Opening feature
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
Barry Jenkins
UNITED STATES | 117 minutes | 2018
LES NOUVEAUX ALCHIMISTES
3 Dreams of Horses
Mike Hoolboom
O.V.
English
A triptych in which the figure of the horse becomes a medium for meditation on its various incarnations as a symbol.
CANADA | 6 minutes | 2018
LES INCONTOURNABLES
3 FACES
Jafar Panahi
O.V.
Persian | st English
Once again, the Iranian filmmaker defies his officially-imposed house arrest and filming ban to deliver a portrait of three women in today’s Iran. Using...
IRAN | 100 minutes | 2018
PANORAMA INTERNATIONAL
A LAND IMAGINED
Yeo Siew Hua
O.V.
Bengali | st English
Sleepless nights are the grim reality in this second outing by the Singaporean filmmaker. It all starts with an expat Chinese worker, incapable of sleep,...
FRANCE, Netherlands, Singapore | 95 minutes | 2018
RENCONTRES PANCANADIENNES DU CINÉMA ÉTUDIANT
A Lot
Vedant Sharma
O.V.
English | st French
A young boy interviews a couple about their love life for his high school project.University of Toronto
CANADA | 8 minutes | 2017
P'TITS LOUPS
A Modest Defeat
David Barr
O.V.
English | st French
It's civil war in suburbia between two young siblings. Big brother Tommy never plays fair, but eight-year-old Tiny has an elaborate plan up her sleeve and...
UNITED KINGDOM | 10 minutes | 2018
PANORAMA INTERNATIONAL
A PUNK DAYDREAM (Work in Progress)
Jimmy Hendrickx
O.V.
Indonesian | st English
Indonesia, the country I shed my blood to defend. Left to fend for themselves on the fringes of a society and family that have stigmatized them,...
BELGIUM, Indonesia | 45 minutes | 2018
HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA
A Temporary Arrangement
Phillip Barker
O.V.
- Without dialogue
A Temporary Arrangement began as a simple experiment: to study the human form suspended in water, floating down a river. We made a 12 foot camera tower...
CANADA | 12 minutes | 1984
TEMPS Ø
ABNORMAL FAMILY
Masayuki Suo
O.V.
Japanese | st English
The first film by Masayuki Suo, celebrated internationally for Shall We Dance (and its US remake with Richard Gere). Sceptical about the perfect family?...
JAPAN | 63 minutes | 1984
PRÉSENTATIONS SPÉCIALES
AD VITAM
Thomas Cailley
O.V.
French
In a world where everyone believes death has been conquered, the bodies of seven youngsters who have committed suicide are discovered. Were they a cult?...
HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA
AFFLICTION
Paul Schrader
O.V.
English
A village deep in the New Hampshire forest, a world-weary police officer, a dishonest businessman, a union leader’s suspicious death. Those are the...
UNITED STATES | 114 minutes | 1998
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
ALL GOOD
Eva Trobisch
O.V.
German | st English
Like its main character, a rape victim whose instinctive attempts to repress the trauma only create more problems, this brilliant first feature by German...
GERMANY | 93 minutes | 2018
P'TITS LOUPS
ALLONS ENFANTS
Stéphane Demoustier
O.V.
French | st English
Cléo plays with her twin brother Paul. Then Cléo wanders off and gets lost, leaving Paul alone in the big city. Allons Enfants is a brilliant depiction...
FRANCE | 64 minutes | 2017
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
AMIES
Marie Davignon
O.V.
French | st English
Following a long stay abroad, Amélie invites Maude and Pascale to a cottage. Amélie tries to reconnect with Maude, while she develops a rivalry with...
QUéBEC/CANADA | 19 minutes | 2018
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
AN ELEPHANT SITTING STILL
Hu Bo
O.V.
Mandarin | st English
A classroom scuffle gone sideways changes the destiny of four protagonists who, longing for escape, become obsessed with the northern Chinese city of...
CHINA | 230 minutes | 2018
PANORAMA INTERNATIONAL
ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE
Raul De La Fuente, Damian Nenow
O.V.
English | st English
Peeling back the layers of the journalistic psyche, this fascinating project veers from interviews to archival footage, photography and animated sequences...
POLAND, Spain, Germany, Hungary | 85 minutes | 2018
PRÉSENTATIONS SPÉCIALES
ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch
Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas De Pencier, Edward Burtynsky
O.V.
English | st French or english
Anthropocene: the geological term describing the epoch where human activity is the main force of change to the terrestrial ecosystem. From metal in Siberia...
CANADA | 87 minutes | 2018
LES INCONTOURNABLES
ASH IS PUREST WHITE
Jia Zhang-Ke
O.V.
Mandarin | st English
For his thirteenth feature, the Chinese filmmaker follows a couple embroiled in the local underworld of Datong City. Taking up his favourite themes —...
CHINA, France | 141 minutes | 2018
FNC EXPLORE
ASHES TO ASHES
Jamille Van Wijngaarden, Ingejan Ligthart Schenk, Steye Hallema
O.V.
English
- IN COMPETITION -Ashes to Ashes is a surreal tragicomedy filmed in one-shot from the perspective of an urn containing ashes. Viewers encounter the...
NETHERLANDS | 11 minutes | 2016
TEMPS Ø
AU POSTE!
Quentin Dupieux
O.V.
French | st English
Quentin Dupieux (Rubber, Réalité, Wrong Cops) is back, and it’s one unhinged laugh after another. Here he reworks Claude Miller’s Garde à vue in a...
FRANCE, Belgium | 73 minutes | 2018
LES NOUVEAUX ALCHIMISTES
Aliment Roots [an operatic short film]
Kenneth Harvey
O.V.
English | st English
An exploration of love and lust in nature.
CANADA | 9 minutes | 2017
RENCONTRES PANCANADIENNES DU CINÉMA ÉTUDIANT
All the Fish in the Sea
Paul Cassar
O.V.
English | st French
When Paul discovers that his friend is in an open relationship, he is forced to adjust some of his opinions.Bishop's University
CANADA | 6 minutes | 2018
RENCONTRES PANCANADIENNES DU CINÉMA ÉTUDIANT
Amal
Aziz Zoromba
O.V.
French | st English
A Middle-Eastern-Canadian woman struggles with her mother's disapproval of her fostering a white child.Concordia University
CANADA | 15 minutes | 2018
RENCONTRES PANCANADIENNES DU CINÉMA ÉTUDIANT
Among the Forest
Oqim Nicholas
O.V.
English | st English
A young boy finds himself alone in the forest, fighting for survival, after escaping a residential school.Wapikoni Mobile
CANADA | 8 minutes | 2018
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
Aquaparque
Ana Moreira
O.V.
Portuguese | st English
In the graffited ruins of an old aquatic park, a girl and a boy find shelter to grieve from their loss of hopes and dreams.
PORTUGAL | 16 minutes | 2018