The Twentieth Century
Giants, fairies, magicians, ghosts, dragons, and monsters of all kinds… Here’s what your Cinémathèque has in store this summer! Since Méliès, filmmakers have embraced the fanstastic potential of cinema, creating infinite phantasmagorias and extraordinary spectacles where the unreal becomes real. Step into a world of fantasy and boundless imagination: whatever your generation, the monsters and wonders that once filled your childhood dreams are back this summer 2025!
Preceded by the filmmaker's short film, Tabula Rasa
Winner of four Prix Iris and three Canadian Screen Awards in 2020
Fernand, completely lifeless, survives on his armchair in the ruins of the 1950 Manitoba flood.
On the dawn of the 20th century, a young William Lyon Mackenzie King negotiates the obstacles on his path on the way to becoming prime minister of his beloved Canada. Then there’s the private life of the statesman, dominated by a rabid cross-dressing mother and torn romantically between a kind Quebec nurse and a female British soldier with heroic ambitions. Not to mention some quirky little fetishes...
Matthew Rankin
Matthew Rankin was born in Winnipeg and studied history at McGill and Université Laval. He is the director of some 40 short films and two features which have been variously presented at Sundance, SXSW, Annecy, TIFF, the Berlinale, Cannes Critics Week and Directors Fortinight and on the Criterion Channel. His first feature, The Twentieth Century, was awarded the FIPRESCI prize of the international film critics at the 2020 Berlin International Film Festival and the 2019 Best First Canadian Feature Award at TIFF. Universal Language, winner of the inaugural People's Choice Award at the 2024 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, is Matthew's second feature. He lives in Montréal.
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Photo: Aziz Zoromba
