Breakfast in partnership with the FCTMN, Réalisatrices Équitables and in association with FilmFatales, to showcase their bank of technicians and encourage networking with industry people.

Making cinema in a society looking for new models is the central theme of this Forum. How is diversity represented in our cinema? How can one make a film in an inclusive way?

Unravel the issues of local auteur cinema and its principal players to identify the concerns and challenges ahead.

In honour of the 50th anniversary of the Official Languages Act, artists from minority communities share their experiences and practices.Presented by L'Alliance des producteurs francophones du Canada (APFC), in collaboration with Téléfilm Canada

Following the premiere of André Forcier’s film Les fleurs oubliées, come and discover the flavours of the film. Throughout the evening there’ll be mead tasting, courtesy of Domaine Desrochers, and exceptional cocktails made by Alambika with Marie-Victorin gin and Subversives’ spirits. There...

Celebrate the filmmaker André Forcier following the screening of his most recent film Les fleurs oubliées. Urban hives, a musical performance, mead tasting and cosmic vegetation... explore the atmosphere of the film throughout the evening!Guest Robert fusil et les chiens fous

CAFÉ 9am Anne Gaschütz, Deputy Director and Coordinator of the Visegrád Forum at Filmfest Dresden (Germany).CAFÉ 10am: Francis Ouellette, General Manager of FunFilm Distribution (Canada).There are eight Cafés meetings during the four days of the Forum. Held in the Chaufferie, they will bring...

On 16 October at 5pm, the FNC will sign the charter of Collective 50/50 to commit to achieving parity by 2020 in the audiovisual industry, during a cocktail organised in collaboration with the collective.With the participation of Zoé Protat, Director of programming at FNC ; Anik Salas, President...

A teen saddled with the responsibility of her oblivious father has to make an impossible choice in this début feature that picks apart the threads of a troubled father/daughter relationship.

A Brazilian village that disappears from GPS maps, a mysterious massacre, a power outage, villainous mercenaries and perhaps even aliens… Free-spirited, rebellious and political, it’s Rocha meets Carpenter and Corbucci in this film featuring Udo Kier that drew raves at the last Cannes Festival.

In India, a water buffalo hunt goes very wrong. A total cinematic experience combining music, visuals, choreography and subject matter in a brutal critique of a world that collapses as soon as anything runs out. A parable about what awaits us all....

A plane takes Vitalina from Cape Verde to Portugal for the funeral of her husband, who abandoned her long ago. Pedro Costa revisits his characters from shantytowns and immigrant ghettos, with dark imagery and intricate immersions in lost dreams.

In a cross between off-the-wall critique and satirical nightmare, the Scottish multimedia artist takes a sweet-and-sour look at contemporary feminism by imagining a future where a group of women are held prisoner by a cruel, totalitarian TV reality show.

Welcome to Casa Nem, the trans, gay and lesbian shelter in Rio whose charismatic queen bee, Indianara Siqueira, a modern-day warrior, prepares her troops for battle in the run-up to the election of Jair Bolsonaro.

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 gorgeously shot second feature by the director of Winter Brothers takes grief as its theme as an ex-police chief suspects his late wife of an adulterous affair.

From foster homes to alternative therapies, jaded civil servants to compassionate social workers, the torturous path of a “problem child.” Winner of the Alfred-Bauer Prize for innovation at the last Berlin Festival, a draining, exhilarating film that will break your heart.

André Forcier teams up again with Roy Dupuis in this fanciful, heart-warming eco-fable, the story of the unlikely encounter between a beekeeper aspiring to a new life and Brother Marie-Victorin, who descends from heaven to help him.

After snagging a cross thrown in the water intended to bring prosperity to one of a hundred male competitors, a Macedonian woman in her thirties emerges as a true heroine for our times in this feminist social critique of gender inequality.

Introducing first-time actress Mey Kamaya, who has cerebral palsy, this accomplished debut feature from Japanese director HIKARI takes a tender yet unflinching look at a 23-year-old physically disabled woman’s quest to live her life on her own terms.

Grounded in the Bengali fantasy tradition, these two ghost stories attack reality in bizarre and absurd ways. Somewhere between Kaneto Shindo, Apitchatpong Weerasethakul and Rick Alverson, this is a fascinating, giddy, disconcerting cinematic elsewhere.

In this fragmented portrait, the ever-intriguing Winnipeg provides an offbeat setting for some incredibly endearing characters in this series of black-and-white tableaux vivants....

In this mysterious story, travel writer Edgar and his old friend and colleague Bill set out on one last trip together, to write the sequel to their bestseller, written 20 years earlier. The trip is fraught with peril.

INIS presents six short first-films written, directed and produced by the students admitted to the 2019 cinema program. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the movies’ directors about their experience.

Who said work is good for you? A bus stops and lets off a group of young people about to start an “internship” at a strange hotel in this distinctly disquieting chiller. Proof that genre cinema is today reinventing itself with panache in Poland.

The final script by Andrzej Zulawski, directed by his son. A “possessed” film about the revival of fascism in the West, in which cinema is an act of resistance, with fury in its heart and a knife in its hand.

An absolute masterpiece of speculative fiction. This chilling dystopia, which imagines the consequences of rampant overpopulation and resource depletion, retains all its philosophical and political potency....

Matthew Rankin looks back at his film school career. Since his time at L’inis in 2004, his unique and offbeat style has made a mark on the international circuit.Free admission, subject to availability. Please make sure to order a ticket online or at the box office.Don't miss The Twentieth Century,...

Matthew Rankin looks back at his film school career. Since his time at L’inis in 2004, his unique and offbeat style has made a mark on the international circuit.Free admission, subject to availability. Please make sure to order a ticket online or at the box office.Don't miss The Twentieth Century,...