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I Remember Nothing

December 2010: revolution breaks out in Tunisia, the country of the filmmaker's father. In a strange way, the cries of fury of the Tunisian people echoed the inner turmoil that had been growing inside her for several weeks. At the same time, she was going through a manic-depressive episode of great intensity, and was diagnosed as bipolar and admitted to a psychiatric clinic. When she emerged fr...

One Day In the Life of Noah Piugattuk

Kapuivik, north Baffin Island, 1961. Noah Piugattuk’s nomadic Inuit band live and hunt by dogteam, just as his ancestors did when he was born in 1900. When the white man known as Boss arrives in camp, what appears as a chance meeting soon opens up the prospect of momentous change.

Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields

In an Argentina divided between a deep conservatism and an unprecedented momentum in feminism, the film delves into the political journey and intimate lives of Claudia and Violeta. The fight they lead with their comrades against patriarchal violence is visceral and embodied. Convinced of their role at the center of an ongoing revolution that intersects with so many struggles, and in defiance of...

2 pouces en haut de la carte

In the 70s, young people in Baie-Comeau - Hauterive were trying to find their place in an industrial society devoted to work and consumerism. Often left to their own devices as they waited to enter the job market, many of them sought their paths in artistic creation. The 1974 St. John's Day festival gave them a chance to shout out loud about their existence and shake up the existing order. We f...

The World Is Ours

Currently, post pandemic, one in two young people show symptoms of anxiety and depression. _The World Is Ours_ is a film that gives the opportunity to six Montreal teenage girls to leave their urban environment for the first time to take part in a nature canoe-camping expedition. By presenting their struggles and small victories, the film poetically and luminously embraces their vulnerability, ...

The Last Bolshevik

Based on the life and work of the Russian film director Alexander Medvedkin (1900-1989), _The Last Bolshevik_ is a tribute from one filmmaker to another. An archeological expedition into film history that reveals new cinematic treasures, the film prompts a reflection on the relation between art and politics in the former Soviet Union.

Lettres 16mm

Two filmmakers exchange their impressions of places and moments in time through cine-letters, against a soundtrack that oscillates between the real and the ethereal. The sounds play a narrative role and carry the moving images through this encounter made possible with alternating reels of 16mm film. 

Videoletters

Between February and June 1991, filmmakers Robert Kramer and Stephen Dwoskin exchanged several video letters (four by Kramer, three by Dwoskin) shot in Hi-8. These _Videoletters_ freed them from the formalities that burdened their work and reflections at the time. Through this exchange, they began to learn and observe anew.

Lettre d'un cinéaste ou le retour d'un amateur de bibliothèques

Filmmaker Raúl Ruiz returned to his hometown in Chile and brought back this film shot in Super 8. In search of a mysterious pink-covered book, Ruiz takes a stroll through the city of Santiago and its suburbs, visiting his birthplace and the homes of old friends. In the background, the 1973 Chilean coup d'état and Augusto Pinochet's regime.

En passant par le Québec

Isolated and marginalized, Quebec cinema has long existed thanks to the commitment and energy of its creators, who devote themselves – from documentary to fiction – to a creative cinema that is sometimes serious, sometimes offbeat, bearing witness to Quebec's identity and social problems. In August 1967, the cult TV program _Cinéastes de notre temps_ interviewed directors Arthur Lamothe, Michel...

Récréations

There is a kind of country, tiny, so small that it ressembles a theatre set. It is inhabited two or three times per day by its people. The inhabitants are small as well. Even if they live under certain laws, they repeatedly put them into question, which leads them to fight violenty with each other. This country is called "The Playground" and its people "The Children". When "The Children" go int...

Homework

Young schoolchildren are interviewed by Abbas Kiarostami. In front of the camera, they recount their lives after school in the evenings: cartoons, homework with their often illiterate parents, corporal punishment and rare encouragement.