ATLANTIQUE – FIN Atlantic International Film Festival

The FIN Atlantic International Film Festival will take place at Cineplex Cinemas Park Lane in Halifax (NS), while FIN Stream will offer a curated program online. Eleven films from France (including co-production) will be presented onsite. The traditional French Gala will occur in Halifax on Tuesday, 21th of September.

Programmes & Tickets

1/ French Gala – Petite Maman by Céline Sciamma

Showtime(s):

21-Sep-2021 07:00 PM | Park Lane: 8

21-Sep-2021 07:30 PM | Park Lane: 7

8-year-old Nelly has just lost her beloved grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother’s childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods where her mom, Marion, used to play and built the treehouse she’s heard so much about. One day her mother abruptly leaves. That’s when Nelly meets a girl her own age in the woods building a treehouse. Her name is Marion.

2/ Titane by Julia Ducournau

Showtime(s) in Halifax:

20-Sep-2021 10:00 PM | Park Lane: 8

21-Sep-2021 10:00 PM | Park Lane: 8

French director Julia Ducournau last took the vampire genre in an entirely new direction of dark and disturbing body-horror revelations with her feature debut Raw (2016). Now with Titane she takes the next step in a full throttle, pedal to the metal fusion of flesh and steel that will take you to the cliff and over. This violent and kinky Cronenbergian thrill ride crashed into Cannes in July winning the coveted Palme d’Or and is now in overdrive to encircle the globe. French cinema has always led the way in pushing the artform in extreme ways and Titane is as extreme as it gets. Buckle Up!

3/ Arthur Rambo by Laurent Cantet

Showtime

21-Sep-2021 02:00 PM | Park Lane: 7

Who is Karim D? Is he the progressive young writer and activist celebrating the release of his first book? Or is he Arthur Rambo, the secret alias used to post hateful racist messages that are unexpectedly revealed to come from his hand?

4/ The Big Hit (Un triomphe) by Emmanuel Courcol

Showtime :

17-Sep-2021 04:30 PM | Park Lane: 7

Etienne runs a theater workshop in a prison, where he brings together a troupe of inmates to stage Beckett’s famous play Waiting for Godot, with surprisingly positive results. But will their last performance together be the biggest hit of them all? Inspired by a true story.

5/ Everything Went Fine (Tout s’est bien passé) by François Ozon

Showtime

19-Sep-2021 06:00 PM | Park Lane: 3

When André, 85, has a stroke, Emmanuèle hurries to her father’s bedside. Sick and half-paralyzed in his hospital bed, he asks Emmanuèle to help him end his life. But how can you honor such a request when it’s your own father?

6/ The Witches of the Orient by Julien Faraut

Showtime

23-Sep-2021 02:00 PM | Park Lane: 7

How does a Japanese women’s volleyball team from the late 1950s become an international sensation, feminist role models, the subject of a wildly popular comic book and a still-influential anime? A group of Osaka textile workers are transformed into a fiercely competitive volleyball team by their astonishingly ruthless coach whose unconventional techniques emphasize speed and aggression. Wonderful archival footage of the women in training and on the court, animated versions of their championship games, and moving interviews with the women today are set to a pulsating electronic score.

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