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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P'TITS LOUPS

Avec ou sans soleil
Jean-Guillaume Bastien

O.V. - Without dialogue

Summertime sweetness meditation. Light reminder for the fall to come.

QUéBEC/CANADA | 3 minutes | 2017

HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA

BAD BLOOD FOR THE VAMPYR
Lysanne Thibodeau

O.V. English

Bad Blood for the Vampyr is a humorous, dark pastiche full of hope.With the precious collaboration of Etienne Desrosiers.

GERMANY | 22 minutes | 1984

TEMPS Ø

BALANGIGA: HOWLING WILDERNESS
Khavn

O.V. Waray | st English

Philippines, 1901. Kulas and his grandfather flee the town of Balangiga, site of a real massacre under the occupying Americans. Aged just 8, the boy...

PHILIPPINES | 116 minutes | 2018

HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA

BARBARA RUBIN & THE EXPLODING NY UNDERGROUND
Chuck Smith

O.V. English

Shot when she was just 18, Barbara Rubin’s orgiastic Christmas on Earth (1964) shocked NYC's thriving underground film community. A mythical Zelig of the...

UNITED STATES | 78 minutes | 2018

FNC EXPLORE

BATTLESCAR
Nico Casavecchia, Martin Allais

O.V. English

- IN COMPETITION -Be transported into the middle of an animated world where a teenage Puerto Rican girl, Lupe (voiced by Rosario Dawson), is discovering...

UNITED STATES, France | 9 minutes | 2018

COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE

BIRDS OF PASSAGE
Ciro Guerra, Cristina Gallego

O.V. Spanish | st English

Two friends in windy, arid northern Colombian in the 1960s launch a brisk trade selling marijuana. Business booms, ushering in tension and violence between...

COLOMBIA, Mexico, Denmark, France | 125 minutes | 2018

LES NOUVEAUX ALCHIMISTES

BLACK MOTHER
Khalik Allah

O.V. English | st French

A fascinating assemblage of stories portraying multiple generations of Jamaicans, presented in three acts mirroring the three trimesters of one woman’s...

UNITED STATES, Jamaica | 77 minutes | 2018

CARTES BLANCHES

BLAST BEAT
Pascal Plante

O.V. French | st English

It ain't easy singing for a black metal band...

CANADA | 5 minutes | 2018

FNC EXPLORE

BLOODLESS
Gina Kim

O.V. Korean | st English

- IN COMPETITION -Based on a true story, Bloodless explores the murder of a Korean sex worker by a US soldier in 1992. Bloodless was shot on location at...

SOUTH KOREA | 12 minutes | 2017

LES NOUVEAUX ALCHIMISTES

BOOKANIMA: Martial Arts
SHON KIM

O.V. Korean | st English

Bookanima is experimental Animation to give book new cinematic life.

SOUTH KOREA, United States | 13 minutes | 2018

FNC EXPLORE

BORDERLINE
Assaf Machnes

O.V. Hebrew | st English

- IN COMPETITION -A VR short following a confusing encounter on the Israeli-Egyptian border. Based on true events.

ISRAEL | 10 minutes | 2018

RENCONTRES PANCANADIENNES DU CINÉMA ÉTUDIANT

BOYSENBERRY
Jingqing Jia

O.V. English

Through a journey of self-exploration, Sandra taps into her dark side and discovers a broader awareness of her diverse personalities.ECUAD Emily Carr...

CANADA | 9 minutes | 2018

LES NOUVEAUX ALCHIMISTES

LE BRASIER SHELLEY
Céline Ters, Ludovic Chavarot

O.V. French

On July 8, 1822, the lifeless body of the infamous young poet Percy Bysshe Shelley washed up on the shore in Viareggio, Italy, ravaged by salt water....

FRANCE | 71 minutes | 2018

LES INCONTOURNABLES

BURNING
Lee Chang-Dong

O.V. Korean | st English

Eight years after Poetry, Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-Dong adapts Japanese writer Haruki Murakami’s novel on the coded twists and turns of a love...

SOUTH KOREA | 149 minutes | 2018

PRÉSENTATIONS SPÉCIALES

Berlin – Le passage du temps (Lieux et monuments-6)
Pierre Hébert

O.V. English

The Berlin – The Passage of Time video installation is shown on four HD flat screens positioned horizontally one beside the other. Four video clips of...

QUéBEC/CANADA | 37 minutes | 2011

RENCONTRES PANCANADIENNES DU CINÉMA ÉTUDIANT

Beta Test
Joel Makar

O.V. English | st English

In this science fiction thriller, Eric enters a simulated world to relive his favorite memories from the past. However, complications in the program...

CANADA | 15 minutes | 2018

RENCONTRES PANCANADIENNES DU CINÉMA ÉTUDIANT

Blanc de Mémoire
Doriane Conti

O.V. French

Adaptated from a rap song by Samian about indigenous boarding schools, this docu-fiction tells the story of an actual Abitibiwinni survivor, Rose-Anna...

QUéBEC/CANADA | 11 minutes | 2018

FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA

Brotherhood
Meryam Joobeur

O.V. Arabic | st English

Mohamed is shaken when his son returns home after a long journey with a mysterious woman. Tension between father and son rises until reaching a breaking...

QUéBEC/CANADA | 25 minutes | 2018

LES NOUVEAUX ALCHIMISTES

Bye Bye Acropolis
Elsa Fauconnet

O.V. Greek | st French and english

Acropolis Bye Bye focuses on the greek crisis as a oral inflation.

FRANCE, Greece | 20 minutes | 2017

PANORAMA INTERNATIONAL

CAPHARNAÜM
Nadine Labaki

O.V. Arabic | st French or english

More than 10 years after Caramel, Nadine Labaki adopts a gritty, documentary-style approach to chronicling the loveless existence of slum child Zain, age...

LEBANON, France | 123 minutes | 2018

TEMPS Ø

LA CASA LOBO
Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña

O.V. Spanish | st English

Somewhere in southern Chile, Maria escapes from a cult and takes refuge in the woods. There, the dark fairytales of childhood play out, the ones where the...

CHILE | 74 minutes | 2018

TEMPS Ø

CASSANDRO, THE EXOTICO!
Marie Losier

O.V. English

A celebration of diversity and strength (both physical and moral), to see Cassandro the Exotico is to love freedom. You’ll get to meet a new idol and...

FRANCE | 73 minutes | 2018

HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA

CLASSE DE MAÎTRE : PAUL SCHRADER

Come meet the filmmaker Paul Schrader (American Gigolo, Cat People, etc.). His influences (Dreyer, Bresson or Ozu), Hollywood, writing Taxi Driver, filming...

90 minutes | 0

TEMPS Ø

CLIMAX
Gaspar Noé

O.V. French | st English

France Sangria Massacre! You’ve been told – not that you didn’t already know. Gaspar Noé’s latest delivers the celluloid meltdown of the year. In...

FRANCE | 96 minutes | 2018

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