Naomie Décarie-Daigneault
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The Rebelious One
Half-fiction and half-documentary, _The Rebelious One_ is both a personal interpretation and a poetical rendition of Marie-Claire Blais' work that follows the Quebec writer's literary journey through eleven of her novels. Like a continuous thread leading us through the discovery of her writings, the voice, the vision and the keen consciousness of Blais recall the social events and the human dra...
No Story Here
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_No Story Here_, the first film by Jeannine Gagné, co-directed with Michel Lamothe, offers a striking portrait of working-class Montréal in the 1970s. Created without a script and using just 600 feet of film, this student short freely blends images and sounds, the latter serving as echoes of the popular psyche, already foreshadowing _City Dawn_.
The Rebelious One
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Half-fiction and half-documentary, _The Rebelious One_ is both a personal interpretation and a poetical rendition of Marie-Claire Blais' work that follows the Quebec writer's literary journey through eleven of her novels. Like a continuous thread leading us through the discovery of her writings, the voice, the vision and the keen consciousness of Blais recall the social events and the human dra...
Last Train Home
En Chine, à chaque année le même rituel dramatique se produit. Dans les villes-usines du Sud, des millions de travailleurs migratoires se battent pour une place dans des trains bondés de monde. Ils essaient tous de rentrer dans leurs villages pour le Nouvel An chinois. Madame et Monsieur Zhang vivent ainsi depuis une vingtaine d’années. Ils connaissent à peine leurs enfants qui ont été élevés p...
This Is No Time for Romance
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In the midst of summer pleasures and her children's play, a young woman questions the meaning of her life as a wife and mother, and her chances of happiness. Filmed in the 1960s, this film starring Monique Mercure and Marc Favreau depicts the "female condition" from various perspectives.
Old Age and Hope
When old age inflicts physical and sometimes mental decay, is there a way to remain hopeful towards life and its mysteries? This documentary tackles this question by challenging not only specialists such as geriatricians, gerontologists, psychologists, and philosophers but first and foremost the elderly themselves.
An Ecology of Hope
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A portrait of Pierre Dansereau, a renowned Quebecois professor, scientist, humanist, and ecologist celebrated globally for his groundbreaking research on ecosystems. This film takes us on a global journey, exploring diverse landscapes from Baffin Island and Gaspésie to Brazil and the metropolis of New York.
Tout le temps, tout le temps, tout le temps... ?
Tout le temps, tout le temps, tout le temps... ?
Duration: 1h55Subscription access
A Quebec family scattered across the big city reunites in the countryside, in Sainte-Théodosie, and discusses the importance of love, life-which-is-worth-being-lived, the need for freedom and society-which-is-badly-made.
Saint-Jérôme
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This socially-driven film explores the impact of technological changes on the city of Saint-Jérôme, which faced a severe socio-economic crisis in the 1960s, mirroring issues in other Quebec cities. Citizens from all social classes come together in a monumental effort to address the crisis. The film serves as both a reflection of this situation and a catalyst for action, acting as a mediation to...
The Dreamed Ones
In the intimacy of a Viennese studio, two young actors revive the literary scene and atmosphere of the post-war period through their reading of the correspondence between Romanian Jewish poet Paul Celan and Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann, daughter of a former National Socialist Party activist.
The Waldheim Waltz
When Austrian diplomat and former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim announced he was running for president in 1986, the news was greeted with joy and seen as a safe bet by his fellow countrymen and women. That is, until his Nazi past was revealed – an awkward detail he’d conveniently forgotten to mention during all his years in public office. Despite some people’s stupefaction and protests, ul...
John Cassavetes
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For a long time, John Cassavetes was known as an actor, but it's as a filmmaker that he appears in this portrait. When André S. Labarthe and Hubert Knapp met him, he was already the author of three films: _Shadows_, an independent film made in New York in 1959, then _Too Late Blues_ (1961) and _A Child is Waiting_ (1963), two Hollywood productions he considered disastrous. This documentary chro...
Three Comrades of Montreal
Giovanni, Francesco, and Salvatore have passed the age of 80 and are proud to still consider themselves communist or socialist comrades. All three left their poor villages in southern Italy after the war to settle in Montreal, where they maintained close ties with Italian left-wing parties while also being active in Canadian progressive unions and parties. Through images, personal documents, an...
Crossroads - Three Jazz Pianists
Crossroads - Three Jazz Pianists
Duration: 56 minutesSubscription access
Shot in 1987 at the Montréal International Jazz Festival, this documentary film presents musical performances and conversations between three jazz pianists with remarkably different styles - Soviet Leonid Chizhik, Black Montrealer Oliver Jones, and French-Canadian Jean Beaudet. It introduces viewers to the diversity of interpretation within today's jazz world, explores the roots of modern jazz ...
Pathfinders
With ropes and wood, teenage girl scouts build an ephemeral village deep in the forest, where they live together freely. Filled with raw beauty, both autonomous and vulnerable, they come face to face with themselves and learn to be tolerant of others.
Il était une fois Françoise Dolto - Part 2
Il était une fois Françoise Dolto - Part 2
Duration: 0h59Subscription access
These conversations with renowned pediatrician and psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto were recorded in 1986, two years before her death. With her unique perspective on childhood, her humour, and her unparalleled talent for simplifying psychoanalytic theories, Dolto helped change the way society views children.
Il était une fois Françoise Dolto - Part 1
Il était une fois Françoise Dolto - Part 1
Duration: 0h59Subscription access
These conversations with renowned pediatrician and psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto were recorded in 1986, two years before her death. With her unique perspective on childhood, her humour, and her unparalleled talent for simplifying psychoanalytic theories, Dolto helped change the way society views children.
Being in a Place – A Portrait of Margaret Tait
Being in a Place – A Portrait of Margaret Tait
Duration: 2h04Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival materials, including sound recordings, film outtakes, and unpublished notebooks, this film focuses on Margaret Tait, one of Scotland's most enigmatic filmmakers. Using one of Tait's unrealized scripts as a starting point, _Being in a Place_ pays tribute to the strengths of Tait's methods, the significance of fragmented bodies of works, and the intrinsic va...
The Beaches of Agnès
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By revisiting the beaches that have marked her life, Varda creates a form of documentary self-portrait. She stages herself amidst excerpts from her films, images, and reports, sharing with humor and emotion her beginnings as a theater photographer, then as an innovative filmmaker in the 1950s. She also shares the story of her life with Jacques Demy, her feminist activism, her travels to Cuba, C...
The Rebelious One
Half-fiction and half-documentary, _The Rebelious One_ is both a personal interpretation and a poetical rendition of Marie-Claire Blais' work that follows the Quebec writer's literary journey through eleven of her novels. Like a continuous thread leading us through the discovery of her writings, the voice, the vision and the keen consciousness of Blais recall the social events and the human dra...
No Story Here
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_No Story Here_, the first film by Jeannine Gagné, co-directed with Michel Lamothe, offers a striking portrait of working-class Montréal in the 1970s. Created without a script and using just 600 feet of film, this student short freely blends images and sounds, the latter serving as echoes of the popular psyche, already foreshadowing _City Dawn_.
The Rebelious One
Subscription access
Half-fiction and half-documentary, _The Rebelious One_ is both a personal interpretation and a poetical rendition of Marie-Claire Blais' work that follows the Quebec writer's literary journey through eleven of her novels. Like a continuous thread leading us through the discovery of her writings, the voice, the vision and the keen consciousness of Blais recall the social events and the human dra...
Last Train Home
En Chine, à chaque année le même rituel dramatique se produit. Dans les villes-usines du Sud, des millions de travailleurs migratoires se battent pour une place dans des trains bondés de monde. Ils essaient tous de rentrer dans leurs villages pour le Nouvel An chinois. Madame et Monsieur Zhang vivent ainsi depuis une vingtaine d’années. Ils connaissent à peine leurs enfants qui ont été élevés p...
This Is No Time for Romance
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In the midst of summer pleasures and her children's play, a young woman questions the meaning of her life as a wife and mother, and her chances of happiness. Filmed in the 1960s, this film starring Monique Mercure and Marc Favreau depicts the "female condition" from various perspectives.
Old Age and Hope
When old age inflicts physical and sometimes mental decay, is there a way to remain hopeful towards life and its mysteries? This documentary tackles this question by challenging not only specialists such as geriatricians, gerontologists, psychologists, and philosophers but first and foremost the elderly themselves.
An Ecology of Hope
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A portrait of Pierre Dansereau, a renowned Quebecois professor, scientist, humanist, and ecologist celebrated globally for his groundbreaking research on ecosystems. This film takes us on a global journey, exploring diverse landscapes from Baffin Island and Gaspésie to Brazil and the metropolis of New York.
Tout le temps, tout le temps, tout le temps... ?
Tout le temps, tout le temps, tout le temps... ?
Duration: 1h55Subscription access
A Quebec family scattered across the big city reunites in the countryside, in Sainte-Théodosie, and discusses the importance of love, life-which-is-worth-being-lived, the need for freedom and society-which-is-badly-made.
Saint-Jérôme
Subscription access
This socially-driven film explores the impact of technological changes on the city of Saint-Jérôme, which faced a severe socio-economic crisis in the 1960s, mirroring issues in other Quebec cities. Citizens from all social classes come together in a monumental effort to address the crisis. The film serves as both a reflection of this situation and a catalyst for action, acting as a mediation to...
The Dreamed Ones
In the intimacy of a Viennese studio, two young actors revive the literary scene and atmosphere of the post-war period through their reading of the correspondence between Romanian Jewish poet Paul Celan and Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann, daughter of a former National Socialist Party activist.
The Waldheim Waltz
When Austrian diplomat and former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim announced he was running for president in 1986, the news was greeted with joy and seen as a safe bet by his fellow countrymen and women. That is, until his Nazi past was revealed – an awkward detail he’d conveniently forgotten to mention during all his years in public office. Despite some people’s stupefaction and protests, ul...
John Cassavetes
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For a long time, John Cassavetes was known as an actor, but it's as a filmmaker that he appears in this portrait. When André S. Labarthe and Hubert Knapp met him, he was already the author of three films: _Shadows_, an independent film made in New York in 1959, then _Too Late Blues_ (1961) and _A Child is Waiting_ (1963), two Hollywood productions he considered disastrous. This documentary chro...
Three Comrades of Montreal
Giovanni, Francesco, and Salvatore have passed the age of 80 and are proud to still consider themselves communist or socialist comrades. All three left their poor villages in southern Italy after the war to settle in Montreal, where they maintained close ties with Italian left-wing parties while also being active in Canadian progressive unions and parties. Through images, personal documents, an...
Crossroads - Three Jazz Pianists
Crossroads - Three Jazz Pianists
Duration: 56 minutesSubscription access
Shot in 1987 at the Montréal International Jazz Festival, this documentary film presents musical performances and conversations between three jazz pianists with remarkably different styles - Soviet Leonid Chizhik, Black Montrealer Oliver Jones, and French-Canadian Jean Beaudet. It introduces viewers to the diversity of interpretation within today's jazz world, explores the roots of modern jazz ...
Pathfinders
With ropes and wood, teenage girl scouts build an ephemeral village deep in the forest, where they live together freely. Filled with raw beauty, both autonomous and vulnerable, they come face to face with themselves and learn to be tolerant of others.
Il était une fois Françoise Dolto - Part 2
Il était une fois Françoise Dolto - Part 2
Duration: 0h59Subscription access
These conversations with renowned pediatrician and psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto were recorded in 1986, two years before her death. With her unique perspective on childhood, her humour, and her unparalleled talent for simplifying psychoanalytic theories, Dolto helped change the way society views children.
Il était une fois Françoise Dolto - Part 1
Il était une fois Françoise Dolto - Part 1
Duration: 0h59Subscription access
These conversations with renowned pediatrician and psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto were recorded in 1986, two years before her death. With her unique perspective on childhood, her humour, and her unparalleled talent for simplifying psychoanalytic theories, Dolto helped change the way society views children.
Being in a Place – A Portrait of Margaret Tait
Being in a Place – A Portrait of Margaret Tait
Duration: 2h04Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival materials, including sound recordings, film outtakes, and unpublished notebooks, this film focuses on Margaret Tait, one of Scotland's most enigmatic filmmakers. Using one of Tait's unrealized scripts as a starting point, _Being in a Place_ pays tribute to the strengths of Tait's methods, the significance of fragmented bodies of works, and the intrinsic va...
The Beaches of Agnès
Subscription access
By revisiting the beaches that have marked her life, Varda creates a form of documentary self-portrait. She stages herself amidst excerpts from her films, images, and reports, sharing with humor and emotion her beginnings as a theater photographer, then as an innovative filmmaker in the 1950s. She also shares the story of her life with Jacques Demy, her feminist activism, her travels to Cuba, C...
