2nd Montreal Critics’ Week

Founded by the Montreal-based online magazine Panorama-cinéma, the Montreal Critics’ Week returns with a 2nd edition of cinephilic discourse and discovery. The non-competitive festival will showcase new and distinct voices with an emphasis on the thematic, political, and formal ramifications of the chosen works – paired, juxtaposed, or contrasted in ways that encourage inquisitive and curious modes of spectatorship. This edition takes the form of a journey through a succession of landscapes, alternately deserted and fertile: an ambiguous space from which life and invention nevertheless emerge. In a radical inversion of the principles of austerity, it aims to present a lush vision of cinema worthy of the imagination of its artists; a series of films that navigate between liberating dreams and distressing reality, via bodies and minds whose epic and intimate geographies remain to be mapped.