SURPRISE FILM

PARASITE

Bong Joon-Ho

SOUTH KOREA | 132 minutes | 2019

Closing feature

CHAAKAPESH

Roger Frappier, Justin Kingsley

QUéBEC, Canada | 126 minutes | 2019

All # a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
FNC EXPLORE

BATTLESCAR — PUNK WAS INVENTED BY GIRLS
Martin Allais, Nico Casavecchia

BattleScar follows a year in the life of Lupe, A Puerto Rican-American living in late 1970’s New York City. It utilizes Lupe’s handwritten journal to...

UNITED STATES, France | 28 minutes | 2019

COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE

BEANPOLE
Kantemir Balagov

O.V. Russian | st English

In 1945 Leningrad, reduced to rubble by the Second World War, a young woman, Iya, works in a hospital tending to soldiers wounded in battle. Tragedy...

RUSSIA | 139 minutes | 2019

RENCONTRES PANCANADIENNES DU CINÉMA ÉTUDIANT

BEATA SOLITUDO
Sofía Landaverde

O.V. Spanish | st English

Alicia finds herself stuck in a suffocating situation when she finds out she is pregnant. She begins an internal journey to help understand her decisions.

MEXICO | 15 minutes | 2017

FNC EXPLORE

BERGMAL
Éric Filion

Bergmál is the Icelandic word for echo. It could be translated as “The language of the rock” or “The language of mountains”. In Iceland, a burial...

QUéBEC, Canada | 8 minutes | 2018

TEMPS Ø

BIRD TALK
Xawery Zulawski

O.V. Polish | st English

Xawery Zulawski directs his late father’s last script, finalized just before he died. This is a two-headed film about the revival of fascism in the West;...

POLAND | 138 minutes | 2019

NATIONAL COMPETITION

BLACK CONFLUX
Nicole Dorsey

O.V. English | st French

Jackie, a teen in late-80s Newfoundland, is dealing with the trials of adolescence – friendship, dating, wanting to belong vs. having to conform – as...

QUéBEC, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada | 101 minutes | 2019

TEMPS Ø

BLOOD MACHINES
Seth Ickerman

O.V. English | st French

When the ghost of a spaceship escapes, two hunters take off on an interstellar chase to capture the entity before it can flee to freedom. What if machines...

FRANCE, United States | 50 minutes | 2019

NATIONAL COMPETITION

BLOOD QUANTUM
Jeff Barnaby

O.V. English | st English

Something strange is happening around the Red Crow Mi’gMaq reserve: dead fish start coming back to life, followed shortly by dead humans. All too soon,...

QUéBEC, Canada | 96 minutes | 2019

RENCONTRES PANCANADIENNES DU CINÉMA ÉTUDIANT

BODY MELANCHOLY
Reyna Leynez

O.V. Spanish | st English

Teenager Javiera starts to question her body through her mother. She will develop an eating disorder that will harm her.

MEXICO | 10 minutes | 2019

NATIONAL COMPETITION

THE BODY REMEMBERS WHEN THE WORLD BROKE OPEN
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Kathleen Hepburn

O.V. English | st French

Rosie is barefoot in the rain in the streets of Vancouver. She is very young, pregnant, on the run and in danger. Older and better-off Áila takes her...

BRITISH COLUMBIA, Norway, Canada | 105 minutes | 2019

COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE

Backpedal
Dani Pearce

O.V. English

In a surreal synapse, a young woman laments her teen years, her hometown and the death of a friend.

AUSTRALIA | 5 minutes | 2019

HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA

Bannock
Darryl Nepinak

O.V. English

Darryl Nepinak documents his mother as she teaches him and shares stories of how she learned how to make Bannock. A step by step way of teaching others...

HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA

Bigfoot
Darryl Nepinak

O.V. English

A Mockumentary about a group of misfit hunters in not-so-hot pursuit of the legendary Bigfoot somewhere between Sapatoweyak and Skownan First Nation.

COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE

Blessed Land
Pham Ngoc Lan

O.V. Vietnamese | st English

A woman and her son visit her husband’s grave in a village she hasn’t been to in decades. They wander around without finding the headstone.

VIETNAM | 19 minutes | 2019

NATIONAL COMPETITION

CANADA
Ky Nam Le Duc

O.V. French and english | st French

In a province not so distant from ours, now controlled by a far-right government, the borders are closed and immigrants, now under threat, are desperate to...

QUéBEC, Canada | 112 minutes | 2019

COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE

CANCIÓN SIN NOMBRE
Melina León

O.V. Spanish | st English

Peru at the height of the 1980s political crisis. Georgina, a young Quechua villager, discovers her newborn has been stolen from the fly-by-night clinic...

PERU | 97 minutes | 2019

CLOSING FI

CHAAKAPESH
Roger Frappier, Justin Kingsley

O.V. French | st French

In fall 2018, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal created the chamber opera Chaakapesh, a lighthearted story of the hero who founded the Innu people...

QUéBEC, Canada | 126 minutes | 2019

TEMPS Ø

CHILDREN OF THE SEA
Ayumu Watanabe

O.V. Japanese | st French and english

A high school girl on holidays meets two children of the sea raised by manatees. The three then embark on a big adventure that will connect humans, the...

JAPAN | 111 minutes | 2019

RENCONTRES PANCANADIENNES DU CINÉMA ÉTUDIANT

LE CIEL EST BLEU
Cantiane Breton, Katie Grenier, David Le Quéré-Galvis, Michelle McKelvey-Faucher, Poeiti Seguy

O.V. French

Hervé, newly diagnosed as a “lunatic” is trying to hide his forbidden relationship with Mathilde. Based on the life of Hervé Bertrand.

QUéBEC, Canada | 6 minutes | 2019

CLASSE DE MAÎTRE : COSTA-GAVRAS

With his landmark Z in 1969, the Greek-French filmmaker became known as a master of social fiction, a genre he uses to mercilessly attack the power systems...

90 minutes | 0

TEMPS Ø

COLOR OUT OF SPACE
Richard Stanley

O.V. English

A meteorite falls to Earth near Arkham. Soon, the place is overrun by the shadows. Death stalks the town, madness reigns, and it starts to look like the...

PORTUGAL, United States | 111 minutes | 2019

FNC EXPLORE

COMMON GROUND
Darren Emerson

Explore the Aylesbury Estate, the biggest social housing project in Europe, home to thousands of South Londoners and a monument to the forgotten dreams and...

UNITED KINGDOM | 30 minutes | 2019

FNC EXPLORE

CONSCIOUS EXISTENCE
Marc Zimmermann, Felix Fahle

Every moment we are gifted with life's most precious achievement: A conscious mind, enabling us to sense and hold within the universe's boundless beauty.

GERMANY | 12 minutes | 2019

RENCONTRES PANCANADIENNES DU CINÉMA ÉTUDIANT

CORRUPT
Alejandro Aguilar

O.V. - Without dialogue

An alcoholic tramp wakes up in a forest and realizes he has nothing more to drink. Desperate, he looks for a way to get more.

MEXICO | 15 minutes | 2019

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