Opening film

UN OURS ET DEUX AMANTS

Kim Nguyen

Invite only

QUEBEC, Canada | 96 minutes | 2016

Closing feature

MALIGLUTIT

Zacharias Kunuk

Invite only

QUEBEC, Canada | 94 minutes | 2016

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LES INCONTOURNABLES !

SIERANEVADA
Cristi Puiu

O.V. Romanian | st English

An explosive family reunion, complete with compromising confessions and typically Romanian deadpan. The new film by Cristi Puiu (La mort de Dante...

ROMANIA, France, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia | 173 minutes | 2016

FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA

SIGISMOND SANS IMAGES
Albéric Aurtenèche

O.V. French | st English

Sigismond is forced to undergo a psych evaluation on account of his violent behaviour. He’s just turned 18 and pretends he was born with no image....

QUéBEC/CANADA | 14 minutes | 2016

TEMPS Ø

THE SION SONO
ARATA OSHIMA

O.V. Japanese | st English

An amazing journey into the mind of the fiercest, most topical of the great directors. A privilege full of revelations. The universally admired Sion Sono...

JAPAN | 107 minutes | 2016

LES NOUVEAUX ALCHIMISTES

SIXTY SIX
Lewis Klahr

O.V. English

Experimental “reanimation” that recontextualizes printed images from the 1960s in unexpected ways. This hypnotic, animated pop-art collage has twelve...

UNITED STATES | 90 minutes | 2015

LES NOUVEAUX ALCHIMISTES

SKIN OF THE CIT-Y
Solomon Nagler

O.V. English

Framed by poet Robert Lax’s sculptural texts, Skin of the cit-y wanders through mills and factories surrendering to the elements, deteriorating in...

CANADA | 7 minutes | 2016

FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA

SLURPEE
Charles Grenier

O.V. French | st English

A boy struggling with a newly discovered fetish meets a hooker reminiscing about her past as an aspiring judoka.

QUéBEC/CANADA | 10 minutes | 2016

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

SOBRE EL CIELO
Jorge Quintela

O.V. Spanish | st English

Your past is already the projection of your future. However, it was never more than a light in the sky.  

PORTUGAL | 35 minutes | 2015

PRÉSENTATIONS SPÉCIALES

SOLANGE ET LES VIVANTS
Ina Mihalache

O.V. French

A story with a unique tone whose protagonist, Solange, emerged from a series of YouTube clips. Enjoying her solitude, alone in her Paris apartment, Solange...

FRANCE | 67 minutes | 2016

PANORAMA INTERNATIONAL

SOY NERO
Rafi Pitts

O.V. English | st English

A young Mexican is ready to do anything to obtain U.S. citizenship, including enlisting to fight in a war he cares nothing about. Anything goes if it helps...

GERMANY, Mexico, France | 120 minutes | 2016

FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA

THE SPARK
Stephen Shellenberger

O.V. English

A strange, fascinating abstract film about deep surveillance by Canadian activist artist Stephen Shellenberger. One day, a thoroughly ordinary man finds...

CANADA | 85 minutes | 2016

PRÉSENTATIONS SPÉCIALES

SPRINGTIME IN GREELAND
John Paize

The 1981 short that crystallized Paizs's deeply ironic style stars the director himself as a dark presence in sunny suburbia.

CANADA | 25 minutes | 1983

LES NOUVEAUX ALCHIMISTES

SQUAME
Nicolas Brault

O.V. - Without dialogue

Squame explores the body’s sensitive envelope, the skin. Created with the help of sugar casts, these evoke fragile landscapes in a world at the edge of...

CANADA | 5 minutes | 2015

FOCUS QUÉBEC/CANADA

STEALING ALICE
Marc Séguin

O.V. French | st French

 Painter and writer Marc Séguin’s first incursion into cinema where revenge, rage, love and beauty commingle. Art dealer Alice is haunted by the...

QUEBEC, Canada | 90 minutes | 2016

HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA

STEVE + SKY
Felix Van Groeningen

O.V. Dutch | st English

Borne by the wild energy of its leads, Steve + Sky casts love as fractious and fragmented, but always compelling. 22-year-old Steve had met...

BELGIUM | 97 minutes | 2004

PRÉSENTATIONS SPÉCIALES

STRAHLENSCHUTZRAUM WIEN DONAUSTADT
Kurt Razelli

Short fragment from the television movie Echt im Fernsehen in which musician Kurt Razelli used interesting reality moments from Austrian television and...

AUSTRIA | 6 minutes | 2015

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

THE STUDENT
Kirill Serebrennikov

O.V. Russian | st English

The disturbing portrait of a teen whose literal reading of the Bible leads him to religious fanaticism. Veniamin is a teen grappling with a spiritual...

RUSSIA | 118 minutes | 2016

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

SUBMARINE
Mounia Akl

O.V. Arabic | st English

Under the imminent threat of Lebanon’s 2015 garbage crisis, Hala, a woman with an inner wild child, is the only one to refuse evacuation, clinging to...

LEBANON | 21 minutes | 2016

LES NOUVEAUX ALCHIMISTES

THE SUN, THE SUN BLINDED ME
Anka Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal

O.V. Polish | st English

Between reality and illusion, a powerful meditation on the current migrant crisis. This loose adaptation of Albert Camus’ The Stranger by artist/writer...

POLAND | 74 minutes | 2016

PRÉSENTATIONS SPÉCIALES

SUNSET FROM A ROOFTOP
Marinus Groothof

While the Belgrade is being hit by NATO bombings, Ivana is preparing herself for a night out while telling her boyfriend the news of her pregnancy.

NETHERLANDS | 10 minutes | 2009

SYMBOLIC THREATS
Mischa Leinkauf, Matthias Wermke, Lutz Henke

O.V. English

Poetry or threat? An act of surrender or perhaps art? These were the theories that New York puzzled over last summer. How can one incident be interpreted...

GERMANY | 15 minutes | 2015

PRÉSENTATIONS SPÉCIALES

SÄÄLISTÄJÄT
Hannaleena Hauru

The women working in a Finnish unemployment office have a secret club, where they give sex out of pity to outcast young men in order to prevent future...

FINLAND | 29 minutes | 2014

HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA

TALKING HEADS
Krzysztof Kieslowski

O.V. Polish | st French

POLAND | 15 minutes | 1980

FNC eXPlore

TANTALE
Gilles Portes

With 5 different endings and 25 ways to get there, the viewer is the hero. September 2017. The President of the French Republic goes to the Carlton Hotel...

FRANCE | 90 minutes | 2016

HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA

TEARS CANNOT RESTORE HER: THEREFORE, I WEEP
Jennifer Reeder

O.V. English

A professional sign language interpreter becomes very unprofessional as she suffers a sincere but hilarious emotional breakdown during a gathering for...

UNITED STATES | 10 minutes | 2011

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