Coups de coeur
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Má Sài Gòn (Mother Saigon)
Duration: 3h18
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In Saigon, family culture carries on as it has for centuries, even when blood ties are broken. Through a mosaic of intimate portraits, _Má Sài Gòn_ explores humanity’s universal desire for love, acceptance, connection and belonging through an LGBTQ+ lens. The film is a love letter – a bittersweet ode to a comforting yet disturbing mother, to a city that is as liberating as it is oppressive.
Jacques
Duration: 3h02
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For over forty years, Jacques Duhoux, a pioneering explorer in northern Quebec, has lived alone in the Uapishka (Groulx) Mountains. Now 85 years old, he continues to live off the grid, despite the inevitable decline that comes with age. A tribute to a true monument of northern exploration, _Jacques_ reveals the delicate balance between nature, aging, and the search for freedom.
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
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In the intimacy of Estonia's sacred saunas, ancient hymns to nature, birth and death are sung, and all the rituals of life intersect. Here, women tell stories they wouldn't tell anywhere else, and in the smoke of burning stones, the female condition is revealed in all its violence and power.
Teenage
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Once, "teenagers" didn't exist. But then, they were invented. As the cultural landscape around the world was thrown into turmoil during the industrial revolution, and with a chasm erupting between adults and youth, the concept of a new generation took shape. Whether in America, England, or Germany, this was a new idea of how people come of age.
There Will Be No More Night
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_There Will Be No More Night_ relies on footage captured by thermal cameras used by the American and French armies in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. By diverting these images from the propaganda narratives in which they are typically embedded, the film examines the dangers of an unchecked desire to see, prompting a reflection on the new paradigms of modern warfare.
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...
Y'a une étoile
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Samuel LeBlanc, a young transgender musician, undertakes in an artistic process the search for a rural queer community in his native Acadie. During his wanderings, he will find, behind heteronormative rural landscapes, people determined to live their differences without having to leave their hometown or deny their cultural identity to get there. Samuel will leave with the conviction that the ...
Vibrations from Gaza
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This film offers an insight into the experiences of deaf children in the colonized and confined coastal territory of Gaza, Palestine, particularly the violence to which they are subjected by Israeli military operations. Born and raised under the frequent onslaught of the occupying forces, children Amani, Musa, Israa and others recite vivid memories of their experiences of bombardment and the co...
Má Sài Gòn (Mother Saigon)
Duration: 3h18
Subscription access
In Saigon, family culture carries on as it has for centuries, even when blood ties are broken. Through a mosaic of intimate portraits, _Má Sài Gòn_ explores humanity’s universal desire for love, acceptance, connection and belonging through an LGBTQ+ lens. The film is a love letter – a bittersweet ode to a comforting yet disturbing mother, to a city that is as liberating as it is oppressive.
Jacques
Duration: 3h02
Subscription access
For over forty years, Jacques Duhoux, a pioneering explorer in northern Quebec, has lived alone in the Uapishka (Groulx) Mountains. Now 85 years old, he continues to live off the grid, despite the inevitable decline that comes with age. A tribute to a true monument of northern exploration, _Jacques_ reveals the delicate balance between nature, aging, and the search for freedom.
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
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In the intimacy of Estonia's sacred saunas, ancient hymns to nature, birth and death are sung, and all the rituals of life intersect. Here, women tell stories they wouldn't tell anywhere else, and in the smoke of burning stones, the female condition is revealed in all its violence and power.
Teenage
Subscription access
Once, "teenagers" didn't exist. But then, they were invented. As the cultural landscape around the world was thrown into turmoil during the industrial revolution, and with a chasm erupting between adults and youth, the concept of a new generation took shape. Whether in America, England, or Germany, this was a new idea of how people come of age.
There Will Be No More Night
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_There Will Be No More Night_ relies on footage captured by thermal cameras used by the American and French armies in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. By diverting these images from the propaganda narratives in which they are typically embedded, the film examines the dangers of an unchecked desire to see, prompting a reflection on the new paradigms of modern warfare.
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...
Y'a une étoile
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Samuel LeBlanc, a young transgender musician, undertakes in an artistic process the search for a rural queer community in his native Acadie. During his wanderings, he will find, behind heteronormative rural landscapes, people determined to live their differences without having to leave their hometown or deny their cultural identity to get there. Samuel will leave with the conviction that the ...
Vibrations from Gaza
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This film offers an insight into the experiences of deaf children in the colonized and confined coastal territory of Gaza, Palestine, particularly the violence to which they are subjected by Israeli military operations. Born and raised under the frequent onslaught of the occupying forces, children Amani, Musa, Israa and others recite vivid memories of their experiences of bombardment and the co...
