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Godland, la terre divine
In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality. Official Selection / Un certain regard – Cannes Film Festival –...
Àma Gloria
Six-year-old Cléo loves her nanny Gloria more than anything. When Gloria must return to Cape Verde to care for her own children, the two must make the most of their last summer together.
Les Damnés ne pleurent pas
Fatima-Zahra and her teenage son Selim move from place to place, forever trying to outrun the latest scandal she’s caught up in. When Selim discovers the truth about their past, Fatima-Zahra vows to make a fresh start. In Tangier, new opportunities promise the legitimacy they each crave — but not without pushing the volatile mother-son relationship to the breaking point. Official Selection – London Film Festival – 2022Official Selection – Venice Film Festival – 2022 Moroccan cinema is presented in collaboration with the Centre culturel marocain de Montréal.
Je verrai toujours vos visages
With Adèle Exarchopoulos et Leïla Bekhti Since 2014, Restorative Justice in France has offered victims and perpetrators the chance to talk in secure settings, supervised by professionals and volunteers like Judith, Fanny or Michel. César des lycéens – César – 2024Best Supporting Actress / Adèle Exarchopoulos – César – 2024
Europa
CANADIAN PREMIERE Beate is an ambitious executive working at Europa, a mysterious corporation looking to expand into the Balkans region. Seemingly promoting philanthropy and investment in underdeveloped areas, Europa actually needs to buy off lands from locals in a remote valley in Albania using Beate as the main negotiator for this ambiguous mission. But things don’t go as planned when she is challenged by Jetnor, a stubborn and spiritual farmer who refuses to leave the land of his ancestors. Official selection – Sarajevo Film Festival – 2023
Le Bleu du caftan
Halim and Mina run a traditional caftan store in one of Morocco’s oldest medinas. In order to keep up with demanding customers, they hire a talented young man as an apprentice. Slowly Mina realises how much her husband is moved by his presence. Official Selection – Un certain regard – Cannes Festival – 2022Official Selection – Toronto International Film Festival – 2022
I Like Movies
Not recommended for young children Socially inept 17-year-old cinephile, Lawrence Kweller gets a job at a video store, where he forms a complicated friendship with his older female manager.
Les pires
A group of teenagers from the same neighborhood are selected to act in a feature film during the summer. Un Certain Regard – Fondation Groupana pour le Cinéma Award – Cannes Festival – 2022Official Selection – Toronto Internationnal Film Festival – 2022
Une femme indonésienne
QUEBEC PREMIERE The late 1960s. Nana cannot escape her past. Poverty-stricken, having lost her family to the war in West Java, she marries again and begins a new life. But the past lives on in her dreams. Her new husband is wealthy, but her place in the home is menial, and he is unfaithful. Nana...
Sous les figues
On a hot summer day, a crew of workers – men and women, young and old – arrive at dawn at a picturesque fig orchard in northwest Tunisia. We eavesdrop, through the sun-dappled leaves of the fig trees, on the young women stealing away precious moments from the foreman’s watchful gaze. Meanwhile, the older women,...