Coups de coeur
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Mon ami Michel
Duration: 1h37
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At the age of 68, filmmaker Michel Moreau, who dedicated most of his work to the disabled and marginalized, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. To document and share his experience, he asked his filmmaker friend, Jean-Pierre Lefebvre, to record the progression of his illness. Lefebvre agreed and filmed him over four years, working alone with a small Hi-8 camera.
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
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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.
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...
Mon ami Michel
Duration: 1h37
Subscription access
At the age of 68, filmmaker Michel Moreau, who dedicated most of his work to the disabled and marginalized, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. To document and share his experience, he asked his filmmaker friend, Jean-Pierre Lefebvre, to record the progression of his illness. Lefebvre agreed and filmed him over four years, working alone with a small Hi-8 camera.
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...
Sovereign Soil
Subscription access
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
Subscription access
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.
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
New product!Duration: 2h32
Subscription access
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...
