Montreal, September 1984. Within a span of five days, Montreal’s Olympic Stadium hosts Pope John Paul II and Michael Jackson. A perfect opportunity to explore the impact of the media on the masses. With caustic irony, this film gives voice to people excluded by Church doctrine: the gay and lesbian community, and women who’ve had abortions or been abused. Beyond documentary, fiction or news repo...
"My father was taken from me when I was a child, then my mother and my brother when I was barely a teenager. I left, to isolate myself, to escape, to flee. Can time erase the past? Upon my return from a long exile, I remember. Travelling back in time, inner movements, the future beckons. A tribute to my homeland." (Lysanne Thibodeau)
Une semaine dans la vie de camarades - Part 2
Duration: 2h02_Une semaine dans la vie de camarades_ is a road movie whose journey intersects with and extends the events of the International Counter-Culture Meeting that took place in 1975 in Montreal. This meeting, at the heart of the film, features several important figures of the counterculture in Quebec. Throughout the film, these individuals, often through their creative endeavors, question the evolut...
Une semaine dans la vie de camarades - Part 1
Duration: 2h01_Une semaine dans la vie de camarades_ is a road movie whose journey intersects with and extends the events of the International Counter-Culture Meeting that took place in 1975 in Montreal. This meeting, at the heart of the film, features several important figures of the counterculture in Quebec. Throughout the film, these individuals, often through their creative endeavors, question the evolut...
Images of the World and the Inscription of War
Duration: 2h28_Images of the World and Inscription in War_ is an essay whose central motif is the aerial photograph of the camp at Auschwitz taken on April 4, 1944 by an American reconnaissance plane. On this photo, analysts identified the surrounding factories but not the concentration and extermination camp. Dialectic montage and a distanced commentary compose this film which analyses the conditions under ...
This feature documentary is a biography of Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian doctor who served with the loyalists during the Spanish Civil War and with the North Chinese Army during the Sino-Japanese War. In Spain he pioneered the world's first mobile blood-transfusion service; in China his work behind battle lines to save the wounded has made him a legendary figure.
Homeland, Iraq Year Zero - Part 2 : After the Battle
Duration: 5h48Chronicles of daily life in Iraq, before and after the American invasion of 2003. This powerful collective fresco has the breath of a slow-moving saga, like the river that flows through Baghdad. The tragedy and dignity of the Iraqi people emerge on screen in moments of great intensity. A work of reference for understanding the history and present of the Middle East. This second part, after the ...
Homeland, Iraq Year Zero - Part 1 : Before the Fall
Duration: 5h20Chronicles of daily life in Iraq, before and after the American invasion of 2003. This powerful collective fresco has the breath of a slow-moving saga, like the river that flows through Baghdad. The tragedy and dignity of the Iraqi people emerge on screen in moments of great intensity. A work of reference for understanding the history and present of the Middle East. In this first part, Abbas Fa...
An exploration of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France as it operated in the mid-1950s, treasure-trove and museum of words where precious rarities, all kinds of knowledge, catalogues and books collections are kept, listed, analysed, categorised, annotated, labelled, registered and consulted.
This feature film, made during an exceptionally feverish period of popular revolt that saw the joining of Quebec’s 3 main unions (CSN, FTQ, CEQ), is a cinematic essay by socially engaged filmmaker Gilles Groulx. Set against the backdrop of the 1970 October Crisis, the film is a frontal assault - denouncing a “consumer society” viewed as the ultimate embodiment of evil.
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
Duration: 6h00Between documentary and reconstruction, this film traces the 25-year reign of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. A remarkable work of editing made from official images.
In Burma, Ashin Wirathu is a very influential Buddhist monk. To meet him is to find oneself at the heart of daily racism and to observe how the Islamophobic and hateful discourse that he preaches is transformed into violence and destruction. Yet we are in a country where 90% of the population practices Buddhism, a religion based on a peaceful, tolerant and non-violent way of life.
This photographic and cinematographic perfume reveals a fictional city crossed in space and time, Hong Kong prefiguring the destiny of Shanghai, and gives us a glimpse of the megacities of the 21st century. But Serge Clément takes us far beyond and below history, into multidimensional chiaroscuro that speaks to us of him and of us, of what we are and what we will be. A film without words.
This feature documentary represents a quest that is both personal and universal. Director Claude Demers revisits the working-class neighbourhood of Verdun where he grew up and asks questions about the mysteries of his origins and his formative years, which were marked by abandonment. Bastien and Cédric, two young boys who are discovering the world around them, serve as the narrator’s alter egos...
Through a tragic event on a construction site in Montreal, the filmmaker addresses the physical, psychological and social deaths of the Quebec worker, resulting from his working conditions and his dispossession. Construction workers denounce their working and living conditions in Montreal. Produced by the CSN, in tune with its times, this political film is a testament to Lamothe's activist film...
Nominingue... depuis qu'il existe
Subscription accessA chronicle of a small town in the Upper Laurentians that, at the turn of the 1960s, became a vacation spot par excellence. Nestled in the heart of a vast territory dotted with numerous lakes, mountains, and rivers, Nominingue was once perceived as a town of misery and hard-living. Over time, the municipality gradually became a place of rest for tourists, typical characters in a world full of ...
Travis Wilkersons deep-seated concern for American history is intelligently expressed through his experimental documentaries. He reconstructs the history of Butte, Montana, where capitalist interests in copper mining ran into direct conflict with the labor union movement. Wilkerson weaves a fascinating historical inquiry, moving between past and present, incorporating workers songs, company and...
À la fin de la Grande Noirceur au Québec, quatre ados d’un village des Laurentides partent en exploration dans les bois avec le camion de l’oncle de deux d’entre eux.
By juxtaposing moments so natural that they seem stolen from the city itself, Aube urbaine recreates the stark reality of a winter morning. Narrative fragments are superimposed over beautiful black-and-white shots and spontaneously delivered so as to form a fresco, rendering the true soul of the city and of its inhabitants. In the twilight, the footsteps of a young woman trampling in the s...
Montreal, September 1984. Within a span of five days, Montreal’s Olympic Stadium hosts Pope John Paul II and Michael Jackson. A perfect opportunity to explore the impact of the media on the masses. With caustic irony, this film gives voice to people excluded by Church doctrine: the gay and lesbian community, and women who’ve had abortions or been abused. Beyond documentary, fiction or news repo...
"My father was taken from me when I was a child, then my mother and my brother when I was barely a teenager. I left, to isolate myself, to escape, to flee. Can time erase the past? Upon my return from a long exile, I remember. Travelling back in time, inner movements, the future beckons. A tribute to my homeland." (Lysanne Thibodeau)
Une semaine dans la vie de camarades - Part 2
Duration: 2h02_Une semaine dans la vie de camarades_ is a road movie whose journey intersects with and extends the events of the International Counter-Culture Meeting that took place in 1975 in Montreal. This meeting, at the heart of the film, features several important figures of the counterculture in Quebec. Throughout the film, these individuals, often through their creative endeavors, question the evolut...
Une semaine dans la vie de camarades - Part 1
Duration: 2h01_Une semaine dans la vie de camarades_ is a road movie whose journey intersects with and extends the events of the International Counter-Culture Meeting that took place in 1975 in Montreal. This meeting, at the heart of the film, features several important figures of the counterculture in Quebec. Throughout the film, these individuals, often through their creative endeavors, question the evolut...
Images of the World and the Inscription of War
Duration: 2h28_Images of the World and Inscription in War_ is an essay whose central motif is the aerial photograph of the camp at Auschwitz taken on April 4, 1944 by an American reconnaissance plane. On this photo, analysts identified the surrounding factories but not the concentration and extermination camp. Dialectic montage and a distanced commentary compose this film which analyses the conditions under ...
This feature documentary is a biography of Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian doctor who served with the loyalists during the Spanish Civil War and with the North Chinese Army during the Sino-Japanese War. In Spain he pioneered the world's first mobile blood-transfusion service; in China his work behind battle lines to save the wounded has made him a legendary figure.
Homeland, Iraq Year Zero - Part 2 : After the Battle
Duration: 5h48Chronicles of daily life in Iraq, before and after the American invasion of 2003. This powerful collective fresco has the breath of a slow-moving saga, like the river that flows through Baghdad. The tragedy and dignity of the Iraqi people emerge on screen in moments of great intensity. A work of reference for understanding the history and present of the Middle East. This second part, after the ...
Homeland, Iraq Year Zero - Part 1 : Before the Fall
Duration: 5h20Chronicles of daily life in Iraq, before and after the American invasion of 2003. This powerful collective fresco has the breath of a slow-moving saga, like the river that flows through Baghdad. The tragedy and dignity of the Iraqi people emerge on screen in moments of great intensity. A work of reference for understanding the history and present of the Middle East. In this first part, Abbas Fa...
An exploration of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France as it operated in the mid-1950s, treasure-trove and museum of words where precious rarities, all kinds of knowledge, catalogues and books collections are kept, listed, analysed, categorised, annotated, labelled, registered and consulted.
This feature film, made during an exceptionally feverish period of popular revolt that saw the joining of Quebec’s 3 main unions (CSN, FTQ, CEQ), is a cinematic essay by socially engaged filmmaker Gilles Groulx. Set against the backdrop of the 1970 October Crisis, the film is a frontal assault - denouncing a “consumer society” viewed as the ultimate embodiment of evil.
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
Duration: 6h00Between documentary and reconstruction, this film traces the 25-year reign of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. A remarkable work of editing made from official images.
In Burma, Ashin Wirathu is a very influential Buddhist monk. To meet him is to find oneself at the heart of daily racism and to observe how the Islamophobic and hateful discourse that he preaches is transformed into violence and destruction. Yet we are in a country where 90% of the population practices Buddhism, a religion based on a peaceful, tolerant and non-violent way of life.
This photographic and cinematographic perfume reveals a fictional city crossed in space and time, Hong Kong prefiguring the destiny of Shanghai, and gives us a glimpse of the megacities of the 21st century. But Serge Clément takes us far beyond and below history, into multidimensional chiaroscuro that speaks to us of him and of us, of what we are and what we will be. A film without words.
This feature documentary represents a quest that is both personal and universal. Director Claude Demers revisits the working-class neighbourhood of Verdun where he grew up and asks questions about the mysteries of his origins and his formative years, which were marked by abandonment. Bastien and Cédric, two young boys who are discovering the world around them, serve as the narrator’s alter egos...
Through a tragic event on a construction site in Montreal, the filmmaker addresses the physical, psychological and social deaths of the Quebec worker, resulting from his working conditions and his dispossession. Construction workers denounce their working and living conditions in Montreal. Produced by the CSN, in tune with its times, this political film is a testament to Lamothe's activist film...
Nominingue... depuis qu'il existe
Subscription accessA chronicle of a small town in the Upper Laurentians that, at the turn of the 1960s, became a vacation spot par excellence. Nestled in the heart of a vast territory dotted with numerous lakes, mountains, and rivers, Nominingue was once perceived as a town of misery and hard-living. Over time, the municipality gradually became a place of rest for tourists, typical characters in a world full of ...
Travis Wilkersons deep-seated concern for American history is intelligently expressed through his experimental documentaries. He reconstructs the history of Butte, Montana, where capitalist interests in copper mining ran into direct conflict with the labor union movement. Wilkerson weaves a fascinating historical inquiry, moving between past and present, incorporating workers songs, company and...
À la fin de la Grande Noirceur au Québec, quatre ados d’un village des Laurentides partent en exploration dans les bois avec le camion de l’oncle de deux d’entre eux.
By juxtaposing moments so natural that they seem stolen from the city itself, Aube urbaine recreates the stark reality of a winter morning. Narrative fragments are superimposed over beautiful black-and-white shots and spontaneously delivered so as to form a fresco, rendering the true soul of the city and of its inhabitants. In the twilight, the footsteps of a young woman trampling in the s...