Program 1: Saturday, October 8 – 5 pm Program 2: Saturday, October 8 – 7 pm The rate for the screening includes both programs and the master class. PROGRAMME 1 6 films | 80 minutes Rugburn Trevor Anderson | Alberta/Canada | 2005 | 13 min | English | French subtitles Jesse Jams Trevor Anderson | […]
Special Screening The FNC welcomes you to a relaxed screening of The Velvet Queen by Marie Amiguet and Vincent Meunier. In a comforting, adapted environment, this screening is open to everyone, especially neuroatypical people. Wildlife photographer Vincent Munier travels the Tibetan plateau with writer Sylvain Tesson (The Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin […]
FNC Explore and Les nouveaux alchimistes sections Screening with filmmaker C.S. Roy in attendance A female Neuroscience Researcher develops a rare form of melophobia after receiving an unsolicited portable media player loaded with music for testing in her laboratory and experiencing a musical Stendhal Syndrome. Witnessing her colleagues’ strangely changing behavior over repeated exposure to […]
Histoires du cinéma A reformed criminal opens a bar in a world ruled by violence. But his past soon catches up with him. Revenge, kidnapping, robbery and a gang war all converge on a man who, for a brief moment, just dreams of being someone else. When legendary filmmaker Hideo Gosha (Samurai Wolf, also screening […]
Nouveaux Alchimistes Terminally ill Europe spends time with her vampiric Man Machine, with whom she’s in a sadomasochistic relationship. At the same time, the employees in a medical institute are subjected to the forces of totalitarian rule. Outside is a snow-covered wasteland. When a stranger bursts in, the torment ramps up. After M (FNC 2018), […]
Opening night of Fondu au noir festival The screening will be followed by a 60-minutes discussion with filmmaker Peggy Nkunga Ndona moderated by Diane Gistal, consultant, cultural producer and independent art curator. After crossing 11 countries irregularly to seek asylum in Canada, Peggy, Simon and their three children are waiting for the hearing that will […]
Forme d’onde 2 is a collection of experimental and narrative animated short films. As with the first edition of Forme d’onde, each film has a deep relationship to music and sound design in varying ways. Each film is bold in its own way, defying conventions as they take us to new worlds only made possible […]
In collaboration with Panorama-Cinema, curated by filmmaker Brandon Blommaert A selection of short films that explores the long relationship between animation and electronic music. Both animation and electronic music have an inherent ability to conjure whole new worlds out of nothing, allowing creators to be untethered by the confines of reality. All of these films […]
Screenings paired with Québec short film OASIS by Justine Martin The life of Olfa, a Tunisian woman and mother of four daughters, oscillates between light and shadow. One day, her two eldest daughters disappear. To fill their absence, director Kaouther Ben Hania calls upon professional actors to re-enact the story of Olfa and her daughters. […]
Staff picks – Flavia Carton (receptionist) Frances (Greta Gerwig) lives in New York, but she doesn’t really have an apartment. Frances is an apprentice for a dance company, but she¹s not really a dancer. Frances has a best friend named Sophie, but they aren’t really speaking anymore. Frances throws herself headlong into her dreams, even […]