Sylvie Lapointe
Sylvie Lapointe pratique le métier de cinéaste depuis 1995. Elle réalise et produit des documentaires au Québec (Vue de ruelle 2017 & 2018, etc.), au Mexique (Polvo, 2020, Simplement, una despedida, 2017 et La leçon de l’escargot, 2012 incursion dans les communautés autonomes du Chiapas) et au Guatemala (Yanina, guérillera ou coopérante?, 2001). De plus, elle collabore à une cinquantaine de projets auprès d’autres cinéastes à titre de recherchiste, directrice de production / assistante à la réalisation. En 2021, elle entreprend une maîtrise en anthropologie à l’Université de Montréal où elle étudie notamment les courants décolonisateurs et les approches d’écologisation de nos rapports au(x) monde(s) afin de les agencer éventuellement à une écriture filmique sensible.
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The Golden Rule
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In Malartic, in Abitibi, people are driven away from their land, from the towns they built with their own hands. Then comes the gaping hole, the scar on the Earth: the open-pit mine. And the company is paying for it all with nothing more than the promise of a shining future.
Utuqaq
A poem from the frozen plains of Greenland blends with the technological prose of a polar expedition. The endless white space, folded by ice, remembers the millions of years of evolution and decades of our negative effect on the planet. Crude and bewitchingly beautiful Arctic as a place of magic blending of languages, traditions, sounds and worlds.
I Am Berta
On March 2, 2016, Lenca environmental activist Berta Cáceres was murdered. She was shot at close range after denouncing those who wanted to see her dead. In the world's most dangerous country for environmentalists, tenacious Honduran journalist Milton Benítez follows the clues he and Berta noted at a meeting held the day before her murder. With the help of Almudena Bernabeu, a renowned internat...
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
Duration: 3h18With around 1400 billion tons of carbon dioxide trapped in the lower atmosphere and the invention of napalm, pesticides, and radioactivity, man has irrevocably changed Earth. Using extensive archival footage, this documentary tracks how man has exploited the planet for his own gain and to the detriment of the natural world, over the last two centuries.
Seeking the Current
Nicolas Boisclair and Alexis de Gheldere collaborate with Quebecois film star Roy Dupuis on this documentary about environmental advocacy. The film is a critique of Hydro-Quebec's Romaine River initiative, a plan to construct four dams along the 500-kilometer waterway. It's also a story of devolution from social democratic ideals to greed and environmental destructiveness.
Humus
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Soils are turning to dust. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), all of the world's arable land could be gone within 60 years. With the humility now required by the degree of planetary destruction, a couple of market gardeners are working to implement the great principles of nature in their gardens, in search of a new alliance with the living. Old and new know...
Animal
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Bella and Vipulan are 16 years old, a generation convinced that their future is being threatened. Climate change, the sixth mass extinction of species... within fifty years, their world could become uninhabitable. They may warn, but nothing really changes. So they decide to go to the source of the problem: our relationship with the living world.
Composing Worlds
From where can we rethink our world to transform it? Philippe Descola has devoted his life as an anthropologist to studying how humans compose their worlds; starting in the Amazon, he turned his field of research towards Europe, in order to understand how we, the moderns, could have made the earth less and less habitable. The film takes him to embody his ideas, in dialogue with the non-humans a...
La Montagne et le loup
The wolf is back on the plateau du Vercors… Threat for shepherds and breeders? Precious object of protection for the guards? Manifestation of authenticity for environmentalists? So many visions of the mountain, so many projects for the wolf, the sheep, the forest, the meadows. Beyond all that separates, everyone feels that a new mountain is emerging. A mountain that erases the traces of history...
The Awakening of Permaculture
Permaculture offers a glimpse of hope with its ecologically sustainable, economically viable and socially equitable solutions. Accessible to all, it can be implemented everywhere... Today, men and women meet and experiment this credible alternative. The permaculture transition is underway!
Isle Of Flowers
A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women, and children. Then, the difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear.
Stop Filming Us
Based on the struggle of young people in Goma (Northeastern Congo) against the prevailing Western reporting about war and misery, this film investigates how these Western stereotypes are the result of a skewed balance of power.
Los Herederos
In certain parts of the Mexican countryside, work begins in childhood. These young people, like their ancestors, are caught in a daily struggle to survive. The first moments of Los Herederos (The Inheritors) depict a perfectly ordinary situation: morning rituals at home before going to work. An ordinary situation, yes, but one detail is important: it is not a father or a mother who is about to...
The Golden Rule
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In Malartic, in Abitibi, people are driven away from their land, from the towns they built with their own hands. Then comes the gaping hole, the scar on the Earth: the open-pit mine. And the company is paying for it all with nothing more than the promise of a shining future.
Utuqaq
A poem from the frozen plains of Greenland blends with the technological prose of a polar expedition. The endless white space, folded by ice, remembers the millions of years of evolution and decades of our negative effect on the planet. Crude and bewitchingly beautiful Arctic as a place of magic blending of languages, traditions, sounds and worlds.
I Am Berta
On March 2, 2016, Lenca environmental activist Berta Cáceres was murdered. She was shot at close range after denouncing those who wanted to see her dead. In the world's most dangerous country for environmentalists, tenacious Honduran journalist Milton Benítez follows the clues he and Berta noted at a meeting held the day before her murder. With the help of Almudena Bernabeu, a renowned internat...
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
Duration: 3h18With around 1400 billion tons of carbon dioxide trapped in the lower atmosphere and the invention of napalm, pesticides, and radioactivity, man has irrevocably changed Earth. Using extensive archival footage, this documentary tracks how man has exploited the planet for his own gain and to the detriment of the natural world, over the last two centuries.
Seeking the Current
Nicolas Boisclair and Alexis de Gheldere collaborate with Quebecois film star Roy Dupuis on this documentary about environmental advocacy. The film is a critique of Hydro-Quebec's Romaine River initiative, a plan to construct four dams along the 500-kilometer waterway. It's also a story of devolution from social democratic ideals to greed and environmental destructiveness.
Humus
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Soils are turning to dust. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), all of the world's arable land could be gone within 60 years. With the humility now required by the degree of planetary destruction, a couple of market gardeners are working to implement the great principles of nature in their gardens, in search of a new alliance with the living. Old and new know...
Animal
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Bella and Vipulan are 16 years old, a generation convinced that their future is being threatened. Climate change, the sixth mass extinction of species... within fifty years, their world could become uninhabitable. They may warn, but nothing really changes. So they decide to go to the source of the problem: our relationship with the living world.
Composing Worlds
From where can we rethink our world to transform it? Philippe Descola has devoted his life as an anthropologist to studying how humans compose their worlds; starting in the Amazon, he turned his field of research towards Europe, in order to understand how we, the moderns, could have made the earth less and less habitable. The film takes him to embody his ideas, in dialogue with the non-humans a...
La Montagne et le loup
The wolf is back on the plateau du Vercors… Threat for shepherds and breeders? Precious object of protection for the guards? Manifestation of authenticity for environmentalists? So many visions of the mountain, so many projects for the wolf, the sheep, the forest, the meadows. Beyond all that separates, everyone feels that a new mountain is emerging. A mountain that erases the traces of history...
The Awakening of Permaculture
Permaculture offers a glimpse of hope with its ecologically sustainable, economically viable and socially equitable solutions. Accessible to all, it can be implemented everywhere... Today, men and women meet and experiment this credible alternative. The permaculture transition is underway!
Isle Of Flowers
A tomato is planted, harvested and sold at a supermarket, but it rots and ends up in the trash. But it doesn’t end there: Isle of Flowers follows it up until its real end, among animals, trash, women, and children. Then, the difference between tomatoes, pigs and human beings becomes clear.
Stop Filming Us
Based on the struggle of young people in Goma (Northeastern Congo) against the prevailing Western reporting about war and misery, this film investigates how these Western stereotypes are the result of a skewed balance of power.
Los Herederos
In certain parts of the Mexican countryside, work begins in childhood. These young people, like their ancestors, are caught in a daily struggle to survive. The first moments of Los Herederos (The Inheritors) depict a perfectly ordinary situation: morning rituals at home before going to work. An ordinary situation, yes, but one detail is important: it is not a father or a mother who is about to...
