Soirée flirt hétéro 14 février – Arrivée à 18h30 / Film à 19h Film: Shortbus de John Cameron Mitchell (2006) Mood: Relations, libertinage et sexualité fluide Pour la St-Valentin, Slow Dating et le Cinéma Moderne s’unissent pour vous proposer un moment de cinéma et de connexions pour célibataires hétéros! Célibataires queer, nous vous proposons aussi […]
Soirée Flirt Queer 13 février – Arrivée à 18h30 / Film à 19h Film: Má Sài Gòn de Khoa Lê (2023) Mood: identité et relations LGBTQ+ Pour la St-Valentin, Slow Dating et le Cinéma Moderne s’unissent pour vous proposer un moment de cinéma et de connexions pour célibataires queer! Célibataires hétéros, nous vous proposons aussi […]
May 18th screening with filmmaker Chloé Leriche in attendance Manawan, 1977. The police find a car containing five Atikamekws, all deceased. The initial suspects, two white Quebeckers, survived unscathed. The official version: a “drinking binge gone wrong,” an unfortunate accident. Until now, the crime has remained unsolved. After Avant les rues (2016), Chloé Leriche updates […]
After being fired from her job, Ren, an aspiring writer and mid-twenty-something, accompanies her family on vacation. The realities of being a stunted millennial and a trans woman coalesce as Ren struggles to balance the yearning for independence with the comfort of being taken care of. *San Sebastian International Film Festival 2022 *TIFF 2022
From the creators of the Academy Award®-nominated The Secret of Kells comes a breathtakingly gorgeous, hand-drawn masterpiece. Based on the Irish legend of the Selkies, Song of the Sea tells the story of the last seal-child, Saoirse, and her brother Ben, who go on an epic journey to save the world of magic and discover […]
STAFF PICKS – Benjamin Pelletier (head programmer) A gangster, a crooked banker, a hitman and an arab terrorist are stranded and on the run in a small village in South America. Their only chance of escape is to drive two trucks filled with unstable nitroglycerin up a long and rocky mountain road in order to […]
An overwhelming sensory experience, emotional and brutal, Darius Marder’s first feature film, Sound of Metal, dives head-first into the universe of Ruben, a young drummer in a metal band. He sees his entire existence fall apart in the face of irreversible hearing loss. Forced to temporarily abandon his girlfriend Lou to join a community for […]
United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez captures the moment when […]
In collaboration with RIDM Both long-running and largely unknown to outsiders, the territorial conflict around Nagorno-Karabakh is a stubborn wedge between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which have continued to dispute the self-proclaimed Transcaucasian republic despite a 1994 ceasefire. Listening attentively to passionate voices on either side, Québécois director François Jacob paints an insightful portrait of ethnic […]
After the explosive charge of Chien de garde and its nocturnal Verdun, Sophie Dupuis returns with her powerful second feature film. Souterrain is a total immersion in a world Dupuis is familiar with: the mines of Val-d’Or. She traces the collective destiny of the hardworking community through intimate dramas, as characters grapple with family hardships […]