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Film POP Archive

2025

  • Slingshot Hip Hop (dir. by Jacqueline Reem Salloum, 2008) at the Concordia Theatre
  • SPACE IS THE PLACE (dir. by John Coney, screenplay by Sun Ra, 1974) at Cinéma Moderne presented by PHI 
  • Köln 75 (Dir. by Ido Fluk, 2025) at Cinéma Moderne, co-presented by Le Goethe-Institute
  • Bouscueil (Dir. by Thomy Laporte, 2023) at Cinéma Public, co-presented by Cinéma Public
  • Flore Laurentienne, La Fin et Le Commencement (Dir. by Guillaume Monette, 2025) at Cinéma Public, co-presented by Paraloeil
  • Monk In Pieces (Dir. by Billy Shebar, 2025) at Cinéma Public, co-presented by   Cinéma Public
  • Dancer in the Dark (Dir. by Lars von Trier, 2000) at Cinéma Moderne

2024

  • Adrianne & The Castle (dir. by Shannon Walsh, 2023) at Cinéma Moderne

Québec premieres:

  • Teaches of Peaches (dir. by Philipp Fussenegger and Judy Landkammer, 2024) at Cinéma Moderne, co-presented by Le Goethe-Institute
  • Lyd (dir. by Rami Younis and Sarah Ema Friedland, 2023) at Cinéma Moderne, co-presented by Regards Palestiniens
  • La cancha (dir. by Mustafa Uzuner , 2023) at Cinéma Moderne, co-presented by Les RIDM

Preceded by:

    • Outside Center (dir. by Eli Jean Tahchi, 2023) at Cinéma Moderne
  • On the Go (dir. by Julia de Castro and María Gisèle Royo, 2023) at Cinéma Moderne co-presented by image+nation

Preceded by:

    • The Archive: Queer Nigerians (dir. by Simisolaoluwa Akande, 2023) at Cinéma Moderne

Canadian Premieres:

  • Bam Bam: The Sister Nancy Story (dir. by Alison Duke, 2024) at Cinéma Moderne
  • Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird (dir. by Nicolas Jack Davies, 2023) at Cinéma Moderne, Co-presented by Le Festival du Nouveau Cinéma

Special events: POP Music Video Showcase

  • As We Speak: Rap Music on Trial (dir. by J.M. Harper, 2024) at Cinéma Moderne
  • Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story (dir. by Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee, 2024) at Cinéma Moderne
  • Problems of Leisure (dir. by Ilana Harris-Babou, 2024) at Cinéma Moderne Presented by La Fondation PHI pour l’art contemporain
  • La cancha: projection en plein air au Parc de la Petite-Italie (dir. by Mustafa Uzuner, 2023) at Parc de la Petite-Italie

2023

  • Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones) (dir. by Kaveh Nabatian, 2022) at Cinéma Moderne
  • Old Joy (dir. by Kelly Reichardt, 2006) at Cinéma Moderne
  • Nouvelle Personne (dir. by Vincent Bonin-Arena, 2022) at Cinéma Moderne

Québec premieres:

  • North Circular (dir. by Luke McManus, 2022) at Cinéma Moderne
  • Even Hell has its Heroes (dir. by Clyde Peterson, 2023) at Cinéma Moderne. Co presented by Main Film

Canadian Premieres:

  • Mafifa (dir. by Daniela Muñoz Barroso, 2021) at Cinéma Moderne co-presented by RIDM

Précédé par / preceded by: El sueño de la razón (dir. by. Alina Mădălina Herța, 2023) at Cinéma Moderne 

  • The Tuba Thieves (dir. by Alison O’Daniel, 2023) at Cinéma Moderne 

Special events: 

The PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art presents Fictional Revolutionary Leaders

  • Popsicles (dir. by Gloria Camiruaga, 1984) at Cinéma Moderne
  • Oriana (dir. by Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, 2022) at Cinéma Moderne, première québécoise

Vidéographe special program co-presented by Vidéographe at Cinéma Moderne

  • Le rêve d’Ida (dir. by Frédéric Dallaire, 2019)
  • Lucina Annulata (dir. by Charlotte Clermont, 2021)
  • La noirceur souterraine des racines (dir. by Charles-André Coderre, 2022)
  • The Fourfold (dir. by Alisi Telengut, 2020)
  • La Aguja y el Tambor (dir. by Andrés Solís Barrios, 2020)
  • Kauaʻi ʻōʻō (dir. by Samy Benammar, 2023)

2022

  • The Offenders  (dir. by Beth B, Scott B, 1980) at Cinéma Moderne co-presented by Fantasia
  • Mija  (dir. by Isabel Castro, 2022) at Cinéma Moderne co-presented by Hot-Docs
  • Alma’s Rainbow  (dir. by Ayoka Chenzira, 1994) at Cinéma Moderne co-presented by FNC

Québec premieres:

  • Getting it Back: The Story of Cymande  (dir. by Tim MacKenzie-Smith, 2022) at Cinéma Moderne 
  • Nothing Compares (dir. by Kathryn Ferguson, 2022) at Cinéma Moderne co-presented by RIDM
  • Cesária Évora (dir. by Ana Sofia Fonseca, 2022) at Cinéma Moderne 
  • Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On (dir. by Madison Thomas, 2022) at Cinéma Moderne 

Canadian Premieres:

  • In the Court of the Crimson King (dir. by Tim MacKenzie-Smith, 2022) at Cinéma Moderne 

Double Bill: Co-presented by Cinemania and POP Symposium

  • Calliari, QC (dir. by Anita Aloisio, 2022) 
  • For Real  (dir. by Ugo Mangin, 2022) 

Special events: 

The PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art presents RASSEMBLEUR: a film program based on the power of gathering, in moments or in protest. The selection of works presented in RASSEMBLEUR navigate power structures historically, through archives, performance documentation, as well as contemporary art videos.

  • Stand By Your Men  (dir. by Rolls Rice, 2021) 
  • Kusama’s Self-Obliteration  (dir. by Jud Yalkut, 1967) 
  • Colossal Keepsake (dir. by Peter Hentschel et William Richardson, 1969) 
  • Flower (dir. by Takahiko limura, 1968-1969) 
  • JUCK [Thrust] (dir. by Olivia Kaste-bring, 2018)

2021

  • Disintegration Loops (dir. by David Wexler, 2021) at Cinéma Moderne, co-presented with Heavy Trip

Screens with:

    • Patrick (dir. by Luke Fowler, 2020) at Cinéma Moderne
  • Fanny: The Right To Rock (dir. by Bobbi Jo Hart, 2021) at Cinéma Moderne, co-presented by Rock Camp Montréal
  • A Symphony of Noise (dir. by Enrique Sánchez Lansch, 2021) at Cinéma Moderne, co-presented by MUTEK

Screens with:

    • Bell Tower of False Creek (dir. by Randolph Jordan, 2017) at Cinéma Moderne
  • J’ai Été Au Bal (dir. by Les Blank, Chris Strachwitz, Maureen Gosling, 1989) at Cinéma Moderne, co-presented by Black Theatre Workshop
  • Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over (dir. by Beth B, 2019) at Cinéma Moderne, co-presented by Black Theatre Workshop
  • Belly (dir. by Hype Williams, 1998) at Cinéma Moderne, co-presented by Festival du nouveau cinéma
  • Soy Cubana (dir. by Jeremy Ungar, Ivaylo Getov, 1998) at Cinéma Moderne, co-presented by Hot Docs
  • Jeremy (dir. by Arthur Barron, 1973) at Cinéma Moderne
  • Karen Dalton: In My Own Time (dir. by Richard Peete and Robert Yapkowitz, 2020) at Cinéma Moderne, co-presented by RIDM

Double Bill: Co-presented by  Cinemania

  • House Music (dir. by Kaveh Nabatian, 2021) at Cinéma Moderne
  • La vie d'artiste (dir. by Frédérique Bérubé, 2021) at Cinéma Moderne

Special events: Yesterday, Thinking of Tomorrow co-presented by the PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art at Cinéma Moderne

Program:

  • Dispatches from the Feminine Utopia  (dir. by Gillian Dykeman, 2016) 
  • Moon  (dir. by Gillian Dykeman, 2016) 
  • Finding Fanon Trilogy Part One   (dir. by Larry Achiampong and David Blandy, 2015) 
  • Finding Fanon Trilogy Part Two    (dir. by Larry Achiampong and David Blandy, 2015) 
  • Finding Fanon Trilogy Part Three (dir. by Larry Achiampong and David Blandy, 2015) 

Guest curated by Victoria Carrasco, PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art

2020

  • Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly Glen Copeland Story (dir. by Posy Dixon, 2020) at Cinéma Moderne, co-presented with Image + Nation
  • Lisbon Beat (dir. By Rita Maia and Vasco Viana, 2019) at Cinéma Moderne, co-presented by RIDM
  • The Pop Movie (dir. by Andi State, 2020) at Cinéma Moderne
  • Pascal Lièvre: Not Your Same Old Songs (Curated selection of music videos by French artist Pascal Lièvre) at Cinéma Moderne, presented by Film Pop, Art Pop, and Vidéographe 
  • No Smoking (dir. by Sado Taketoshi, 2019) at Cinéma Moderne, co-presented by La Fondation du Japon
  • The Cuban (dir. by Sergio Navarretta, 2019) at Cinéma Moderne, co-presented by Le Toronto Latin American Film Festival
  • Other, Like Me (dir. by Marcus Werner Hed and Dan Fox, 2020) at Cinéma Moderne, co-presented by Le festival du nouveau cinéma
  • Crestone (dir. by Marnie Ellen Hertzler, 2020) at Cinéma Moderne

Special event: We Are Our Subcultures co-presented by the PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art at Cinéma Moderne

Program:

  • Estás Vendo Coisas / You are Seeing Things  (dir. by Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca, 2017) 
  • Wildness  (dir. by Wu Tsang, 2012) 
  • I’m No Longer Here (Sur Netflix)  (dir. by Fernando Frias, 2019)

2019

  • Who Let the Dogs Out (dir. by Brent Hodge, 2019) at Cinéma Moderne

Screens with:

    • L’assaillant (dir. by Olivier D. Asselin, 2019) at Cinéma Moderne
  • YT // ST x NFB (Yamantaka // Sonic Titan program a selection of short films from the National Film Board of Canada) at Cinéma Moderne, co-presented by Cinéma Politica
  • Swimming to Cambodia (dir. by Jonathan Demme, 1987) at Cinéma Moderne co presented by Hot Docs
  • Una Banda de Chicas (dir. by Marilina Giménez, 2018) at Cinéma Moderne, co-presented by Rock Camp for Girls and Gender Non-conforming Youth
  • The Lost Tapes du Hip hop au Québec (dir. by Will Prosper, 2016) at Cinéma Moderne, co-presented by Pop Symposium and Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma
  • Other Music (dir. by Puloma Basu and Rob Hatch Miller, 2019) at Cinéma Moderne

Screens with:

    • Rêve sur la Plaza (dir. by Camille de Beaubi, 2019) at Cinéma Moderne co-presented by Aux 33 Tours
  • Rock ‘n’ Roll High School – 40th Anniversary Screening! (dir. by Allan Arkush and Joe Dante, 1979) at Cinéma Moderne, co-presented by Le festival du nouveau cinéma
  • As Told to G/D Thyself (dir. by Kamasi Washington, Bradford Young, Terence Nance, Jenn Nkiru, and Marc Thomas 2019) at Cinéma Moderne
  • Devil’s Pie: D’Angelo (dir. by Allan Arkush and Joe Dante, 2019) at Cinéma Moderne, co-presented by Le festival du nouveau cinéma
  • Berlin Bouncer (dir. by David Dietl, 2019) at Cinéma Moderne, co-presented by Le Goethe-Institut
  • The Juniper Tree (dir. by Nietzchka Keene, 1990) at Cinéma Moderne, co-presented by the Icelandic Canadian Club of Toronto
  • Cool Daddio: The Second Youth of R. Stevie Moore (dir. by Imogen Putler and Monika Baran, 2019) at Cinéma Moderne, co-presented by Duplication.ca

Double Bill: Co-presented by RIDM

  • Second Summer of Love: Black to Techno (dir. by Jenn Nkiru, 2019) at Cinéma Moderne
  • Second Summer of Love: Everybody in the Place (dir. by Jeremy Deller, 2019) at Cinéma Moderne

Special event: Tonal/Atonal: A program of video works by Tony Cokes (Guest curated by Cheryl Sim, the PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art) co-presented by the PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art at Cinéma Moderne

2018

• Bad Reputation (dir. Kevin Kerslake, 2018) at Cinéma Moderne • No Address and Mother of Many Children (dir. Alanis Obomsawin, 1977) • Socalled’s Porn POP’s premiere of The House Sitter (dir. Joshua Dolgin, 2018) • The Last Days of Disco (dir. Whit Stillman, 1998) • 30th Anniversary Screening of Salsa (dir. Boaz Davidson, 1988) at Cinéma Moderne • Empire Records (dir. Allan Moyle, 1995) • Film POP’s tribute to The Fall’s Mark E. Smith (1958- 2018) Hail the New Puritan (Charles Atlas, 1987) • Silvana (dir. Mika Gustafson, Olivia Kastebring, Christina Tsiobanelis, 2017) at Cinéma Moderne • A Magical Substance Flows Into Me (dir. Jumana Manna, 2015) at Cinéma Moderne • Chilly Gonzalez’s Premiere of Shut Up and Play the Piano (dir. Philipp Jedicke, 2018)

2017

• World Premiere of Mitchell Stafiej’s A (2017) and after party with musical performances by cast members Alex Zhang Hungtai (ex-Dirty Beaches), Petra Glynt, Bernardino Femminielli, Caro Diaro and Alexis O’Hara !
• RZA: Live From the 36th Chamber of Shaolin – a live score of the 1978 kung fu classic performed by the RZA himself at the historic Rialto Theatre!
• Canadian Premiere of How to Talk to Girls at Parties(2017), the latest feature film by cult director John Cameron Mitchell
• Canadian Premiere, in the presence of the director, of the documentary On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone (2017)
• Screening of controversial Sundance entry, Kuso (2017), the directorial debut by Flying Lotus!

2016

Canadian premiere:
• Fonko (dir. Göran Hugo Olsson, Daniel Jadam & Lars Lovén, 2016)
Québec premieres:
• Contemporary Color (dir. Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross, 2016) as part of the “David Byrne: ’86-’16” program
• Kiki (dir. Sara Jordenö, 2016)
• I Called Him Morgan (dir. Kasper Collin, 2016)
• Frank & The Wondercat (dir. Tony Massil & Pablo Alvarez-Mesa) w/ director Alvarez-Mesa in attendance
Special events:
• 30th Anniversary screening of True Stories (dir. David Byrne, 1986) on 35mm as part of the “David Byrne: ’86-’16” program.
• 20th Anniversary screening Space Jam (dir. Joe Pytka, 1996) at the McGill University Gym
• Screening of the restored Multiple Maniacs (dir. John Waters, 1970)

2015

Canadian premieres:
• Playback (2012) and The Cockpit (2014) with director Sho Miyake in attendance
Quebec premieres:
• The Reflektor Tapes (dir. Kahlil Joseph) in collaboration with Arcade Fire, also in attendance
• Restored version of A Poem is a Naked Person (dir. Les Blank, 1974/2015)
Special events:
• Midnight 20th Anniversary screening of Showgirls (dir. Paul Verhoeven, 1995) at Cinéma L’Amour

2014

Canadian premiere:
• Nas : Time is Illmatic (dir. One9)
Quebec premieres:
• Whiplash (dir. Damien Chazelle)
• Listen Up, Philip (Alex Ross Perry)

2013

Canadian premieres:
• Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker with director Lily Keber in attendance
• Strutter with director Allison Anders in attendance
Regional premiere:
• A Band Called Death (dir. Mark Christopher Covino and Jeff Howlett)
Special events:
• PFFR: Legacy 2112 with John Lee in person
• Hack Your Own EVP Generator with Ruby Kato Atwood

2012

World premieres: • Sweet Nothing with director Andi State in attendance
• The Auroratone Project: New Frontiers in Psychiatric Cinema (dir. various)
Regional premiere:
• Searching for Sugarman (2012 Oscar-winner, dir. Malik Bendjelloul)
Special screenings:
• Richard Donner’s The Omen in the Church of St-John the Evangelist
• Jerzy Skolimowski’s Deep End with audience in a pool

2011

Canadian premiere:
• PJ Harvey: Let England Shake (dir. Seamus Murphy)
Regional premiere:
• Bloodied But Unbowed with director Susanne Tabata and DOA’s Randy Rampage in person
Special event:
• Illustration exhibit by Rudimentary Peni’s Nick Blinko

2010

World premiere:
• Feist documentary, Look At What the Light Did Now with director Anthony Seck in person.
Special screening:
• Rooftop viewing of Up The Yangtzee documentary (dir. Yung Chang)

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