Come meet several artists from the Wapikoni collective who, throughout the last 15 years, have made Wapikoni what it is today. Listen to inspiring journeys and eloquent testimonies on the power of artistic expression as a tool for social and societal transformation. Screening works and honouring the...

Wapikoni’s General Director will discuss narrative sovereignty through the path of recognition, reconciliation, representation, as well as inclusive, creative, and committed citizenship.FREE CONFERENCE. Upon reservation!

Working together on the emergence of new talent means developing collectively a specific Indigenous artistic signature. Discover and celebrate with us Wapikoni’s partners and collaborators, their mentorship, innovation and egression.FREE PANEL. Upon reservation!

Indigenous cultures represent a wealth of rich identities. They carry in them the knowledge, ways of life, relations, territories, spirituality, philosophy and cosmology of different Nations. The purpose of this public awareness workshop is to discover the beauty of our forms of expressions.FREE...

The annual launch of Wapikoni will be followed by an evening of music performances catered by Musique Nomade and Nikamowin, a new platform showcasing Indigenous musicians.Presented by Wapikoni Mobile and Musique Nomadefacebook Event

Celebrating the 48th Festival du nouveau cinéma, the guys behind Point de vues, the most cinephile podcast in Montreal will record live another super-special-episode-that-you-don’t-want-to-miss! You can expect: interview with French filmmakers Caroline Poggi et Jonathan Vinel, some suggestions...

Peru at the height of the 1980s political crisis. An impoverished young women’s newborn is stolen in this feature début, a terrifying tale rendered in magnificent black-and-white.

The erotic crumpling of bodies both human and automotive, the strange allure of the maimed, a heady mix of the smells of sex, blood and gas, all with an engrossing soundtrack by Howard Shore. The master of psychological horror presents his diamond in the rough: a sublime, gothic, infinitely...

New Mexico, sometime in the 50s: a phone operator and a radio DJ try to decipher mysterious sound waves that might be a sign of imminent alien arrival. A fantasy thriller by a young filmmaker who is already drawing comparisons to Spielberg. Audience Award, Slamdance 2019.

Intimate, nuanced portrait of two teens embroiled in a baby-selling scam who have to pretend, each in their own way, to be the parents of a premature baby girl.

A documentary about the futuristic robots among us. Vaguely Lynchian, replete with Herzogesque warped humour, addressing the gaps in communication, love and emotion that are in store, this fascinating, oddly chilling film will haunt you for a long time to come. Be prepared!

A creative, unstable Serbian refugee struggles to build a new life in Canada as her daughter tries to pick up the pieces of their dashed hopes. A poignant drama carried by two brilliant actresses.

After Closeness, the young Russian director delivers a searing historical epic set in a postwar Leningrad seen through the eyes of two women struck by horrific tragedy. Not all wounds are physical.

Susanne Heinrich delves into the psyche of today’s young womanhood in a series of deeply ironic bubblegum-hued vignettes. A cinematic oddity that wraps its quirky existential romp in a joyously camp package.

The gaze of Indigenous youth in the spotlight: discover the 2019 short-film selection in the presence of the artists! Take part in the Audience Award and vote for your favorite film. Encourage the youth in their journey, support the Wapikoni and support the cinematographic creation atthe service of...

Portrait of a force of nature, a free-spirited artist who defines avant-garde. An early activist and ecologist, Armand Vaillancourt delivers a passionate account of 70 years of Quebec counterculture.

A man is swept off his feet by forbidden love in And Then We Danced, a message of hope in the face of the surging power of conservative ideology in Georgia. A deeply moving film featuring extraordinary dance scenes.

In this botanical thriller with phantasmagorical accents, the Austrian filmmaker takes a clinical look at a scientist who develops a new flower that makes people feel happy... but that just might turn out to be less benign than intended.

It’s 1774 in a forest somewhere between Potsdam and Berlin. A group of aristocratic libertines driven out of Louis XVI’s puritanical court for their debauched behaviour have gathered to act on their wildest sexual fantasies. Art, pornography, or both?

In a society peopled by abstract figures, a thousand people are encaged in a giant space, distinguished only by their social status, like a beehive. Their single aim is to produce light. A conceptual, poetic animation on the origins of life, the universe and more.

An enigmatic film about Finland’s most famous painting, The Wounded Angel. A quasi-shamanic journey that probes the idea of death and may even open the doors to the beyond. Think Werner Herzog in documentary mode but with Finnish angels and magic trees.

Underground diva Marina de Van (In My Skin) asserts her position as the most provocative female voice in French cinema today, looking at sex, love and the naked flesh the age of dating apps and one-night stands. The female body as a polemic in this taboo-pushing film by turns teasing and disturbing.

After a fatal accident, Karin returns as an undead spook to a rural Austrian village with a dark Nazi past. This absurdly hilarious silent film shot in Super 8 is freely adapted from the novel by Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek.

In late-19th century Florida, a man tries to stop a gang of poachers. A lucid, precocious work that captures the complexity of ecological tragedy, grey areas included....

For five years, Lukas Marxt followed a schizophrenic man living in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. An experimental portrait where lonely volcanic landscapes externalize a man’s innermost thoughts and feelings through the alchemy of cinema.