Where was Arrival filmed?
2016 science fiction film by Denis Villeneuve
Arrival (2016) was filmed in Montreal, Université de Montréal and Place des Arts — 3 recorded filming locations in Canada. Every one is a filming-location statement on Wikidata, not a guess.
See them on the map → Wikipedia Source data
Filming locations
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🏙 Towns & cities
Montreal
🇨🇦 Canada
largest city in Quebec, Canada
“Filming was done mainly in and around Montreal, Quebec, with Saint-Fabien serving as Montana.” Wikipedia
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Place des Arts
🇨🇦 Canada
performing arts centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Université de Montréal
🇨🇦 Canada
university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
“The scenes of the university where Banks teaches were shot on the main campus of Université de Montréal, including HEC Montréal's auditorium and cafeteria.” Wikipedia
Also per Wikipedia's Filming section
Wikipedia’s Filming section names 3 more places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.
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🏙 Towns & cities
Saint-Fabien
🇨🇦 Canada
parish municipality in Quebec, Canada
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🏙 Towns & cities
Vaudreuil-Dorion
🇨🇦 Canada
town in Montérégie, Québec, Canada
“Most of the filming that did not involve the exterior of a ship was done indoors on sound stages, although a real house in Chemin de l'Île, Vaudreuil-Dorion, was used as Banks's home.” Wikipedia
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
HEC Montréal
🇨🇦 Canada
French-language business school located in Montréal, Canada
Recorded only at country level
Wikidata also records this film as shot in Bas-Saint-Laurent, without saying where. Those statements are true but unmappable — a pin in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote — so they are listed here instead of guessed at.
Also shot in these places
- 300 2006
- Catch Me If You Can 2002
- Life of Pi 2012
- The Day After Tomorrow 2004
- The Aviator 2004
- 12 Monkeys 1995
- Once Upon a Time in America 1984
- The Terminal 2004
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 2008
- X-Men: Days of Future Past 2014
- The Notebook 2004
- X-Men: Apocalypse 2016
Set in the same places
More filmed in Canada
Every filming location in Canada →
Frequently asked questions
How many filming locations does Arrival have?
3 places recorded on Wikidata, and 3 places named in its Wikipedia article, labelled per Wikipedia, across Canada.
Which other productions were filmed at the same places?
300 (2006), Catch Me If You Can (2002), Life of Pi (2012), The Day After Tomorrow (2004) and 8 more, each listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, plus places named in the production's own Wikipedia article, which are labelled per Wikipedia. Nothing is scraped from listicles and nothing is generated.