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Le Concours

Le Concours

Le Concours

Duration: 4h00
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It’s the day of the entrance exam. Aspiring filmmakers step through the heavy gates of La Fémis for the first time. Each of them dreams of cinema, but also of success. Every hope is allowed, every anxiety as well. The juries deliberate, searching for their worthy successors. From the arrival of the candidates to the final deliberations, the film explores the confrontation between two generation...

Okurimono

Okurimono

Okurimono

Duration: 3h14
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Noriko Oi, a Japanese Canadian who has lived in Montreal for more than 20 years, is preparing to return to Nagasaki, her hometown, to help her siblings clear out the family home that will soon be sold. Within the walls of this old house lie fragments of the Oi family’s history. Noriko decides to reconstruct the past of her mother, Mitsuko, an atomic bomb survivor, in the hope of coming to terms...

A Fidai Film

A Fidai Film

A Fidai Film

Duration: 2h34
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In the summer of 1982, the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive. The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images. Taking this as a premise, _A Fidai Film_ explores the visual memory of this looting and appropriates images now in the hands of Israeli archives.

Beirut, My City

Beirut, My City

Beirut, My City

Duration: 1h14
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In 1982, Jocelyne Saab's 150-year-old family home burns down. In tandem with the Lebanese playwright Roger Assaf, she decided to travel through her city, which was under siege by the Israelis, and to report on the situation in Beirut, the departure of the Palestinians and the incomprehension of the civilians who were suffering from the war.

Le Concours

Le Concours

Le Concours

Duration: 4h00
Subscription access

It’s the day of the entrance exam. Aspiring filmmakers step through the heavy gates of La Fémis for the first time. Each of them dreams of cinema, but also of success. Every hope is allowed, every anxiety as well. The juries deliberate, searching for their worthy successors. From the arrival of the candidates to the final deliberations, the film explores the confrontation between two generation...

Okurimono

Okurimono

Okurimono

Duration: 3h14
Subscription access

Noriko Oi, a Japanese Canadian who has lived in Montreal for more than 20 years, is preparing to return to Nagasaki, her hometown, to help her siblings clear out the family home that will soon be sold. Within the walls of this old house lie fragments of the Oi family’s history. Noriko decides to reconstruct the past of her mother, Mitsuko, an atomic bomb survivor, in the hope of coming to terms...

A Fidai Film

A Fidai Film

A Fidai Film

Duration: 2h34
Subscription access

In the summer of 1982, the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive. The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images. Taking this as a premise, _A Fidai Film_ explores the visual memory of this looting and appropriates images now in the hands of Israeli archives.

Beirut, My City

Beirut, My City

Beirut, My City

Duration: 1h14
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In 1982, Jocelyne Saab's 150-year-old family home burns down. In tandem with the Lebanese playwright Roger Assaf, she decided to travel through her city, which was under siege by the Israelis, and to report on the situation in Beirut, the departure of the Palestinians and the incomprehension of the civilians who were suffering from the war.

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Femmes écrivains

Femmes écrivains

Femmes écrivains

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Duration: 20 minutes
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Françoise Sagan, Clara Malraux, Henriette Jelinek, and Françoise Mallet-Joris share their vision of literature and discuss the reasons that drive them to write.

A Film for Max

A Film for Max

A Film for Max

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Duration: 1h14
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In this film, filmmaker Derek May turns his camera on his own domestic life, attempting to show it "as it is," without the conventional structure imposed by filmmaking. He seeks to reflect the essential aloneness of human existence—a life suspended, a being unmotivated. Adult life is depicted in black and white, while the life of his infant son, Max, is shown in color. This contrast evokes the ...

American Journal

American Journal

American Journal

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Duration: 1h51
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Remember America. Remember the cities, the houses, all the people, the arrivals, the departures, the children coming, the children leaving, death, life, movement, speech. Remember the deep inner sigh of everything that lives in America. Bend down. Pick up what others have lost from life. And do something with it...

Ninan Auassat: We, the Children

Ninan Auassat: We, the Children

Ninan Auassat: We, the Children

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Duration: 3h02
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Filmed over more than six years, this feature-length documentary follows the journeys of three groups of children from different Indigenous nations (Atikamekw, Eeyou Cree, and Innu). In following these young people through the crucial milestones of childhood, right to the threshold of adulthood, we witness their daily lives and aspirations, along with the challenges they face. Filmed from “a ch...

Ada Kaleh

Ada Kaleh

Ada Kaleh

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Duration: 28 minutes
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An indeterminate location, in summer. The inhabitants of a shared apartment ask themselves where they might live. They imagine countries, communities and places. Time passes and nothing can change that, neither human action nor objects and their condition. At some point, they all drift into a deep sleep.

Guián

Guián

Guián

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Duration: 2h32
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Born into the Chinese community of Costa Rica, Nicole Chi Amén was never able to communicate with her grandmother Guián, who did not speak Spanish. After her grandmother’s death, the filmmaker embarked on a journey to China to reconnect with her roots and to reinvent, through cinema, the dialogue she never had the chance to share.

Dry Ground Burning

Dry Ground Burning

Dry Ground Burning

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Duration: 5h08
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Just released from prison, Léa (Léa Alves Silva) returns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her half-sister Chitara (Joana Darc Furtado), the fearless leader of an all-female gang that steals and refines oil from underground pipes and sells gasoline to a clandestine network of motorcyclists. Living in constant opposition to Jair Bolsonaro’s fiercely authoritarian and ...

Orlando, My Political Biography

Orlando, My Political Biography

Orlando, My Political Biography

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Duration: 1h38
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Virginia Woolf wrote Orlando in 1928, the first novel in which the hero, who becomes a heroine, lives through five centuries (1588-1928) and changes gender in the middle of the story. A century later, researcher, curator, author, and transgender activist Paul B. Preciado decided to send a filmed letter to Virginia Woolf: his Orlando had stepped out of her fiction and was living a life she could...

7 paysages

7 paysages

7 paysages

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Duration: 1h15
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The seven same sceneries recorded over a period of two years have become a single scenery freed from the sentimental, symbolic or political references often suggested by painting or photography; a scenery closer to the experience being immersed in a natural environment where contemplation gets slowly invaded by intrigues or even threats.

Meezan

Meezan

Meezan

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Duration: 2h24
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Set in south-western Iran, in the province of Khuzestan and bordering with Iraq, _Meezan_ (scale) is an observational and immersive experience, a journey from the sea to the land, about labor at the margins of petro-capitalism in three chapters. Despite the massive industrialization of the region, waterways of Khuzestan remain a significant source of income for the native communities who are mo...

Femmes écrivains

Femmes écrivains

Femmes écrivains

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Duration: 20 minutes
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Françoise Sagan, Clara Malraux, Henriette Jelinek, and Françoise Mallet-Joris share their vision of literature and discuss the reasons that drive them to write.

A Film for Max

A Film for Max

A Film for Max

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Duration: 1h14
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In this film, filmmaker Derek May turns his camera on his own domestic life, attempting to show it "as it is," without the conventional structure imposed by filmmaking. He seeks to reflect the essential aloneness of human existence—a life suspended, a being unmotivated. Adult life is depicted in black and white, while the life of his infant son, Max, is shown in color. This contrast evokes the ...

American Journal

American Journal

American Journal

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Duration: 1h51
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Remember America. Remember the cities, the houses, all the people, the arrivals, the departures, the children coming, the children leaving, death, life, movement, speech. Remember the deep inner sigh of everything that lives in America. Bend down. Pick up what others have lost from life. And do something with it...

Ninan Auassat: We, the Children

Ninan Auassat: We, the Children

Ninan Auassat: We, the Children

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Duration: 3h02
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Filmed over more than six years, this feature-length documentary follows the journeys of three groups of children from different Indigenous nations (Atikamekw, Eeyou Cree, and Innu). In following these young people through the crucial milestones of childhood, right to the threshold of adulthood, we witness their daily lives and aspirations, along with the challenges they face. Filmed from “a ch...

Ada Kaleh

Ada Kaleh

Ada Kaleh

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Duration: 28 minutes
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An indeterminate location, in summer. The inhabitants of a shared apartment ask themselves where they might live. They imagine countries, communities and places. Time passes and nothing can change that, neither human action nor objects and their condition. At some point, they all drift into a deep sleep.

Guián

Guián

Guián

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Duration: 2h32
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Born into the Chinese community of Costa Rica, Nicole Chi Amén was never able to communicate with her grandmother Guián, who did not speak Spanish. After her grandmother’s death, the filmmaker embarked on a journey to China to reconnect with her roots and to reinvent, through cinema, the dialogue she never had the chance to share.

Dry Ground Burning

Dry Ground Burning

Dry Ground Burning

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Duration: 5h08
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Just released from prison, Léa (Léa Alves Silva) returns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her half-sister Chitara (Joana Darc Furtado), the fearless leader of an all-female gang that steals and refines oil from underground pipes and sells gasoline to a clandestine network of motorcyclists. Living in constant opposition to Jair Bolsonaro’s fiercely authoritarian and ...

Orlando, My Political Biography

Orlando, My Political Biography

Orlando, My Political Biography

New product!
Duration: 1h38
Subscription access

Virginia Woolf wrote Orlando in 1928, the first novel in which the hero, who becomes a heroine, lives through five centuries (1588-1928) and changes gender in the middle of the story. A century later, researcher, curator, author, and transgender activist Paul B. Preciado decided to send a filmed letter to Virginia Woolf: his Orlando had stepped out of her fiction and was living a life she could...

7 paysages

7 paysages

7 paysages

New product!
Duration: 1h15
Subscription access

The seven same sceneries recorded over a period of two years have become a single scenery freed from the sentimental, symbolic or political references often suggested by painting or photography; a scenery closer to the experience being immersed in a natural environment where contemplation gets slowly invaded by intrigues or even threats.

Meezan

Meezan

Meezan

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Duration: 2h24
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Set in south-western Iran, in the province of Khuzestan and bordering with Iraq, _Meezan_ (scale) is an observational and immersive experience, a journey from the sea to the land, about labor at the margins of petro-capitalism in three chapters. Despite the massive industrialization of the region, waterways of Khuzestan remain a significant source of income for the native communities who are mo...

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