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Mille secrets, mille dangers
Alain is marrying Virginie. The day will be grand, the day will be perfect, and Alain’s Lebanese aunts will talk about this wedding for years to come. But Alain has a stomachache. A quiet anger is rumbling inside him. He dreads seeing his parents again—their tumultuous divorce left deep marks on his childhood. He fears the return of his anxiety attacks, and he fears falling back into the medication dependence he’s only just escaped. His cousin Édouard, more like a brother to him, has promised the newlyweds a parade in a convertible Mustang. Except on the wedding day, Édouard has his mind elsewhere. He’s plotting a nebulous scheme and insists on telling Alain about it. In doing so, Édouard summons old ghosts and throws Alain into an anxiety bordering on delirium. Alain has only one ambition left: to survive the most beautiful day of his life. Official Selection – TIFF – 2025Official Selection – FCVQ – 2025 In collaboration with Canadian Film Day The screening will be followed by the From Book to Screen activity. Find all the details about the activity here.
Rougemania
With humor and intelligence, the feature documentary Rougemania explores the considerable yet unacknowledged influence of Indigenous peoples on Western culture and identity. “But why do they love us so much?!” wonders Cree-Canadian co-director Neil Diamond as he embarks on a fascinating journey to unravel the mystery behind the world’s enduring fascination with stereotypical portrayals of...
At All Kosts
During this time of cholera and street violence, artists in Haiti are using the performing arts as a means of resistance. Even faced with hunger and fear, theatre allows them to highlight the dignity and courage of all Haitian people. Their stories combine fiction with reality. There is theatre everywhere: in the streets, in vodou,...
Un soir d’Équinoxe
A dive into the heart of a family tragedy inspired by real events. The dilemma of a young boy forced to kill his parents to save his siblings from the machinations of a father under the sway of esoteric ideologies.
Le ventre de Bassima
Bassima and Fouad, a couple of undocumented Syrian immigrants, live in Montréal working precarious jobs and smuggling foreign cigarettes. They love each other and are determined to build a life and integrate into society. But when Fouad is arrested and deported back to their war?torn country, Bassima finds herself on the streets. Completely destitute yet...
Les Furies
When Waterloo gets its new semi-pro men’s hockey team, the local women’s amateur leagues are kicked out of the arena. Determined to avenge their lost ice time, an impulsive hockey player and a ruthless octogenarian — once a roller derby legend — come up with a plan: to recruit the town’s outcasts and form an...
Waiting for the Storms
Across various timelines and locations, four characters weave a web of stories that explore human resilience in the face of environmental upheaval. Marie, gripped by obsessive, heart-wrenching questions as a young mother whose child faces a dead-end future, channels her anxiety into passionate activism. Terence, a climate refugee, tells strangers his story in the hopes...
I’m not a machine
What does an ultramarathon runner feel when running 160 kilometers in 24 hours? Sébastien Roulier has represented Canada in world championships for this type of endurance race. For him, running is an art, much like painting: the runner is a painter whose movement is the creation. The film takes up this beautiful analogy to describe the runner’s inner experience through paintings made on 16mm cinematic film.
Chiennes de faïence
In the presence of the film crew Chiennes de faïence is a Canadian feature film written and directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Marie-Hélène Panisset. In a dramatic comedy genre, this film relates the emerging friendship between a native Quebecois and atheist woman, and another from immigrant background and Muslim faith. One is a fan of cosmetic...
Blue Sky Joe
Quebec City, In the early 1980s. Her name is Helene, but she calls herself Jo because she wants to live like her hero, Joséphine The Little Musketeer, her favourite cartoon character. Jo is only ten years old, with three sisters, a very busy and troubled father and an understanding but strict mother. She lives in Limoilou, a blue-collar neighbourhood with a very diverse population, the most endearing of whom is her new neighbour, Monsieur Roger, a prickly old man who works hard at hiding his big old heart. A romantic soul with a voracious appetite for drama, Jo dreams of doing great things. One day, she decides to make it her mission to save her father from his work and his misery. Stay after the screening to chat with our guests! See CINÉ-ÉCHANGE for details.