MONTREAL PROGRAM 2023

Day 1 | Saturday June 3, 2023

6:00pm

THE SONS OF THE LORD

DR. HAFNAOUI is a medical examiner who falsifies autopsy records every time he is ordered to do so by an organization whose power is extended! One day, by chance, the code received relates to a person so close to him. Surprise, astonishment, emotions, the discovery of the body which is in his hands pushes him to question!! What a life ? What future ? What values? What fate! TO FOLLOW because fate is sometimes a fatality!

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  • 108 min
  • Concordia University - Henry F. Hall Bld - 1455 Maisonneuve O. Montreal

Day 2 | Sunday June 4, 2023

8:00pm

LES CEDRES DU LIBAN

  • Defying preconceptions about the integration of immigrants in Quebec, LES C�?DRES DU LIBAN tells a story of hope, openness to the world and acceptance of others, from icy Quebec to warm Lebanon. We get a close-up look at a double quest: to mitigate the prejudices that exist in Quebec, and to introduce hockey to Lebanon, where our characters are greeted as strange beings.

  • 52 min
  • Cinema Guzzo - 1055 des Laurentides. Laval

Day 2 | Sunday June 4, 2023

8:30pm

RIVERBED

  • Riverbed tells the story of Salma and her returning daughter Thuraya, and their attempt to preserve, maintain and reconstruct their lives with and against each other. Salma survived many years by protecting her independence, she reached her peace through letting go of any attachments. But the past does not let go of Salma and brings back Thuraya, defeated, divorced, and pregnant.

  • 84 min
  • Cinema J.A. De Seve - 1400 Maisonneuve O. Montreal

Day 3 | Monday June 5, 2023

7:00pm

WE ARE OUR MOUNTAINS

  • “We Are Our Mountains” reflects the struggle that the Armenian people continue to wage from their own territory in real trenches and in symbolic trenches from the consolidation of the Armenian diaspora scattered around the world, which expands that battlefield to preserve themselves from the latent danger of a new genocide and cultural extermination.

  • 90 min
  • Cinema Guzzo - 3500 Boulevard Cote Vertu Ouest, Saint-Laurent

Day 3 | Monday June 5, 2023

9:00pm

MORINE

  • The year is 620 A.D., North Lebanon. Living with God is men’s privilege and the most unreachable women’s right. Stubborn as she is, the 20 year-old revolutionary girl breaks the rules and endures all the consequences.

    She would accept, fight and do anything to win her right as a woman to live and serve in the house of God.

  • 115 min
  • Cinema Guzzo - 3500 Boulevard Cote Vertu Ouest, Saint-Laurent

Day 4 | Tuesday June 6, 2023

6:00pm

BLUSH

  • Two strangers stumble upon the other while confronting personal dilemma’s, where, through each other, they see themselves more clearly.

  • 75 min
  • Cinema Public - 505 Jean-Talon E. Montreal

Day 4 | Tuesday June 6, 2023

8:30pm

MOTHER VALLEY

  • Lebanon, 1958. A civil war rages. A young mother and model wife, Layla, spends the summer with her family in a remote village in the Christian mountains. It’s wedding season but her two younger sisters, Eva and Nada, have no desire to follow in Layla’s footsteps by accepting an arranged marriage organized by their father, a broke feudal aristocrat. This summer, an encounter with a French guy and his mother opens Layla’s eyes on her condition as a woman living in a patriarchal society, where female fates are decided by men, fathers, husbands, and even sons. For the first time ever, Layla suddenly stifles.

  • 82 min
  • Cinema J.A. De Seve - 1400 Maisonneuve O. Montreal

Day 5 | Wednesday June 7, 2023

7:00pm

ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME

  • From fame to faith: Can Hady’s spiritual journey lead him to land the role of a lifetime? All Roads Lead to Rome follows the famous actor’s transformative retreat with four nuns and a young woman in Wadi Qannoubin (a world heritage listed village in Northern Lebanon) as he prepares for his decisive casting as the young pope. Will he make it to the audition in time?

  • 90 min
  • Cinema Guzzo - 3500 Boulevard Cote Vertu Ouest, Saint-Laure

Day 6 | Thursday June 8, 2023

8:00pm

MO YAN

  • The documentary Mo Yan explores the literature career of writer Mo Yan, from his rural roots to his Nobel Literature Prize win.

  • 90 min
  • Cinema J.A. De Seve - 1400 Maisonneuve O. Montreal