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Billy

Next date : Saturday June 7, 2025 at 13:30 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

13 years +

Cinema • Documentary
Lawrence Côté-Collins | 2024 | Québec (Canada) | 105 min | French

 

Filmmaker Lawrence Côté-Collins finds her attacker in prison. She wants to understand, forgive, and support a suffering man. Billy is schizophrenic and his worst attack left two people dead. Their epistolary prison friendship sheds light on the truth about this mental illness which was neither diagnosed nor treated. Together, they tell their stories and reconstruct themselves through intimate correspondence and unpublished video archives.

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No Other Land
(Pas d'autre terre)

Next date : Saturday June 7, 2025 at 16:00 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

General

Cinema • Documentary
Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal | 2024 | Palestine, Norway | 95 min | Arabic, Hebrew, English with English subtitles

 

Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community's mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual erasure of Masafer Yatta, as soldiers destroy the homes of families - the largest single act of forced transfer ever carried out in the occupied West Bank. He crosses paths with Yuval, an Israeli journalist who joins his struggle, and for over half a decade they fight against the expulsion while growing closer. Their complex bond is haunted by the extreme inequality between them: Basel, living under a brutal military occupation, and Yuval, unrestricted and free. This film, by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists, was co-created during the darkest, most terrifying times in the region, as an act of creative resistance to Apartheid and a search for a path towards equality and justice.

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Les campements

Next date : Saturday June 7, 2025 at 18:00 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

Cinema • Documentary
Michael T. Workman, Kei Pritsker | 2025 | United States | 81 min | English with French subtitles

 

When a group of students at Columbia University in New York launch a movement protesting the war in Gaza, they spark a nationwide uprising in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Encampments spring up at hundreds of campuses as students object to their own university's investment in the US and Israeli arms industry. Featuring detained student activist Mahmoud Khalil, The Encampments takes viewers inside America's student uprising with incredible intimacy and urgency. Professors, whistleblowers, and student activists shed light on a moment that captivated the nation's attention and continues to make headlines today.

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Pavements

Next date : Saturday June 7, 2025 at 20:00 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

Cinema • Musical
Alex Ross Perry | 2024 | United States | 128 min | English

 

An examination of the iconic 90s indie band, Pavements appears to be just another music documentary, until it doesn't. A prismatic, narrative, scripted, documentary, musical, metatextual hybrid, the film intimately shows the band preparing for their sold-out 2022 reunion tour while simultaneously tracking the preparations for a musical based on their songs, a museum devoted to their history and a big-budget Hollywood biopic inspired by their saga as the most important band of a generation.

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Hola Frida

Next date : Sunday June 8, 2025 at 10:30 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

General

Cinema • Animation
Ages 7 and up | André Kadi, Karine Vézina | 2024 | France, Québec (Canada) | 82 min | French

For kids

 

Little Frida is the sunlight of her small Mexican village, where she spends her days carousing through the market, befriending a neighborhood street dog, and playing class clown. When a polio diagnosis casts a cloud over her spirit, she is forced into the solitude of her bedroom. But it's there that she finds solace in her imagination, a world brimming with color, flowers, and possibilities. When she is finally well enough to reenter the world, it's this inner spirit that guides her through the hardships in her life. Hola Frida recreates the early life of Frida Kahlo with the brightness and whimsy of her famous oeuvre alongside some unexpected plot points (like an athletic training montage!) to paint a portrait of the artist's childhood. A true Girls' POV story if there ever was one, this biopic frames freedom, feminism, and the zeitgeist of 20th century Mexico through the eyes of one sparkling, vibrant young girl. (New York International Children's Film Festival)

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Les maîtres du temps

Next date : Sunday June 8, 2025 at 13:00 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

General

Cinema • Animation
Ages 8 and up | René Laloux | 1982 | France | 79 min | French with English subtitles

 

Piel, the young son of a space traveler, is left behind on the planet Perdide, where huge hungry hornets roam. Piel's father's friend Jaffar abandons an important mission to go rescue the child, with the help of an old sailor and two dwarves who communicate by telepathy...Based on Stephan Wuls' novel "The Orphan of Perdide". Designed by artist Moebius. From the director of "Fantastic Planet".

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When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before

Next date : Sunday June 8, 2025 at 15:30 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

Cinema • Comedy
Sonja Heiss | 2023 | Germany, Belgium | 116 min | German

 

Growing up in a psychiatric clinic, Paul's childhood is populated by psychiatric patients (played by a strong supporting ensemble of non-professional neurodivergent actors) who become his extended family. Through his innocent eyes, we discover how the line between patient and caregiver, normal and extraordinary, blurs into a kaleidoscope of human experience.

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Les yeux ne font pas le regard

Sunday June 8, 2025 at 18:00

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

General

Cinema • Documentary
Simon Plouffe | 2024 | Québec (Canada) | 93 min | Spanish, Russian, Japanese, German, Serbo-Croatian, Ukrainian with French subtitles

 

Through an immersive sound environment, Les yeux ne font pas le regard delves into the lives of five resilient individuals who have lost their sight in armed conflicts. This film challenges our societal blindness to violence and suffering amidst a flood of images, urging us to listen to these inspiring stories echoing with urgency and profound humanity.

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Leila and the Wolves

Next date : Monday June 9, 2025 at 20:15 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

General

Cinema • Drama
Heiny Srour | 1984 | Lebanon, United Kingdom, France, Belgiu, Netherlands, Sweden | 95 min | Arabic, English with English subtitles

Not recommended for young children

 

Drawing on the Arab heritage of oral tradition and mosaic pattern, Leila and the Wolves combines fictional drama,
archival footage, and fantasy sequences to explore the collective memory of Arab women and their hidden role in
history throughout the past half-century both in Palestine and in Lebanon.

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Bande-son pour un coup d'État

Wednesday June 11, 2025 at 19:30

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

General

Cinema • Documentary
Johan Grimonprez | 2024 | Belgium, France, Netherlands | 150 min | English, French, Dutch, Russian with French subtitles

 

United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez captures the moment when African politics and American jazz collided in this magnificent essay film, a riveting historical rollercoaster that illuminates the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congo's leader Patrice Lumumba. Richly illustrated by eyewitness accounts, official government memos, testimonies from mercenaries and CIA operatives, speeches from Lumumba himself, and a veritable canon of jazz icons, SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D'ETAT interrogates colonial history to tell an urgent and timely story of precedent that resonates more than ever in today's geopolitical climate.

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Forêts urbaines

Friday June 13, 2025 at 16:00

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

General

Cinema • Documentary
Anne-Marie Rocher | 2024 | Québec (Canada) | 95 min | French, English with French subtitles

 

Green spaces have long been neglected in our cities, but in recent years, grassroots mobilization has helped us rediscover the beneficial effects of urban forests. Exploring innovative nature-restoration projects in cities across Canada, FORÊTS URBAINES is nothing less than an antidote to pessimism, proving that solutions to environmental challenges are closer than we think.

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Manicouagan

Next date : Friday June 13, 2025 at 18:00 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

Cinema • Documentary
Nadine Beaudet | 2025 | Québec (Canada) | 101 min | français, anglais, innu-aimun

 

A driven but intimate work, this film recounts the history of Manicouagan (North Shore, Quebec) a legendary territory shaped by the impact of an asteroid 215 million years ago. From the St. Lawrence River to north of the 51st parallel, the legendary Route 389 brings us to the heart of this meteor crater to meet some extraordinary individuals (astrophysicists, geologists, truck-stop manager, hikers). Digging deep into their memories, the Innu of Pessamit tell of the dispossession of their ancestral lands, which were flooded by the construction of the big hydro dams, leading to the disorientation of the young people from their community. After choosing to live in the boreal forest at the feet of the Uapishka Mountains, a guide and a pioneer of northern expeditions reveal their powerful connection with nature. In this non-linear narrative with many faces, the land speaks out and questions the traces we humans leave behind us.

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Cookie à l'infini

Next date : Friday June 13, 2025 at 20:45 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

Cinema • Animation
Seth Scriver, Peter Scriver | 2025 | Canada | 97 min | English, Cree with French subtitles

 

Through a series of vignettes - some tragic, some funny, all a little bizarre - this animated feature documentary explores the complex bond between two half brothers, one Indigenous, one white, spanning bustling 1980s Toronto to the present day isolated First Nations community of Shamattawa.

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Le plein potentiel

Next date : Saturday June 14, 2025 at 18:00 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

Cinema • Documentary
Annie St-Pierre | 2024 | Québec (Canada) | 80 min | French, English, Japanese with French subtitles

 

By observing the sessions of fifteen life coaches, LE PLEIN POTENTIEL offers an offbeat philosophical essay around this booming profession, a true mirror of the values of our time. In a form that plays on distance to frame the intimate, the plot playfully explores the new sacralization of individual emancipation. Between an empathetic gaze and the unveiling of the absurd, LE PLEIN POTENTIEL is a cinematic reflection on the universal and perpetual quest of all human beings: the search for meaning.

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Flow

Sunday June 15, 2025 at 10:30

 

Casa d'Italia 2024

General

Cinema • Animation
Ages 8 and up | Gints Zilbalodis | 2024 | Latvia, France, Belgium | 84 min | no dialogue

 

The world seems to be coming to an end, teeming with the vestiges of a human presence. Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences. In the lonesome boat sailing through mystical overflowed landscapes, they navigate the challenges and dangers of adapting to this new world.

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Tito

Tuesday June 17, 2025 at 20:30

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

Cinema • Drama
Grace Glowicki | 2020 | Canada | 70 min | English

 

Tito is trapped. With long black hair, greasy sideburns, and an emergency whistle dangling from his neck, he is so stricken with fear that he's developed a hunch in his back. Any attempt to venture into the outside world is met with the threat of elusive predators who hunt him relentlessly. Starved for food and security, Tito's terrorized existence threatens to overwhelm him - until the sudden arrival of a cheerful intruder, offering breakfast and protection...

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Lancement : 24 images no. 215

Thursday June 19, 2025 at 18:00

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

Cinema • Documentary
Programme of three films | 85 min

 

To mark the publication of its new issue devoted to Palestinian cinema, 24 images, in collaboration with Regards Palestiniens, is offering a three-part programme devoted to the links between memory, ecocide and colonisation policies. From pre-1948 archive footage (The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing) to Google Street View visions (A Stone's Throw), via dystopian science fiction (In Vitro), the programme links the eras and bears witness to the wealth of multiple visions that make up contemporary Palestinian cinema.

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Il reste encore demain

Next date : Saturday June 21, 2025 at 15:30 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

Cinema • Comedy
Paola Cortellesi | 2023 | Italy | 118 min | Italian with French subtitles

 

In this moving comedic drama set in postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of her domineering husband. When a mysterious letter arrives, she discovers the courage to change the circumstances of her life. An Italian box office phenomenon and winner of six Italian Academy Awards.

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L.A. Tea Time

Next date : Monday June 23, 2025 at 21:15 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

Cinema • Documentary
Sophie Bédard Marcotte | 2019 | Québec (Canada) | 82 min | French with English subtitles

 

A filmmaker stuck in an arid, jobless Montreal winter embarks on an improbable quest across the USA, taking her director of photography along for the journey. L.A. TEA TIME is an unusual travelogue, at times meditative, at times haunted, recounting the adventures of Sophie and Isabelle with humour and a little touch of magic.

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Ghost in the Shell

Next date : Tuesday June 24, 2025 at 21:15 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

13 years +

Cinema • Animation
Mamoru Oshii | 1995 | Japan | 83 min | Japanese with French subtitles

Violence

 

2029: A female cybernetic government agent, Major Motoko Kusanagi, and the Internal Bureau of Investigations are hot on the trail of "The Puppet Master," a mysterious and threatening computer virus capable of infiltrating human hosts. Together with her fellow agents from Section 9, Kusanagi embarks on a high-tech race against time to capture the omnipresent entity. Director Mamoru Oshii's award-winning cyber-tech thriller, based on the comic book by Masamune Shirow, has established itself as one of the leading Japanese animation films of all time.

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Super Happy Forever

Next date : Wednesday June 25, 2025 at 21:15 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

General

Cinema • Drama
Kohei Igarashi | 2024 | Japan, France | 94 min | Japanese with French subtitles

 

Along with his friend Miyata, Sano returns to Izu, a seaside town once vibrant and cherished. Five years ago, it was here that he met Nagi, who would become his wife.

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Secret Mall Apartment

Next date : Thursday June 26, 2025 at 21:15 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

General

Cinema • Documentary
Jeremy Workman | 2024 | United States | 91 min | English

 

In 2003, eight Rhode Island artists created a secret apartment inside the busy Providence Place Mall and lived there for four years, filming everything along the way. Far more than just a wild prank, the secret apartment became a deeply meaningful place for its inhabitants.

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Louis Riel ou Le ciel touche la terre

Next date : Friday June 27, 2025 at 18:15 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

Cinema • Drama
Matias Meyer | 2024 | Québec (Canada), Mexique | 83 min | French, English with French subtitles

 

1885, Saskatchewan, nord-ouest du Canada. Louis Riel, chef du peuple métis du Canada, un groupe mixte d'ascendance autochtone et européenne, est condamné à mort, reconnu coupable de haute trahison pour avoir pris les armes contre le gouvernement canadien. A partir de ses journaux de prison, nous l'accompagnons dans son quotidien, alors qu'il se prépare à la mort. Un portrait qui nous fait découvrir le combat politique, le sacrifice et la poésie d'un personnage fascinant devenu un mythe fondateur du Canada.

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Hors jeu

Next date : Monday June 30, 2025 at 21:15 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

General

Cinema • Comedy
Jafar Panahi | 2006 | Iran | 88 min | Farsi with French subtitles

 

In Iran, all women are banned from men's sporting events. In June of 2005, Iran defeated Bahrain to qualify for the World Cup. A disparate group of girls, united only by their desire to see their beloved team play live and in-person, disguise themselves in myriad ways, risking arrest to try to get into the game.

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La vie rêvée

Next date : Tuesday July 1, 2025 at 21:15 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

General

Cinema • Drama
Mireille Dansereau | 1972 | Québec (Canada) | 85 min | French

 

After starting a new job at a local film production company, free spirit Isabelle (Deaf to the City's Liliane Lemaître-Auger) meets animator Virginie (Jesus of Montreal's Véronique Le Flaguais) and the two become fast friends. Over the course of a freewheeling, sun-dappled Montreal summer, the pair deepen their bond through a shared exploration of art, ambition, and desire.

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EXPMTL

Wednesday July 2, 2025 at 21:15

 

Livart 2025

Cinema • Alternative
Short films | 55 min | With guests

 

EXPMTL is a programme of film and video works made by artists in and around Montréal: Samy Benammar, Asinnajaq, Emma Roufs, Chantal Partamian, Ralitsa Doncheva and Benjamin R. Taylor. This event is co-presented with VISIONS, a monthly screening series of artists' moving image.

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The Warriors

Next date : Thursday July 3, 2025 at 21:15 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

13 years +

Cinema • Action
Walter Hill | 1979 | États-Unis | 93 min | anglais with French subtitles

Violence

 

The Warriors are wrongly accused of murdering Cyrus, the charismatic leader of the New York underworld. There begins a frenzied odyssey from the Bronx to Coney Island, every street gang and cop in the city on their tail. Alongside characters with cool names like Swan, Ajax, Rembrandt and Cochise, Walter Hill guides us through a raucous night at breakneck speed, reinventing the action film by transposing the tropes of the western to a rowdy urban jungle. Now iconic, the film inherits the best of the '70s while foreshadowing the '80s, remaining influential to this day. A cult favourite. (FNC)

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Tardes de soledad

Next date : Friday July 4, 2025 at 20:00 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

Cinema • Documentary
Albert Serra | 2024 | Spain, France, Portugal | 125 min | Spanish with English subtitles

 

The new film from the visionary director of PACIFICTION, Albert Serra's AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE is a spellbinding documentary that turns its gaze on the ceremonial splendor and devastating brutality of bullfighting in Spain. With quiet intensity, Serra follows famed matador Andrés Roca Rey, from the solitude of his hotel room and the meticulousness of his preparations to the charged spectacle of the arena. Through his immersive and unhurried lens, Serra reveals Rey's profound physical, spiritual, and aesthetic commitment to a centuries-old ritual-one that demands he take part in a timeless duel between man and beast.

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Polyester

Next date : Thursday July 10, 2025 at 21:15 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

13 years +

Cinema • Comedy
John Waters | 1981 | United States | 83 min | dubbing in Quebecois French with English subtitles

 

For his first studio picture, filth maestro John Waters took advantage of his biggest budget yet to allow his muse Divine to sink his teeth into a role unlike any he had played before: Baltimore housewife Francine Fishpaw, a heroine worthy of a Douglas Sirk melodrama. Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine turns to the bottle as her life falls apart-until deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow (vintage heartthrob Tab Hunter). One of Waters' most hilarious inventions, Polyester is replete with stomach-churning smells, sadistic nuns, AA meetings, and foot stomping galore.

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Circo

Next date : Friday July 11, 2025 at 18:00 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

General

Cinema • Documentary
Lamia Chraibi | 2024 | Québec (Canada) | 88 min | Brazilian Portuguese with French subtitles

 

In Rio de Janeiro, Richard dreams of dazzling audiences in the world's biggest circus tents. But when the 20-year-old artist is kicked out of his home by his adoptive mother, his life is turned upside down. His once-clear dream begins to drift out of focus, and he embarks on a lengthy quest to find his way. A vibrant community of drag queens becomes his refuge, sparking a new path as he transitions to Ashila. As uncertainty looms, the spirits of Candomblé offer him hope, while his sister remains an unwavering pillar of support. Through an intimate, direct cinema approach, CIRCO immerses us in the lives of residents of Brazil's favelas as they seek to shape their own futures.

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L'eau chaude l'eau frette

Next date : Thursday July 17, 2025 at 21:15 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

13 years +

Cinema • Comedy
André Forcier | 1976 | Québec (Canada) | 92 min | French

 

In a working-class neighbourhood, while a party is being organised for the forty-third birthday of Polo, the local loan shark, a group of teenagers are plotting an assassination. L'EAU CHAUDE L'EAU FRETTE is a poem of cruelty, a celebration of anarchy where friends and enemies, young and old, take advantage of this great gathering to settle scores and wash their dirty laundry in public.

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Desert Hearts

Next date : Thursday July 24, 2025 at 21:00 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

13 years +

Cinema • Romance
Donna Deitch | 1985 | United States | 91 min | English with French subtitles

 

Donna Deitch's swooning and sensual first narrative feature, Desert Hearts, was groundbreaking upon its release in 1985: a love story about two women, made entirely independently, on a shoestring budget, by a woman. In this 1959-set film, adapted from a beloved novel by Jane Rule, straitlaced East Coast professor Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver) arrives in Reno to file for divorce but winds up catching the eye of someone new, the free-spirited young Cay (Patricia Charbonneau), touching off a slow seduction that unfolds against a breathtaking desert landscape. With undeniable chemistry between its two leads, an evocative jukebox soundtrack, and vivid cinematography by Robert Elswit, Desert Hearts beautifully exudes a sense of tender yearning and emotional candor.

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Le diable probablement

Next date : Thursday July 31, 2025 at 20:45 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

General

Cinema • Drama
Robert Bresson | 1977 | France | 95 min | French with English subtitles

 

"Constructed as a flashback from news reports of a young man's suspicious suicide, Robert Bresson's splenetic 1977 drama puts the post-1968 world on trial and judges it unlivable. Charles (Antoine Monnier), a quietly imperious sensualist of blazing intelligence, lives idly in a bare garret and does little but brazenly chase women. Essaying the gamut of modern pursuits - politics, religion, education, drugs, psychoanalysis - he finds them all pointless, and his despair is deepened by atrocious documentary footage of dire pollution that he watches at the home of the writer and environmentalist Michel (Henri de Maublanc), whose girlfriend he steals. Bresson's chilling visions of daily life-including a brilliant sequence aboard a bus that depicts the mechanical world as a horror-suggest its hostility to the passions of youth. The film, however, offers a near-parody of the tamped-down spiritual universe of Bresson's earlier work: these children of the revolution tremble with uncertainty, and their loose gestures and shambling ways conflict with his precise images. Both the world and Bresson's cinema are in disarray, and the signs of his inner conflict are deeply troubling and tremendously moving." – Richard Brody, The New Yorker

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Deux femmes en or

Next date : Thursday August 7, 2025 at 20:45 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

13 years +

Cinema • Comedy
Chloé Robichaud | 2025 | Québec (Canada) | 100 min | French

Erotic

 

Violette and Florence no longer understand what is happening to them. Respectively, on maternity leave and off work, one is on edge, the other no longer feels anything. The neighbours are both filled with a feeling of failure: despite their careers and families, they are not happy. Florence's first infidelity comes as a revelation. In a context where having fun is very low on the list of priorities, sleeping with a delivery guy is perhaps downright revolutionary. For Violette and Florence, it will be the breath of fresh air they were hoping for.

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The Royal Tenenbaums

Next date : Thursday August 14, 2025 at 20:30 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

13 years +

Cinema • Comedy
Wes Anderson | 2002 | United States | 110 min | English with French subtitles

 

Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) and his wife, Etheline (Anjelica Huston), had three children-Chas, Margot, and Richie-and then they separated. Chas (Ben Stiller) started buying real estate in his early teens and seemed to have an almost preternatural understanding of international finance. Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) was a playwright and received a Braverman Grant of $50,000 in the ninth grade. Richie (Luke Wilson) was a junior champion tennis player and won the U.S. Nationals three years in a row. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. The Royal Tenenbaums is a hilarious, touching, and brilliantly stylized study of melancholy and redemption from Wes Anderson.

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Oncle Boonmee, celui qui se souvient de ses vies antérieures

Next date : Wednesday August 20, 2025 at 20:15 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

General

Cinema • Fantasy
Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 2010 | Thailand | 114 min | Thai (French or English subtitles. TBD)

 

Suffering from acute kidney failure, Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave – the birthplace of his first life...

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Dog Day Afternoon

Next date : Thursday August 21, 2025 at 20:15 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

General

Cinema • Crime Thriller
Sidney Lumet | 1975 | États-Unis | 124 min | English with French subtitles

 

As a scorcher unravels from day to night in Brooklyn, the motive for Al Pacino's botched bank robbery/hostage taking is revealed to be the funding of his wife's gender-affirming surgery. Lumet's ultimate exercise in realism, with 60% of the dialogue improvised – including Pacino's phone call to his wife, shot in a single, 15-minute take. (Film Forum)

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Billy

Next date : Saturday June 7, 2025 at 13:30 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

13 years +

Cinema • Documentary
Lawrence Côté-Collins | 2024 | Québec (Canada) | 105 min | French

 

Filmmaker Lawrence Côté-Collins finds her attacker in prison. She wants to understand, forgive, and support a suffering man. Billy is schizophrenic and his worst attack left two people dead. Their epistolary prison friendship sheds light on the truth about this mental illness which was neither diagnosed nor treated. Together, they tell their stories and reconstruct themselves through intimate correspondence and unpublished video archives.

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No Other Land
(Pas d'autre terre)

Next date : Saturday June 7, 2025 at 16:00 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

General

Cinema • Documentary
Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal | 2024 | Palestine, Norway | 95 min | Arabic, Hebrew, English with English subtitles

 

Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community's mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual erasure of Masafer Yatta, as soldiers destroy the homes of families - the largest single act of forced transfer ever carried out in the occupied West Bank. He crosses paths with Yuval, an Israeli journalist who joins his struggle, and for over half a decade they fight against the expulsion while growing closer. Their complex bond is haunted by the extreme inequality between them: Basel, living under a brutal military occupation, and Yuval, unrestricted and free. This film, by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists, was co-created during the darkest, most terrifying times in the region, as an act of creative resistance to Apartheid and a search for a path towards equality and justice.

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Les campements

Next date : Saturday June 7, 2025 at 18:00 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

Cinema • Documentary
Michael T. Workman, Kei Pritsker | 2025 | United States | 81 min | English with French subtitles

 

When a group of students at Columbia University in New York launch a movement protesting the war in Gaza, they spark a nationwide uprising in solidarity with the people of Gaza. Encampments spring up at hundreds of campuses as students object to their own university's investment in the US and Israeli arms industry. Featuring detained student activist Mahmoud Khalil, The Encampments takes viewers inside America's student uprising with incredible intimacy and urgency. Professors, whistleblowers, and student activists shed light on a moment that captivated the nation's attention and continues to make headlines today.

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Pavements

Next date : Saturday June 7, 2025 at 20:00 (other dates)

 

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Cinema • Musical
Alex Ross Perry | 2024 | United States | 128 min | English

 

An examination of the iconic 90s indie band, Pavements appears to be just another music documentary, until it doesn't. A prismatic, narrative, scripted, documentary, musical, metatextual hybrid, the film intimately shows the band preparing for their sold-out 2022 reunion tour while simultaneously tracking the preparations for a musical based on their songs, a museum devoted to their history and a big-budget Hollywood biopic inspired by their saga as the most important band of a generation.

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Hola Frida

Next date : Sunday June 8, 2025 at 10:30 (other dates)

 

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General

Cinema • Animation
Ages 7 and up | André Kadi, Karine Vézina | 2024 | France, Québec (Canada) | 82 min | French

For kids

 

Little Frida is the sunlight of her small Mexican village, where she spends her days carousing through the market, befriending a neighborhood street dog, and playing class clown. When a polio diagnosis casts a cloud over her spirit, she is forced into the solitude of her bedroom. But it's there that she finds solace in her imagination, a world brimming with color, flowers, and possibilities. When she is finally well enough to reenter the world, it's this inner spirit that guides her through the hardships in her life. Hola Frida recreates the early life of Frida Kahlo with the brightness and whimsy of her famous oeuvre alongside some unexpected plot points (like an athletic training montage!) to paint a portrait of the artist's childhood. A true Girls' POV story if there ever was one, this biopic frames freedom, feminism, and the zeitgeist of 20th century Mexico through the eyes of one sparkling, vibrant young girl. (New York International Children's Film Festival)

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Les maîtres du temps

Next date : Sunday June 8, 2025 at 13:00 (other dates)

 

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Cinema • Animation
Ages 8 and up | René Laloux | 1982 | France | 79 min | French with English subtitles

 

Piel, the young son of a space traveler, is left behind on the planet Perdide, where huge hungry hornets roam. Piel's father's friend Jaffar abandons an important mission to go rescue the child, with the help of an old sailor and two dwarves who communicate by telepathy...Based on Stephan Wuls' novel "The Orphan of Perdide". Designed by artist Moebius. From the director of "Fantastic Planet".

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When Will It Be Again Like It Never Was Before

Next date : Sunday June 8, 2025 at 15:30 (other dates)

 

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Cinema • Comedy
Sonja Heiss | 2023 | Germany, Belgium | 116 min | German

 

Growing up in a psychiatric clinic, Paul's childhood is populated by psychiatric patients (played by a strong supporting ensemble of non-professional neurodivergent actors) who become his extended family. Through his innocent eyes, we discover how the line between patient and caregiver, normal and extraordinary, blurs into a kaleidoscope of human experience.

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Les yeux ne font pas le regard

Sunday June 8, 2025 at 18:00

 

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General

Cinema • Documentary
Simon Plouffe | 2024 | Québec (Canada) | 93 min | Spanish, Russian, Japanese, German, Serbo-Croatian, Ukrainian with French subtitles

 

Through an immersive sound environment, Les yeux ne font pas le regard delves into the lives of five resilient individuals who have lost their sight in armed conflicts. This film challenges our societal blindness to violence and suffering amidst a flood of images, urging us to listen to these inspiring stories echoing with urgency and profound humanity.

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Leila and the Wolves

Next date : Monday June 9, 2025 at 20:15 (other dates)

 

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General

Cinema • Drama
Heiny Srour | 1984 | Lebanon, United Kingdom, France, Belgiu, Netherlands, Sweden | 95 min | Arabic, English with English subtitles

Not recommended for young children

 

Drawing on the Arab heritage of oral tradition and mosaic pattern, Leila and the Wolves combines fictional drama,
archival footage, and fantasy sequences to explore the collective memory of Arab women and their hidden role in
history throughout the past half-century both in Palestine and in Lebanon.

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Bande-son pour un coup d'État

Wednesday June 11, 2025 at 19:30

 

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General

Cinema • Documentary
Johan Grimonprez | 2024 | Belgium, France, Netherlands | 150 min | English, French, Dutch, Russian with French subtitles

 

United Nations, 1960: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, jazz musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe, and the U.S. State Department swings into action, sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. Director Johan Grimonprez captures the moment when African politics and American jazz collided in this magnificent essay film, a riveting historical rollercoaster that illuminates the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congo's leader Patrice Lumumba. Richly illustrated by eyewitness accounts, official government memos, testimonies from mercenaries and CIA operatives, speeches from Lumumba himself, and a veritable canon of jazz icons, SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D'ETAT interrogates colonial history to tell an urgent and timely story of precedent that resonates more than ever in today's geopolitical climate.

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Forêts urbaines

Friday June 13, 2025 at 16:00

 

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General

Cinema • Documentary
Anne-Marie Rocher | 2024 | Québec (Canada) | 95 min | French, English with French subtitles

 

Green spaces have long been neglected in our cities, but in recent years, grassroots mobilization has helped us rediscover the beneficial effects of urban forests. Exploring innovative nature-restoration projects in cities across Canada, FORÊTS URBAINES is nothing less than an antidote to pessimism, proving that solutions to environmental challenges are closer than we think.

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Manicouagan

Next date : Friday June 13, 2025 at 18:00 (other dates)

 

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Cinema • Documentary
Nadine Beaudet | 2025 | Québec (Canada) | 101 min | français, anglais, innu-aimun

 

A driven but intimate work, this film recounts the history of Manicouagan (North Shore, Quebec) a legendary territory shaped by the impact of an asteroid 215 million years ago. From the St. Lawrence River to north of the 51st parallel, the legendary Route 389 brings us to the heart of this meteor crater to meet some extraordinary individuals (astrophysicists, geologists, truck-stop manager, hikers). Digging deep into their memories, the Innu of Pessamit tell of the dispossession of their ancestral lands, which were flooded by the construction of the big hydro dams, leading to the disorientation of the young people from their community. After choosing to live in the boreal forest at the feet of the Uapishka Mountains, a guide and a pioneer of northern expeditions reveal their powerful connection with nature. In this non-linear narrative with many faces, the land speaks out and questions the traces we humans leave behind us.

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Cookie à l'infini

Next date : Friday June 13, 2025 at 20:45 (other dates)

 

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Cinema • Animation
Seth Scriver, Peter Scriver | 2025 | Canada | 97 min | English, Cree with French subtitles

 

Through a series of vignettes - some tragic, some funny, all a little bizarre - this animated feature documentary explores the complex bond between two half brothers, one Indigenous, one white, spanning bustling 1980s Toronto to the present day isolated First Nations community of Shamattawa.

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Le plein potentiel

Next date : Saturday June 14, 2025 at 18:00 (other dates)

 

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Cinema • Documentary
Annie St-Pierre | 2024 | Québec (Canada) | 80 min | French, English, Japanese with French subtitles

 

By observing the sessions of fifteen life coaches, LE PLEIN POTENTIEL offers an offbeat philosophical essay around this booming profession, a true mirror of the values of our time. In a form that plays on distance to frame the intimate, the plot playfully explores the new sacralization of individual emancipation. Between an empathetic gaze and the unveiling of the absurd, LE PLEIN POTENTIEL is a cinematic reflection on the universal and perpetual quest of all human beings: the search for meaning.

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Tito

Tuesday June 17, 2025 at 20:30

 

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Cinema • Drama
Grace Glowicki | 2020 | Canada | 70 min | English

 

Tito is trapped. With long black hair, greasy sideburns, and an emergency whistle dangling from his neck, he is so stricken with fear that he's developed a hunch in his back. Any attempt to venture into the outside world is met with the threat of elusive predators who hunt him relentlessly. Starved for food and security, Tito's terrorized existence threatens to overwhelm him - until the sudden arrival of a cheerful intruder, offering breakfast and protection...

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Lancement : 24 images no. 215

Thursday June 19, 2025 at 18:00

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

Cinema • Documentary
Programme of three films | 85 min

 

To mark the publication of its new issue devoted to Palestinian cinema, 24 images, in collaboration with Regards Palestiniens, is offering a three-part programme devoted to the links between memory, ecocide and colonisation policies. From pre-1948 archive footage (The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing) to Google Street View visions (A Stone's Throw), via dystopian science fiction (In Vitro), the programme links the eras and bears witness to the wealth of multiple visions that make up contemporary Palestinian cinema.

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Il reste encore demain

Next date : Saturday June 21, 2025 at 15:30 (other dates)

 

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Cinema • Comedy
Paola Cortellesi | 2023 | Italy | 118 min | Italian with French subtitles

 

In this moving comedic drama set in postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of her domineering husband. When a mysterious letter arrives, she discovers the courage to change the circumstances of her life. An Italian box office phenomenon and winner of six Italian Academy Awards.

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Louis Riel ou Le ciel touche la terre

Next date : Friday June 27, 2025 at 18:15 (other dates)

 

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Cinema • Drama
Matias Meyer | 2024 | Québec (Canada), Mexique | 83 min | French, English with French subtitles

 

1885, Saskatchewan, nord-ouest du Canada. Louis Riel, chef du peuple métis du Canada, un groupe mixte d'ascendance autochtone et européenne, est condamné à mort, reconnu coupable de haute trahison pour avoir pris les armes contre le gouvernement canadien. A partir de ses journaux de prison, nous l'accompagnons dans son quotidien, alors qu'il se prépare à la mort. Un portrait qui nous fait découvrir le combat politique, le sacrifice et la poésie d'un personnage fascinant devenu un mythe fondateur du Canada.

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Tardes de soledad

Next date : Friday July 4, 2025 at 20:00 (other dates)

 

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Cinema • Documentary
Albert Serra | 2024 | Spain, France, Portugal | 125 min | Spanish with English subtitles

 

The new film from the visionary director of PACIFICTION, Albert Serra's AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE is a spellbinding documentary that turns its gaze on the ceremonial splendor and devastating brutality of bullfighting in Spain. With quiet intensity, Serra follows famed matador Andrés Roca Rey, from the solitude of his hotel room and the meticulousness of his preparations to the charged spectacle of the arena. Through his immersive and unhurried lens, Serra reveals Rey's profound physical, spiritual, and aesthetic commitment to a centuries-old ritual-one that demands he take part in a timeless duel between man and beast.

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Circo

Next date : Friday July 11, 2025 at 18:00 (other dates)

 

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Cinema • Documentary
Lamia Chraibi | 2024 | Québec (Canada) | 88 min | Brazilian Portuguese with French subtitles

 

In Rio de Janeiro, Richard dreams of dazzling audiences in the world's biggest circus tents. But when the 20-year-old artist is kicked out of his home by his adoptive mother, his life is turned upside down. His once-clear dream begins to drift out of focus, and he embarks on a lengthy quest to find his way. A vibrant community of drag queens becomes his refuge, sparking a new path as he transitions to Ashila. As uncertainty looms, the spirits of Candomblé offer him hope, while his sister remains an unwavering pillar of support. Through an intimate, direct cinema approach, CIRCO immerses us in the lives of residents of Brazil's favelas as they seek to shape their own futures.

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Flow

Sunday June 15, 2025 at 10:30

 

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Cinema • Animation
Ages 8 and up | Gints Zilbalodis | 2024 | Latvia, France, Belgium | 84 min | no dialogue

 

The world seems to be coming to an end, teeming with the vestiges of a human presence. Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences. In the lonesome boat sailing through mystical overflowed landscapes, they navigate the challenges and dangers of adapting to this new world.

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L.A. Tea Time

Next date : Monday June 23, 2025 at 21:15 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

Cinema • Documentary
Sophie Bédard Marcotte | 2019 | Québec (Canada) | 82 min | French with English subtitles

 

A filmmaker stuck in an arid, jobless Montreal winter embarks on an improbable quest across the USA, taking her director of photography along for the journey. L.A. TEA TIME is an unusual travelogue, at times meditative, at times haunted, recounting the adventures of Sophie and Isabelle with humour and a little touch of magic.

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Ghost in the Shell

Next date : Tuesday June 24, 2025 at 21:15 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

13 years +

Cinema • Animation
Mamoru Oshii | 1995 | Japan | 83 min | Japanese with French subtitles

Violence

 

2029: A female cybernetic government agent, Major Motoko Kusanagi, and the Internal Bureau of Investigations are hot on the trail of "The Puppet Master," a mysterious and threatening computer virus capable of infiltrating human hosts. Together with her fellow agents from Section 9, Kusanagi embarks on a high-tech race against time to capture the omnipresent entity. Director Mamoru Oshii's award-winning cyber-tech thriller, based on the comic book by Masamune Shirow, has established itself as one of the leading Japanese animation films of all time.

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Super Happy Forever

Next date : Wednesday June 25, 2025 at 21:15 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

General

Cinema • Drama
Kohei Igarashi | 2024 | Japan, France | 94 min | Japanese with French subtitles

 

Along with his friend Miyata, Sano returns to Izu, a seaside town once vibrant and cherished. Five years ago, it was here that he met Nagi, who would become his wife.

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Secret Mall Apartment

Next date : Thursday June 26, 2025 at 21:15 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

General

Cinema • Documentary
Jeremy Workman | 2024 | United States | 91 min | English

 

In 2003, eight Rhode Island artists created a secret apartment inside the busy Providence Place Mall and lived there for four years, filming everything along the way. Far more than just a wild prank, the secret apartment became a deeply meaningful place for its inhabitants.

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Hors jeu

Next date : Monday June 30, 2025 at 21:15 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

General

Cinema • Comedy
Jafar Panahi | 2006 | Iran | 88 min | Farsi with French subtitles

 

In Iran, all women are banned from men's sporting events. In June of 2005, Iran defeated Bahrain to qualify for the World Cup. A disparate group of girls, united only by their desire to see their beloved team play live and in-person, disguise themselves in myriad ways, risking arrest to try to get into the game.

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La vie rêvée

Next date : Tuesday July 1, 2025 at 21:15 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

General

Cinema • Drama
Mireille Dansereau | 1972 | Québec (Canada) | 85 min | French

 

After starting a new job at a local film production company, free spirit Isabelle (Deaf to the City's Liliane Lemaître-Auger) meets animator Virginie (Jesus of Montreal's Véronique Le Flaguais) and the two become fast friends. Over the course of a freewheeling, sun-dappled Montreal summer, the pair deepen their bond through a shared exploration of art, ambition, and desire.

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EXPMTL

Wednesday July 2, 2025 at 21:15

 

Livart 2025

Cinema • Alternative
Short films | 55 min | With guests

 

EXPMTL is a programme of film and video works made by artists in and around Montréal: Samy Benammar, Asinnajaq, Emma Roufs, Chantal Partamian, Ralitsa Doncheva and Benjamin R. Taylor. This event is co-presented with VISIONS, a monthly screening series of artists' moving image.

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The Warriors

Next date : Thursday July 3, 2025 at 21:15 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

13 years +

Cinema • Action
Walter Hill | 1979 | États-Unis | 93 min | anglais with French subtitles

Violence

 

The Warriors are wrongly accused of murdering Cyrus, the charismatic leader of the New York underworld. There begins a frenzied odyssey from the Bronx to Coney Island, every street gang and cop in the city on their tail. Alongside characters with cool names like Swan, Ajax, Rembrandt and Cochise, Walter Hill guides us through a raucous night at breakneck speed, reinventing the action film by transposing the tropes of the western to a rowdy urban jungle. Now iconic, the film inherits the best of the '70s while foreshadowing the '80s, remaining influential to this day. A cult favourite. (FNC)

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Polyester

Next date : Thursday July 10, 2025 at 21:15 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

13 years +

Cinema • Comedy
John Waters | 1981 | United States | 83 min | dubbing in Quebecois French with English subtitles

 

For his first studio picture, filth maestro John Waters took advantage of his biggest budget yet to allow his muse Divine to sink his teeth into a role unlike any he had played before: Baltimore housewife Francine Fishpaw, a heroine worthy of a Douglas Sirk melodrama. Blessed with a keen sense of smell and cursed with a philandering pornographer husband, a parasitic mother, and a pair of delinquent children, the long-suffering Francine turns to the bottle as her life falls apart-until deliverance appears in the form of a hunk named Todd Tomorrow (vintage heartthrob Tab Hunter). One of Waters' most hilarious inventions, Polyester is replete with stomach-churning smells, sadistic nuns, AA meetings, and foot stomping galore.

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L'eau chaude l'eau frette

Next date : Thursday July 17, 2025 at 21:15 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

13 years +

Cinema • Comedy
André Forcier | 1976 | Québec (Canada) | 92 min | French

 

In a working-class neighbourhood, while a party is being organised for the forty-third birthday of Polo, the local loan shark, a group of teenagers are plotting an assassination. L'EAU CHAUDE L'EAU FRETTE is a poem of cruelty, a celebration of anarchy where friends and enemies, young and old, take advantage of this great gathering to settle scores and wash their dirty laundry in public.

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Desert Hearts

Next date : Thursday July 24, 2025 at 21:00 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

13 years +

Cinema • Romance
Donna Deitch | 1985 | United States | 91 min | English with French subtitles

 

Donna Deitch's swooning and sensual first narrative feature, Desert Hearts, was groundbreaking upon its release in 1985: a love story about two women, made entirely independently, on a shoestring budget, by a woman. In this 1959-set film, adapted from a beloved novel by Jane Rule, straitlaced East Coast professor Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver) arrives in Reno to file for divorce but winds up catching the eye of someone new, the free-spirited young Cay (Patricia Charbonneau), touching off a slow seduction that unfolds against a breathtaking desert landscape. With undeniable chemistry between its two leads, an evocative jukebox soundtrack, and vivid cinematography by Robert Elswit, Desert Hearts beautifully exudes a sense of tender yearning and emotional candor.

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Le diable probablement

Next date : Thursday July 31, 2025 at 20:45 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

General

Cinema • Drama
Robert Bresson | 1977 | France | 95 min | French with English subtitles

 

"Constructed as a flashback from news reports of a young man's suspicious suicide, Robert Bresson's splenetic 1977 drama puts the post-1968 world on trial and judges it unlivable. Charles (Antoine Monnier), a quietly imperious sensualist of blazing intelligence, lives idly in a bare garret and does little but brazenly chase women. Essaying the gamut of modern pursuits - politics, religion, education, drugs, psychoanalysis - he finds them all pointless, and his despair is deepened by atrocious documentary footage of dire pollution that he watches at the home of the writer and environmentalist Michel (Henri de Maublanc), whose girlfriend he steals. Bresson's chilling visions of daily life-including a brilliant sequence aboard a bus that depicts the mechanical world as a horror-suggest its hostility to the passions of youth. The film, however, offers a near-parody of the tamped-down spiritual universe of Bresson's earlier work: these children of the revolution tremble with uncertainty, and their loose gestures and shambling ways conflict with his precise images. Both the world and Bresson's cinema are in disarray, and the signs of his inner conflict are deeply troubling and tremendously moving." – Richard Brody, The New Yorker

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Deux femmes en or

Next date : Thursday August 7, 2025 at 20:45 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

13 years +

Cinema • Comedy
Chloé Robichaud | 2025 | Québec (Canada) | 100 min | French

Erotic

 

Violette and Florence no longer understand what is happening to them. Respectively, on maternity leave and off work, one is on edge, the other no longer feels anything. The neighbours are both filled with a feeling of failure: despite their careers and families, they are not happy. Florence's first infidelity comes as a revelation. In a context where having fun is very low on the list of priorities, sleeping with a delivery guy is perhaps downright revolutionary. For Violette and Florence, it will be the breath of fresh air they were hoping for.

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The Royal Tenenbaums

Next date : Thursday August 14, 2025 at 20:30 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

13 years +

Cinema • Comedy
Wes Anderson | 2002 | United States | 110 min | English with French subtitles

 

Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) and his wife, Etheline (Anjelica Huston), had three children-Chas, Margot, and Richie-and then they separated. Chas (Ben Stiller) started buying real estate in his early teens and seemed to have an almost preternatural understanding of international finance. Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) was a playwright and received a Braverman Grant of $50,000 in the ninth grade. Richie (Luke Wilson) was a junior champion tennis player and won the U.S. Nationals three years in a row. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. The Royal Tenenbaums is a hilarious, touching, and brilliantly stylized study of melancholy and redemption from Wes Anderson.

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Oncle Boonmee, celui qui se souvient de ses vies antérieures

Next date : Wednesday August 20, 2025 at 20:15 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

General

Cinema • Fantasy
Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 2010 | Thailand | 114 min | Thai (French or English subtitles. TBD)

 

Suffering from acute kidney failure, Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave – the birthplace of his first life...

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Dog Day Afternoon

Next date : Thursday August 21, 2025 at 20:15 (other dates)

 

Livart 2025

General

Cinema • Crime Thriller
Sidney Lumet | 1975 | États-Unis | 124 min | English with French subtitles

 

As a scorcher unravels from day to night in Brooklyn, the motive for Al Pacino's botched bank robbery/hostage taking is revealed to be the funding of his wife's gender-affirming surgery. Lumet's ultimate exercise in realism, with 60% of the dialogue improvised – including Pacino's phone call to his wife, shot in a single, 15-minute take. (Film Forum)

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