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Thursday March 6, 2025 at 21:15
Casa d'Italia 2025
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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Friday March 7, 2025 at 16:00
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Casa d'Italia 2024
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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Friday March 7, 2025 at 18:00
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Casa d'Italia 2025
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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Friday March 7, 2025 at 20:30
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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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Saturday March 8, 2025 at 12:45
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Casa d'Italia 2025
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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Saturday March 8, 2025 at 16:15
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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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Saturday March 8, 2025 at 18:30
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Casa d'Italia 2025
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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Saturday March 8, 2025 at 21:00
Casa d'Italia 2025
Cinema
• Comedy
Double bill / 88 min / English
Presented as part of programmer Vincenzo Nappi's Enter the Videodrome series, DAD & STEP-DAD will be preceded by the short film THE SWEATER.
DAD & STEP-DAD
Tynan Delon / 2023 / United States / 80 min
Jim and Dave, a dad and a step-dad, have trouble bonding during a 3-day weekend upstate with their son, Branson
THE SWEATER
Maziyar Khatam / 2024 / Canada / 8 min
Pressured into giving away his clothes, an emasculated young man obsessively attempts to reclaim his cherished sweater before it vanishes into the donation abyss.
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Sunday March 9, 2025 at 18:00
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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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Monday March 10, 2025 at 18:00
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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Wednesday March 12, 2025 at 20:00
Casa d'Italia 2025
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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Friday March 14, 2025 at 18:00
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Casa d'Italia 2025
Cinema
• Documentary
Kim O'Bomsawin | 2024 | Québec (Canada) | 93 min | French, English, Innu Aimun, Attikamekw
Known for her intimate and riveting films, director Kim O'Bomsawin now invites us to experience the vibrant universe of NINAN AUASSAT: WE THE CHILDREN. Shot over more than six years, the film brings us the moving stories of three groups of children from three different Indigenous nations: Atikamekw, Eeyou Cree and Innu. In following these young people through the crucial milestones of childhood, right to the threshold of adulthood, we witness their daily lives and aspirations, along with the challenges they face.
Filmed from "a child's eye-view" and presenting a groundbreaking vision of contemporary Indigenous youth, this documentary is notable for the complete absence of adult voices and "experts on young people"-holding space instead for a new generation with a burning desire to be heard. The result is a captivating journey that becomes a call to action, at a time when the voices of young people echo, demanding the right to be recognized and an opportunity to blossom.
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Friday March 14, 2025 at 20:30
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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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Saturday March 15, 2025 at 21:00
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Casa d'Italia 2025
Cinema
• Drama
Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel | 2024 | France | 107 min | French with English subtitles
Pablo, a small-time dealer, and his teenage sister Apolline have forged an unbreakable bond through their shared obsession with the online video game Darknoon. When Pablo falls for the mysterious Night, he gets swept up in their liaison, abandoning his sister to deal with the impending shutdown of their digital haven alone. As Pablo's reckless choices provoke the wrath of a dangerous rival gang, the end of their virtual life draws near, upending their reality.
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Sunday March 16, 2025 at 18:30
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Casa d'Italia 2025
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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Friday April 18, 2025 at 20:30
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Casa d'Italia 2025
Cinema
• Thriller
Alain Guiraudie | 2024 | France, Spain, Portugal | 102 min | French with English subtitles
Jérémie returns to his hometown for the funeral of his former boss, the village baker. He decides to stay for a few days with Martine, the man's widow. A mysterious disappearance, a threatening neighbor and a priest with strange intentions make Jérémie's short stay in the village take an unexpected turn...
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