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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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Tuesday January 21, 2025 at 20:30
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Payal Kapadia | 2024 | France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg | 114 min | Malayalam, Hindi with French subtitles
In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desires to manifest.
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Wednesday January 22, 2025 at 18:00
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Philippe Lesage | 2024 | Québec (Canada), France | 161 min | French
Jeff is invited by his friend Max to travel deep into the woods and stay with them at the isolated wilderness lodge of acclaimed film director Blake Cadieux. Jeff has high expectations for the trip: Cadieux is an artist he greatly admires – plus Max's older sister Aliocha, with whom Jeff is secretly in love, is also coming. The hostile virgin forest and the director's huge log cabin become the territory where the youthful search for ideals and freedom comes up against the wounded egos of the adults.
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Wednesday January 22, 2025 at 21:00
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Cinema
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Nate Wilson | 2023 | Canada | 72 min | English
A laid-up polyamorous bicycle courier discovers that her older, scholarly boyfriend has been keeping a sinister secret in his closet.
Nate Wilson's THE ALL GOLDEN pulses with an energy that can only be described as wild. It is a film that rejects definition and challenges our understanding of genre as it dekes in and out of its metafiction narrative, recalling its own existence along with the history of cinema. Blending the surreal dreamscapes of the likes of Guy Maddin with the raw, chaotic edge of internet culture, Wilson's bold maximalist study of the complexity of relationships, loneliness, and the state of it all gives its audience a glimpse into the future of film and a whole lot to talk about once the credits roll!
Preceded by SERVE THE COUNTRY by Fabian Velasco and Milos Mitrovic.
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Thursday January 23, 2025 at 18:00
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Cinema
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Maryam Joobeur | 2024 | France, Canada, Tunisia | 110 min | Arabic with French subtitles
Aicha lives in the isolated north of Tunisia with her husband and youngest son. The family lives in anguish after the departure of the eldest sons Mehdi and Amine to the violent embrace of war. When Mehdi unexpectedly returns home with a mysterious pregnant wife, a darkness emerges, threatening to consume the entire village. Aicha is caught between her maternal love and her search for the truth.
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Thursday January 23, 2025 at 21:00
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Mature language, Erotic
Sean Baker | 2024 | United States | 139 min | English, Russian with French subtitles
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.
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Friday January 24, 2025 at 18:00
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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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Friday January 24, 2025 at 20:00
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• 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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Sunday January 26, 2025 at 10:00
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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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Sunday January 26, 2025 at 15:00
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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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Sunday January 26, 2025 at 17:00
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Félix Rose | 2024 | Québec (Canada) | 108 min | French
An unprecedented language crisis unfolded in the heart of the town of Saint-Leonard in 1968-1969. French-speaking parents demanded French-only schools, while members of the Italian community wanted to preserve bilingual schools. The conflict spread throughout Québec, creating enormous tensions that degenerated into violence and culminated in a bloody riot. LA BATAILLE DE SAINT-LÉONARD tells the story of Raymond Lemieux and Mario Barone, two remarkable yet forgotten men of modest origins, who each fought with strength and conviction, despite the heavy consequences to themselves, their families, and their professional lives. Their struggle changed the destiny of Québec and led to the adoption of the Charter of the French Language (Bill 101).
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Thursday January 30, 2025 at 20:30
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• 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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Friday January 31, 2025 at 18:00
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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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Saturday February 1, 2025 at 20:00
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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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Saturday February 8, 2025 at 17:45
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• 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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Friday February 14, 2025 at 20:15
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• 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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Saturday February 15, 2025 at 20:00
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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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