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The Dissolution of the Landscape
The Dissolution of the Landscape
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Through visual metaphors, the film offers an incursion into an inner landscape, a dive into subconscious, a mix of childhood memories and recurrent dreams, between surrealism and automatism.
Beaupré the Giant
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Beaupré the Giant marked his era with his 8’3” height. Though he died young and far from home in 1904, his journey as a phenomenon was only just beginning. In a stunning series of twists and turns, his mummified body would take more than 80 years to find its way back home.
A Bear Named Wojtek
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_A Bear Named Wojtek_ brings to life the extraordinary true story of a brown bear adopted by Polish soldiers in the Levant during World War II. This animated short follows Wojtek’s journey from the Persian desert to the front lines at the Battle of Monte Cassino, where he becomes both a soldier and a powerful symbol of resilience. As the soldiers form an unbreakable bond with Wojtek, the film e...
Souvenir Souvenir
For ten years, a filmmaker tries to make a film based on his grandfather's memories of the Algerian War. Both a denial of history and a family taboo, the questions raised by the subject remain unanswered, leaving personal and collective memory shrouded in silence. The narrative delves into unspoken shame and the search for a hidden past, ultimately resolved through the making of the film.
The Bronswik Affair
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This funny yet serious short film demonstrates the effectiveness of advertising and the marketing machine. Its comic appeal lies in the characters and the absurd situations they find themselves in, but it also shines a harsh light on our tendency towards needless consumerism prompted by a steady flow of commercials.
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 Dissolution of the Landscape
The Dissolution of the Landscape
New product!Subscription access
Through visual metaphors, the film offers an incursion into an inner landscape, a dive into subconscious, a mix of childhood memories and recurrent dreams, between surrealism and automatism.
Beaupré the Giant
Subscription access
Beaupré the Giant marked his era with his 8’3” height. Though he died young and far from home in 1904, his journey as a phenomenon was only just beginning. In a stunning series of twists and turns, his mummified body would take more than 80 years to find its way back home.
A Bear Named Wojtek
Subscription access
_A Bear Named Wojtek_ brings to life the extraordinary true story of a brown bear adopted by Polish soldiers in the Levant during World War II. This animated short follows Wojtek’s journey from the Persian desert to the front lines at the Battle of Monte Cassino, where he becomes both a soldier and a powerful symbol of resilience. As the soldiers form an unbreakable bond with Wojtek, the film e...
Souvenir Souvenir
For ten years, a filmmaker tries to make a film based on his grandfather's memories of the Algerian War. Both a denial of history and a family taboo, the questions raised by the subject remain unanswered, leaving personal and collective memory shrouded in silence. The narrative delves into unspoken shame and the search for a hidden past, ultimately resolved through the making of the film.
The Bronswik Affair
Subscription access
This funny yet serious short film demonstrates the effectiveness of advertising and the marketing machine. Its comic appeal lies in the characters and the absurd situations they find themselves in, but it also shines a harsh light on our tendency towards needless consumerism prompted by a steady flow of commercials.
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.
