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La chambre d'à côté

Next date : Sunday February 16, 2025 at 15:00 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

General

Cinema • Drama
Pedro Almodóvar | 2024 | Spain, United States, France | 107 min | English with French subtitles

 

Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

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The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love

Next date : Sunday February 16, 2025 at 18:00 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

13 years +

Cinema • Romance
Maria Maggenti | 1995 | United States | 84 min | English

 

Randy is a young girl with tomboyish looks who lives with other lesbians, including her aunt. Evie is a wealthy, popular girl with a boyfriend. When Evie befriends Randy, she finds herself confronted with a passion she has never felt before and the two young girls face the challenges of a new romance.

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Jessica Forever + After School Knife Fight

Sunday February 16, 2025 at 20:00

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

Cinema • Alternative
Double bill | Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel | France | 119 min | French with English subtitles

 

Ahead of the release of Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel's film EAT THE NIGHT, Cinéma Public and Ritual Films present a programme of two films by the visionary duo.

AFTER SCHOOL KNIFE FIGHT
2017 / 21 min - Laetitia, Roca, Nico and Naël are in a band. As per usual, they meet late afternoon before rehearsal in a vacant lot. The group will soon no longer exist; they will be forced to disband because Laetitia is moving away to study. This is the story of four young adults who do not want to say good-bye.

JESSICA FOREVER
2018 / 97 min - Jessica is the leader of a group of lost boys with a violent past who now seek peace and harmony. She is the only one to have ever brought them love and understanding. They only wish to create a world where they can live in peace together, and forever.

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Interceptés

Next date : Monday February 17, 2025 at 20:20 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

General

Cinema • Documentary
Not recommended for young children
Oksana Karpovych | 2024 | Québec (Canada), France, Ukraine | 93 min | Russian, Ukrainian with French subtitles

 

Ukrainian intelligence services have intercepted thousands of phone calls Russian soldiers made from the battlefield in Ukraine to their families and friends in Russia, painting a stark picture of the cruelty of war in a dizzying emotional tension. Juxtaposed with images of the destruction caused by the invasion and the day-to-day life of the Ukrainian people who resist and rebuild, the voices of the Russian soldiers – ranging from being filled with heroic illusions to complete disappointment and loss of reason, from looting to committing more horrible war crimes, from propaganda to doubt and disillusionment – expose the whole scope of the dehumanizing power of war and imperialist nature of the Russian aggression.

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Le dernier repas

Tuesday February 18, 2025 at 18:00

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

13 years +

Cinema • Drama
Maryse Legagneur | 2024 | Québec (Canada) | 111 min | French, Haitian Creole with French subtitles

 

Reynold is dying from stomach cancer. Gradually unable to eat normally due to his condition, he resigns himself to starving to death. Grim memories surface of how he had cheated starvation once before as a prisoner in Fort-Dimanche Prison. The last meals that he can still eat provide an opportunity to share these memories with his daughter Vanessa, who he has not seen for 20 years.

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Bring Them Down

Tuesday February 18, 2025 at 20:30

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

13 years +

Cinema • Drama
Violence
Christopher Andrews | 2025 | United Kindgom | 106 min | English with French subtitles

 

Michael, the last son of a shepherding family, lives with his ailing father, Ray. Burdened by a terrible secret, Michael has isolated himself from the world. When a conflict with rival farmer Gary and his son Jack escalates, Michael is drawn into a devastating chain of events, forcing him to confront the horrors of his past, leaving both families permanently altered.

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Viêt and Nam

Next date : Wednesday February 19, 2025 at 18:00 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

Cinema • Drama
Truong Minh Quy | 2024 | Vietnam | 128 min | Vietnamese with English subtitles

 

In the underground coal mines, Nam and Viet, young miners, face danger and darkness. One prepares to leave for a new life, but they must find Nam's father's remains, a soldier lost in a faraway forest, retracing the past through memories.

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Hard Truths

Wednesday February 19, 2025 at 20:45

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

General

Cinema • Drama
Mike Leigh | 2024 | United Kingdom | 97 min | English with English subtitles

 

Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us. Reunited with Leigh for the first time since multiple Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies, the astonishing Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a woman wracked by fear, tormented by afflictions, and prone to raging tirades against her husband, son, and anyone who looks her way. Meanwhile, her easygoing younger sister, played by Michele Austin (Another Year), is a single mother with a life as different from Pansy's as their clashing temperaments - brimming with communal warmth from her salon clients and daughters alike. This expansive film from a master dramatist takes us into the intensities of kinship, duty, and the most enduring of human mysteries: that even through lifetimes of hurt and hardship, we still find ways to love those we call family.

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La fête des pères

Thursday February 20, 2025 at 18:00

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

General

Cinema • Documentary
Ayana O’Shun | 2025 | Québec (Canada) | 75 min | French

 

Following the success of her first feature film, The Myth of the Black Woman, Ayana O'Shun presents Father's Day. This gripping documentary explores the phenomenon of absent fathers in Black communities, through the personal stories of the director and luminous, resilient women from Canada and Guadeloupe. Growing up in Quebec, Ayana was struck by the fact that half of all Black families in North America live without a father (compared to one-fifth of families on average).

What are the reasons for this state of affairs? Does Black history in the Americas influence fathers' defection? What are the consequences of this absence on their daughters, the women they become, and the community in general?

This documentary is a call to break the silence. It highlights the weight of social and historical legacy, the consequences of life choices, the complexities of love and freedom, and the hopes of healing and renewal.

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Mississippi Masala

Next date : Thursday February 20, 2025 at 19:45 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

General

Cinema • Romance
Mira Nair | 1991 | United States | 117 min | English, Swahili with French subtitles

 

The vibrant cultures of India, Uganda, and the American South come together in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala, a luminous look at the complexities of love in the modern melting pot. Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda by the dictatorship of Idi Amin, twentysomething Mina (Sarita Choudhury) spends her days cleaning rooms in an Indian-run motel in Mississippi. When she falls for the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius (Denzel Washington), their passionate romance challenges the prejudices of both of their families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African American communities. Tackling thorny issues of racism, colorism, culture clash, and displacement with bighearted humor and keen insight, Nair serves up a sweet, sexy, and deeply satisfying celebration of love's power.

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Archéologie de la lumière

Next date : Friday February 21, 2025 at 18:00 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2024

Cinema • Documentary
Sylvain L'Espérance | 2024 | Québec (Canada) | 71 min | no dialogues

 

RIDM - Special Jury Prize for national feature competition

Far from a picture-perfect postcard, this film offers a personal view of the Minganie landscapes in Quebec's Côte-Nord region. Following the rhythm imposed by the elements, Sylvain L'Espérance patiently observes the sea, plants, rocks, and clouds cohabitate and their interactions with the contrasting sunlight. Through visual and sound research of great aesthetic precision, asserts a natural reality that exists only through the artistic gaze cast with the help of a technique that imposes its presence and that of the filmmaker. This feature film embodies the potential and limits of its digital source in an approach that at times turns the material abstract. L'Archéologie de la lumière is a film of infinite detail and is part of the experimental approach of a filmmaker with an infectious curiosity and unique point of view. (HSB)

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Armand

Next date : Friday February 21, 2025 at 20:15 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

General

Cinema • Drama
Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel | 2024 | Norway, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden | 117 min | Norwegian with English subtitles, English

 

When defamed actress Elisabeth is abruptly called into a parent-teacher meeting after hours, she's presented with scathing allegations that trigger a tangled web of accusations between parents and faculty. As Elisabeth struggles to uncover the truth amid the empty school rooms and dark corridors, a chaotic fight for redemption arises where desire, madness and obsession prevail.

Festival de Cannes - Caméra d'Or

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No Other Land

Next date : Saturday February 22, 2025 at 18:00 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

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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Mlle Bottine

Sunday February 23, 2025 at 10:00

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

General

Cinema • Comedy
For kids
Yan Lanouette Turgeon | 2024 | Québec (Canada) | 119 min | French

 

Philippe, an opera composer in search of inspiration, is forced to take in Simone, his rebellious, eccentric niece whose best friend is a skunk. Despite their diametrically opposed personalities, Philippe and Simone quickly discover that they may need each other more than they first thought.

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Okurimono

Next date : Sunday February 23, 2025 at 13:00 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

General

Cinema • Documentary
Laurence Lévesque | 2024 | Québec (Canada) | 96 min | Japanese with French subtitles

 

Noriko Oi, a Japanese-Canadian woman who has been living in Montreal for more than 20 years, is about to return to Nagasaki, her hometown. She has to go back to help her brothers and sisters clear out their childhood home, which will soon be sold.

Within the walls of this old house lie the fragments of the Oi family's history. What remains of memories when families' secrets are locked away and end up casting a shadow over the collective recollections? Noriko decides to reconstruct the past of her mother Mitsuko, a survivor of the atomic bomb, in the hope of passing down her cultural heritage to her children and healing the dark reminiscences of the tragic past.

But her quest promises to be arduous. Mitsuko, who passed away 30 years ago, has never shared her story. Through her findings, Noriko meets various allies who will help her uncover her mother's past and unveil unknown details about this era of her native Japan.

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Les graines du figuier sauvage

Next date : Friday February 28, 2025 at 18:00 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

13 years +

Cinema • Thriller
Mohammad Rasoulof | 2024 | Germany, France, Iran | 166 min | Farsi with French subtitles

 

Shot entirely in secret, Mohammad Rasoulof's award-winning thriller, THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG, centers on a family thrust into the public eye when Iman is appointed as an investigating judge in Tehran. As political unrest erupts in the streets, Iman realizes that his job is even more dangerous than expected, making him increasingly paranoid and distrustful, even of his own wife Najmeh and daughters Sana and Rezvan.

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Sirocco et le Royaume des courants d'air

Sunday March 2, 2025 at 10:30

 

Casa d'Italia 2024

General

Cinema • Cartoon
For kids
Benoît Chieux | 2023 | Belgium, France | 80 min | French | For ages 3 to 10

 

Juliette and Carmen, two intrepid sisters aged 4 and 8, discover a secret passage to the Kingdom of the Winds, their favourite book. Transformed into cats and separated from each other, they will have to be bold and daring to find their way back. With the help of the singer Selma, they try to get back to the real world by confronting Sirocco, the master of winds and storms... But is he as terrifying as they imagine?

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Vermiglio, ou la mariée des montagnes

Sunday March 2, 2025 at 16:15

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

General

Cinema • Drama
Maura Delpero | 2024 | Italy, France | 119 min | Italian with French subtitles

 

The lush and breathtaking beauty of the Alps, filmed with painterly grace under natural light from frigid winter to redemptive spring, provides the physical and emotional backdrop for Vermiglio, Maura Delpero's visionary film, which won the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.

This singular portrait of a sprawling family, set in the small, mountainous village of Vermiglio during the waning days of WWII, follows a series of dramatic, consequential events after the arrival of a taciturn Sicilian soldier (Giuseppe De Domenico), who hides out in town after deserting the army. While there, the soldier develops a romance with the family's eldest daughter, Lucia (Martina Scrinzi).

Vermiglio portrays the lives of a provincial family in a remote village suspended in time by the customs of a fading era. Conjuring stories from her own family's past, Delpero creates a deeply personal and human tale that recalls the great neorealist movement in Italian cinema. Yet, through Lucia's perspective, Vermiglio feels distinct and novel.

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Flow

Next date : Sunday March 2, 2025 at 18:45 (other dates)

 

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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Astérix et Obélix : Mission Cléopâtre

Monday March 3, 2025 at 18:00

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

General

Cinema • Adventure
Ages 8 and up | Alain Chabat | 2002 | France | 108 min | French

 

It's back in 52 BC. That's right, BC. Although Gaul isn't totally overrun, Cleopatra's Egypt is under the yoke of the Roman Empire. What's worse is that Cleopatra, that dame with the big nose, has had the good sense to chose Caesar for her boyfriend. Caesar is the Emperor of the Greatest of All Peoples. Or so he says.

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Une langue universelle

Next date : Friday March 7, 2025 at 18:00 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

General

Cinema • Comedy
Matthew Rankin | 2024 | Québec, Manitoba (Canada) | 89 min | Farsi, French

 

Winter. Somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg. Negin and Nazgol find a large sum of money frozen deep within the sidewalk ice and try to find a way to get it out. Massoud leads a group of befuddled tourists upon an increasingly-absurd walking tour of Winnipeg monuments and historic sites. Matthew leaves his job at the Québec government and embarks upon a mysterious journey to visit his estranged mother. Time, geography and identities crossfade, interweave and collide into a surreal comedy of misdirection.

Structured like a Venn diagram – at the point of confluence between Jacques Tati and Abbas Kiarostami's Koker Trilogy – UNE LANGUE UNIVERSELLE is at once a diary film, an absurdist city symphony and a welling-up of confinement-era emotion exploring the mysterious interzone where one person ends and the rest of the world begins. An elusive, half-remembered dream of home, solitude, our responsibilities to others and the wild turkeys that haunt us.

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Å Øve (Practice)

Next date : Friday March 7, 2025 at 20:30 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

Cinema • Drama
Laurens Pérol | 2023 | Norway | 77 min | Norwegian with French subtitles

 

Trine refuses to fly. When the 18-year-old climate activist and trumpet talent gets invited to an audition at the famous Opera House in Oslo, she only has days to travel over 1500 km from the remote Lofoten islands to the capital. Trying to stay true to her principles, Trine decides to hitch- hike, relying on the kindness of a series of strangers who will pick her up. On a road trip through the rugged and beautiful landscapes of Norway, her passion for music and her environmental idealism are put to the test.

Co-presented with FIKAS.

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Chronique d'une crise

Next date : Saturday March 8, 2025 at 16:15 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

Cinema • Documentary
Simon Larochelle | 2024 | Québec (Canada) | 69 min | French with English subtitles

 

Sarah and Simon, a couple of young millennials are facing the repossession of their apartment in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis in the province of Quebec. They decide to turn the camera on themselves to document their daily life during their challenging search for a new affordable place to live in. Filmed in close intimacy, this portrait depicts the struggle of a generation confronted by a new global phenomenon.

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Les perdants

Next date : Saturday March 8, 2025 at 18:30 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

General

Cinema • Documentary
Jenny Cartwright | 2025 | Québec (Canada) | 98 min | French

 

A Losing Game follows three people who ran for office in Quebec's October 2022 provincial election. The one thing they had in common? They were all sure to lose. Through their individual campaigns, the film peels back the curtain on our electoral system and the many ways in which it is dysfunctional: the additional barriers faced by women and racialized people, deficiencies in the voting process, unfair campaign financing rules and the undue weight given to media and polls.

In this documentary, Jenny Cartwright casts a critical eye on a political system that doesn't offer everyone the same opportunities. For most, the race is over before it even begins. But, thanks to the way the electoral system is set up, the big losers are the rest of us.

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Tout sur Margo

Next date : Friday March 14, 2025 at 20:30 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

Cinema • Documentary
Yann-Manuel Hernandez, Margaux Latour | 2024 | Québec (Canada) | 80 min | français

 

Margo, an aspiring actress, sees her life slowly crumble around her: her friends turn their backs on her, her lover ignores her, and her next film project is in danger of being abandoned. Isolating herself in her solitude in Portugal, she is confronted with her expectations and must learn to trust again. Tout sur Margo is a mesmerizing autofiction that plays with the codes of documentary, produced with the unique authenticity of modest means. In the style of Frances Ha, this film intimately explores a sincere but disappointed young performer's quest for meaning. Under the guise of spirituality, fine reflections on friendship and the power of creation creep into the story, moving beyond fiction to a very real awareness. (RIDM)

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La chambre d'à côté

Next date : Sunday February 16, 2025 at 15:00 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

General

Cinema • Drama
Pedro Almodóvar | 2024 | Spain, United States, France | 107 min | English with French subtitles

 

Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

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The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love

Next date : Sunday February 16, 2025 at 18:00 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

13 years +

Cinema • Romance
Maria Maggenti | 1995 | United States | 84 min | English

 

Randy is a young girl with tomboyish looks who lives with other lesbians, including her aunt. Evie is a wealthy, popular girl with a boyfriend. When Evie befriends Randy, she finds herself confronted with a passion she has never felt before and the two young girls face the challenges of a new romance.

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Jessica Forever + After School Knife Fight

Sunday February 16, 2025 at 20:00

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

Cinema • Alternative
Double bill | Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel | France | 119 min | French with English subtitles

 

Ahead of the release of Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel's film EAT THE NIGHT, Cinéma Public and Ritual Films present a programme of two films by the visionary duo.

AFTER SCHOOL KNIFE FIGHT
2017 / 21 min - Laetitia, Roca, Nico and Naël are in a band. As per usual, they meet late afternoon before rehearsal in a vacant lot. The group will soon no longer exist; they will be forced to disband because Laetitia is moving away to study. This is the story of four young adults who do not want to say good-bye.

JESSICA FOREVER
2018 / 97 min - Jessica is the leader of a group of lost boys with a violent past who now seek peace and harmony. She is the only one to have ever brought them love and understanding. They only wish to create a world where they can live in peace together, and forever.

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Interceptés

Next date : Monday February 17, 2025 at 20:20 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

General

Cinema • Documentary
Not recommended for young children
Oksana Karpovych | 2024 | Québec (Canada), France, Ukraine | 93 min | Russian, Ukrainian with French subtitles

 

Ukrainian intelligence services have intercepted thousands of phone calls Russian soldiers made from the battlefield in Ukraine to their families and friends in Russia, painting a stark picture of the cruelty of war in a dizzying emotional tension. Juxtaposed with images of the destruction caused by the invasion and the day-to-day life of the Ukrainian people who resist and rebuild, the voices of the Russian soldiers – ranging from being filled with heroic illusions to complete disappointment and loss of reason, from looting to committing more horrible war crimes, from propaganda to doubt and disillusionment – expose the whole scope of the dehumanizing power of war and imperialist nature of the Russian aggression.

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Le dernier repas

Tuesday February 18, 2025 at 18:00

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

13 years +

Cinema • Drama
Maryse Legagneur | 2024 | Québec (Canada) | 111 min | French, Haitian Creole with French subtitles

 

Reynold is dying from stomach cancer. Gradually unable to eat normally due to his condition, he resigns himself to starving to death. Grim memories surface of how he had cheated starvation once before as a prisoner in Fort-Dimanche Prison. The last meals that he can still eat provide an opportunity to share these memories with his daughter Vanessa, who he has not seen for 20 years.

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Bring Them Down

Tuesday February 18, 2025 at 20:30

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

13 years +

Cinema • Drama
Violence
Christopher Andrews | 2025 | United Kindgom | 106 min | English with French subtitles

 

Michael, the last son of a shepherding family, lives with his ailing father, Ray. Burdened by a terrible secret, Michael has isolated himself from the world. When a conflict with rival farmer Gary and his son Jack escalates, Michael is drawn into a devastating chain of events, forcing him to confront the horrors of his past, leaving both families permanently altered.

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Viêt and Nam

Next date : Wednesday February 19, 2025 at 18:00 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

Cinema • Drama
Truong Minh Quy | 2024 | Vietnam | 128 min | Vietnamese with English subtitles

 

In the underground coal mines, Nam and Viet, young miners, face danger and darkness. One prepares to leave for a new life, but they must find Nam's father's remains, a soldier lost in a faraway forest, retracing the past through memories.

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Hard Truths

Wednesday February 19, 2025 at 20:45

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

General

Cinema • Drama
Mike Leigh | 2024 | United Kingdom | 97 min | English with English subtitles

 

Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us. Reunited with Leigh for the first time since multiple Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies, the astonishing Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a woman wracked by fear, tormented by afflictions, and prone to raging tirades against her husband, son, and anyone who looks her way. Meanwhile, her easygoing younger sister, played by Michele Austin (Another Year), is a single mother with a life as different from Pansy's as their clashing temperaments - brimming with communal warmth from her salon clients and daughters alike. This expansive film from a master dramatist takes us into the intensities of kinship, duty, and the most enduring of human mysteries: that even through lifetimes of hurt and hardship, we still find ways to love those we call family.

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La fête des pères

Thursday February 20, 2025 at 18:00

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

General

Cinema • Documentary
Ayana O’Shun | 2025 | Québec (Canada) | 75 min | French

 

Following the success of her first feature film, The Myth of the Black Woman, Ayana O'Shun presents Father's Day. This gripping documentary explores the phenomenon of absent fathers in Black communities, through the personal stories of the director and luminous, resilient women from Canada and Guadeloupe. Growing up in Quebec, Ayana was struck by the fact that half of all Black families in North America live without a father (compared to one-fifth of families on average).

What are the reasons for this state of affairs? Does Black history in the Americas influence fathers' defection? What are the consequences of this absence on their daughters, the women they become, and the community in general?

This documentary is a call to break the silence. It highlights the weight of social and historical legacy, the consequences of life choices, the complexities of love and freedom, and the hopes of healing and renewal.

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Mississippi Masala

Next date : Thursday February 20, 2025 at 19:45 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

General

Cinema • Romance
Mira Nair | 1991 | United States | 117 min | English, Swahili with French subtitles

 

The vibrant cultures of India, Uganda, and the American South come together in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala, a luminous look at the complexities of love in the modern melting pot. Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda by the dictatorship of Idi Amin, twentysomething Mina (Sarita Choudhury) spends her days cleaning rooms in an Indian-run motel in Mississippi. When she falls for the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius (Denzel Washington), their passionate romance challenges the prejudices of both of their families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African American communities. Tackling thorny issues of racism, colorism, culture clash, and displacement with bighearted humor and keen insight, Nair serves up a sweet, sexy, and deeply satisfying celebration of love's power.

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Armand

Next date : Friday February 21, 2025 at 20:15 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

General

Cinema • Drama
Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel | 2024 | Norway, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden | 117 min | Norwegian with English subtitles, English

 

When defamed actress Elisabeth is abruptly called into a parent-teacher meeting after hours, she's presented with scathing allegations that trigger a tangled web of accusations between parents and faculty. As Elisabeth struggles to uncover the truth amid the empty school rooms and dark corridors, a chaotic fight for redemption arises where desire, madness and obsession prevail.

Festival de Cannes - Caméra d'Or

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No Other Land

Next date : Saturday February 22, 2025 at 18:00 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

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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Mlle Bottine

Sunday February 23, 2025 at 10:00

 

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Cinema • Comedy
For kids
Yan Lanouette Turgeon | 2024 | Québec (Canada) | 119 min | French

 

Philippe, an opera composer in search of inspiration, is forced to take in Simone, his rebellious, eccentric niece whose best friend is a skunk. Despite their diametrically opposed personalities, Philippe and Simone quickly discover that they may need each other more than they first thought.

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Okurimono

Next date : Sunday February 23, 2025 at 13:00 (other dates)

 

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Cinema • Documentary
Laurence Lévesque | 2024 | Québec (Canada) | 96 min | Japanese with French subtitles

 

Noriko Oi, a Japanese-Canadian woman who has been living in Montreal for more than 20 years, is about to return to Nagasaki, her hometown. She has to go back to help her brothers and sisters clear out their childhood home, which will soon be sold.

Within the walls of this old house lie the fragments of the Oi family's history. What remains of memories when families' secrets are locked away and end up casting a shadow over the collective recollections? Noriko decides to reconstruct the past of her mother Mitsuko, a survivor of the atomic bomb, in the hope of passing down her cultural heritage to her children and healing the dark reminiscences of the tragic past.

But her quest promises to be arduous. Mitsuko, who passed away 30 years ago, has never shared her story. Through her findings, Noriko meets various allies who will help her uncover her mother's past and unveil unknown details about this era of her native Japan.

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Les graines du figuier sauvage

Next date : Friday February 28, 2025 at 18:00 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

13 years +

Cinema • Thriller
Mohammad Rasoulof | 2024 | Germany, France, Iran | 166 min | Farsi with French subtitles

 

Shot entirely in secret, Mohammad Rasoulof's award-winning thriller, THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG, centers on a family thrust into the public eye when Iman is appointed as an investigating judge in Tehran. As political unrest erupts in the streets, Iman realizes that his job is even more dangerous than expected, making him increasingly paranoid and distrustful, even of his own wife Najmeh and daughters Sana and Rezvan.

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Vermiglio, ou la mariée des montagnes

Sunday March 2, 2025 at 16:15

 

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Cinema • Drama
Maura Delpero | 2024 | Italy, France | 119 min | Italian with French subtitles

 

The lush and breathtaking beauty of the Alps, filmed with painterly grace under natural light from frigid winter to redemptive spring, provides the physical and emotional backdrop for Vermiglio, Maura Delpero's visionary film, which won the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.

This singular portrait of a sprawling family, set in the small, mountainous village of Vermiglio during the waning days of WWII, follows a series of dramatic, consequential events after the arrival of a taciturn Sicilian soldier (Giuseppe De Domenico), who hides out in town after deserting the army. While there, the soldier develops a romance with the family's eldest daughter, Lucia (Martina Scrinzi).

Vermiglio portrays the lives of a provincial family in a remote village suspended in time by the customs of a fading era. Conjuring stories from her own family's past, Delpero creates a deeply personal and human tale that recalls the great neorealist movement in Italian cinema. Yet, through Lucia's perspective, Vermiglio feels distinct and novel.

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Astérix et Obélix : Mission Cléopâtre

Monday March 3, 2025 at 18:00

 

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Cinema • Adventure
Ages 8 and up | Alain Chabat | 2002 | France | 108 min | French

 

It's back in 52 BC. That's right, BC. Although Gaul isn't totally overrun, Cleopatra's Egypt is under the yoke of the Roman Empire. What's worse is that Cleopatra, that dame with the big nose, has had the good sense to chose Caesar for her boyfriend. Caesar is the Emperor of the Greatest of All Peoples. Or so he says.

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Une langue universelle

Next date : Friday March 7, 2025 at 18:00 (other dates)

 

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Cinema • Comedy
Matthew Rankin | 2024 | Québec, Manitoba (Canada) | 89 min | Farsi, French

 

Winter. Somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg. Negin and Nazgol find a large sum of money frozen deep within the sidewalk ice and try to find a way to get it out. Massoud leads a group of befuddled tourists upon an increasingly-absurd walking tour of Winnipeg monuments and historic sites. Matthew leaves his job at the Québec government and embarks upon a mysterious journey to visit his estranged mother. Time, geography and identities crossfade, interweave and collide into a surreal comedy of misdirection.

Structured like a Venn diagram – at the point of confluence between Jacques Tati and Abbas Kiarostami's Koker Trilogy – UNE LANGUE UNIVERSELLE is at once a diary film, an absurdist city symphony and a welling-up of confinement-era emotion exploring the mysterious interzone where one person ends and the rest of the world begins. An elusive, half-remembered dream of home, solitude, our responsibilities to others and the wild turkeys that haunt us.

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Å Øve (Practice)

Next date : Friday March 7, 2025 at 20:30 (other dates)

 

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Cinema • Drama
Laurens Pérol | 2023 | Norway | 77 min | Norwegian with French subtitles

 

Trine refuses to fly. When the 18-year-old climate activist and trumpet talent gets invited to an audition at the famous Opera House in Oslo, she only has days to travel over 1500 km from the remote Lofoten islands to the capital. Trying to stay true to her principles, Trine decides to hitch- hike, relying on the kindness of a series of strangers who will pick her up. On a road trip through the rugged and beautiful landscapes of Norway, her passion for music and her environmental idealism are put to the test.

Co-presented with FIKAS.

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Chronique d'une crise

Next date : Saturday March 8, 2025 at 16:15 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2025

Cinema • Documentary
Simon Larochelle | 2024 | Québec (Canada) | 69 min | French with English subtitles

 

Sarah and Simon, a couple of young millennials are facing the repossession of their apartment in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis in the province of Quebec. They decide to turn the camera on themselves to document their daily life during their challenging search for a new affordable place to live in. Filmed in close intimacy, this portrait depicts the struggle of a generation confronted by a new global phenomenon.

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Les perdants

Next date : Saturday March 8, 2025 at 18:30 (other dates)

 

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General

Cinema • Documentary
Jenny Cartwright | 2025 | Québec (Canada) | 98 min | French

 

A Losing Game follows three people who ran for office in Quebec's October 2022 provincial election. The one thing they had in common? They were all sure to lose. Through their individual campaigns, the film peels back the curtain on our electoral system and the many ways in which it is dysfunctional: the additional barriers faced by women and racialized people, deficiencies in the voting process, unfair campaign financing rules and the undue weight given to media and polls.

In this documentary, Jenny Cartwright casts a critical eye on a political system that doesn't offer everyone the same opportunities. For most, the race is over before it even begins. But, thanks to the way the electoral system is set up, the big losers are the rest of us.

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Tout sur Margo

Next date : Friday March 14, 2025 at 20:30 (other dates)

 

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Cinema • Documentary
Yann-Manuel Hernandez, Margaux Latour | 2024 | Québec (Canada) | 80 min | français

 

Margo, an aspiring actress, sees her life slowly crumble around her: her friends turn their backs on her, her lover ignores her, and her next film project is in danger of being abandoned. Isolating herself in her solitude in Portugal, she is confronted with her expectations and must learn to trust again. Tout sur Margo is a mesmerizing autofiction that plays with the codes of documentary, produced with the unique authenticity of modest means. In the style of Frances Ha, this film intimately explores a sincere but disappointed young performer's quest for meaning. Under the guise of spirituality, fine reflections on friendship and the power of creation creep into the story, moving beyond fiction to a very real awareness. (RIDM)

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Archéologie de la lumière

Next date : Friday February 21, 2025 at 18:00 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2024

Cinema • Documentary
Sylvain L'Espérance | 2024 | Québec (Canada) | 71 min | no dialogues

 

RIDM - Special Jury Prize for national feature competition

Far from a picture-perfect postcard, this film offers a personal view of the Minganie landscapes in Quebec's Côte-Nord region. Following the rhythm imposed by the elements, Sylvain L'Espérance patiently observes the sea, plants, rocks, and clouds cohabitate and their interactions with the contrasting sunlight. Through visual and sound research of great aesthetic precision, asserts a natural reality that exists only through the artistic gaze cast with the help of a technique that imposes its presence and that of the filmmaker. This feature film embodies the potential and limits of its digital source in an approach that at times turns the material abstract. L'Archéologie de la lumière is a film of infinite detail and is part of the experimental approach of a filmmaker with an infectious curiosity and unique point of view. (HSB)

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Sirocco et le Royaume des courants d'air

Sunday March 2, 2025 at 10:30

 

Casa d'Italia 2024

General

Cinema • Cartoon
For kids
Benoît Chieux | 2023 | Belgium, France | 80 min | French | For ages 3 to 10

 

Juliette and Carmen, two intrepid sisters aged 4 and 8, discover a secret passage to the Kingdom of the Winds, their favourite book. Transformed into cats and separated from each other, they will have to be bold and daring to find their way back. With the help of the singer Selma, they try to get back to the real world by confronting Sirocco, the master of winds and storms... But is he as terrifying as they imagine?

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Flow

Next date : Sunday March 2, 2025 at 18:45 (other dates)

 

Casa d'Italia 2024

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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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