Cinéfest Niagara

1998 – 1999

- The Wings of the Dove
- The Ideal Man
- Ulee’s Gold
- A Chef in Love
- The Red Violin
- Marius et Jeannette
- Central Station
- Life is Beautiful
- Such a Long Journey
- The Last Night

2001 – 2002
- The Man Who Cried
- The Dish
- Bread and Tulips
- Last Wedding
- Tar Angel
- Amélie
- Kandahar
- The War Bride
- Un crabe dans la tête
- The Grey Fox

2002 – 2003
- No Man’s Land
- Monsoon Wedding
- Nuit de noces
- Bollywood Hollywood
- Québec – Montréal
- Frida
- Rabbit-Proof Fence
- Bowling for Columbine
- Marion Bridge
- The Tunnel

2004-2005
- Blue Butterfly
- Farenheit 911
- Motorcycle Diaries
- Before Sunset
- Maria Full of Grace
- Wilby Wonderful
- Enduring Love
- Un long dimanche des fiançailles
- The Sea Within (Inside)
- St. Ralph

2009-2010                                    
-Adoration
- Is There Anybody There?
- Chéri
- Empties
- Cairo Time
- Broken Embraces
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- The Last Station
- Micmacs

2012-2013

-A Separation

-Footnote

-Intouchables

Still

Where do We Go Now

Quartet

The Angel's Share

The Sapphires

2015-2016

A BRILLIANT YOUNG MIND 

LEARNING TO DRIVE   

COMING HOME  

REMEMBER

 BROOKLYN  

45 YEARS

THE LADY IN THE VAN  

Mustang

Al Purdy Was Here

 THE PRICE WE PAY  Le Prix à payer

2017-2018 Films:

 

Wild Rose

 

Our 2019- 2020 screening dates will be:

 

le mercredi 9 octobre 2019

October 9, 2019

A Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to gather before she dies.

Billi, jeune femme Sino-Américaine, retourne en Chine lorsque sa grand-mère est atteinte d'une maladie incurable. 

Country/pays : United States – États-Unis

Director/réalisateur : Lulu Wang

Distributor/distributeur : WS Films

Genre/genre : Comedy, Drama – comédie dramatique

Language/langue : Mandarin, English, Japanese, Italian – mandarin, anglais, japonais, italien

Duration/durée :  100 minutes

Cast/en vedette : Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin

 

le mercredi 13 novembre 2019

November 13, 2019

A Kurdish female battalion , with an embedded French reporter, prepares to take back their town from extremists.

Au Kurdistan, une reporter française est incorporée dans un bataillon entièrement composé d'anciennes captives de soldats de Daesch.

Country/pays : France, Belgium, Georgia, Switzerland – France, Belgique, Géorgie , Suisse

Director/réalisateur : Eva Husson

Distributor/distributeur : Cohen Media Group

Genre/genre : Drama, War – drame, guerre

Language/langue : French, English, Arabic, Kurdish – français, anglais, arabe, kurde

Duration/durée :  115 minutes

Cast/en vedette : Golshifteh Farahani, Emmanuelle Berot, Zübeyde Bulut

January 22, 2020

le 22 janvier 2020 

PARASITE

All unemployed, Ki-taek and his family take particular interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks.

Toute la famille de Ki-taek est au chômage, et s’intéresse fortement au train de vie de la richissime famille Park.

Country/pays : South Korea – Corée du Sud
Director/réalisatrice : Bong Joon Ho
Distributor/distributeur: MK2
Genre/genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller / comédie, drame, triller
Language/langue: Korean, English / coréen, anglais

Feb 12, 2020  le 12 février, 2020 

Il pleuvait des oiseaux 

AND THE BIRDS RAINED DOWN

Une octogénaire échappée de l’asile et une jeune photographe font irruption dans la vie de deux vieillards vivant en ermites sur les rives d’un lac sauvage.  

Three elderly hermits live in the woods. While wildfires threaten the region, their quiet life is about to be shaken by the arrival of two women - A story of intertwined destinies, where love can happen at any age.

 

Country/pays: Canada
Director/réalisatrice: Louise Archambault
Distributor/distributeur: MK2
Genre/genre: Drama / drame
Language/langue: French / français
Duration/durée: 127 minutes
Cast/en vedette: Andrée Lachapelle, Gilbert Sicotte, Rémy Girard

Our next regular screening is today

with special guests director Jeremy Lalonde and actor Jonas Chernick

11 March, 2020

le 11 mars, 2020

JAMES VS. HIS FUTURE SELF

When an uptight time-travelling obsessed young scientist is visited by his nihilistic future self, he's told that he needs to give up his dream of becoming the world's first time traveler, or else. But when he won't go along with the plan, it becomes a wicked battle of man versus himself - literally.

Un scientifique qui recherche des voyages dans le temps dont la vie est bouleversée lorsqu’il se voit 17 ans plus âgé et il est donc forcé d’arrêter.

Country/pays: Canada
Director/réalisateur: Jeremy LaLonde
Distributor/distributeur: Raven Banner
Genre/genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi – comédie, science fiction
Language/langue: English / anglais
Duration/durée: 94 minutes
Cast/en vedette: Jonas Chernick, Daniel Stern, Cleopatra Coleman
Filming Locations: Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

 

Previous Films:

Our First film of 2022 was

Fire of Love

 

2022 · Documentary · 

In a bond forged over mutual fascination (or obsession) with the mysteries of volcanoes, Katia and Maurice Krafft dedicated their lives to discovering everything they could about these natural phenomena. 

by Jordan Raup 

On Wednesday October 12 we screened

 Delicieux

France, 1789.  When Pierre, a talented cooker loses his taste for cooking, his meeting with the mysterious Louise gets him back on his feet. 

Pierre Manceron, cuisinier audacieux mais orgueilleux, est limogé par son maître. La rencontre d’une femme étonnante lui redonne confiance et le pousse à s’émanciper. 

Filmed in France and Belgium

Director

Éric Besnard

www.youtube.com › watchDelicious Trailer #1 (2021) | Movieclips Indie - YouTube

November 9

Nowhere Special

When John, a thirty-five-year-old window cleaner, is given only a few months to live, he attempts to find a new, perfect family for his three-year-old son,Lorsque John découvre qu’il ne lui reste que quelques mois à vivre, il décide de partir, en compagnie de son fils de trois ans, à la recherche d’une nouvelle famille pour prendre soin de lui.

Director
Uberto Pasolini
February 1: Rosie

An orphaned Indigenous girl is forced to live with her reluctant, street-smart, francophone aunty and her two gender-bending best friends in 80's Montreal.  Rosie is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Gail Maurice and released in 2022. 

Country: Canada

 Languages: English, French, Cree

Director/writer Gail Maurice 
Stars
Melanie Bray
Keris Hope Hill
Constant Bernard

Presque   (A Beautiful Mind) February 8

Deux hommes prennent la route, de Lausanne vers le sud de la France, dans un corbillard.

  Two men, with vastly different life stories and personalities, embark on a hearse heading to the south of France. Country:France, Switzerland

Genre: Comedy

Language: French

Directors Bernard Campan Alexandre Jollien

Stars
Bernard Campan Alexandre Jollien Tiphaine Daviot

Runtime:1 hour 32 minutes

Living  (Vivre)   March 8: Living

In 1950's London, a humourless civil servant takes time off to experience life after a grim diagnosis.

 

1953. Londres panse encore ses plaies après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. 

Oliver Hermanus

Writers
Kazuo Ishiguro Akira Kurosawa(original screenplay)

Stars
Bill Nighy Aimee Lou Wood Alex Sharp

Runtime: 1 hour 42 minutes 

 

 

 Emily  April 12

EMILY imagines Emily Brontë's own Gothic story that inspired her seminal novel, 'Wuthering Heights.' 

Emily Brontë demeure l’une des autrices les plus célèbres au monde. 

 Country: United Kingdom

Directed by	Frances O'Connor
Starring	Emma Mackey Fionn Whitehead

 Run time 2 hours 10 minutes

 

2011-2012

• - Haevnen      

- Beginners

- Potiche

- The First Grader

- Sarah's Key

- The Beginners Guide to Endings

- The Artist

- Le Havre

- Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

2014-2015

Cass and Dylan

The Trip to Italy

The Railway Man

Pride

My Old Lady

Living is Easy

Red Army

Force Majeure

Deux Jours, une nuit

2001 – 2002
- The Golden Bowl
- The Uncles
- The Closet
- Greenfingers
- Innocence

2003-2004
- Ararat
- Winged Migration
- Together
- I Capture the Castle
- L’homme du train

2004 – 2005
- De-Lovely
- Since Otar Left
- Two Brothers
- Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring
- Bon voyage

2005-2006
- Ladies in Lavender
- The March of the Penguins
- The Lost Embrace
- The Syrian Bride
- Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

2006-2007
- A Prairie Home Companion
- An Inconvenient Truth
- Va, vis, et deviens
- Familia
- Tsotsi

2011

- Incendies
- Le concert
- Des hommes et des dieux
- Mid-August Lunch
- The Way Back

2008
-La vie en rose
-Introducing the Dwights
-The Lives of Others
-The Flying Scotsman
-Sicko

2013

-The Royal Affair

-Amour

-Rust and Bone

2009
-Bottle Shock
-Maman Est Chez Le Coiffeur
-The Last Mistress
-Bella
-The Edge Of Heaven

2015

Leviathan

Phoenix

Sunshine on Leith

 2017 

MANCHESTER BY THE SEA,

MOONLIGHT

OUR LITTLE SISTER, Japan

 Woman at War

September 11, 2019

Halla is a 50-year-old independent woman. But behind the scenes of a quiet routine, she leads a double life as a passionate environmental activist. 

Halla, dans la cinquantaine, déclare la guerre à l’industrie locale de l’aluminium, qui défigure son pays. Elle prend tous les risques pour protéger les Hautes Terres d’Islande

Country/pays : Iceland - Islande

Director/réalisateur : Benedikt Erlingsson

Cast/en vedette : Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Juan Camillo Roman Estrada

Our 2019- 2020 screening dates will be:

le mercredi 9 octobre 2019

October 9, 2019

A Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to gather before she dies.

Billi, jeune femme Sino-Américaine, retourne en Chine lorsque sa grand-mère est atteinte d'une maladie incurable. 

Country/pays : United States – États-Unis

Director/réalisateur : Lulu Wang

Distributor/distributeur : WS Films

Genre/genre : Comedy, Drama – comédie dramatique

Language/langue : Mandarin, English, Japanese, Italian – mandarin, anglais, japonais, italien

Duration/durée :  100 minutes

Cast/en vedette : Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin

le mercredi 13 novembre 2019

November 13, 2019

A Kurdish female battalion , with an embedded French reporter, prepares to take back their town from extremists.

Au Kurdistan, une reporter française est incorporée dans un bataillon entièrement composé d'anciennes captives de soldats de Daesch.

Country/pays : France, Belgium, Georgia, Switzerland – France, Belgique, Géorgie , Suisse

Director/réalisateur : Eva Husson

Distributor/distributeur : Cohen Media Group

Genre/genre : Drama, War – drame, guerre

Language/langue : French, English, Arabic, Kurdish – français, anglais, arabe, kurde

Duration/durée :  115 minutes

Cast/en vedette : Golshifteh Farahani, Emmanuelle Berot, Zübeyde Bulut

January 22, 2020

le 22 janvier 2020 

PARASITE

All unemployed, Ki-taek and his family take particular interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks.

Feb 12, 2020  le 12 février, 2020 

Il pleuvait des oiseaux 

AND THE BIRDS RAINED DOWN

Our next regular screening is today

with special guests director Jeremy Lalonde and actor Jonas Chernick

11 March, 2020

le 11 mars, 2020

JAMES VS. HIS FUTURE SELF

When an uptight time-travelling obsessed young scientist is visited by his nihilistic future self, he's told that he needs to give up his dream of becoming the world's first time traveler, or else. But when he won't go along with the plan, it becomes a wicked battle of man versus himself - literally.

Un scientifique qui recherche des voyages dans le temps dont la vie est bouleversée lorsqu’il se voit 17 ans plus âgé et il est donc forcé d’arrêter.

Country/pays: Canada
Director/réalisateur: Jeremy LaLonde
Distributor/distributeur: Raven Banner
Genre/genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi – comédie, science fiction
Language/langue: English / anglais
Duration/durée: 94 minutes
Cast/en vedette: Jonas Chernick, Daniel Stern, Cleopatra Coleman
Filming Locations: Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

 

Previous Films:

Our First film of 2022 was

Fire of Love

 

2022 · Documentary · 

In a bond forged over mutual fascination (or obsession) with the mysteries of volcanoes, Katia and Maurice Krafft dedicated their lives to discovering everything they could about these natural phenomena. 

by Jordan Raup 

On Wednesday October 12 we screened

 Delicieux

France, 1789.  When Pierre, a talented cooker loses his taste for cooking, his meeting with the mysterious Louise gets him back on his feet. 

Pierre Manceron, cuisinier audacieux mais orgueilleux, est limogé par son maître. La rencontre d’une femme étonnante lui redonne confiance et le pousse à s’émanciper. 

Filmed in France and Belgium

Director

Éric Besnard

www.youtube.com › watchDelicious Trailer #1 (2021) | Movieclips Indie - YouTube

November 9

Nowhere Special

When John, a thirty-five-year-old window cleaner, is given only a few months to live, he attempts to find a new, perfect family for his three-year-old son,Lorsque John découvre qu’il ne lui reste que quelques mois à vivre, il décide de partir, en compagnie de son fils de trois ans, à la recherche d’une nouvelle famille pour prendre soin de lui.

Director
Uberto Pasolini
February 1: Rosie

An orphaned Indigenous girl is forced to live with her reluctant, street-smart, francophone aunty and her two gender-bending best friends in 80's Montreal.  Rosie is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Gail Maurice and released in 2022. 

Country: Canada

 Languages: English, French, Cree

Director/writer Gail Maurice 
Stars
Melanie Bray
Keris Hope Hill
Constant Bernard

Presque   (A Beautiful Mind) February 8

Deux hommes prennent la route, de Lausanne vers le sud de la France, dans un corbillard.

  Two men, with vastly different life stories and personalities, embark on a hearse heading to the south of France. Country:France, Switzerland

Genre: Comedy

Language: French

Directors Bernard Campan Alexandre Jollien

Stars
Bernard Campan Alexandre Jollien Tiphaine Daviot

Runtime:1 hour 32 minutes

Living  (Vivre)   March 8: Living

In 1950's London, a humourless civil servant takes time off to experience life after a grim diagnosis.

 

1953. Londres panse encore ses plaies après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. 

Oliver Hermanus

Writers
Kazuo Ishiguro Akira Kurosawa(original screenplay)

Stars
Bill Nighy Aimee Lou Wood Alex Sharp

Runtime: 1 hour 42 minutes 

 

 

 Emily  April 12

EMILY imagines Emily Brontë's own Gothic story that inspired her seminal novel, 'Wuthering Heights.' 

Emily Brontë demeure l’une des autrices les plus célèbres au monde. 

 Country: United Kingdom

Directed by	Frances O'Connor
Starring	Emma Mackey Fionn Whitehead

 Run time 2 hours 10 minutes

 

 

 

2012

-Monsieur Lazhar

-Le Vendeur

-Starbuck

 2014

-Gabielle 

-Le Passé 

-Louis Cyr