Free screening organized by Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC) for National Canadian Film Day. Free tickets must be reserved online in advance! Feature presented with short film NALUJUK NIGHT (2021) by Jennie Williams. It’s 2043. In a dystopian postwar future, Niska and her 11-year-old daughter Waseese, both Cree, are living on the run in the […]
35th Anniversary of Max Films Marcel has just been released from prison. His father Albert is now alone, and dying. Two corrupt policeman are after Marcel. Albert keeps dreaming about hunting, and as Marcel cannot take him to the woods, they go to the zoo at night. *Directors’ Fortnight – Cannes Film Festival 1987
Part of our late-night screenings, Bains de minuit! Film selected and presented by Ariel Esteban Cayer, film critic and festival programmer After a dazzling meteor shower, the Nightbeast lands near a small East Coast town, armed with his vaporizing ray gun and a goal of killing everyone who crosses his path. As area residents are […]
In partnership with Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Montréal 4K restoration In the role that won her the Best Actress award at Cannes, Giulietta Masina stars as “Cabiria,” a tough Roman streetwalker who, after a near-drowning by her pimp boyfriend, is swept off her feet by a square, but sympathetic, accountant…until a final disillusionment. Federico […]
New 4K Restoration Feature preceded by short film LET THE RED MOON BURN by Ralitsa Doncheva Over the course of a single nightshift, a West London hotel clerk (U.K. counterculture icon Jordan) plays silent witness to a nocturnal constellation of guests ranging from punk rockers and scenester magicians to seemingly staid businessmen and old-world gentry. […]
Curated specifically for Cinéma Moderne by the filmmaker himself, Nightsongs is a program of eight short experimental films by multidisciplinary artist Scott Barley. « Among the films here, the ones I am most proud of, are those which I describe as “nightsongs”, where the distance between the experience and the experiencer narrow into a unitive […]
One of the world’s great cinematic artists, Jafar Panahi has been carefully crafting self-reflexive works about artistic, personal, and political freedom for the past three decades, despite his oppression at the hands of the Iranian government. Now, as the international film community vehemently denounces his summer 2022 arrest and continued imprisonment for his vocal support […]
A collective of Palestinian and Israeli activist/filmmakers chronicle the Israeli military’s incremental expulsion of the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta — home to 20 ancient Palestinian villages — in this tightly focused, urgent documentary. Over a period of five years (2019–23), Masafer Yatta resident and Palestinian journalist Basel Adra shoots video of home, school, […]
Oscar-winning filmmaker Jordan Peele reimagines the summer movie with Nope, an expansive pop epic of uncanny science fiction. Following their father’s shocking death, Hollywood animal wrangler OJ (Daniel Kaluuya) and his sister Emerald (Keke Palmer) begin observing unexplained phenomena on their vast Southern California ranch that leads them down an obsessive rabbit hole as they […]