Opening film

LE TOUT NOUVEAU TESTAMENT

Jaco Van Dormael

Invite only

FRANCE, Belgium, Luxembourg | 110 minutes | 2015

Closing feature

THE FORBIDDEN ROOM

Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson

Invite only

QUéBEC/CANADA | 119 minutes | 2015

All # a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
TEMPS ø

RUINED HEART – ANOTHER LOVE STORY BETWEEN A CRIMINAL & A WHORE
Khavn De La Cruz

O.V. Filipino

CANADIAN PREMIEREThe always talented (and handsome!) Tadanobu Asano, the monstre sacré of Japanese cinema (also appearing in this year’s Journey to the...

PHILIPPINES, Germany | 73 minutes | 2014

CARTES BLANCHES

Rouge Forêt
Carole Laure

O.V. - Without dialogue

QUéBEC/CANADA | 4 minutes | 2015

HOMMAGES ET RÉTROSPECTIVES

Routines
MB Duggan

O.V. English

Performance poetry, charming crutches, blood and microphones - a typical morning routine.

CANADA | 2 minutes | 1985

SPECIAL PRESENTATION

SALOMÉ
Al Pacino

O.V. English

Upon hearing the voice of John the Baptist, Princess Salomé has to meet him. The encounter prompts a sudden and violent passion in her that’s...

UNITED STATES | 78 minutes | 2013

PANORAMA

SANCTUAIRE
Olivier Masset-Depasse

O.V. Spanish

Straddling the border between France and Spain is a mountainous land called the Basque Country. Some of the residents of the Spanish side have been...

FRANCE, Spain | 90 minutes | 2015

FOCUS

THE SANDWICH NAZI
Lewis Bennett

O.V. English

For nearly 26 years, Lebanese-born Salam Kahil has run his deli in Vancouver’s seedy Downtown Eastside. He takes an incredibly unique and...

CANADA | 72 minutes | 2015

FOCUS

THE SAVER
Wiebke Von Carolsfeld

O.V. English

Fern is a 16-year-old aboriginal girl. She lives with her mother, who works hard as a cleaning woman for welloff clients. When her mother dies of a sudden...

QUéBEC/CANADA | 88 minutes | 2015

COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE

SCRAPBOOK
Mike Hoolboom

O.V. English

Lensed in Ohio’s Broadview Develop- mental Center in 1967 by secret camera genius and audiovisual healer Jeffrey Paull, Scrapbook tells the story of...

CANADA, United States | 19 minutes | 2015

PANORAMA

SEMBENE !
Samba Gadjigo, Jason Silverman

O.V. English

Nine films in 38 years. Ousmane Sembene was the first African director to make films in and about his continent. His career, characterized by fierce...

UNITED STATES, Senegal | 86 minutes | 2015

PANORAMA

SHADOW BEHIND THE MOON
Jun Robles Lana

O.V. Tagalog

In 1993, “internal refugees” caught between rebel fire and the military’s attempts to purge the state of communist groups try to survive...

PHILIPPINES | 120 minutes | 2015

TEMPS ø

THE SHAMELESS
Seung-Uk Oh

O.V. Korean

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIEREA cop hunts a murder suspect, leading him to Jun-gil, the fugitive’s girlfriend. The man’s shady business has caught up...

SOUTH KOREA | 118 minutes | 2015

FNC LAB

SHAPEWAY - HANDPRINTED SUN RAYS
Leyla Majeri, Katherine Kline

O.V. - Without dialogue

Conceived from several thousand handmade silkscreen prints, Shapeway – Handprinted Sun Rays presents pure colour in movement in tandem with sound, and by...

QUéBEC/CANADA | 30 minutes | 2015

P'TITS LOUPS

SI J'ÉTAIS LE BON DIEU
Cordell Barker

O.V. French

CANADA | 9 minutes | 2015

FOCUS

SLEEPING GIANT
Andrew Cividino

O.V. English

Three teenage boys form a friendship over the course of a summer. It’s a simple time of first beers, block parties and petty theft. Nevertheless, a...

CANADA | 90 minutes | 2015

FOCUS

SLEEPWALKING ABYSS, THE
Alborz Arzpeyma

O.V. - Without dialogue

A dancer finds herself haunted by memories. Through recurring half-awake dreams, her defiant body seeks its proper expression.

CANADA | 9 minutes | 2015

RENCONTRES PANCANADIENNES DU CINÉMA ÉTUDIANT

SOEUR BÉNÉDICTE
Virginia Tangvald

O.V. French

QUéBEC/CANADA | 7 minutes | 2015

SPECIAL PRESENTATION

SOLEIL DE PLOMB
Dalibor Matanic

O.V. Croatian

Two young people in love, one Serbian, one Croatian, in 1991. Tension between the families, a forbidden passion. In 2001, a young woman and her mother hire...

CROATIA, Serbia, Slovenia | 123 minutes | 2015

COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE

SONG OF SONGS
Eva Neymann

O.V. Russian

Shimek is a child with a fertile imagination. Scolded by his conservative parents and marginalized by his classmates, the 10-year-old boy finds a...

UKRAINE | 76 minutes | 2015

PANORAMA

SONGS MY BROTHERS TAUGHT ME
Chloé Zhao

O.V. English

Johnny, a young man living on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation, is facing a dilemma. He’s just about to graduate and has to decide between leaving...

UNITED STATES | 94 minutes | 2015

COMPÉTITION INTERNATIONALE

SONÁMBULO
Theodore Ushev

O.V. - Without dialogue

“With the shade around her waist / She dreams on her balcony, [...] Under the gypsy moon, / All things are watching her / And she cannot see them.” A...

CANADA | 5 minutes | 2015

FNC LAB

SOUVENIRS
Benjamin Taylor

O.V. - Without dialogue

Nostalgia falls, a honeymoon, a holiday, an optical souvenir, the first true copy.Right angle memory of memory, Video Home System, the old landscape...

CANADA | 7 minutes | 2015

PANORAMA

SPARROWS
Rúnar Rúnarsson

O.V. Icelandic

After living in Reykjavik with his mother for a few years, Ari has to go live with his father in a fishing village. While trying to reconnect with family...

DENMARK, Iceland | 99 minutes | 2015

FNC LAB

SPIRITISMES
Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson

Showing in the Phi Centre’s second-floor exhibition space, this cinematic installation consists of footage loops from the film’s principal photography...

CANADA | 300 minutes | 2015

SPECIAL PRESENTATION

STANDARD, LE FILM
Benjamin Marquet

O.V. French

Welcome to the hell that is Sclessin. To the untrained eye it looks like a football stadium, but for die-hard Standard fans it’s more like a cathedral,...

BELGIUM | 87 minutes | 2014

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