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Tolyatti Adrift
Duration: 2h20
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A portrait of the disenchanted youth of Tolyatti, a stricken city that was once a symbol of Soviet progress and the automobile. Filmmaker Laura Sistero encounters a youth adrift, expressing its dreams of escapism through crazy races aboard old, cobbled-together Lada cars, in a film propelled by spectacular slides to the rhythm of an electro-rock soundtrack.
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...
Sovereign Soil
Duration: 3h02
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Set in the northern wilds surrounding the tiny sub-Arctic town of Dawson City, Yukon, Sovereign Soil is an ode to the beauty of this ferocious, remote land and the wisdom of those who’ve chosen to call it home.
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...
Doctors with Heart
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This deeply human documentary offers a unique perspective on AIDS, giving voice to general practitioners, researchers, ethicists, philosophers, and humanists. Here, the disease becomes a lens through which the strengths and flaws of our society are revealed, challenging our scientific, moral, and social principles. A global and groundbreaking approach that transcends life, death, and AIDS itself.
Everything Lives
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Part observation, part performance, and a collaboration between father and son, _Everything Lives_ looks at how Ken experiences time in the barns where he works; the time he spends playing, the time unique to painting or the time it takes to build a whole life. This short 16mm film is an intimate series of surfaces, sounds and events that together form their subject: the artist as father.
These Streets Will Never Look the Same
These Streets Will Never Look the Same
Duration: 3h12Subscription access
A car slowly navigates the winding streets and disparate airwaves of the United States of America to uncover the scars of capitalism in natural landscapes, urban environments, people, and wildlife. An intricately built meditative audio-visual experience.
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
New product!Duration: 2h32
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Composed 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...
Tolyatti Adrift
Duration: 2h20
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A portrait of the disenchanted youth of Tolyatti, a stricken city that was once a symbol of Soviet progress and the automobile. Filmmaker Laura Sistero encounters a youth adrift, expressing its dreams of escapism through crazy races aboard old, cobbled-together Lada cars, in a film propelled by spectacular slides to the rhythm of an electro-rock soundtrack.
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...
Sovereign Soil
Duration: 3h02
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Set in the northern wilds surrounding the tiny sub-Arctic town of Dawson City, Yukon, Sovereign Soil is an ode to the beauty of this ferocious, remote land and the wisdom of those who’ve chosen to call it home.
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...
Doctors with Heart
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This deeply human documentary offers a unique perspective on AIDS, giving voice to general practitioners, researchers, ethicists, philosophers, and humanists. Here, the disease becomes a lens through which the strengths and flaws of our society are revealed, challenging our scientific, moral, and social principles. A global and groundbreaking approach that transcends life, death, and AIDS itself.
Everything Lives
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Part observation, part performance, and a collaboration between father and son, _Everything Lives_ looks at how Ken experiences time in the barns where he works; the time he spends playing, the time unique to painting or the time it takes to build a whole life. This short 16mm film is an intimate series of surfaces, sounds and events that together form their subject: the artist as father.
These Streets Will Never Look the Same
These Streets Will Never Look the Same
Duration: 3h12Subscription access
A car slowly navigates the winding streets and disparate airwaves of the United States of America to uncover the scars of capitalism in natural landscapes, urban environments, people, and wildlife. An intricately built meditative audio-visual experience.
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
New product!Duration: 2h32
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Composed 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...
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A Man Leaning
Duration: 3h14
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A major poet of the late 20th century, Thierry Metz (1956-1997) worked as a laborer or seasonal worker in the Lot-et-Garonne region. He transformed each stage of his life into poetic material. The film sheds light on the tragic intensity of his brief existence and the radical nature of his artistic commitment.
Silence of the Tides
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Silence of the Tides is a cinematic portrait of the largest tidal wetlands in the world: the Wadden Sea. The film plays witness to the rough, yet fragile relationship between man and nature as it pulsates with the inhaling and exhaling of the tides. It’s a hypnotizing large screen look into the cycles and contrasts of the seasons: life and death, storm and silence, the masses and the individua...
Snowbirds
Duration: 1h36
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_Snowbirds_ is a mid-length documentary that reaches out to golden age Canadians living in Florida during the winter season. This is the growing trend of an entire generation migrating to the tropics, seeking a leisure society that can entertain them. With tenderness and humor, this sociological documentary goes to the heart of their daily lives by painting a human portrait of this typically Ca...
Night Falls
Duration: 1h00
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A historian with the gift of clairvoyance roams the streets of the old City of Lights. In the falls of Shawinigan, he finds a meditation on human history and its loss of meaning.
In the Eyes of a Beast
Duration: 1h13
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Filmmaker Dominique Loreau set out to explore the relationships between people and animals sharing the same spaces. In farms, alongside an ethologist in the field, in slaughterhouses, zoos, museums, urban settings, a dance rehearsal room, and even during a performance where an actor transforms into an animal, she captures the gazes of animals observing humans and humans observing animals. She t...
NDDJ (Notre-Dame-du-Jambon)
Duration: 38 minutes
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Karan and Rohan, two biracial brothers raised in an alternative, unique, and marginal environment, creatively find ways to pass the time. Like many kids, a trip to buy candy often feels like the perfect escape from boredom. This short film is an ode to the power of reality and fiction, the love between two brothers, and the beauty of the Quebec countryside.
Tolyatti Adrift
Duration: 2h20
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A portrait of the disenchanted youth of Tolyatti, a stricken city that was once a symbol of Soviet progress and the automobile. Filmmaker Laura Sistero encounters a youth adrift, expressing its dreams of escapism through crazy races aboard old, cobbled-together Lada cars, in a film propelled by spectacular slides to the rhythm of an electro-rock soundtrack.
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...
All The Time In The World
Duration: 2h54
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Featuring the perspectives of three children (aged 10, 8, and 4), _All The Time In The World_ is an inspiring, humorous, and family-friendly documentary that chronicles the natural rhythm of life as a family chooses to live by the seasons instead of by the clock, highlighting the connection, creativity, and ingenuity that flourish as a result.
CBQM
Duration: 2h12
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The radio station CBQM operates out of Fort McPherson, a small town about 150 km north of the Arctic Circle in the Canadian Northwest Territories. Through storytelling and old-time country music, filmmaker and long-time listener Dennis Allen crafts a nuanced portrait of the "Moccasin Telegraph," the radio station that is a pillar of local identity and pride in this lively northern Teetl'it Gwic...
A Man Leaning
Duration: 3h14
Subscription access
A major poet of the late 20th century, Thierry Metz (1956-1997) worked as a laborer or seasonal worker in the Lot-et-Garonne region. He transformed each stage of his life into poetic material. The film sheds light on the tragic intensity of his brief existence and the radical nature of his artistic commitment.
Silence of the Tides
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Silence of the Tides is a cinematic portrait of the largest tidal wetlands in the world: the Wadden Sea. The film plays witness to the rough, yet fragile relationship between man and nature as it pulsates with the inhaling and exhaling of the tides. It’s a hypnotizing large screen look into the cycles and contrasts of the seasons: life and death, storm and silence, the masses and the individua...
Snowbirds
Duration: 1h36
Subscription access
_Snowbirds_ is a mid-length documentary that reaches out to golden age Canadians living in Florida during the winter season. This is the growing trend of an entire generation migrating to the tropics, seeking a leisure society that can entertain them. With tenderness and humor, this sociological documentary goes to the heart of their daily lives by painting a human portrait of this typically Ca...
Night Falls
Duration: 1h00
Subscription access
A historian with the gift of clairvoyance roams the streets of the old City of Lights. In the falls of Shawinigan, he finds a meditation on human history and its loss of meaning.
In the Eyes of a Beast
Duration: 1h13
Subscription access
Filmmaker Dominique Loreau set out to explore the relationships between people and animals sharing the same spaces. In farms, alongside an ethologist in the field, in slaughterhouses, zoos, museums, urban settings, a dance rehearsal room, and even during a performance where an actor transforms into an animal, she captures the gazes of animals observing humans and humans observing animals. She t...
NDDJ (Notre-Dame-du-Jambon)
Duration: 38 minutes
Subscription access
Karan and Rohan, two biracial brothers raised in an alternative, unique, and marginal environment, creatively find ways to pass the time. Like many kids, a trip to buy candy often feels like the perfect escape from boredom. This short film is an ode to the power of reality and fiction, the love between two brothers, and the beauty of the Quebec countryside.
Tolyatti Adrift
Duration: 2h20
Subscription access
A portrait of the disenchanted youth of Tolyatti, a stricken city that was once a symbol of Soviet progress and the automobile. Filmmaker Laura Sistero encounters a youth adrift, expressing its dreams of escapism through crazy races aboard old, cobbled-together Lada cars, in a film propelled by spectacular slides to the rhythm of an electro-rock soundtrack.
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...
All The Time In The World
Duration: 2h54
Subscription access
Featuring the perspectives of three children (aged 10, 8, and 4), _All The Time In The World_ is an inspiring, humorous, and family-friendly documentary that chronicles the natural rhythm of life as a family chooses to live by the seasons instead of by the clock, highlighting the connection, creativity, and ingenuity that flourish as a result.
CBQM
Duration: 2h12
Subscription access
The radio station CBQM operates out of Fort McPherson, a small town about 150 km north of the Arctic Circle in the Canadian Northwest Territories. Through storytelling and old-time country music, filmmaker and long-time listener Dennis Allen crafts a nuanced portrait of the "Moccasin Telegraph," the radio station that is a pillar of local identity and pride in this lively northern Teetl'it Gwic...
