CINEMANIA remains committed to showcasing emerging francophone cinema as well as the work of established filmmakers. With this in mind, the festival is offering viewers an early look at a selection of new titles this year:

⇢ WORLD PREMIERE
THE STICKY SIDE OF BAKLAVA, Montréal filmmaker Maryanne Zéhil’s first comedy is an affectionate, heartwarming look into Montréal’s Lebanese community, with a cast that includes Claudia Ferri, Jean-Nicolas Verreault, Raïa Haïdar, Geneviève Brouillette, Marcel Sabourin, France Castel and Manuel Tadros.
 

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⇢ WORLD PREMIERE
VACARME is Québécois director Neegan Trudel’s first feature film and stars Sophie Desmarais and Rosalie Pépin as a teenager left in a DPJ group home.


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WORKING GIRLS, directed by Anne Paulicevich and Frédéric Fonteyne and featuring Sara Forestier, Noémie Lvovskyand Annabelle Lengronne, is a sad and touching story about the daily life of three prostitutes.

MY STUPID DOG is a dark and cynical comedy by Yvan Attal starring Charlotte Gainsbourg that portrays with flair the depression of an unproductive novelist.

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NIGHT SHIFT, an intense and emotional ride-along with a French police corps, directed by Anne Fontaine and starring Virginie Efira and Omar Sy that sets out to draw an accurate picture of police work in its most humane dimension. 


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FLASHWOOD, Jean-Carl Boucher’s first ever feature film starring Antoine Desrochers, Pier-Luc Funk and Maxime Desjardins-Tremblay, filmed during several years, is punctuated by profoundly moving sequences.


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SAVAGE STATE, a captivating feminist western directed by David Perrault carried by exceptional actresses: Déborah Francois, Alice Isaaz, Maryse Bertieaux and Kate Moran.



​⇢ ONLINE PASS (ACCESS TO ALL FILMS ONLINE) WILL BE AVAILABLE ON OCTOBER 20 ($65.00)