Opening feature
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
Barry Jenkins
UNITED STATES | 117 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
LES SALOPES OU LE SUCRE NATUREL DE LA PEAU
Renée Beaulieu
O.V.
French | st English
University dermatology professor Marie-Claire is a strong-willed woman. She lives her sexuality freely, which some consider subversive. As she embarks on a...
QUéBEC/CANADA | 97 minutes | 2018
HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA
SANTO VS EVIL BRAIN
Joselito Rodríguez
O.V.
Spanish | st English
In Mexico and everywhere else, El Santo is a legend. The masked luchadora (wrestler), whose face was never shown, was a star in the ring and onscreen. El...
MEXICO, Cuba | 73 minutes | 1959
HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA
SANTO VS INFERNAL MEN
Joselito Rodríguez
O.V.
Spanish | st English
El Santo films maintain a firm foothold in the pantheon of international cult films. Shot at the same time as Santo vs Evil Brain, this second film...
MEXICO, Cuba | 77 minutes | 1959
LES INCONTOURNABLES
SEASON OF THE DEVIL
Lav Diaz
O.V.
Filipino | st English
A protest film, musical saga and historical tragedy all in one, the new outing by the Filipino filmmaker follows a handful of characters –...
PHILIPPINES | 234 minutes | 2018
HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA
SHARKWATER EXTINCTION
Rob Stewart
O.V.
English
Rob Stewart was an acclaimed filmmaker and internationally renowned activist. In Sharkwater Extinction, Stewart continues his heroic fight to save our...
CANADA | 88 minutes | 2018
LES INCONTOURNABLES
SHOPLIFTERS
Hirokazu Kore-Eda
O.V.
Japanese | st English
Through his portrait of a Japanese family trying to survive poverty through petty scams, the filmmaker behind Like Father, Like Son continues his...
JAPAN | 121 minutes | 2018
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
SHÉHÉRAZADE
Jean-Bernard Marlin
O.V.
French | st English
For his first feature, Jean-Bernard Marlin offers up a sweetly captivating love story between Zachary and Shéhérazade, two teens growing up in...
FRANCE | 106 minutes | 2018
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
LOS SILENCIOS
Beatriz Seigner
O.V.
Spanish | st English
A woman and her two children fleeing the Colombian civil war find themselves in Amazonia near the Brazilian border. On an island haunted by ghosts, painful...
BRAZIL, France, Colombia | 89 minutes | 2018
PANORAMA INTERNATIONAL
SIR
Rohena Gera
O.V.
Hindi | st English
In Mumbai, Ratna is a maid in the household of Ashwin, heir to a family fortune. Despite his perfect-seeming life, he is increasingly lost, while she, who...
INDIA, France | 99 minutes | 2018
LES INCONTOURNABLES
THE SISTERS BROTHERS
Jacques Audiard
O.V.
English
Three years after snagging the Palme d’Or at Cannes for Dheepan, the acclaimed French filmmaker is back with his first big-budget American film. Along...
UNITED STATES, France, Romania, Spain | 121 minutes | 2018
RENCONTRES PANCANADIENNES DU CINÉMA ÉTUDIANT
SKIES ARE NOT JUST BLUE
Lysandre Cosse-Tremblay
O.V.
English | st French
Muslims and part of the LGBTQ+ community, Yara, Monib, Tariq and A. claim their identities while reflecting on their personal beliefs and experiences.UQAM
CANADA | 26 minutes | 2018
PANORAMA INTERNATIONAL
SOCRATES
Alex Moratto
O.V.
Portuguese | st English
Left to his own devices after his mother’s sudden death, Socrates now has to find his own way on the mean streets of São Paulo, struggling to survive as...
BRAZIL | 71 minutes | 2018
FNC EXPLORE
SONGBIRD
Lucy Greenwell, Michelle and Uri Kranot
O.V.
English
- IN COMPETITION -The Guardian’s latest VR experience, Songbird, is an animated fairy tale with a dark heart. You will be transported to the island of...
UNITED KINGDOM, Denmark | 10 minutes | 2018
FNC EXPLORE
SPACE EXPLORERS: A NEW DAWN
Felix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphael
O.V.
English
Witness firsthand the lives of veteran and novice NASA astronauts alike as they navigate the trials and sacrifices of their training and missions. Narrated...
CANADA | 20 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
SPICE IT UP
Calvin Thomas, Yonah Lewis, Lev Lewis
O.V.
English and french | st English
Making a first film can be akin to a calling. Rene starts to realize that as she hamfistedly tries to finish her thesis project. She takes as her subject...
CANADA | 82 minutes | 2018
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
STICKS AND STONES
Martin Skovbjerg Jensen
O.V.
Danish | st English
A teenager living with his mother in Copenhagen is forced to move to a remote small town. He struggles with the transition until he meets Bjarke, a strange...
DENMARK, Iceland | 93 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
THE STONE SPEAKERS
Igor Drljaca
O.V.
Bosnian | st English
Torn apart by fascism, communism and the violent clashes of the 1990s, Bosnia-Herzegovina is a victim of its tragic and complicated history. Today, the...
CANADA, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 92 minutes | 2018
PANORAMA INTERNATIONAL
STYX
Wolfgang Fischer
O.V.
German | st English
The sea and its endless horizons. For some, it represents freedom from the stress of urban life. For others, it’s the involuntary passage to a new...
GERMANY, Austria | 94 minutes | 2018
HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA
SUKITA : The Shoot Must Go On
Hiro Aihara
O.V.
Japanese | st English
For more than 40 years, Masayoshi Sukita photographed David Bowie, taking shots that are some of the most poignant and representative of the artist. He...
JAPAN | 115 minutes | 2018
FNC EXPLORE
SUR LE FRIDGE
- IN STUDENT COMPETITION -Exploration of diverse virtuality reality scene, based on the graphic developpement of a child.
QUéBEC/CANADA | 10 minutes | 2018
PRÉSENTATIONS SPÉCIALES
Saigner Toaster
Guillaume Marin
O.V.
- Without dialogue
A meeting between human and form, an orbiting of red and black that is neither dance nor montage nor collage… Visual smoothie emotions.
CANADA | 3 minutes | 2017
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
Self Destructive Boys
André Santos, Marco Leão
O.V.
Portuguese | st English
A direct stare into masculine interaction as we follow three boys in their mid-twenties, António, Xavier and Miguel testing the limits of their sexual...
PORTUGAL | 28 minutes | 2018
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
Selva
Sofía Quirós Ubeda
O.V.
Spanish | st English
Selva dances within voices and memories, in a game that prepares her for the inevitable separation.
COSTA RICA, Argentina, Chile | 17 minutes | 2017
HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA
Shadow Nettes
Phillip Barker
O.V.
English
A Shadow Nette is a type of traditional fishing harness worn by fishermen to project their silhouettes onto the water. They project gestures of virility,...
CANADA | 18 minutes | 2017