_There Will Be No More Night_ relies on footage captured by thermal cameras used by the American and French armies in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. By diverting these images from the propaganda narratives in which they are typically embedded, the film examines the dangers of an unchecked desire to see, prompting a reflection on the new paradigms of modern warfare.
A group of young filmmakers ask residents of Casablanca for their opinions on Moroccan cinema as part of a film project. During the shoot, a dispute breaks out between a dockworker and his superior, resulting in the accidental death of the latter. Having captured the incident on film, the crew begins to question the man’s motives and reflect on the role of cinema in society and the forms it can...
Samuel LeBlanc, a young transgender musician, undertakes in an artistic process the search for a rural queer community in his native Acadie. During his wanderings, he will find, behind heteronormative rural landscapes, people determined to live their differences without having to leave their hometown or deny their cultural identity to get there. Samuel will leave with the conviction that the ...
This film offers an insight into the experiences of deaf children in the colonized and confined coastal territory of Gaza, Palestine, particularly the violence to which they are subjected by Israeli military operations. Born and raised under the frequent onslaught of the occupying forces, children Amani, Musa, Israa and others recite vivid memories of their experiences of bombardment and the co...
1965: Dimitri and Christine travel across the Near and Middle East by car. They film their journey with an 8mm camera and record a travel journal on a tape recorder. _Journal afghan_ is built from these traces. By replaying them in the chaotic pattern of memory’s persistence, it offers a new experience of travel and an intimate exploration of the mechanisms of memory.
In this masterpiece of Quebec cinéma vérité, the inhabitants of Île aux Coudres set out to revive an ancient beluga fishing tradition that had disappeared many years ago. Through the preparations and intergenerational exchanges, the film authentically captures the daily lives, language, beliefs, and stories of the islanders. More than just an ethnographic documentary, _For the Ones to Come_ exp...
At the age of 68, filmmaker Michel Moreau, who dedicated most of his work to the disabled and marginalized, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. To document and share his experience, he asked his filmmaker friend, Jean-Pierre Lefebvre, to record the progression of his illness. Lefebvre agreed and filmed him over four years, working alone with a small Hi-8 camera.
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Duration: 2h32Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community in Alabama’s Black Belt, _Hale County This Morning, This Evening_ offers an emotive impression of the Historic South. Daniel Collins attends college in search of opportunity while Quincy Bryant becomes a father to an energetic son. Creating a poetic form that privileges the patiently observed interstices of their lives, RaMe...
_There Will Be No More Night_ relies on footage captured by thermal cameras used by the American and French armies in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. By diverting these images from the propaganda narratives in which they are typically embedded, the film examines the dangers of an unchecked desire to see, prompting a reflection on the new paradigms of modern warfare.
A group of young filmmakers ask residents of Casablanca for their opinions on Moroccan cinema as part of a film project. During the shoot, a dispute breaks out between a dockworker and his superior, resulting in the accidental death of the latter. Having captured the incident on film, the crew begins to question the man’s motives and reflect on the role of cinema in society and the forms it can...
Samuel LeBlanc, a young transgender musician, undertakes in an artistic process the search for a rural queer community in his native Acadie. During his wanderings, he will find, behind heteronormative rural landscapes, people determined to live their differences without having to leave their hometown or deny their cultural identity to get there. Samuel will leave with the conviction that the ...
This film offers an insight into the experiences of deaf children in the colonized and confined coastal territory of Gaza, Palestine, particularly the violence to which they are subjected by Israeli military operations. Born and raised under the frequent onslaught of the occupying forces, children Amani, Musa, Israa and others recite vivid memories of their experiences of bombardment and the co...
1965: Dimitri and Christine travel across the Near and Middle East by car. They film their journey with an 8mm camera and record a travel journal on a tape recorder. _Journal afghan_ is built from these traces. By replaying them in the chaotic pattern of memory’s persistence, it offers a new experience of travel and an intimate exploration of the mechanisms of memory.
In this masterpiece of Quebec cinéma vérité, the inhabitants of Île aux Coudres set out to revive an ancient beluga fishing tradition that had disappeared many years ago. Through the preparations and intergenerational exchanges, the film authentically captures the daily lives, language, beliefs, and stories of the islanders. More than just an ethnographic documentary, _For the Ones to Come_ exp...
At the age of 68, filmmaker Michel Moreau, who dedicated most of his work to the disabled and marginalized, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. To document and share his experience, he asked his filmmaker friend, Jean-Pierre Lefebvre, to record the progression of his illness. Lefebvre agreed and filmed him over four years, working alone with a small Hi-8 camera.
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Duration: 2h32Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community in Alabama’s Black Belt, _Hale County This Morning, This Evening_ offers an emotive impression of the Historic South. Daniel Collins attends college in search of opportunity while Quincy Bryant becomes a father to an energetic son. Creating a poetic form that privileges the patiently observed interstices of their lives, RaMe...
_There Will Be No More Night_ relies on footage captured by thermal cameras used by the American and French armies in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. By diverting these images from the propaganda narratives in which they are typically embedded, the film examines the dangers of an unchecked desire to see, prompting a reflection on the new paradigms of modern warfare.
_Baby Trans_ portrays Laure\*, a gentle and intense soul. As she begins feminizing hormone therapy, Laure learns to navigate the bodily, emotional, and identity changes she experiences. (\*The main protagonist featured in the documentary has since changed her name for Laure.)
Guy Gilles takes his camera around Paris on a winter's day. He follows passers-by, children playing in the snow, the gaze of people behind their windows, and plays with the fog and winter's bare trees.
In April 2019, a nonviolent youth-led movement in Sudan toppled the genocidal military regime that had been in power for three decades. After the fall, Sudanese from across the country made their way to Khartoum to demand a peaceful transition to civilian rule. There they formed a sit-in protest, where art became the means to conjure a new Sudan. Having known nothing other than state-sponsored ...
After the murder of Greek LGBTQI+ activist Zak Kostopoulos, his childhood friend Sophia Farantatou finds herself in the middle of an impasse, between the media storytelling and the archive footage she shot with him. Only time can give her the space to mourn and come to terms with the absence of her friend.
"Deserted landscapes, ancient ruins and abandoned shipwrecks at sea. Elefsina’s archeological sites don’t come close to being as hauntingly beautiful as these dead ships. They stand majestically like memorial sculptures and bring a magnetism to the eye. In fact, these are the neglected refugees of Elefsina. For how did they end up there, anyway? What's their story? That's the story I want to kn...
A group of young filmmakers ask residents of Casablanca for their opinions on Moroccan cinema as part of a film project. During the shoot, a dispute breaks out between a dockworker and his superior, resulting in the accidental death of the latter. Having captured the incident on film, the crew begins to question the man’s motives and reflect on the role of cinema in society and the forms it can...
« Quel numéro - What number ? » ou le travail automatisé
New product!The film deconstructs the promises of the 1980s "computer revolution" by placing humans, rather than machines, at the center of the narrative. Service sector workers—secretaries, telephone operators, cashiers, and postal employees—find themselves confronted with the arrival of new technologies that reshape their workplace. With lucidity, humor, and emotion, they share their experiences of these...
An impressionistic, narration-free essay capturing the daily lives of the sailors aboard the frigate _HMCS Ottawa_ during its mission in the Pacific Ocean between British Columbia and California.
In search of a 15-day lock-in, a filmmaker finds himself trapped on a trawler in the open sea, where his distress becomes entwined with the fate of what he films. A sensory experience oscillating between anticipation and panic, this first short film has become an act of atonement for a traumatized filmmaker.
_There Will Be No More Night_ relies on footage captured by thermal cameras used by the American and French armies in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. By diverting these images from the propaganda narratives in which they are typically embedded, the film examines the dangers of an unchecked desire to see, prompting a reflection on the new paradigms of modern warfare.
_Baby Trans_ portrays Laure\*, a gentle and intense soul. As she begins feminizing hormone therapy, Laure learns to navigate the bodily, emotional, and identity changes she experiences. (\*The main protagonist featured in the documentary has since changed her name for Laure.)
Guy Gilles takes his camera around Paris on a winter's day. He follows passers-by, children playing in the snow, the gaze of people behind their windows, and plays with the fog and winter's bare trees.
In April 2019, a nonviolent youth-led movement in Sudan toppled the genocidal military regime that had been in power for three decades. After the fall, Sudanese from across the country made their way to Khartoum to demand a peaceful transition to civilian rule. There they formed a sit-in protest, where art became the means to conjure a new Sudan. Having known nothing other than state-sponsored ...
After the murder of Greek LGBTQI+ activist Zak Kostopoulos, his childhood friend Sophia Farantatou finds herself in the middle of an impasse, between the media storytelling and the archive footage she shot with him. Only time can give her the space to mourn and come to terms with the absence of her friend.
"Deserted landscapes, ancient ruins and abandoned shipwrecks at sea. Elefsina’s archeological sites don’t come close to being as hauntingly beautiful as these dead ships. They stand majestically like memorial sculptures and bring a magnetism to the eye. In fact, these are the neglected refugees of Elefsina. For how did they end up there, anyway? What's their story? That's the story I want to kn...
A group of young filmmakers ask residents of Casablanca for their opinions on Moroccan cinema as part of a film project. During the shoot, a dispute breaks out between a dockworker and his superior, resulting in the accidental death of the latter. Having captured the incident on film, the crew begins to question the man’s motives and reflect on the role of cinema in society and the forms it can...
« Quel numéro - What number ? » ou le travail automatisé
New product!The film deconstructs the promises of the 1980s "computer revolution" by placing humans, rather than machines, at the center of the narrative. Service sector workers—secretaries, telephone operators, cashiers, and postal employees—find themselves confronted with the arrival of new technologies that reshape their workplace. With lucidity, humor, and emotion, they share their experiences of these...
An impressionistic, narration-free essay capturing the daily lives of the sailors aboard the frigate _HMCS Ottawa_ during its mission in the Pacific Ocean between British Columbia and California.
In search of a 15-day lock-in, a filmmaker finds himself trapped on a trawler in the open sea, where his distress becomes entwined with the fate of what he films. A sensory experience oscillating between anticipation and panic, this first short film has become an act of atonement for a traumatized filmmaker.