Staff Picks – Maxime Poulin (Communications officer) The conclusion of The Before Trilogy finds Celine and Jesse several years into a relationship and in the midst of a sun-dappled Greek retreat with their twin daughters and a group of friends. The couple soon find their vacation upended, however, by long-simmering problems that come to a […]
Staff Picks – Maxime Poulin (Communications officer) Before Sunrise is a passionate and intelligent romance between a young American (Jesse) and a French student (Celine). A chance encounter on the train incites intrigue, and Jesse provocatively suggests that Celine postpones her return to France and embarks instead on a spontaneous expedition to Vienna. In the […]
Staff Picks – Maxime Poulin (Communications officer) Jesse, a writer from the US and Celine, a French woman working for an environment protection organization, met nine years ago on the train from Budapest to Vienna and meet again when Jesse arrives in Paris for a reading of his new book. As they have only a […]
Have you ever wanted to be someone else? Or, more specifically, have you ever wanted to crawl through a portal hidden in an anonymous office building and thereby enter the cerebral cortex of John Malkovich for fifteen minutes, before being spat out on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike? Then director Spike Jonze and […]
House Music Kaveh Nabatian│Canada, 2021│45 min House Music might have begun as an attempt to salvage their album release following a string of COVID-related tour cancellations, but Montreal band Bell Orchestre and director Kaveh Nabatian have ultimately created a singular, immersive audiovisual experience in the woodlands of Rivière-Perdue with this concert film. A stunning blend […]
On the occasion of musician DMX’s untimely passing, Film POP presents a screening of Hype Williams’ Belly. Tommy “Buns” Brown (DMX) and Sincere “Sin” (Nas) are best friends and ruthless New York gangsters on divergent paths in this millennium-ending crime classic, released mere months after DMX’s debut album, It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot. Despite […]
Hoping to reconnect, three brothers embark on a fishing trip with their father, whose absence from their childhood has left them with lasting scars. For Stéphane, Jean-Pierre, Jérôme and Laurent, this is a chance to find some answers, and maybe even to make their peace with the past. On the gently rocking boat, dreams and […]
Terence Davies double bill: discover director’s Distant Voices, Still Lives Siegfried Sassoon was a complex man who survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery but who became a vocal critic of the government’s continuation of the war when he returned from service. His poetry was inspired […]
Bergman Island follows a couple of American filmmakers, Chris (Vicky Krieps) and Tony (Tim Roth), who retreat to the mythical Fårö island for the summer. In this wild, breathtaking landscape where Bergman lived and shot his most celebrated pieces, they hope to find inspiration for their upcoming films. As days spent separately pass by, the […]
In collaboration with Fantasia International Film Festival Born out of an acting workshop and shot on an iPhone, BEYOND THE INFINITE TWO MINUTES is a high-concept time-loop movie that transcends expectations with its inventive concept. Kato (Kazunori Tosa) is at a bit of a dead-end in life. He lives above the cafe he owns and […]