Screening of November 7th with filmmaker Alison McAlpine (Perfectly a Strangeness) in attendance Screening of November 16th with filmmaker Mo Matton (Gender Reveal) in attendance Come and join us to discover the FNC 53rd edition winners: unique short films that stood out for their audacity and their excellence. SANS VOIX | Samuel Patthey Switzerland | […]
Middle-aged sexist Cédric gets suspended from work after drunkenly kissing a female reporter during a prank on live TV. Stuck at home with his long-suffering girlfriend and their incessantly crying baby, Cédric teams up with his sensitive brother to co-author a confessional book apologizing for their past misogyny. – Sundance *Sundance Film Festival 2022
*As part of our CONTES POUR TOUS cycle in tribute to producer Rock Demers* “Bachelor Jonathan’s only passion is Bach music. The last thing he thought he needed was a long-lost niece, at least that was what he thought before the arrival of 11- year-old Fanny and her skunk Broccoli. Newly orphaned Fanny has a […]
February 16th screening followed by a Q&A with co-director Guylaine Maroist In fall 2017, the MeToo hashtag shook the planet, sparking an unprecedented wave of sexual assault accusations in the Western world. Now a storm of virulent misogyny rages on, flooding our screens with harassment, defamation, lynching, sextortion, the sharing of intimate photographs, rape and deaths […]
*Warning – for mature audiences only This masterpiece by Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude, winner of the Golden Bear at the 2021 Berlinale, will leave you reeling. Throwing up a middle finger to hypocrisy, double standards and rah-rah patriotism, Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is a searing, hilarious satire about the misadventures of Emi, a […]
As seen from the inside out through the eyes of a Mohawk teenager from Kahnawake, Tracey Deer’s new feature film offers a powerful and necessary perspective on the Oka crisis. Despite being only thirteen, Beans has a lot on her shoulders and has to juggle family obligations and inclusion in her new group of friends, […]
NOVEMBER 5: FRENCH DUBBED VERSION november 12: original english version Michael Keaton, Academy Award winner Geena Davis, Alex Baldwin and Winona Ryder star in director Tim Burton’s comic twist on supernatural horror tales–Beetlejuice. When a couple of nice, young homebody ghosts (Baldwin and Davis) try to haunt the pretentious humans who have moved into their […]
Free screening for National Canadian Film Day, in partnership with Festival du nouveau cinéma and Reel Canada, with filmmaker Trevor Anderson in attendance At a small-town middle school in Alberta, nobody can tell if new kid Robin is a boy or a girl. It’s not long before the youngster is in the crosshairs of Carter, […]
Special screening with filmmaker Trevor Anderson in attendance, followed by a Q&A with Matthew Rankin 1987: While the other students wonder if new kid Robin is a boy or a girl, Robin forges a complicated bond with the school bully, making increasingly dangerous choices to fit in. *Locarno Film Festival 2022