Film POP screens musical mash-up

POP Montreal’s cinematic offshoot Film POP kicks off its musically-inclined movie programming on Wednesday at 7 p.m. with Fonko, a documentary on contemporary African grooves by Göran Olsson (The Black Power Mixtape 196775), Lars Lovén and Lamin Daniel Jadama.

Other highlights include a 35 mm screening of David Byrne’s 1986 film True Stories, Friday at 7 p.m., followed at 9 p.m. by Contemporary Color, about a music and arts event Byrne organized in Brooklyn with Nelly Furtado, Devonté Hynes, Zola Jesus, Ad Rock, tUnE-yArDs and Ira Glass; John Waters’s 1970 cult classic Multiple Maniacs, Saturday at 3:15 p.m.; a free 20th anniversary screening of Space Jam, Saturday at 5 p.m. at the McGill Sports Centre, following Win Butler’s POP vs. Jock charity basketball game; Feminist Live Reads: Oceans 11 (live reading of the script by an allfemale cast), Saturday at 5 p.m. at POP Box, 3450 St-Urbain St.; and Sara Jordenö’s Kiki, delving into New York City’s ballroom scene, embraced by LGBT youth of colour, Sunday at 5 p.m.

All screenings at Cinéma du Parc unless otherwise indicated.