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Nash the Slash Rises Again!

Nash The Slash was deliciously surreal, verging on demented. A mummy wrapped in surgical bandages, an invisible man in full formal white tuxedo and top hat buzz-sawing his violin through endless reams of electronics, melodies and distortion. His music and image were demanding. His life was rock fantasy. ‘NASH THE SLASH RISES AGAIN!’ uncovers the sinister Canadian electronic music innovator. A classically trained violinist and multi-instrumentalist, he created music that was an unlikely combination of prog-rock, punk-rock, classic-rock, psychedelic fused with techno and industrial before they had names. The end result is an unearthly life drenched in film history, enveloped in a wall of sound that would do Phil Spector justice. A career embodied in artistic integrity, courage and the price-tag that comes with it. ‘NASH THE SLASH RISES AGAIN!’ unwinds the bandages of a ground-breaking, mad musical scientist whose career decomposed before the world caught up.

Nash the Slash Rises Again!

0.0 2025
Butterfly on a Wheel

Set against the backdrop of Toronto’s vibrant and urban landscape, Butterfly on a Wheel follows Jacen Davis (Curran Walters) as a gifted young musician struggling to keep up with daily life due to his OCD and anxiety. Studying jazz at the prestigious Royal Conservatory of Music, Jacen hopes to one day conquer his fears and perform to a live audience at the illustrious Koerner Hall. While playing alone one afternoon, a chance encounter with fellow student Sorrel (Brielle Robillard) sets in motion a transformative journey that will shape Jacen’s perception of the world around him, and with the support of his brother Dylan (Michael Provost), hopes to re-discover his most authentic self.

Butterfly on a Wheel

3.0 2025
Patrice Michaud: Dernière escale d’un grand voyage désorganisé

With the magic of Loulou (Louise Deschâtelets), Patrice Michaud realizes his dream of temporarily returning to the past. It is with pride and swaying hips that he slips into the universe of the 1970s to 1990s! Accompanied by his musicians, Patrice Michaud invites us on his visual and sound journey where the funk, pop and rock rhythms of his songs intertwine. 1980s icon Martine St-Clair takes part in the journey and "ouh, stop, un instant", we capture a moment from the 1990s with Gabrielle Shonk. A great, colorful escape where pleasure abounds!

Patrice Michaud: Dernière escale d’un grand voyage désorganisé

0.0 2025
Door Prize

Mars Brito, a trans bike courier, is killed by an SUV. Is he the victim of an accidental 'door prize', or is this murder? His case becomes a city-wide obsession, with hourly true crime updates and rewards for clues. While this murder mystery unfolds, a Toronto trans activist (also named Mars) works with his friends on an operatic memorial, creating arias for each of the 375 trans murders that were committed around the world that year. Door Prize weaves together documentary, drama, and opera scenes into a hybrid film that explores issues of media spectacle, solidarity violence, trans visibility, and anti-trans violence.

Door Prize

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Flore Laurentienne: The End and the Beginning

Reveals Mathieu David Gagnon's musical project through a hypnotic concert filmed in the Saint-Pacôme church in Kamouraska. Neither entirely documentary nor pure performance, the film reveals a discreet artist and music played in all its fragility, carried by a dozen classical musicians. Between live sequences and stolen moments, the river becomes a mirror, and the landscapes, visual echoes of a music deeply rooted in its territory. A sober immersion in a work that slows down time.

Flore Laurentienne: The End and the Beginning

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HighStrung

HighStrung follows Alex, a young guitarist with stage fright, as he arrives for an audition that could change his life. Nervous but determined, he discovers his guitar emits a mysterious glow and an eerie thrumming sound. During his audition, one of the judges and the leader of the band, Blake, quickly loses interest, leaving Alex discouraged. However, after the rejection, he plays a song to himself in the waiting room, unaware of how his guitar’s glow intensified around him, drawing the attention of both Blake and Cassidy, who is the band's drummer and the second judge. As they realize their instruments share the same supernatural energy, Blake, now impressed, offers Alex a spot in the band, as they realize each other's creative potential.

HighStrung

0.0 2025
Les Cowboys Fringants - Québec 2023

Les Cowboys Fringants as you've never seen them before! (Re)live the magical atmosphere of one of the band's shows, as if you were on stage with them. Twenty years after Les Cowboys Fringants' historic recording at the Bell Centre in 2003, which marked the end of their exceptional Break syndical tour, the band did it again in January 2023 with a concert filmed at the Videotron Centre during their Les Antipodes tour, which broke all attendance and ticket sales records. Les Cowboys Fringants are no strangers to large-scale concerts, having repeatedly filled the Bell Centre and Videotron Centre to capacity, as well as dozens of arenas in French-speaking Europe. With a festive crowd, an incomparable connection with the audience, visibly moved fans, breathtaking cinematic images, and the band's greatest hits, this new recording is reminiscent of historic rock concert films!

Les Cowboys Fringants - Québec 2023

0.0 2025
The Musical Republic of Western Canada

The Musical Republic Of Western Canada is a lovingly crafted tip of the chapeau not only to the artists of the Canadian Prairies, but to the land itself. The long, green and gold fields. The stark, short brush of the coulees. The bigger-than-heaven-itself skies and endless sunsets. The animals and ephemera that populate these prairie highways. From a land that pulses and breathes, Little Jack’s The Musical Republic Of Western Canada is as much a love letter to a place as it is to the music born here, a place where the beauty is revealed with time, and the patience of a long drive across the plains.

The Musical Republic of Western Canada

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Bella Sutra

Bella Sutra is a live cinematic performance about the messes we make as people, as a society, as families, and as humans. An honest and deeply personal essay about life as an innkeeper in Bella Coola, a remote mountain village in British Columbia, the film reflects on our current communication crisis, the rural/urban philosophical divide, and the myth of progress. A deeply personal essay on hand-developed 16mm films, this screening is accompanied by a live soundtrack and narration.

Bella Sutra

0.0 2025