-presented by RIDM Canadian premiere Filmmaker Daniela Muñoz Barroso, who has lost most of her hearing, travels to Santiago de Cuba to discover the identity of Mafifa, a female bell player in a Cuban congo who passed away 40 years ago. Barroso’s quest leads her to a trailblazing musician and an extraordinary woman who had […]
In collaboration with Hot Docs This arrestingly cinematic documentary follows Doris Muñoz, an artist manager and poster child for the elusive American dream. Born of undocumented immigrants, the young Latina businesswoman used her love of music, eye for talent, and unwavering determination to catapult her first client Cuco to international stardom. With success came financial […]
Quebec premiere North Circular is a documentary musical that travels the length of Dublin’s North Circular Road, exploring the history, music and streetscapes of a street that links some of the country’s most beloved and infamous places. Presented in black and white 4:3 Academy ratio, the film evokes many narratives, from the history of the […]
In collaboration with RIDM Has there ever been an artist so roundly condemned and then so wholly vindicated as Sinéad O’Connor? Nothing Compares makes a convincing and harrowing argument in the singer-songwriter’s favour. At just 23 years old, the unclassifiable Belfast-born musician topped world charts and became a household name. O’Connor used her platform to […]
With director Vincent Bonin-Arena in attendance Young, nonchalant and blasé, Anna’s only joy in life is music. Her life turns upside down the day that she breaks her CD player and gets a classic iPod instead. At the same time, a mysterious person enters her life. These new obsessions drag Anna into a journey that […]
Two old friends reunite for a quietly revelatory overnight camping trip in this breakout feature from Kelly Reichardt, a microbudget study of character and masculinity that introduced many viewers to one of contemporary American cinema’s most independent artists. Adapted from a short story by Jonathan Raymond and accompanied by an atmospheric Yo La Tengo score, […]
Co-presented by le Festival du nouveau cinéma A film that charts the artistic and personal relationship between Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala (At the Drive-In / The Mars Volta) through hundreds of hours of self shot footage filmed by Omar over the last 40 years. The film unflinchingly tackles the greater themes of success, addiction, […]
Co-presented by image+nation Quebec premiere To be or not to be a mother, that is the question. Milagros (37) stretches a carefree youth in her last years of fertility, while Jonathan (24) seeks solace on Grindr in order to overcome abandonment issues. Friendship and driving ease the disorientation caused by the deceptive freedom of the […]
In collaboration with Film POP, the PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art presents Fictional Revolutionary Leaders, a double bill including Gloria Camiruaga’s Popsicles (1984) and Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s Oriana (2022). Popsicles by Gloria Camiruaga is a short video produced during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, which lasted from 1973 to 1990. Camiruaga’s short […]
Presented in partnership with the PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art Problems of Leisure brings together seven works by Ilana Harris-Babou, most of them screened for the first time in Canada. In the last decade, the artist has reinvested popular video formats produced in turns by media conglomerates, ad agencies or individuals acting as influencers – […]