Coups de coeur
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The Day to Come Is a Bright New Day
The Day to Come Is a Bright New Day
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Early morning in a Montreal diner: filter coffee, bacon, French toast. Stories and solitudes are shared. Silences, glances, a chance encounter, and the promise of a brand-new day. A restaurant that feels like a refuge, where the chaos of the world nonetheless finds its way in, captured with tenderness and love for its characters.
Gods of Stone
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Filmed over fifteen years, _Deuses de pedra_ (_Gods of Stone_) paints a portrait of a rural community along the historic border between Galicia and Portugal. Through the eyes of Mariana, a young girl growing up immersed in local stories, legends, and folklore, the film explores the ties between past and present, belonging and change. As the story unfolds, the magic of tradition is confronted wi...
Samuel and the Light
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Samuel lives in Ponta Negra, a small fishing village on the coast of Paraty, Brazil. Following the boy and his family over the course of six years, the film gradually reveals a more complex reality and its inherent contradictions. The arrival of electricity and tourism crystallizes the dismantling of an idealized paradise, painting a nuanced portrait of contemporary Brazil.
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To reflect on the 500-year anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 2021, director Reyes offers a bold hybrid cinema experience exploring the brutal legacy of colonialism in contemporary Mexico. Through the eyes of a ghostly conquistador, the film recreates Hérnan Cortés' epic journey from the coasts of Veracruz to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, the site of contemporary Mexico City....
Un printemps de square
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In a working-class neighborhood of Paris, high school students and other young people living in the nearby social housing gather in a small public square over the course of a spring. A documentary shot between 1977 and 1978 and re-edited by the director in 2022.
Everything Everywhere Again Alive
Everything Everywhere Again Alive
Duration: 1h12In the early 1970s, Keith Lock moved to the hippie community of Buck Lake, north of Kingston, Ontario. He went there to join members of Toronto’s underground scene, capturing the daily life of a horizontal, ideal society, free from urban oppression. The result is one of the masterpieces of Canadian experimental cinema, but above all a free-spirited film that challenges the very idea of freedom.
About Some Meaningless Events
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A group of young filmmakers ask residents of Casablanca for their opinions on Moroccan cinema as part of a film project. During the shoot, a dispute breaks out between a dockworker and his superior, resulting in the accidental death of the latter. Having captured the incident on film, the crew begins to question the man’s motives and reflect on the role of cinema in society and the forms it can...
La vie est immense et pleine de dangers
La vie est immense et pleine de dangers
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Cedric is eight years old. One day, he has stomach pains. During the following six months, he will mostly live in a small unit for children suffering from cancer, on the fifth floor of the Institut Curie in Paris. His words and the story intertwine with those of Steve, Dolores and the other children. Cedric will lead us each time a bit further, through all the trials that he'll face until his r...
Antoine
With _Antoine_, filmmaker Laura Bari treats us to a sensitive portrait of a six-year-old boy, one like any other, except that he’s blind. We follow Antoine in his classes, playing with friends, skating, and visiting family. We accompany him on imaginary excursions as a detective, listen to him as a radio host, and sit shotgun as he drives his parents’ car. Antoine allows us access back into chi...
Argentinian Lesson
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With lush and intimate photography, Wojciech Staroń documents his family's move from Poland to Argentina. Struggling to adapt in a foreign country, his 8-year-old son Janek finds a friend in Marcia, a grounded 11-year-old Argentinean of Polish descent. With a strength and determination well beyond her years, Marcia must help make ends meet while holding her family together.
Language is a Love Story
In Montreal, in Madame Loiseau’s class, newcomers to the country are starting the school year. Whether they are from Syria, Nepal, Afghanistan, or Djibouti, their knowledge of French is limited, if not nonexistent. Guided by a compassionate and dedicated teacher, these adults—who dream of a better life, and some of whom have never been to school before—gradually become acquainted with the cultu...
A Summer Love
Duration: 2h06
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It’s summer in Montreal and everyone is in love… except you. Late at night, on the mountain that overlooks the city, couples lay in the grass and linger in after-hours picnics, bodies move in closer towards one another, glances are exchanged. You roam from gathering to gathering, from budding couple to budding couple, never able to feel this fever, nor to embrace it. You want to feel their wond...
The Day to Come Is a Bright New Day
The Day to Come Is a Bright New Day
New product!Duration: 1h30
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Early morning in a Montreal diner: filter coffee, bacon, French toast. Stories and solitudes are shared. Silences, glances, a chance encounter, and the promise of a brand-new day. A restaurant that feels like a refuge, where the chaos of the world nonetheless finds its way in, captured with tenderness and love for its characters.
Gods of Stone
Subscription access
Filmed over fifteen years, _Deuses de pedra_ (_Gods of Stone_) paints a portrait of a rural community along the historic border between Galicia and Portugal. Through the eyes of Mariana, a young girl growing up immersed in local stories, legends, and folklore, the film explores the ties between past and present, belonging and change. As the story unfolds, the magic of tradition is confronted wi...
Samuel and the Light
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Samuel lives in Ponta Negra, a small fishing village on the coast of Paraty, Brazil. Following the boy and his family over the course of six years, the film gradually reveals a more complex reality and its inherent contradictions. The arrival of electricity and tourism crystallizes the dismantling of an idealized paradise, painting a nuanced portrait of contemporary Brazil.
499
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To reflect on the 500-year anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 2021, director Reyes offers a bold hybrid cinema experience exploring the brutal legacy of colonialism in contemporary Mexico. Through the eyes of a ghostly conquistador, the film recreates Hérnan Cortés' epic journey from the coasts of Veracruz to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, the site of contemporary Mexico City....
Un printemps de square
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In a working-class neighborhood of Paris, high school students and other young people living in the nearby social housing gather in a small public square over the course of a spring. A documentary shot between 1977 and 1978 and re-edited by the director in 2022.
Everything Everywhere Again Alive
Everything Everywhere Again Alive
Duration: 1h12In the early 1970s, Keith Lock moved to the hippie community of Buck Lake, north of Kingston, Ontario. He went there to join members of Toronto’s underground scene, capturing the daily life of a horizontal, ideal society, free from urban oppression. The result is one of the masterpieces of Canadian experimental cinema, but above all a free-spirited film that challenges the very idea of freedom.
About Some Meaningless Events
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A group of young filmmakers ask residents of Casablanca for their opinions on Moroccan cinema as part of a film project. During the shoot, a dispute breaks out between a dockworker and his superior, resulting in the accidental death of the latter. Having captured the incident on film, the crew begins to question the man’s motives and reflect on the role of cinema in society and the forms it can...
La vie est immense et pleine de dangers
La vie est immense et pleine de dangers
Duration: 1h20Subscription access
Cedric is eight years old. One day, he has stomach pains. During the following six months, he will mostly live in a small unit for children suffering from cancer, on the fifth floor of the Institut Curie in Paris. His words and the story intertwine with those of Steve, Dolores and the other children. Cedric will lead us each time a bit further, through all the trials that he'll face until his r...
Antoine
With _Antoine_, filmmaker Laura Bari treats us to a sensitive portrait of a six-year-old boy, one like any other, except that he’s blind. We follow Antoine in his classes, playing with friends, skating, and visiting family. We accompany him on imaginary excursions as a detective, listen to him as a radio host, and sit shotgun as he drives his parents’ car. Antoine allows us access back into chi...
Argentinian Lesson
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With lush and intimate photography, Wojciech Staroń documents his family's move from Poland to Argentina. Struggling to adapt in a foreign country, his 8-year-old son Janek finds a friend in Marcia, a grounded 11-year-old Argentinean of Polish descent. With a strength and determination well beyond her years, Marcia must help make ends meet while holding her family together.
Language is a Love Story
In Montreal, in Madame Loiseau’s class, newcomers to the country are starting the school year. Whether they are from Syria, Nepal, Afghanistan, or Djibouti, their knowledge of French is limited, if not nonexistent. Guided by a compassionate and dedicated teacher, these adults—who dream of a better life, and some of whom have never been to school before—gradually become acquainted with the cultu...
A Summer Love
Duration: 2h06
Subscription access
It’s summer in Montreal and everyone is in love… except you. Late at night, on the mountain that overlooks the city, couples lay in the grass and linger in after-hours picnics, bodies move in closer towards one another, glances are exchanged. You roam from gathering to gathering, from budding couple to budding couple, never able to feel this fever, nor to embrace it. You want to feel their wond...
