Upcoming Movies
Truck Mama
“My family was shocked when they found out that I'm driving,” says Eva, a Kenyan woman, as she sits behind the wheel of a truck, heavily pregnant. She botched up her school years and was the only one in her family not to graduate. Pretty foolish, she admits in hindsight, but now she is glad to have chosen a profession she can be proud of. She sees more of the world than her brothers and sisters do.
Stories of a Lie
During a stay in her native Greece, Olia hears that her friend Sofia has cancer. Her doctors and family are keeping the illness hidden from her, and Olia isn’t allowed to give anything away either. She decides to investigate the rationale behind this practice.
Triangle
A mother goes through a box of keepsakes, showing photographs and reading love letters out loud in a soft voice. Meanwhile a father leafs through an ethnography book, then fixes his gaze on a single, significant photograph. These are the parents of French-Vietnamese filmmaker Anaël Dang, who, 21 years ago, received an envelope with life-changing contents.
Infinity River
Thousands of workers take the ferry across Lisbon’s Tagus River every day. They’re commuters just like those you see everywhere in buses, trains and subways. In the ceaseless flow of humanity they disappear anonymously into the crowd. This film is Gonçalo Pina’s cinematic tribute to these “invisibles.”
The Edge of Things
A taxi driver who works at night takes us through different stories unfolding simultaneously in the city of Buenos Aires. While she desperately searches for an organizing principle that gives meaning to her life, the other characters are pushed to their own limits.
Meanwhile
Diana wakes up in her beach house when her ventilator fails. In an imaginary conversation with her father, Astor Piazzolla, she reveals what she could never tell him in life, until her final words reveal that she, too, has died.
James Bay 1975
A dive into the origins of two revolutions: the rapid expansion of Hydro-Québec with the construction of the La Grande hydroelectric power plant, a project championed by Premier Robert Bourassa, and the awakening of Indigenous nations. A clash of civilizations where two worldviews collide. Quebec, buoyed by the momentum of the Quiet Revolution, takes control of its destiny. Meanwhile, in the North, young Inuit and Cree rise up for the first time to protect what is most precious to them: their land and their culture. At the heart of the conflict is the James Bay construction site, the largest of its kind in North America.
A D*** Love
Martin is a young man who is kidnapped by Mica, a psychopath obsessed with finding a partner. Over the course of one night, Martin will be subjected to all kinds of bloody torture and visceral offerings from Mica, with the added misfortune of being allergic to blood.
A Safe Place
Lucia has everything a woman could want. A loving husband and son. The opportunity to devote herself entirely to her family. A lifelong friendship with Cristina, which began during their university days. Yet, amid the intoxicating idyllic summer holiday, Lucia can feel nothing but longing for the person she once was. Lucia and Cristina, accompanied by their husbands, spend the summer in a small beach village whose charm has faded over time. Behind a façade of peace and security, Lucia finds herself drawn to everything that is not handed to her on a silver platter. An unattainable man from her past emerges in their holiday group, giving her a reason to hunt. Because life should not be without a bite.
113 Words for You Today
A team of workers is sent to planet Gliese 12b to build a gravitational portal. To conserve energy for survival on the frozen planet, each worker is allowed to speak only 113 words per day.
Pellatree Family
My Plastic Mother
Eki, living by the landfill, searches for a memento to honor his late mother. Battling the relentless rain, landslides, and looming threats from scavengers and machinery, he fears her memory could be lost beneath the waste forever.
What's in your Bag?
It starts, predictably, with the benign. An interview, a celebrity with effortless charm, a designer bag, and the familiar ritual of personal revelation in this “inside look” series – shallow as it is invasive. The host’s expectation for sanitized intimacy is soon subverted, as a polished, white smile transforms into something far more dangerous. With a jarring laugh, the actress removes not a lip gloss, nor a compact, but an ASP baton. She laughs, still performing for the camera, then strikes the host violently. This isn’t merely a shock. It’s a coup, an overthrow of the modern internet theater’s safe spaces and a descent into total rupture. The viewer is helplessly ensnared in the chaos, a witness unable to turn away.
In the Shadow
Kavan is a teenage boy with Down syndrome who lives with his mother and older brother. His father passed away many years ago.
Little Star
A man haunted by his past is led on a surreal, dark journey through the night, only to be confronted by his sins in the presence of the stars he once loved...
Une page se tourne
Clément, a shy and introverted teenager, begins a diary. As he writes, his words reveal more than he imagined, shaking up his inner world.
Emptiness
A man sits in his living room, doing absolutely nothing while morning arrives.
Snowflakes at the End of the World
Snowflakes at the End of the World offers a meditation on the beauty and ugliness of Montreal winter, and invites critical reflection on the relationship between humans and nature.
Father Never Approved of My Toys
The world through the lens of a child's imagination. This experimental short film follows a passionate child as she undergoes various inconvenient situations. She turns to her favorite doll as a means of coping, using her imagination to create a familiar, ideal world that reflects her feelings and aspirations. The film combines archival footage from the director's childhood with animated scenes to show the world from the eyes of a child.
Between Borders
Rodrigo, a widowed father who lives in Tijuana with his mother and son, works undocumented at a hotel in San Diego, California. However, with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, the border crossing is closed, triggering unfortunate events. The family will have to confront the harsh reality of living separated by the world’s most important border, dealing with the physical and emotional distance that this situation imposes on their lives.