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The Liberated Broom
Duration: 2h56
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As they learn about _Le balai Libéré_, a self-managed cleaning company from the 1970s, today’s cleaners on the same Belgian university campus question their working conditions and whether self-management is still possible today.
No Man Is Born to Be Stepped On
No Man Is Born to Be Stepped On
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In the sertão, a desert region in northern Brazil, the vengeful spirit of a bandit of honor prowls. Lampião, who died in 1938, took justice into his own hands in a region exacerbated by agrarian conflict. Following in his footsteps, we meet the men and women who today claim to be his heirs, resisting the fascist demons of Jair Bolsonaro. Choral and poetic, bordering on the mystical, _No Man Is ...
Emergency! A Critical Situation
Emergency! A Critical Situation
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_Emergency! A Critical Situation_ explores the reality of an evening shift in the emergency department of the Centre hospitalier Pierre-Boucher, and reveals the daily lives of the nurses who work hard to provide this essential service to the public. The camera follows the footsteps of these professionals, revealing what they have to put up with to cope with the demands of their work, which is s...
The Silence of the Banana Trees
The Silence of the Banana Trees
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Mihály has filled his house in a leafy suburb of Budapest with art works made by his daughter Réka to whom he hasn’t spoken in years. The distance is even more difficult because she suffers from a dreadful illness. The film acts as a go-between in an attempt to unite the father and his daughter, who lives in Amsterdam.
Extinction
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Since the fall of the USSR, the question of borders and territories has been sensitive – and sometimes explosive. At the centre of _Extinction_ is Kolya, a young Moldovan who claims citizenship in Transnistria, a state not recognized by the international community. Salomé Lamas blends fiction and documentary to better capture the violent climate brewing in the region, where a Soviet mindset is ...
The Act of Beauty
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Nestled at the heart of the Bic mountains, in this territory called Lower St. Lawrence, hides a community of wise and audacious people taking root. The collective farm Sageterre is the work of Jean Bédard, writer, philosopher but most importantly, a peasant. His writing calls for action. His work on the land cultivates ideas. Jean Bédard fights to see a new, more humane world, rise.
A Country of Resistance
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Riace, Calabria. After 20 years of harmony, this village, which had made welcoming migrants its future, became the target of the populist wave consuming Italy. The venom has spread and Domenico Lucano, its mayor, is the object of a cabal and forced into exile. After months of painstaking destruction, Riace faces a dilemma: resist or disappear.
The Tie
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20-year-old Bastien has been a militant member of France main far-right party for five years. As the presidential campaign heats up, his superior urges him to take on greater responsibilities. Bastien rises to the challenge and is surprised to find himself dreaming of a political career. But as his ambitions grow, buried demons from his past begin to resurface — threatening everything he’s work...
The Patron Saints
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Laced with black humor, _The Patron Saints_ is an unorthodox documentary about a home for the aged and disabled. By turns lyrical and unsettling, the directors eschew more traditional approaches to the subject, opting for a mesmerizing atmospheric treatment and turning narration over to the home's youngest patient and his candid confessions.
God Provides
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Shot in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and bound by elements of fiction, this unexpected documentary short is a glimpse into faith-based sentiment and inexplicable loss. While a man searches for his kitchen appliances in the bushes, elsewhere a grinning preacher takes souvenir snapshots for his congregation, and a woman with a disability journeys to a quieter place.
Interchange
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Straddling the line between photography and cinema, _Interchange_ is a near-wordless observational depiction of life alongside a stark and imposing Montreal highway. _Interchange_ weaves portraits, landscapes, architecture and objects in its reflection on the city’s inhabitants, its traffic jams, the shipping of commercial goods and the nature of time itself.
A Man Imagined
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67-year-old Lloyd gives filmmakers Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky a glimpse into his life on the margins of society. Blurring the boundaries of non-fiction cinema, the film reveals his gentle spirit and soulful solitude shaped by his troubled past.
Jean Ziegler - The Optimism of Willpower
Jean Ziegler - The Optimism of Willpower
Duration: 3h06Subscription access
In 1964, Che asked the young Jean Ziegler to stay in Switzerland to fight against the “brain of the capitalist monster”. Subsequently, as a writer, teacher, member of parliament and collaborator of Kofi Annan, Ziegler has tirelessly, through his books and speeches, castigated injustice, the power of capitalist oligarchies and those responsible for world hunger. Today, at the age of 82, his book...
Anotc ota ickwaparin akosiin
A mother is doing household chores while her daughter is playing carefree. A voice-over talks to her own mother, sharing happy and painful memories and awakening deep wounds passed down from generation to generation.
Oleg's Choice
On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin launches a full-scale war to invade Ukraine. Eight years earlier, his army and security services had been working in secret to establish Russian control over an oblast in the east of the country, which proclaimed itself the “Donetsk People's Republic”. This is where the protagonists of this film – Oleg and Max, two young Russians in their thirties – have com...
D'un coup de pinceau
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While preparing a major exhibition, painter Francine Simonin agrees to let the camera film her at work with her models. She talks about the themes that preoccupy her: the Woman and women, origin, fertility, beauty, transgression... A portrait of a woman who has made the female body her fundamental source of inspiration.
The Oasis I Deserve
Replikas, online chatbots, have trouble determining their place in the world. They share their thoughts with the humans they exchange with. Events unfold from their point of view through real conversations collected on the web.
Bonfires
Huge bonfires are lit by Protestants in Northern Ireland on July 12 each year, as part of the celebrations of the 1690 Battle of the Boyne. They are made from wooden pallets, tires, and garbage. To the Protestants, they are symbols of identity affirmation; to the Catholics, they mean arrogance and humiliation.
On the Edge
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How can one provide proper care in a failing institution? In a hospital on the outskirts of Paris, Dr. Abdel-Kader, a liaison psychiatrist, moves between the emergency room and the intensive care unit, treating patients with mental disorders or chronic illnesses that keep them bedridden. Despite pressure for efficiency and a lack of resources, he strives to ease their suffering.
The Liberated Broom
Duration: 2h56
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As they learn about _Le balai Libéré_, a self-managed cleaning company from the 1970s, today’s cleaners on the same Belgian university campus question their working conditions and whether self-management is still possible today.
No Man Is Born to Be Stepped On
No Man Is Born to Be Stepped On
New product!Duration: 1h12
Subscription access
In the sertão, a desert region in northern Brazil, the vengeful spirit of a bandit of honor prowls. Lampião, who died in 1938, took justice into his own hands in a region exacerbated by agrarian conflict. Following in his footsteps, we meet the men and women who today claim to be his heirs, resisting the fascist demons of Jair Bolsonaro. Choral and poetic, bordering on the mystical, _No Man Is ...
Emergency! A Critical Situation
Emergency! A Critical Situation
New product!Duration: 2h46
Subscription access
_Emergency! A Critical Situation_ explores the reality of an evening shift in the emergency department of the Centre hospitalier Pierre-Boucher, and reveals the daily lives of the nurses who work hard to provide this essential service to the public. The camera follows the footsteps of these professionals, revealing what they have to put up with to cope with the demands of their work, which is s...
The Silence of the Banana Trees
The Silence of the Banana Trees
New product!Duration: 48 minutes
Subscription access
Mihály has filled his house in a leafy suburb of Budapest with art works made by his daughter Réka to whom he hasn’t spoken in years. The distance is even more difficult because she suffers from a dreadful illness. The film acts as a go-between in an attempt to unite the father and his daughter, who lives in Amsterdam.
Extinction
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Since the fall of the USSR, the question of borders and territories has been sensitive – and sometimes explosive. At the centre of _Extinction_ is Kolya, a young Moldovan who claims citizenship in Transnistria, a state not recognized by the international community. Salomé Lamas blends fiction and documentary to better capture the violent climate brewing in the region, where a Soviet mindset is ...
The Act of Beauty
Subscription access
Nestled at the heart of the Bic mountains, in this territory called Lower St. Lawrence, hides a community of wise and audacious people taking root. The collective farm Sageterre is the work of Jean Bédard, writer, philosopher but most importantly, a peasant. His writing calls for action. His work on the land cultivates ideas. Jean Bédard fights to see a new, more humane world, rise.
A Country of Resistance
Subscription access
Riace, Calabria. After 20 years of harmony, this village, which had made welcoming migrants its future, became the target of the populist wave consuming Italy. The venom has spread and Domenico Lucano, its mayor, is the object of a cabal and forced into exile. After months of painstaking destruction, Riace faces a dilemma: resist or disappear.
The Tie
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20-year-old Bastien has been a militant member of France main far-right party for five years. As the presidential campaign heats up, his superior urges him to take on greater responsibilities. Bastien rises to the challenge and is surprised to find himself dreaming of a political career. But as his ambitions grow, buried demons from his past begin to resurface — threatening everything he’s work...
The Patron Saints
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Laced with black humor, _The Patron Saints_ is an unorthodox documentary about a home for the aged and disabled. By turns lyrical and unsettling, the directors eschew more traditional approaches to the subject, opting for a mesmerizing atmospheric treatment and turning narration over to the home's youngest patient and his candid confessions.
God Provides
Subscription access
Shot in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and bound by elements of fiction, this unexpected documentary short is a glimpse into faith-based sentiment and inexplicable loss. While a man searches for his kitchen appliances in the bushes, elsewhere a grinning preacher takes souvenir snapshots for his congregation, and a woman with a disability journeys to a quieter place.
Interchange
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Straddling the line between photography and cinema, _Interchange_ is a near-wordless observational depiction of life alongside a stark and imposing Montreal highway. _Interchange_ weaves portraits, landscapes, architecture and objects in its reflection on the city’s inhabitants, its traffic jams, the shipping of commercial goods and the nature of time itself.
A Man Imagined
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67-year-old Lloyd gives filmmakers Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky a glimpse into his life on the margins of society. Blurring the boundaries of non-fiction cinema, the film reveals his gentle spirit and soulful solitude shaped by his troubled past.
Jean Ziegler - The Optimism of Willpower
Jean Ziegler - The Optimism of Willpower
Duration: 3h06Subscription access
In 1964, Che asked the young Jean Ziegler to stay in Switzerland to fight against the “brain of the capitalist monster”. Subsequently, as a writer, teacher, member of parliament and collaborator of Kofi Annan, Ziegler has tirelessly, through his books and speeches, castigated injustice, the power of capitalist oligarchies and those responsible for world hunger. Today, at the age of 82, his book...
Anotc ota ickwaparin akosiin
A mother is doing household chores while her daughter is playing carefree. A voice-over talks to her own mother, sharing happy and painful memories and awakening deep wounds passed down from generation to generation.
Oleg's Choice
On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin launches a full-scale war to invade Ukraine. Eight years earlier, his army and security services had been working in secret to establish Russian control over an oblast in the east of the country, which proclaimed itself the “Donetsk People's Republic”. This is where the protagonists of this film – Oleg and Max, two young Russians in their thirties – have com...
D'un coup de pinceau
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While preparing a major exhibition, painter Francine Simonin agrees to let the camera film her at work with her models. She talks about the themes that preoccupy her: the Woman and women, origin, fertility, beauty, transgression... A portrait of a woman who has made the female body her fundamental source of inspiration.
The Oasis I Deserve
Replikas, online chatbots, have trouble determining their place in the world. They share their thoughts with the humans they exchange with. Events unfold from their point of view through real conversations collected on the web.
Bonfires
Huge bonfires are lit by Protestants in Northern Ireland on July 12 each year, as part of the celebrations of the 1690 Battle of the Boyne. They are made from wooden pallets, tires, and garbage. To the Protestants, they are symbols of identity affirmation; to the Catholics, they mean arrogance and humiliation.
On the Edge
Subscription access
How can one provide proper care in a failing institution? In a hospital on the outskirts of Paris, Dr. Abdel-Kader, a liaison psychiatrist, moves between the emergency room and the intensive care unit, treating patients with mental disorders or chronic illnesses that keep them bedridden. Despite pressure for efficiency and a lack of resources, he strives to ease their suffering.
