Spirited, unifying, daring, innovative... For 50 years, the Festival du nouveau cinema (Festival of New Cinema) has made national and international auteur cinema accessible, both through its emerging voices and its major works, in order to discover all its originality and diversity. The "new" is embodied in three stages: new creators, new approaches and new technologies. The 2023 FNC takes place this year from October 4 to 15. Discover the best of current cinema there!
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Around an austere brick altar lost in the middle of the desert like a drifting raft, the Panchwa festival (Rajasthan, India) is a gateway to the beyond, a celebration during which Kalbeliya gypsies converse with their dead. While they come to celebrate the King of Panchwa, their hero buried here, the festival is also a privileged moment for the Kalbeliya imagination to unfold. Goddesses and war...
We Don't Care About Music Anyway...
Duration: 2h40While featuring key figures from Tokyo’s avant-garde music scene of the mid-2000s, _We Don’t Care About Music Anyway..._ offers a kaleidoscopic vision of the megacity, juxtaposing music with noise, sound with imagery, representation with reality, and fiction with documentary. Beyond the music and performances, the film explores the future and modes of existence of an entire city and society.
Kings of the Wind & Electric Queens
Duration: 1h52Since Antiquity, the Sonepur fair in the Indian state of Bihar has been the largest animal market in Asia. Mobilizing all the showmen of this state renowned for its indomitability, it is the place of expression par excellence for Bihari popular culture. The characters in _Kings of the Wind & Electric Queens_ are the custodians of this culture. Like the different figures in a tarot deck, they ar...
Monolithic power plants; billowing columns of smoke; the backdrop of a red sun. _Sirens_ is an experimental short documentary that captures Germany's coal-fired power plants in their final years of generating energy. Shot entirely from helicopters, the film takes us on a journey through industrial wastelands, thus recalling the passage of Ulysses' boat through the Sirens' strait. An odyssey thr...
Through a newspaper advertisement, Ruth Beckermann organizes a casting for a film based on a well-known pornographic text. For over a hundred years, the novel _Josefine Mutzenbacher or The Story of a Viennese Whore_ has been the subject of controversy for its lustful depiction of child and female sexuality. Although it was banned for a time, it has also been celebrated as an important work of V...
Bridgeport, January 17, 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything points to suicide, the autopsy report reveals something else. Ten years later, the director and cousin of the teenager examine the past causes and future consequences of this unsolved crime. Like an imagined biography, the film will explore the relationship between the security of the living space and the...
A former mining town in remote northwest British Columbia, Anyox is now home to mountainous slag piles accumulated as a byproduct of the early 20th-century copper smelting process. Anyox depicts the lives of the town’s two sole remaining residents while simultaneously unfolding a complex labour history and a story of immense environmental degradation.
Five young students in a Shanghai school of arts audition for a part in a film. They talk about their inspirations, their personnal story and about what drives them to act. Being adolescents, their motivations are as ingenuous and unclear as the film they are auditioning for. Combining documentary and fiction, the script writes itself around one question: if they could act anything, what would ...
Last Year When the Train Passed by
*Que faisiez-vous l’année dernière, quand j’ai pris cette photo depuis un train passant devant chez vous?*
Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group
*Tales from The Winnipeg Film Group* est l'histoire abracadabrante d'un groupe de cinéastes indépendants obstinés qui ont lancé une coopérative de cinéma en 1974 en plein milieu des Prairies, devenue depuis le lieu le plus respecté du cinéma au Canada. Rempli de séquences d'archives rares, d'extraits de films dynamiques et d'entrevues hilarantes, ce documentaire retrace l'histoire du légendair...
Une cinéaste coincée dans un hiver montréalais aride et sans travail entraîne sa directrice photo dans une quête improbable à travers les États-Unis. *L.A. Tea Time* est un carnet de voyage hors du commun, parfois méditatif, parfois hanté, qui relate les aventures de Sophie et Isabelle avec humour, détours et fantaisie.
Around an austere brick altar lost in the middle of the desert like a drifting raft, the Panchwa festival (Rajasthan, India) is a gateway to the beyond, a celebration during which Kalbeliya gypsies converse with their dead. While they come to celebrate the King of Panchwa, their hero buried here, the festival is also a privileged moment for the Kalbeliya imagination to unfold. Goddesses and war...
We Don't Care About Music Anyway...
Duration: 2h40While featuring key figures from Tokyo’s avant-garde music scene of the mid-2000s, _We Don’t Care About Music Anyway..._ offers a kaleidoscopic vision of the megacity, juxtaposing music with noise, sound with imagery, representation with reality, and fiction with documentary. Beyond the music and performances, the film explores the future and modes of existence of an entire city and society.
Kings of the Wind & Electric Queens
Duration: 1h52Since Antiquity, the Sonepur fair in the Indian state of Bihar has been the largest animal market in Asia. Mobilizing all the showmen of this state renowned for its indomitability, it is the place of expression par excellence for Bihari popular culture. The characters in _Kings of the Wind & Electric Queens_ are the custodians of this culture. Like the different figures in a tarot deck, they ar...
Monolithic power plants; billowing columns of smoke; the backdrop of a red sun. _Sirens_ is an experimental short documentary that captures Germany's coal-fired power plants in their final years of generating energy. Shot entirely from helicopters, the film takes us on a journey through industrial wastelands, thus recalling the passage of Ulysses' boat through the Sirens' strait. An odyssey thr...
Through a newspaper advertisement, Ruth Beckermann organizes a casting for a film based on a well-known pornographic text. For over a hundred years, the novel _Josefine Mutzenbacher or The Story of a Viennese Whore_ has been the subject of controversy for its lustful depiction of child and female sexuality. Although it was banned for a time, it has also been celebrated as an important work of V...
Bridgeport, January 17, 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything points to suicide, the autopsy report reveals something else. Ten years later, the director and cousin of the teenager examine the past causes and future consequences of this unsolved crime. Like an imagined biography, the film will explore the relationship between the security of the living space and the...
A former mining town in remote northwest British Columbia, Anyox is now home to mountainous slag piles accumulated as a byproduct of the early 20th-century copper smelting process. Anyox depicts the lives of the town’s two sole remaining residents while simultaneously unfolding a complex labour history and a story of immense environmental degradation.
Five young students in a Shanghai school of arts audition for a part in a film. They talk about their inspirations, their personnal story and about what drives them to act. Being adolescents, their motivations are as ingenuous and unclear as the film they are auditioning for. Combining documentary and fiction, the script writes itself around one question: if they could act anything, what would ...
Last Year When the Train Passed by
*Que faisiez-vous l’année dernière, quand j’ai pris cette photo depuis un train passant devant chez vous?*
Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group
*Tales from The Winnipeg Film Group* est l'histoire abracadabrante d'un groupe de cinéastes indépendants obstinés qui ont lancé une coopérative de cinéma en 1974 en plein milieu des Prairies, devenue depuis le lieu le plus respecté du cinéma au Canada. Rempli de séquences d'archives rares, d'extraits de films dynamiques et d'entrevues hilarantes, ce documentaire retrace l'histoire du légendair...
Une cinéaste coincée dans un hiver montréalais aride et sans travail entraîne sa directrice photo dans une quête improbable à travers les États-Unis. *L.A. Tea Time* est un carnet de voyage hors du commun, parfois méditatif, parfois hanté, qui relate les aventures de Sophie et Isabelle avec humour, détours et fantaisie.