The films of Festival du nouveau cinéma
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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Sirens
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...
Mutzenbacher
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...
This House
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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...
Anyox
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.
Acting Out
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
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
*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...
L.A. Tea Time
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.
Sirens
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...
Mutzenbacher
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...
This House
Subscription access
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...
Anyox
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.
Acting Out
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
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
*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...
L.A. Tea Time
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.
