Opening feature

IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK

Barry Jenkins

UNITED STATES | 117 minutes | 2018

Closing feature

GUY

Alex Lutz

FRANCE | 101 minutes | 2018

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PRÉSENTATIONS SPÉCIALES

ROMA
Alfonso Cuarón

O.V. Spanish | st English

The most personal project to date from Academy Award-winning director and writer Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity, Children of Men, Y Tu Mama Tambien), ROMA...

MEXICO, United States | 135 minutes | 2018

FNC EXPLORE

ROOMS
Christian Zipfel

O.V. English | st French and english

- IN COMPETITION -Ever since sedentism, mankind has been creating closed and strictly regulated rooms. They facilitate the satisfaction of human drives and...

GERMANY | 24 minutes | 2018

PRÉSENTATIONS SPÉCIALES

ROULEZ JEUNESSE
Julien Guetta

O.V. French | st English

After Problemos, his roles with Quentin Dupieux, and his series, Platane, Eric Judor has more surprises up his sleeve. Here, he plays a cranky, immature...

FRANCE | 82 minutes | 2018

FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA

LES ROUTES EN FÉVRIER
Katherine Jerkovic

O.V. Spanish | st French

Mourning her father, twentysomething Sarah returns to her home country of Uruguay, hoping to reconcile past and present. There she finds her paternal...

QUéBEC/CANADA | 84 minutes | 2018

PRÉSENTATIONS SPÉCIALES

THE RUSSIAN FIVE
Joshua Riehl

O.V. English | st English

The late 1980s: the Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse. One NHL hockey team, the Detroit Red Wings, exploits growing Soviet instability to attract...

UNITED STATES | 99 minutes | 2018

PRÉSENTATIONS SPÉCIALES

Ravages
Alan Lake

O.V. - Without dialogue

Ravages tells a kind of abstract narrative, inviting the viewer to dive into the raw and fragile world of a symbolic epic where the human confronts what is...

CANADA | 22 minutes | 2015

HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA

Regarding
Phillip Barker

O.V. English

Regarding is a film inspired by scene # 50 from The Red Violin (François Girard). In this free adaptation, the violin has been changed into a camera, an...

CANADA | 5 minutes | 2002

P'TITS LOUPS

Revolting Rhymes
Schuh Jakob, Jan Lachauer

O.V. English

Based on the fairytale poems by Roald Dahl, Revolting Rhymes takes the classic fairy tales of Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, The Three Little Pigs,...

UNITED KINGDOM | 58 minutes | 2016

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

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