For more than 50 years, the FNC has been making national and international auteur cinema accessible, treating audiences to works of diversity and originality by emerging and major filmmakers.
Our focus on the NEW is threefold : new creators, new approaches and new technologies. Dean of Canadian film festivals and a major Quebec event, the FNC presents over 200 works from 60 different countries to celebrate the best of today’s cinema!
The 6th Vietnamese Cultural Weeks are proud to support the presentation of two young Vietnamese filmmakers.
Viet and Nam by Truong Minh Quy
Screened at FNC on October 10 at 8:45pm at Cineplex Quartier Latin and on October 14 at 3:15pm at Cinéma du Parc
Queer romance in the depths of Vietnam’s coal mines and memories. Past, present, dreams and magic.
Viet and Nam work in the depths of the coal mines. Out of sight, in the soot-covered tunnels, they become feverish lovers. Nam, however, wants to emigrate clandestinely and make a new life elsewhere. But before he can leave, he must help his mother, who insists on finding the remains of her husband, a soldier killed in action… Delving into Vietnam’s troubled and complex history through the prism of memories from the past and premonitory dreams, this queer love story joins Pham Ngoc Lân’s Cu Li Never Cries in the festival’s International Competition to confirm the emergence of a magical, formally audacious new Vietnamese cinema.
Cu Li Never Cries – Pham Ngoc Lân
Screened at FNC on October 12 at 6pm at Cineplex Quartier Latin and on October 14 at 6pm at Cinéma du Parc
A widow, her niece, a magical little primate. Contemporary Vietnam crossed by ghosts in sparkling black and white.
Mme Nguyên was once part of the Vietnamese labor force sent abroad. With East Germany now a thing of the past, she returns home with her husband’s ashes and a small primate, a slow pygmy loris. The adorable animal gazes with huge eyes at Van, the widow’s young niece and secretly pregnant bride-to-be. Vietnam of yesterday and today, illusions and dreams, ideals and utopias: this contemplative, poetic but also amusingly eccentric first feature unfolds in sumptuous black and white. It traces both the nostalgic journey of one woman and the destiny in the making of another, under the aegis of a small, almost magical creature. Winner of the Best First Film award at Berlinale 2024.
Program details are available on: nouveaucinema.ca