24.04.2025
New collaboration between Le FIFA and the Centre d’art et essai de la Cinémathèque Québécoise
Image from La La End by Chantal Stoman
FIFA and the Centre d’art et essai de la Cinémathèque Québécoise join forces for a series of art and film screenings
The International Festival of Films on Art (Le FIFA) and the Centre d’art et essai de la Cinémathèque québécoise (CAECQ) are pleased to announce a new collaboration that will highlight the dialogue between cinema and the arts. Starting this May, every second Thursday of the month, with a summer break, the public is invited to a series of carefully selected screenings, followed by discussions with artists, filmmakers and cultural players.
This joint program, presented at the Cinémathèque québécoise, aims to provide a space for encounters and reflection on contemporary artistic practices and the issues that run through them. By bringing together outstanding works from FIFA and influential voices from the art world, this initiative aims to nourish the viewer’s gaze and encourage exchanges between disciplines.
“We’re delighted to be working with the CAECQ to create a monthly rendez-vous where art and cinema meet. It’s a unique opportunity to extend the FIFA experience throughout the year in a privileged location, an institution of cinema in Quebec,” says Philippe U. del Drago, General and Artistic Director of Le FIFA.
“Welcome to Le FIFA, with whom we share a common mission and values. We’re delighted with this collaboration, which will allow us to reflect on the impact of art on our societies, as well as showcase documentaries,” says Marie-Christine Picard, Director of Marketing and Business Partnerships at the Cinémathèque Québécoise and Director of Programming at the Centre d’art et essai de la Cinémathèque Québécoise.
The full program of fall screenings and guests will be announced shortly.
LA LA END — Chantal Stoman
(VO — French sub)
Thursday, May 8 2025 — 7pm
Hollywood, the capital of the American dream, long embodied glamour and grandeur: majestic theaters, towering palm trees, golden light, and pastel-colored cars. Today, movie theaters are closing, façades are crumbling, and the homeless sleep atop the stars of Hollywood Blvd. While the media proclaims the decline of this cinematic Mecca, this film sets out to uncover the remnants of a bygone golden age. Through the iconic figure of Marilyn Monroe, a symbol of that era, the camera explores a city in decline, where myth collides with reality. The portrait of a legend becomes, in turn, the portrait of a city in transformation.
ERNEST COLE: LOST AND FOUND — Raoul Peck
Thursday, June 12 2025
South African photographer Ernest Cole was the first to expose the horrors of apartheid to the world. His book House of Bondage, published in 1967 when he was just 27, led him into exile in New York and Europe for the rest of his life, without ever finding his bearings again. Raoul Peck recounts his wanderings, his torments as an artist and his daily anger at the silence or complicity of the Western world in the face of the horrors of the Apartheid regime. He also recounts how, in 2017, 60,000 negatives of his work were discovered in the safe of a Swedish bank.
A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY TO THE PARAJANOV PLANET — Taras Tomenko
Thursday, September 11 2025
Documentary tribute to Sergey Parajanov on the occasion of his 100th birthday. The mix of unique archival documents and surreal puppet scenes blurs the boundaries between imagination and reality.
