Opening feature
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
Barry Jenkins
UNITED STATES | 117 minutes | 2018
FNC EXPLORE
LÎLE DES MORTS
Benjamin Nuel
O.V.
French
- IN COMPETITION -Isle of the Dead is a loose adaptation of the 1883 best-known painting of the Swiss symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin. Directly inspired...
FRANCE | 9 minutes | 2018
LES NOUVEAUX ALCHIMISTES
M
Anna Eriksson
O.V.
English | st English
The debut feature by Finnish singer and artist Anna Eriksson explores the relationship between death and sexuality, two concepts that seem to be opposed in...
FINLAND | 91 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
M/M
Drew Lint
O.V.
French | st English
Mathieu, a young loner from Quebec exiled to Berlin, works at a public pool. There, he locks eyes – and bodies – with Matthias. Beyond the obvious...
CANADA, Germany | 82 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
MAD DOG LABINE
Jonathan Beaulieu-Cyr, Renaud Lessard
O.V.
French | st English
The heroes of this inventive film are kids and teenagers from Pontiac in the Outaouais, a land of lakes and rivers light years away from the big city. They...
QUéBEC/CANADA | 85 minutes | 2018
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MADE THIS WAY: REDEFINING MASCULINITY
Irem Harnak, Elli Raynai
O.V.
English
- IN COMPETITION -Comprised of photographs and virtual reality volumetric testimonials, Made This Way: Redefining Masculinity is an interactive mixed-media...
CANADA, United States | 18 minutes | 2018
FNC EXPLORE
MAKE NOISE
May Abdalla
O.V.
English
- IN COMPETITION -Make Noise is a unique virtual reality experience which uses the power of your voice to smash through the barriers the suffragettes faced...
GREAT BRITAIN | 9 minutes | 2018
LES NOUVEAUX ALCHIMISTES
MARIPHASA
Sandro Aguilar
O.V.
Portuguese | st English
The play of light and shadow during one night reveals or conceals the story we long to follow. Paulo works by night as a security guard on a building site....
PORTUGAL | 88 minutes | 2018
TEMPS Ø
MIRAI
Mamoru Hosoda
O.V.
Japanese | st French
The new Mamoru Hosoda film, Mirai, is one of the most anticipated films of the year. After Les enfants loups/The Wolf Children (Prix Temps Ø 2012) and Le...
JAPAN | 98 minutes | 2018
HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA
MISHIMA
Paul Schrader
O.V.
Japanese | st English
Starting on the fateful day of the failed coup d'état that led to the Japanese author’s suicide, this biographical story employs a multi-tracked...
UNITED STATES | 120 minutes | 1985
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
MOUTHPIECE
Patricia Rozema
O.V.
English
Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava garnered raves with their play Mouthpiece. Now they’re the stars of veteran filmmaker Patricia Rozema’s screen...
CANADA | 91 minutes | 2018
FNC EXPLORE
MUSEUM OF SYMMETRY
Paloma Dawkins
O.V.
English
- IN COMPETITION -An absurdist mind-and-body romp through the highest clouds to the ocean deep, Museum of Symmetry is the explosive feel-good...
CANADA | 20 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
Ma pipe
Étienne De Massy
O.V.
French
A video essay that would be outside any theory of probability; a continumum that would make us escape any logic.
QUéBEC/CANADA | 7 minutes | 2018
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
Magic Alps
Marco Scotuzzi, Andrea Brusa
O.V.
Italian | st English
An Afghan refugee arriving in Italy to seek asylum brings the immigration system to a grinding halt when he includes his goat in the application.
ITALY | 15 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
Mahalia Melts in the Rain
Carmine Pierre-Dufour, Emilie Mannering
O.V.
English | st French
Mahalia feels different in her ballet class. Hoping to boost her confidence, her mother brings her to get her hair straightened for the very first time.
QUéBEC/CANADA | 12 minutes | 2018
RENCONTRES PANCANADIENNES DU CINÉMA ÉTUDIANT
Mal de coeur
Franie-Éléonore Bernier
O.V.
French | st English
Ghislain struggles with severe depression. When he hits rock bottom, his brother decides he needs to relearn how to laugh.L'inis
QUéBEC/CANADA | 11 minutes | 2018
HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA
Malody
Phillip Barker
O.V.
English
A young woman, sicker than those who dare eat the food at the all-night diner she's perched in, catches an eerie reflection of herself as a child,...
CANADA | 13 minutes | 2012
COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE
Manila is Full of Men Named Boy
Andrew Stephen Lee
O.V.
English | st English
A man buys a child to pretend to be his son in order to impress the patriarch of the family.
PHILIPPINES, United States | 21 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
Marées
Juliette Granger
O.V.
- Without dialogue | st English
Marées is a singular ode to the spirits of the Gaspesian Sea as experienced by its inhabitants.
QUéBEC/CANADA | 22 minutes | 2018
HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA
Matters of Life and Death
Robert Todd
O.V.
- Without dialogue
Entering the envelope of life floating within its many layers.
UNITED STATES | 12 minutes | 2017
P'TITS LOUPS
Miguel
Armando Sepulveda Mendoza
O.V.
- Without dialogue
Miguel must overcome the feeling of being an outcast on his first day of school in a new country.
UNITED STATES | 16 minutes | 2018
FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA
Mon Boy
Sarah Pellerin
O.V.
French | st English
As he takes part in his brother's bachelor party, Louis is confronted by this ritual that both celebrates and denigrates commitment and masculinity.
QUéBEC/CANADA | 13 minutes | 2018
P'TITS LOUPS
Mon papi s'est caché
Anne Huynh
O.V.
French | st English
A grandfather explains to his grandson that he'll have to take care of his flower garden after he dies.
FRANCE | 8 minutes | 2018
RENCONTRES PANCANADIENNES DU CINÉMA ÉTUDIANT
Mrs.
Gabriella Arno
O.V.
English
At a family dinner, a mother must come to accept her daughter's sexuality when she announces her engagement to her girlfriend.York University
CANADA | 13 minutes | 2018
PRÉSENTATIONS SPÉCIALES
NOTRE ÉTÉ AVEC ANDRÉ
Claude Fournier
O.V.
French | st English
Over the summer of 2016, André Brassard (stage and film director, actor) talked to us about his life. "This is my last speech, it’s what I want to say...
QUéBEC/CANADA | 70 minutes | 2018