Discussion on the Latin American market and the opportunities afforded to discover new projects. A space to encourage collaborations between Canada and the South, identify the Latin American markets and discuss funding.Presented by AQPM.With the support of AMEXCID and the Consultat général du...

Throughout the day, XR experts reflect on the state and future strategies of the medium. The aim is to identify challenges and find solutions for an overall XR ecosystem through three themes of creation, production and distribution of XR works.IntervenantsCREATIONTamara Shogaolu, Director — Ado...

Discover the creativity of Concordia Fine arts students during this unique and multidisciplinary event. Cinema, visual arts, performance and music to celebrate the rich talent of the upcoming Montreal art scene.Presented by the Faculté de beaux-arts de l’Université Concordiafacebook Event

CAFÉ 9AM: Géraldine Bryant, Head of Festivals & Materials at The Bureau Sale (France)CAFÉ 10AM: Boyd van Hoeij: independent film journalist, critic for Hollywood Reporter, programmer at the Luxembourg City Film Festival and president of the selection committee of the Luxembourg Film...

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Portrait of a depressed filmmaker bereft of inspiration, Pain and Glory eloquently relates the often painful process of artistic creation. Almodóvar returns to his childhood and first loves in this arresting, intimate work.

The party’s over for a group of wildly dysfunctional young guerrillas. In many ways reminiscent of Apocalypse Now, this chaotic immersion in the Colombian jungle is a work of breathtaking ingenuity and overpowering intensity. Deeply mad.

The Universidad de la Comunicación (UC), founded in 1976, is the first academic institution in Mexico centered in communication sciences and arts. The Black Canvas – Contemporary Film Festival is one of the best-established projects the UC has developed. The undergraduate program on Cinema...

A young homeless woman living in the tunnels beneath Manhattan copes with trials and tribulations in her struggle to survive without compromising her own rules. Raw and energetic, Feral plunges headlong into an unrecognizable New York, with us riding shotgun beside its fierce protagonist.

A zombie plague has turned the residents of a Mi’gMaq reserve, who are strangely immune to the disease, into humanity’s saviours. For his sophomore feature, Jeff Barnaby brings a somewhat hackneyed genre blazingly back to life by injecting it with a militant, very of-the-moment energy.

Mackenzie King takes on Canada! A bizarro-world nation and an ambiguous prime minister filtered through the imagination of Matthew Rankin. A side-splittingly caustic treat for the eyes, loaded with symbolism.

When a respectable father of two falls for another man, it’s a major bombshell for his family. The poor sinner’s redemption lies with a group of evangelists employing dubious methods. A terrifying psychodrama about intolerance and homophobia.

In Morocco, where out-of-wedlock children are taboo, two very different single mothers come to each other’s aid. A warm-hearted, sensitive portrait of two women at a crossroads.

An intensely devout woman receives an unexpected – and dangerous – sign from above. Wrapped in a pop neon aesthetic, Gabriel Mascaro’s second feature is an ambiguous comment on contemporary Brazil.

In a style mixing realism with sardonic humour, Forcier draws a tender portrait of a group of tenants in a working-class neighbourhood gathered for the 43rd birthday of their friend, a loan shark.Free admission, subject to availability. Please make sure to order a ticket online or at the box office.

Free admission, subject to availability. Please make sure to order a ticket online or at the box office.

Unlearning Cinematic ConventionsSince launching in 2013, Felix & Paul Studios has set the standard for cinematic virtual reality, forging the way to interactive storytelling. Join the founders of the Montreal-based, Emmy Award-winning studio, Felix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphael, as they take you on...

Spotlighting the enforced exodus in the 1960s of an Inuit band on Baffin Island, the Isuma collective pays vibrant tribute to solidarity and tradition.

As absurd and sarcastic as it appears, Alexander Kluge’s latest is a collage of bizarre sketches from films, theatre and circus, and the most outrageous scenes from the film Alipato: The Very Brief Life of an Ember by Khavn de la Cruz.

Between performance and the sculpture of female body, artists Mania Akbari and Douglas White ponder individual and collective memories through letters and images. A lyrical essay both intimate and universal.

Two strangers who meet by chance in an apartment under construction is the premise for a murky relationship defined by hardship, oppression and a clash of hearts and bodies. A mysterious and powerful new addition to Rodrigue Jean’s filmography.

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.

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.

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.

“If I were to adopt a bird that lived to be 150, would you take care of it after I died?” asked his mother shortly before dying. The young man heads off in search of the inherited bird, his roots and the history of the countries travelled.