A Film Screening and Discussion featuring the film Kaïros will be held at the Cinéma du Musée in Montreal, with director Jennifer Alleyn.

After a year of filming abroad, Manu, 39, a once-prominent actor, returns to his hometown and tries to re-enter the industry. Against all odds, he lands a job as a late-night radio host. In the midst of an existential crisis, Manu uses this platform to voice the philosophical questions that plague him late at night. Through his interactions with listeners from all walks of life, his life takes on new meaning.

Follow the latest news about the film on the Kaïros Facebook page.

Find all the information about the special screenings on the Kaïros film website.

A Film Screening and Discussion featuring the film Kaïros will be held at the Cinéma du Musée in Montreal, with director Jennifer Alleyn, Emmanuel Schwartz, and Olivia Palacci in attendance. The screening will be followed by a reception.

After a year of filming abroad, Manu, 39, a once-prominent actor, returns to his hometown and tries to re-enter the industry. Against all odds, he lands a job as a late-night radio host. In the midst of an existential crisis, Manu uses this platform to voice the philosophical questions that plague him late at night. Through his interactions with listeners from all walks of life, his life takes on new meaning.

Follow the latest news about the film on the Kaïros Facebook page.

Find all the information about the special screenings on the Kaïros film website.

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Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, presented by Hydro-Québec in collaboration with Radio-Canada, is pleased to announce, in partnership with Filmoption International, that the film Kaïros, written and directed by Jennifer Alleyn, will close the 44th edition of the Festival. Produced by Les films de Jennie, the film starring Emmanuel Schwartz will have its world premiere on April 30 during the Festival’s closing night presented by Crave at the Cinéma du Musée, prior to its release in Quebec on May 15.

“It seemed natural to us to close the 2026 edition of Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma with a feature-length fiction film imbued with a spirit of humanity. Directed by Jennifer Alleyn, Kaïros fully echoes our opening film—also written and directed by a woman—and explores questions of identity. A beautiful way to close the Rendez-vous with an evening rich in emotion,” says Laura Rohard, director of the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma festival.

With this new feature film, artist and filmmaker Jennifer Alleyn (Cosmos, Impetus) presents a unique work rooted in the experience of defining moments. Drawing on the beauty of reality, she offers viewers a meditation on uprooting, the poetry of everyday life, and the power of human connections. In 1992, while directing more than twenty documentaries around the world for the program La Course destination monde, she turned her camera abroad and came to appreciate the depth of human generosity. This defining experience resonates with the quest at the heart of Kaïros: the quest to discover oneself through others.

“It is an honor for the film Kaïros to close the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma. This film is an ode to human solidarity that defies the loneliness of cities. For me, the Rendez-vous has always been a gathering that breaks through isolation with a grand celebration of cinema. I am thrilled at the idea of sharing the film in this context. The film’s team joins me in thanking RVQC for this wonderful invitation,” shares Jennifer Alleyn, director of the film Kaïros.

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Ten Times Dix, a film by Jennifer Alleyn, will be presented at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art on December 12, 2025. The film was previously screened at the same museum in April 2014 as part of the Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival, in the presence of the filmmaker.

The film won the Tremplin pour le Monde Award at the Festival International du Film sur l’Art in 2011.

Synopsis

A volunteer soldier in 1914 and a witness to the rise of Nazism in 1933, German painter and printmaker Otto Dix denounced horror through his art. For him, art was a weapon. With piercing lucidity, this great master unsettled and shocked audiences alike. The man who once said, “I must have the courage to paint the ugly,” left behind a body of work that is as disturbing as it is deeply human, casting a gaze upon the surrounding chaos that still resonates with America today…

Ten Times Dix by Jennifer Alleyn invites viewers to revisit the interwar period, the brothels of Berlin during the Roaring Twenties, Friedrich Nietzsche, and humanity’s urgent need to reach the truth.

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Impetus is back on the big screen in Cinéma Moderne for two screenings :

Cinéma Moderne, Montréal 20th February 2020, 6.30 pm, English subtitles, with Jennifer Alleyn and Jorn Reissner

Cinéma Moderne, Montréal 12th March 2020, 6.30 pm

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While shooting her new film in New York City, a director begins questioning the origin of impulsion. As the shoot begins to fall apart, with her lead actor unable to complete the project, this hybrid film between documentary and fiction takes viewers on an unexpected and compelling journey.

«  An ode to courage. Sublime. Brilliant actors and the touch of genious 
of director Jennifer Alleyn, recalling Agnes Varda's cinécriture. » 
 - Éric Clément,  La Presse

Jennifer Alleyn's film Impetus will be screened, in the presence of the director, to mark the launch of her book Impetus - de l’élan à l’écran at Éditions Somme Toute.

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Éditions Somme Toute invite you to launch the book IMPETUS by Jennifer Alleyn on October 22 at 5 pm at the Cinémathèque québécoise's Espace café!

Including the screenplay of the film, as well as unpublished scenes to be viewed on a smart phone, this book allows you to enter the heart of Impetus' creative movement and its challenge to update the "crazy dream" of direct cinema.

In the form of a logbook, filmmaker Jennifer Alleyn shares her thoughts, ideas held and abandoned during the manufacturing process. The book thus extends the experience of the film and updates the initial questioning of the project: where does the impulse come from? What drives us, makes us act?

The DVD of the film will also be available. There will be a special price on the DVD when you purchase the book.

Meet artist Jennifer Alleyn, at the Maison de la Culture Longueuil, as she discusses her creative process and her latest works, exhibited in the show Suspension, with curator Eve Dorais.

April 18 - 6 pm

Maison de la Culture de la Vile de Longueuil

300 rue Saint-Charles O., Longueuil.

https://www.longueuil.quebec/fr/evenements/2019/expositions-edifice-marcel-robidas-suspension

See Jennifer Alleyn’s IMPETUS during the Cultural Tuesday’s at Arsenal Art Contemporain.

April 16 - 7 pm

Q&A after the screening with Director Jennifer Alleyn and Actress Pascale Bussières.

http://arsenalmontreal.com/details/mardi-culturel-td-jennifer-alleyn-impetus/

Jennifer Alleyn’s first hybrid drama in competition at the 3rd Visionär Film Festival, in Berlin, Germany.

April 5 - 7 pm AcudKino, Berlin

Q&A with Director Jennifer Alleyn and editor Emma Bertin.

http://www.visionaerfilmfestival.com/2019/impetus/

New film by Jennifer Alleyn IMPETUS will reach Theatres on January 18th 2019:

In Montreal:

Cinema du Musée ( With English subtitles), Cinema Beaubien, Cinémathèque Québécoise

In Sherbrooke:

Maison du Cinema

In Quebec City:

Cinema Cartier

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Invited by curator Geneviève Goyer-Ouimet, filmmaker Jennifer Alleyn and art critic Nicolas Mavrikakis will walk you through the Mnemosyme exhibition, discussing some of the work on display.

Free entrance.

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