Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. 20 years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny. *Competition – Berlin Film Festival 2023 *Nominated for 2 Academy Awards including Best Picture – Oscars 2024
May 3rd screening with filmmaker Denis Côté in attendance Paul struggles with depression and social anxiety. He leads a solitary and routine-bound existence spent mostly at home. But, as a big fan of “Alice in Wonderland”, he is always thinking up new ways to make his world brighter and more ornate. Seeking safety and security, […]
March 22nd screening with filmmaker Sook-Yin Lee in attendance, in partnership with the Montreal Critics’ Week, , the Montreal Comic Arts Festival, and the “Beyond the 2 Solitudes” research group PAYING FOR IT is a live-action adaptation of acclaimed alternative-cartoonist Chester Brown’s best-selling graphic novel. In the late 90s, Chester and Sonny are a long-term, […]
New 4K Restoration A powerful work of Korean New Wave cinema and Lee Chang Dong’s second directorial feature, Peppermint Candy spans 20 years in the life of one man, Yongho, from his callow teens through his fraught, self-hating middle age. Presented in seven chapters in reverse-chronological order, the film begins with Yongho’s untimely suicide and […]
The groundbreaking and rarely screened first film from the legendary director Satoshi Kon (Paprika, Paranoia Agent). Rising pop star Mima has quit singing to pursue a career as an actress and model, but her fans aren’t ready to see her go… Encouraged by her managers, Mima takes on a recurring role on a popular TV […]
Hirayama is content with his simple life cleaning toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Unexpected encounters reveal more of his story in a deeply moving and poetic reflection on finding beauty in the world around us. *Best Actor Prize (Kôji Yakusho) […]
Staff Picks – Rébekka Beauchamp (café-bar) “Persona is a film which blurs both that which separates its viewers from the film, and that which separates its characters Alma and Elisabet. In a film which explores audience and cinema, identity and vampirism, the self and desire, we become immersed in visuals which have influenced filmmakers across […]
Céline Sciamma triple bill: discover director’s Tomboy and Portrait de la jeune fille en feu After her grandmother dies, Nelly (Joséphine Sanz) is taken to her mother’s childhood home. While her parents go about cleaning out the house, Nelly explores the surrounding woods. She encounters Marion (Gabrielle Sanz), a girl exactly Nelly’s age and to […]
Special Valentine’s Day screening Brian De Palma’s glam rock version of the famous Phantom of the Opera story stars singer-songwriter Paul Williams as Swan, a music business tycoon who steals the work of talented composer Winslow Leach (Finley), along with his girlfriend Phoenix (Harper). Leach plans to get revenge, but his plans soon go horribly […]
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON DOUBLE FEATURE Set in the glamour of 1950’s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock [Daniel Day-Lewis] and his sister Cyril [Lesley Manville] are at the center of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through […]