Following the award ceremony and the screening of our closing film Chaakapesh, join us one last time at the Agora to close out the FNC in style with performance of Dj Cherry Cola and Dj Vincent Lemieux !

The latest from Wang Xiaoshuai (La bicyclette de Pékin, Chongqing Blues) traces the evolution of modern China against a backdrop of family tragedy. A heartbreaking film of impressive ambition, about a couple’s resilience through life’s trials and tribulations. Immense.

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.

Sitting on her director’s chair onstage in a theatre, Agnès Varda recounts her life in film. This personal and political “chat,” as she liked to call it, leads the audience on a journey through her work.

Blurring ever further the lines between fiction and documentary, the German filmmaker examines the relationship between a 12-year-old girl and the actor hired to play the father she’s never met.

A man fights to save Earth’s last forest, artificially preserved aboard a spaceship. A masterful fable and plea for biodiversity that has only grown more relevant since its 1972 release....

Mythical racoon-like creatures living just outside Tokyo pull out all the stops to halt a massive real-estate development project that’s destroying their land. Magical and compelling, this ecofriendly tale and its mischievous heroes from master animator Isao Takahata will appeal to all ages.

As the other locals flee Madrid for the summer, a woman in her 30s moves into a sublet and, needing to both lose and find herself, experiences a season charged with encounters.

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.

Former soldier Yoav flees to Paris, dead set on leaving Israel behind. Enfant terrible Nadav Lapid hits where it hurts with a searing, existential third feature that won the Golden Bear at the last Berlin Festival.

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.

A young girl meets her half-sister around a piano. An abandoned farm burns in the countryside. A group of seniors take an aquafitness class. A handful of vignettes from this nuanced, composite vision of Iceland, captured as Christmas nears....

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 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.

When her father dies, Veronica confesses the many tangled secrets buried in her family history. Jim was a food inspector, a shadowy figure roaming the city in search of sanitation code violations in family-run restaurants that double as fascinating microcosms. Veronica, a talented music teacher, has...

In fall 2018, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal created the chamber opera Chaakapesh, a lighthearted story of the hero who founded the Innu people sung in three languages (Innu, Cree and Inuktitut) by Florent Vollant, Ernest Webb and Akinisie Sivuarapik. The orchestra then went on the road to...

The shattering tale of two Brazilian sisters residing in mid-century Rio who desperately try to find each other after they are forced to live apart. Adapting Martha Batalha’s eponymous novel with great sensitivity and impressive narrative force, Karim Aïnouz (Madame Satã) scooped the Un Certain...

Congo’s underground artists have taken to the street, where they’re expressing their anger loud and clear through extravagant artworks and performances. Renaud Barret explores an unstoppable movement where each creation stands as an act of resistance in the face of injustice.

Austrian filmmaker Andreas Horvath delivers a fascinating road movie that draws on a crazy-but-true story to tell the tale of a young Russian émigré to the U.S. who’s determined to walk back to Russia.

When a meteorite crashes to Earth, the shadows take over. The much anticipated return of Richard Stanley (Dust Devil, Hardware), Lovecraft’s most famous story, a reinvented post-Mandy Nicolas Cage: pure cinematic delight.

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.

An affable old man who’s found salvation by ferrying the villagers back and forth across a river has his life shaken up by a mysterious girl he meets one day. In his first (and impressively zen) feature, Japanese actor-turned-director Joe Odagiri takes a nuanced look at the inexorable erosion of...

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.

It’s 2034. The sun hasn’t come out in the three years since a volcanic eruption plunged the Philippines into darkness. A mad dictator rules a country where millions have died and countless others have fled.

Tracing women’s liberation through to the turbulent 70s, Agnès Varda follows two women from their teens to adulthood against the backdrop of a militant, engaged musical comedy.

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 this wacky comedy about a mother and her two daughters locked in a vicious battle over a man, André Forcier breathes poetry and charm into a story of a dysfunctional family and an over-the-top game of seduction.Free admission, subject to availability. Please make sure to order a ticket online or...