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SFFS educates, entertains and enriches a wide and diverse range of audiences with programs and events in four core areas: Internationalism, Education, Citywide Outreach and Exploring New Media.
December 5
SF360 FILM+CLUB
9:00 pm Mike Relm and Peanut Butter Wolf
Sure to be a frenetic night of visual and musical bliss, SF360 Film+Club features renowned audio/visualists Mike Relm and Peanut Butter Wolf with live VJ sets.
December 8
SFFS FILM ARTS FORUM
7:00 pm Sundance Confidential
Film Arts Forum: Sundance Confidential—an entire conference in a single evening—will explore and demystify independent filmmaking’s premier event, the Sundance Film Festival.
December 10
QUEBEC FILM WEEK
6:15 Missing Victor Pellerin
Québécois artist Victor Pellerin reclaimed all of his paintings, set them aflame and disappeared. This genre-busting hybrid follows a group of aging bohemians preparing an exhibition of Pellerin’s absent work.
8:00–10:00 pm OPENING NIGHT PARTY
Celebrate Quebec Film Week! A limited number of tickets is available to an exclusive reception with complimentary wine and appetizers from 8:00–10:00 pm at Shima Sushi, located near the Opera Plaza Cinema. Stop by either after the screening of Missing Victor Pellerin or before Mommy Is at the Hairdresser’s, or drop in between the two films and make a night of it. Directors and cast members are expected to attend.
9:00 pm Mommy Is at the Hairdresser’s
A vivid film about familial dysfunction in suburban Montreal, Léa Pool’s latest charmer delves deeply into Québécois family life in the late 1960s.
December 11
QUEBEC FILM WEEK
6:15 pm Continental, a Film Without Guns
Stéphane Lafleur’s debut feature—a meditation on modern loneliness and loss—follows a collection of tragic characters and depicts their aimless attempts at connection.
9:00 pm The Fight
Plunging deep into a beleaguered Montreal neighborhood, this audacious film tells the story of a willful 12-year-old who is being prematurely forced to leave childhood behind.
December 12
QUEBEC FILM WEEK
4:00 pm The Age of Ignorance
Evoking a dystopian, near-future Montreal, Denys Arcand’s The Age of Ignorance is a wry evocation of a melancholy future and one man’s endeavor to find his true self.
3:30 pm The Last Continent
Filmmaker and marine biologist Jean Lemire leads an intense 430-day expedition to Antarctica in this resonant documentary about a group of scientists investigating the effects of climate change.
6:15 pm Borderline
Isabelle Blais turns in a fearless performance as a woman trying to write her Master’s thesis while dealing with a history of various addictions, self-abuse and childhood trauma.
December 13
QUEBEC FILM WEEK
1:30 pm Missing Victor Pellerin
Québécois artist Victor Pellerin reclaimed all of his paintings, set them aflame and disappeared. This genre-busting hybrid follows a group of aging bohemians preparing an exhibition of Pellerin’s absent work.
4:15 pm Mommy Is at the Hairdresser’s
A vivid film about familial dysfunction in suburban Montreal, Léa Pool’s latest charmer delves deeply into Québécois family life in the late 1960s.
6:30 pm The Fight
Plunging deep into a beleaguered Montreal neighborhoods this audacious film tells the story of a willful 12-year-old who is being prematurely forced to leave childhood behind.
9:00 pm Continental, a Film Without Guns
Stéphane Lafleur’s debut feature—a meditation on modern loneliness and loss—follows a collection tragic characters and depicts their aimless attempts at connection.
December 14
QUEBEC FILM WEEK
1:15 pm Mon Oncle Antoine
Long heralded as a stellar example of Québecois cinema, this 1971 gem looks at various denizens of a small northern town in the 1940s.
3:30 pm The Last Continent
Filmmaker and marine biologist Jean Lemire leads an intense 430-day expedition to Antarctica in this resonant documentary about a group of scientists investigating the effects of climate change.
6:15 pm Borderline
Isabelle Blais turns in a fearless performance as a woman trying to write her Master’s thesis while dealing with a history of various addictions, self-abuse and childhood trauma.
9:00 pm The Age of Ignorance
Evoking a dystopian, near-future Montreal, Denys Arcand’s The Age of Ignorance is a wry evocation of a melancholy future and one man’s endeavor to find his true self.
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