Empathy
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Eviction
Duration: 2h24
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Since 2010, Parthenais has held within its walls the life of a whole queer community. They are gay, lesbian, trans, and they live together in Centre-Sud in the heart of Montreal, in a triplex that is falling apart. Between the parties that sometimes welcome more than two hundred people until the wee hours of the morning, the collective dinners, the great joys and the small despairs, this old fl...
Lisière
Duration: 2h30
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“A few cabins built along a hillside, on the margins of society and without men. A refuge, a space for collective and feminist transformation. From this edge of the world, alongside those who build it, I question my place in nature and in society, in my relationship, the freedom of my body, and the choice to have a child.” (Éva Tourrent)
Tu as crié LET ME GO
Duration: 3h14
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_Tu as crié LET ME GO_ is an intimate and heartrending film in which filmmaker Anne Claire Poirier undertakes a personal investigation into the tragic death of her daughter Yanne, who was murdered at the age of 26. A former drug addict and sex worker, Yanne had fallen into the margins of society. Through this film, Poirier reaches out to those living with or working alongside people struggling ...
Rehab (From Rehab)
Duration: 2h52
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A sensitive and personal reflection that questions the way hospitals think spaces of care for the most vulnerable ones. Recounting her personal story as a young girl who spent her childhood in rehabilitation centres alongside her severely disabled father, the director confronts her traumatic memories with the exceptional experimentation developed at REHAB in Basel by the Swiss architects Herzog...
Days
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Marie-Philip is a PhD student and part-time professor who loves cats and _Harry Potter_. But one week before her 29th birthday, she is diagnosed with breast cancer. For a year, without false modesty, we follow her through each step as she confides in us with shocking honesty. An ode to life, to courage and to the resilience of all those who fight every day against disease.
Amisk
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In 1973, the James Bay Festival took place over nine days in Montreal. This historic one-of-a-kind event was held in support of the James Bay Cree whose territory, resources and culture were threatened by the expansion of hydro-electric dams. First Nations, Métis and Inuit performers came from across North America to show their support in an act of Indigenous unity and solidarity few people in ...
Afterwards
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Inside a shelter, participants in a talking circle share their experiences of intimate partner violence as a way to regain their dignity and strength to act. Powerfully empathetic, _Afterwards_ creates a space of sisterhood and solidarity—a chorus of voices breaking down the walls of silence.
The Liberated Broom
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As they learn about _Le balai Libéré_, a self-managed cleaning company from the 1970s, today’s cleaners on the same Belgian university campus question their working conditions and whether self-management is still possible today.
Emergency! A Critical Situation
Emergency! A Critical Situation
Duration: 2h46Subscription access
_Emergency! A Critical Situation_ explores the reality of an evening shift in the emergency department of the Centre hospitalier Pierre-Boucher, and reveals the daily lives of the nurses who work hard to provide this essential service to the public. The camera follows the footsteps of these professionals, revealing what they have to put up with to cope with the demands of their work, which is s...
Our Body
French documentary filmmaker Claire Simon observes the everyday operations of the gynecological ward in a public hospital in Paris. In the process, she questions what it means to live in a woman’s body, filming the diversity, singularity and beauty of patients in all stages of life. Through these many encounters, the specific fears, desires and struggles of these individuals become the health c...
Four Women of Egypt
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How do we develop understanding when everything risks to tear us apart? This feature documentary attempts to answer this question through the friendship of four Egyptian women. Muslim, Christian or independent of any religious practice, their choices are at the antipodes. Yet these four friends refuse to demonize each other and to coexist in contempt; they listen to each other and counter one a...
Au Chic Resto Pop
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This documentary describes the activities of Chic Resto Pop, a restaurant in Montreal's Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district that provides underprivileged customers with inexpensive meals thanks to surpluses donated by local merchants. Tahani Rached films the restaurant's employees. To the rhythm of the music, their truth is expressed.
Eviction
Duration: 2h24
Subscription access
Since 2010, Parthenais has held within its walls the life of a whole queer community. They are gay, lesbian, trans, and they live together in Centre-Sud in the heart of Montreal, in a triplex that is falling apart. Between the parties that sometimes welcome more than two hundred people until the wee hours of the morning, the collective dinners, the great joys and the small despairs, this old fl...
Lisière
Duration: 2h30
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“A few cabins built along a hillside, on the margins of society and without men. A refuge, a space for collective and feminist transformation. From this edge of the world, alongside those who build it, I question my place in nature and in society, in my relationship, the freedom of my body, and the choice to have a child.” (Éva Tourrent)
Tu as crié LET ME GO
Duration: 3h14
Subscription access
_Tu as crié LET ME GO_ is an intimate and heartrending film in which filmmaker Anne Claire Poirier undertakes a personal investigation into the tragic death of her daughter Yanne, who was murdered at the age of 26. A former drug addict and sex worker, Yanne had fallen into the margins of society. Through this film, Poirier reaches out to those living with or working alongside people struggling ...
Rehab (From Rehab)
Duration: 2h52
Subscription access
A sensitive and personal reflection that questions the way hospitals think spaces of care for the most vulnerable ones. Recounting her personal story as a young girl who spent her childhood in rehabilitation centres alongside her severely disabled father, the director confronts her traumatic memories with the exceptional experimentation developed at REHAB in Basel by the Swiss architects Herzog...
Days
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Marie-Philip is a PhD student and part-time professor who loves cats and _Harry Potter_. But one week before her 29th birthday, she is diagnosed with breast cancer. For a year, without false modesty, we follow her through each step as she confides in us with shocking honesty. An ode to life, to courage and to the resilience of all those who fight every day against disease.
Amisk
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In 1973, the James Bay Festival took place over nine days in Montreal. This historic one-of-a-kind event was held in support of the James Bay Cree whose territory, resources and culture were threatened by the expansion of hydro-electric dams. First Nations, Métis and Inuit performers came from across North America to show their support in an act of Indigenous unity and solidarity few people in ...
Afterwards
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Inside a shelter, participants in a talking circle share their experiences of intimate partner violence as a way to regain their dignity and strength to act. Powerfully empathetic, _Afterwards_ creates a space of sisterhood and solidarity—a chorus of voices breaking down the walls of silence.
The Liberated Broom
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As they learn about _Le balai Libéré_, a self-managed cleaning company from the 1970s, today’s cleaners on the same Belgian university campus question their working conditions and whether self-management is still possible today.
Emergency! A Critical Situation
Emergency! A Critical Situation
Duration: 2h46Subscription access
_Emergency! A Critical Situation_ explores the reality of an evening shift in the emergency department of the Centre hospitalier Pierre-Boucher, and reveals the daily lives of the nurses who work hard to provide this essential service to the public. The camera follows the footsteps of these professionals, revealing what they have to put up with to cope with the demands of their work, which is s...
Our Body
French documentary filmmaker Claire Simon observes the everyday operations of the gynecological ward in a public hospital in Paris. In the process, she questions what it means to live in a woman’s body, filming the diversity, singularity and beauty of patients in all stages of life. Through these many encounters, the specific fears, desires and struggles of these individuals become the health c...
Four Women of Egypt
Subscription access
How do we develop understanding when everything risks to tear us apart? This feature documentary attempts to answer this question through the friendship of four Egyptian women. Muslim, Christian or independent of any religious practice, their choices are at the antipodes. Yet these four friends refuse to demonize each other and to coexist in contempt; they listen to each other and counter one a...
Au Chic Resto Pop
Subscription access
This documentary describes the activities of Chic Resto Pop, a restaurant in Montreal's Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district that provides underprivileged customers with inexpensive meals thanks to surpluses donated by local merchants. Tahani Rached films the restaurant's employees. To the rhythm of the music, their truth is expressed.
