New 4K Restoration Screenings in collaboration with Hors Champ for the release of their new issue “Entrelacements de Jean Eustache” After the French New Wave, the sexual revolution, and May ’68 came The Mother and the Whore, the legendary, autobiographical magnum opus by Jean Eustache that captured a disillusioned generation navigating the post-idealism 1970s within […]

Special screening with filmmaker Philippe Falardeau in attendance Seven years after winning La Course destination monde, a Quebec TV filmmaking competition, Philippe Falardeau released his feature debut, the portrait of an unemployed engineer who allows his roommate to shoot a documentary about his job-seeking experience. With the biting humour he’s come to be known for, […]

Adam, amateur-dancer and saxophone player, decides to do a remake of a ballet titled Suite Canadienne by Ludmilla Chiriaeff, that was first broadcast nationally on Quebec television in 1958, featuring ballet dancers disguised as peasants, traversing a fantasized colonial rural scene. *RIDM 2023

This feature film by Gilles Carle is a classic of French-Canadian cinema. During the year’s worst storm, a humble snow-plow operator is forced to perform miracles, from clearing the streets to making his wife happy. Not to mention the multitude of errands in between. But Léopold is a happy-go-lucky kind of guy, and things usually […]

Part of our cycle “Frank et Eleanor Perry: Marginalités latentes”, in collaboration with Hors Champ Screening followed by a discussion with actress, screenwriter and director Micheline Lanctôt During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the normal routines of a rural elementary school are thrown into a panic when the civil defense alarm sirens go off, warning […]

In a country offering almost no treatment services despite a crisis of addiction, Laila Haidari took the highly unusual decision to found her own pioneering addiction treatment center and a restaurant where all of the waiters are recovering heroin addicts. A deeply personal perspective on the global addiction epidemic, the film follows the labor of […]

With her first film in a decade, the fearless 75-year-old French auteur Catherine Breillat (Fat Girl, The Last Mistress) proves she’s as provocative as ever with her Cannes-stirring film, which drives down the dark road of uncontrollable passion. A remarkably nuanced, radiant Léa Drucker plays Anne, an attorney who has plateaued in her marriage to […]

February 5th screening with filmmaker Ryan McKenna in attendance After the death of her husband, Ethel retreats inward, doubting her loved ones, trying to make sense of the fabric of her reality. She has also begun wandering at night, each walk a more surreal and abstract adventure.

It’s Halloween evening in 1977 and late-night talk show icon Jack Delroy (David Dastmalchian, THE SUICIDE SQUAD) has a live broadcast planned that’s going to be unlike anything anyone’s ever experienced. He downright needs it to be, as he faces declining viewership. And tonight, Delroy’s going to deliver. On levels his worst nightmares can’t imagine. […]

Special screening with filmmaker Denys Desjardins in attendance Madeleine is 86. For the last five years she has lived at Château Beaurivage, a retirement home in Montréal-Nord. And she likes it there, a lot. She socializes with other residents and enthusiastically welcomes visits from her three beloved children. But when her mental state deteriorates and […]