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Attention féministes!
Portraits of young contemporary feminists. Geneviève, Barbara, Pascale, Coco and Marco: so many ways of being feminists today! At a time when ideologies have been declared dead, these young people still believe in a better world! Through their personal and social commitment, we discover the “new” face of feminism, that of the girls and boys of generations X and Y. A dynamic movement, a mode of ...
The Last Train
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A musician who had come from an uninspiring performance in an empty pub found himself late one evening on the last train to get to his home. His hopes of a peaceful late train ride are suddenly threatened by a passenger who asks him to play his guitar so he can accompany him with his _mbira_ (Sub-Saharan African musical instrument similar to the xylophone).
OrHoDa
Along the Amur River, mountains abound with mysterious lively treasures. The gifts of the sky were only visible to those who honor the powers that flow through the vast taiga. To find what human desires, ritual offerings to the mountain’s guardian spirits must be properly performed. But most importantly, one must face the gods with a serene, translucent heart. An animated reinterpretation of an...
Queerying Nature
For the past twenty years, scientists, armed with a fresh and liberated perspective, have revealed an animal world where sexualities, genders, and families rhyme with diversity. Being queer: it's natural! From one encounter to another, the film intertwines the reflections and emotions of two artists inspired by this queer nature and the plurality of animal behaviors, poetically illustrated.
Chasing Birds
When the world turns upside down, we have a choice to firmly hang on to old ideas or embrace the new view. In _Chasing Birds_ we follow a little girl who playfully chases a bird throughout a chaotic and transformational period. An animated short inspired by the directors own anxiety and her daughter Sunneva.
Aurora's Sunrise
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At only 14 years old, Aurora lost everything during the horror of the Armenian genocide. Two years later, through luck and extraordinary courage, she escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Starring as herself in _Auction of Souls_, an early Hollywood blockbuster, Aurora became the face of one of the largest charity campaigns in American history. With a blend of vivid ani...
Mynarski Death Plummet
A completely hand-made historical micro-epic about the final minutes in the life of Andrew Mynarski, Winnipeg’s doomed Second World War hero. _Mynarski Death Plummet_ is a psyche- delic photo-chemical war picture on the theme of self-sacrifice, immortality and jellyfish.
How to Disappear
_How to Disappear_ is an anti-war movie in the true sense of the word, searching for possibilities for peace in the most unlikely place of an online war game, _Battlefield V_. It’s a tribute to disobedience and desertion - in both digital and physical-real warfare.
Ghost Hunting
In order to confront the ghosts that haunt him, Palestinian director Raed Andoni assembles an eclectic group of ex-prisoners to recreate the Al-Moskobiya, Israel’s main interrogation centre, where he was himself jailed at age 18. Day after day, these construction workers, a blacksmith, an architect, an assistant director give shape to their memories of how they survived with grit and a sense of...
Histoires d'entrejambes
"You will give birth in pain." Why? Are there other narratives? Because birth does not always rhyme with pain, Crotch stories transmits a new imaginary : women who are on their way to reclaiming their bodies and their labors.
How I Got My Wrinkles
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Claude, an artist-tinkerer-dabbler, is a fan of animated cinema and has set himself the goal of finally making his own film before he turns seventy. With him on board is Gaston, his inquisitive 7-year-old grandson, to whom he has passed on his passion for drawing and the moving image.
Middle Name
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The story of a mother who died four years after giving birth to her only son, a father who raised him through grief and trauma, and a boy lost in the forest.
The Brother
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Suffering from an illness causing paralysis in his body, Kaïs is awakened every morning by a different member of his family. Stuck in a frozen body, he dreams at night that he is the hero of his favorite manga, along with his brothers, Fehd the bodybuilder, and Zaïd the ninja
The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox
The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox
Duration: 1h50In 60s France, a self-taught inventor presents himself to the French Broadcasting Office with a crazy idea: to build a machine to make cartoons. This machine is the Animographe and its inventor is Jean Dejoux. Together they are going to tour the world. From the Shadoks to Asterix, from Chuck Jones to Norman McLaren, from Paris to Hollywood, passing through Italy, here are the unknown and exciti...
The Bermuda Triangle
A group of friends introduce you to the mythical and festive intersection of St-Denis and Mont-Royal streets in Montreal, recalling nightlife stories in the area.
Love, Dad
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The filmmaker rediscovers letters her dad used to write her from prison. That love seems to be gone now. She decides to write back in the hope of reconnecting with him. She puts in writing what could not be said: blaming her father for the family's break-up but also trying to understand him. A short film about ties and gaps between a child and a parent.
Attention féministes!
Portraits of young contemporary feminists. Geneviève, Barbara, Pascale, Coco and Marco: so many ways of being feminists today! At a time when ideologies have been declared dead, these young people still believe in a better world! Through their personal and social commitment, we discover the “new” face of feminism, that of the girls and boys of generations X and Y. A dynamic movement, a mode of ...
The Last Train
Subscription access
A musician who had come from an uninspiring performance in an empty pub found himself late one evening on the last train to get to his home. His hopes of a peaceful late train ride are suddenly threatened by a passenger who asks him to play his guitar so he can accompany him with his _mbira_ (Sub-Saharan African musical instrument similar to the xylophone).
OrHoDa
Along the Amur River, mountains abound with mysterious lively treasures. The gifts of the sky were only visible to those who honor the powers that flow through the vast taiga. To find what human desires, ritual offerings to the mountain’s guardian spirits must be properly performed. But most importantly, one must face the gods with a serene, translucent heart. An animated reinterpretation of an...
Queerying Nature
For the past twenty years, scientists, armed with a fresh and liberated perspective, have revealed an animal world where sexualities, genders, and families rhyme with diversity. Being queer: it's natural! From one encounter to another, the film intertwines the reflections and emotions of two artists inspired by this queer nature and the plurality of animal behaviors, poetically illustrated.
Chasing Birds
When the world turns upside down, we have a choice to firmly hang on to old ideas or embrace the new view. In _Chasing Birds_ we follow a little girl who playfully chases a bird throughout a chaotic and transformational period. An animated short inspired by the directors own anxiety and her daughter Sunneva.
Aurora's Sunrise
Subscription access
At only 14 years old, Aurora lost everything during the horror of the Armenian genocide. Two years later, through luck and extraordinary courage, she escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Starring as herself in _Auction of Souls_, an early Hollywood blockbuster, Aurora became the face of one of the largest charity campaigns in American history. With a blend of vivid ani...
Mynarski Death Plummet
A completely hand-made historical micro-epic about the final minutes in the life of Andrew Mynarski, Winnipeg’s doomed Second World War hero. _Mynarski Death Plummet_ is a psyche- delic photo-chemical war picture on the theme of self-sacrifice, immortality and jellyfish.
How to Disappear
_How to Disappear_ is an anti-war movie in the true sense of the word, searching for possibilities for peace in the most unlikely place of an online war game, _Battlefield V_. It’s a tribute to disobedience and desertion - in both digital and physical-real warfare.
Ghost Hunting
In order to confront the ghosts that haunt him, Palestinian director Raed Andoni assembles an eclectic group of ex-prisoners to recreate the Al-Moskobiya, Israel’s main interrogation centre, where he was himself jailed at age 18. Day after day, these construction workers, a blacksmith, an architect, an assistant director give shape to their memories of how they survived with grit and a sense of...
Histoires d'entrejambes
"You will give birth in pain." Why? Are there other narratives? Because birth does not always rhyme with pain, Crotch stories transmits a new imaginary : women who are on their way to reclaiming their bodies and their labors.
How I Got My Wrinkles
Subscription access
Claude, an artist-tinkerer-dabbler, is a fan of animated cinema and has set himself the goal of finally making his own film before he turns seventy. With him on board is Gaston, his inquisitive 7-year-old grandson, to whom he has passed on his passion for drawing and the moving image.
Middle Name
Subscription access
The story of a mother who died four years after giving birth to her only son, a father who raised him through grief and trauma, and a boy lost in the forest.
The Brother
Subscription access
Suffering from an illness causing paralysis in his body, Kaïs is awakened every morning by a different member of his family. Stuck in a frozen body, he dreams at night that he is the hero of his favorite manga, along with his brothers, Fehd the bodybuilder, and Zaïd the ninja
The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox
The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox
Duration: 1h50In 60s France, a self-taught inventor presents himself to the French Broadcasting Office with a crazy idea: to build a machine to make cartoons. This machine is the Animographe and its inventor is Jean Dejoux. Together they are going to tour the world. From the Shadoks to Asterix, from Chuck Jones to Norman McLaren, from Paris to Hollywood, passing through Italy, here are the unknown and exciti...
The Bermuda Triangle
A group of friends introduce you to the mythical and festive intersection of St-Denis and Mont-Royal streets in Montreal, recalling nightlife stories in the area.
Love, Dad
Subscription access
The filmmaker rediscovers letters her dad used to write her from prison. That love seems to be gone now. She decides to write back in the hope of reconnecting with him. She puts in writing what could not be said: blaming her father for the family's break-up but also trying to understand him. A short film about ties and gaps between a child and a parent.
