National Canadian Film Day: Montréal, Ma Belle

Join us for a free screening of Montréal, Ma Belle, directed by Xiaodan He, preceded by Eitr directed by Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller, for National Canadian Film Day on April 15, 2026 at 7PM at Cineplex Empress Walk.

Both films previously screened at Reel Asian and Montréal, Ma Belle won the RBC Best Canadian Feature Film Award last year.

We will have a Q&A with Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller, moderated by our artistic director, Aram Siu Wai Collier, and will also be giving away two Montréal, Ma Belle posters on that night!

Come enjoy these films on the big screen with an audience during our #CanFilmDay celebration.

Feng Xia (Joan Chen), a 53-year-old Chinese immigrant and mother living in Montreal, has spent her life shaped by duty – to her family, her culture, and a loveless marriage. But when she meets Camille, a spirited young Québécoise, a long-buried desire is awakened. In the balmy and joyful Montreal summer, Feng Xia takes the radical step of choosing herself – embarking on a journey of forbidden love and long-overdue self-discovery. Her awakening becomes a profound reckoning with identity, exile, and the steep cost of liberation.

Grinding away at the inherited family business, Mohamed works tirelessly making sales of knock-off perfume, while living as a knock-off version of his true self.

Wednesday, April 15, 2026
7–10PM
FREE TO ATTEND

Cineplex Empress Walk
5095 Yonge St
North York, ON
M2N 6Z4