The perfect opportunity for creators and producers from here and abroad to present their project to a jury of experts.Presented by Québec/Canada XRWith the support ofConseil des arts du Canada, Ministère de la Culture et des Communications and Consulat général de France à Québec

An afternoon dedicated to artificial intelligence in collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada, Quartier des spectacles, Element AI and Conseil des arts de Montréal. The goal is to familiarize the public with the AI alphabets and then introduce artistic works that illustrate the...

Chiiirch: a futuristic opera, an interactive and experimental urban music performance created especially for the FNC.Guests Collis Browne (No Weapon), Irreverend Raïatollah(Raïa Haidar), Beaver Sheppard (Co/ntry), Radwan GhaziMoumneh (Jérusalem un my heart) and more to come!Facebook...

Concerns about equality and inclusion in emerging new media will be raised in this panel and thus help mitigate blind spots.But their “boundary issue” concerns are more focused on lessening our vulnerability to bad actors-people and entities that seek to exploit the disruption of new media and...

CAFÉ 9AM: Brandon Harris, Development Executive at Amazon Original MoviesCAFÉ 10AM: Tamara Shogaolu, Founder and creative director of Ado Ato Pictures.There are eight Cafés meetings during the four days of the Forum. Held in the Chaufferie, they will bring together Forum participants and...

W/O/R/K is a highly interactive work lasting approximately 20 minutes. It addresses in a funand ironic way how the digital world helps us to “work” together. We have been successfullyperforming this on international festivals such as IDFA Doclab and SXSW.W/O/R/K by Smartphone Orchestra and...

Portrait of two outstanding artists whose videos vividly captured and supported the second-wave feminism of the 70s. More than four decades later, the activism of Delphine and Carole is striking in its boldness, humour and subversion, as hard-hitting as ever.

This selection of short and medium-length films by Delphine Seyrig and Carole Roussopoulos will whisk you into the filmmakers’ heady past of committed feminism and creativity. Maso et Miso s’en vont en bateau (1976) joyously sends up a televised interview of Françoise Giroud, at the time...

Ten of France’s female rock stars speak out in this documentary feature that bows to the women who left their mark on the genre in a male-dominated industry rife with stereotypes.

Antigone, the avenging teenager, pits her loyalty and sense of sacrifice against the laws of men. Nahéma Ricci lights up the screen in the title role of this age-old epic that, transposed to present-day Montréal by director Sophie Deraspe, loses nothing of its impact.

In his signature style, the Swedish filmmaker traces the journey of humanity through a series of poetic, allegorical tableaux that offer a powerful, moving meditation on the grandeur of existence.

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?

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.

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.

A cinematic masterwork, this immense artistic œuvre — a martial arts movie with a philosophical bent and pierced through with spirituality — needs to be seen at least once on the big screen. At long last, the restored version is screening internationally for the very first time. A must-see!

With an approach celebrating plural faces and the richness of different speech patterns, the documentarists behind Woman present 2500 portraits of women from 50 countries, revealing the feminine perspective today.

For the closing event of the Peace Days, the presentation of the Peace Award will be followed by a benefit screening of Woman in the presence of filmmakers Anastasia Mikova and Yann Arthus-Bertrand. An international project, Woman gives the voice to 2,000 women in 50 countries.Guests (with the...

In this gut-wrenching romantic drama, with Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver in brilliant form as a couple at the point of no return, Noah Baumbach delivers a hardhitting, bittersweet account of a painful divorce.

Using their signature social-realist approach, the Dardenne brothers explore religious radicalization through a scorching yet empathetic portrait of a Belgian youth who’s determined to eliminate his “infidel” teacher.

The Dutch filmmaker’s first English language outing is an intense and sensitive account of the trials of a young woman disfigured with acid by her ex-boyfriend. A heartrending portrait of incredible resilience.

The cult Japanese director is back with a freewheeling, coming-of-age story starring former pop idol Atsuko Maeda as a travel show host whose outlook on life changes after a trip to Uzbekistan.

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 young student, supposedly stricken with cancer, must provide documentation to prove her medical condition. There begins a spiral of falsehood in this icily disturbing thriller that navigates between Münchhausen’s syndrome and outright fraud.

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.