Environment
Films to stop and observe, in order to feel the pulse of the world that surrounds us. Life in all its forms; slithering, lurking, swarming, dazzling. Films that remind us that humans are not the centre of it all and that nature will make it its duty to convince those who still doubt it.
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Pushing Through
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In the stark Québec winter, ice floes cover the St. Lawrence River. Otherworldly, determined silhouettes appear, and we fall into the cadence of ice canoes rowing into an unfathomable landscape. Producing sensations as extreme as the surroundings, the voyage immerses us in the elements and confounds us with a close focus on astonishing, minute details. The film explores how our interior and ext...
Playeros : Beach Workers
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We dream of going to the beach; Nelson dreams of escaping it. We want to go on vacation; Nelson wants only to work. While we sleep, he is awake. By day, he walks among us. Yet, Nelson goes unnoticed...
Manicouagan
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Porté par une quête, ce film dévoile de manière onirique la rencontre d'individus hors du commun qui habitent le vaste territoire de Manicouagan-Uapishka et qui contribuent ensemble à en définir les empreintes géomorphologiques et socioculturelles à travers le temps. Il explore avec sensibilité les liens profonds qui existent entre les humains et la nature. Les Innus de Pessamit partagent leur ...
Living Here
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_Living Here_ is a story made of solitude and wind, told with the poetry of Nunavik's stark tundra and the beauty of young Martha's words.
Arctic Cliffhangers
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Canada’s Arctic seabirds are revealing much about the Earth’s changing oceans and climate. \*Arctic Cliffhangers\* spotlights the biology and life history of seabirds, providing insights into the impacts of industrial pollution and the role that climate change plays in the transformation of marine ecosystems. In addition to communicating some of the latest scientific findings on polar marine re...
Land of Cold
Immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa have chosen to start their lives over north of the 49th parallel. Here, in the vast expanses of Northern Canada, they reflect on the challenges and splendors of a season they’ve never yet experienced: winter.
The Blueberry Blues
In Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec, summer means blueberry season. Once the fields paint themselves blue, fruit gatherers of all kinds rush to pick these precious boreal berries before the first frost. _The Blueberry Blues_ celebrates a territory and the people who return to this hardy little fruit each summer, connecting generations and cultures. Together, like blueberries emerging from the ashes of a ...
L'aventurine
As if it could perch on the bridge of the majestic Percé Rock, this film offers a unique perspective on the Gaspé Peninsula—a region shaped by nature, culture, and history. Throughout this poetic road movie, Carlos Ferrand meets the people who call this region home—biologists, children, activists, and artists—revealing the treasures of a landscape where geology meets magic.
In Praise of Darkness
Deep in Ecuador’s Mullumica Valley, figures are busy extracting obsidian, an opaque volcanic rock. The rock then begins its metamorphosis, transported from the quarry to the pristine confines of a laboratory where it takes on its ultimate role – as a replacement for the director’s artificial eye. A mineral chronicle charting the course of healing.
Urban Forests
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While green spaces have long been neglected in cities, community-led efforts in recent years have helped restore the many benefits of urban forests. Through a number of innovative nature restoration projects in cities across Canada—from Montreal to Vancouver, via Toronto, Laval, Varennes, and New Westminster—this documentary explores initiatives aimed at bringing nature back into the urban envi...
The Woods Dreams Are Made of
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There are days when we’ve had enough of the city, when our eyes can’t stand seeing nothing but buildings, and our ears can no longer bear hearing the sound of engines. So we leave. We move from the sidewalk to the trail, and suddenly we’re in the woods. The hum of the city fades away; we’re in a meadow far, far away. It’s the countryside, the forest, childhood returning. We believe it; we’re th...
Al Basateen (The Orchards)
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In 2015 in Damascus, the Basateen al-Razi neighborhood was razed to the ground to punish the population for rising up against Bashar al-Assad’s regime. This site is set to make way for Marota City, a project for a modern, connected neighborhood featuring 80 skyscrapers. Having lost everything, two former residents recall their neighborhood, where their homes once stood alongside the city’s olde...
Gan Tang, The Lake
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"In my hometown of Jiujiang, China, a natural lake and an amusement park share the same name: Gan Tang. The name, meaning “pear trees,” is often associated with a beautiful imagery and comes from the oldest Chinese poem collection, _Book of Odes_. [...] In the summer of 2023, the lake was blocked from the public, drained, and cleansed, followed by the demolition of the Gan Tang Park. The govern...
Colour Poems
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"Nine linked short films. Memory, chance observation, and the subsuming of one in the other. [...] A poem started in words is continued by the picture, part of another poem is read for the last of the nine. Some images are formed by direct-on-film animation, others are found by the camera." – Margaret Tait
Aerial
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"There’s a general theme of the four elements, earth, air, fire and water – in a different order – air, water, earth, fire and then air again, with all the elements intermingled. But just as a sort of song or even a kind of nursery rhyme. Although I don’t understand musical structure – I can’t really follow the structure of piece of music when I’m listening to it – but I think that film- struct...
Samuel and the Light
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Samuel lives in Ponta Negra, a small fishing village on the coast of Paraty, Brazil. Following the boy and his family over the course of six years, the film gradually reveals a more complex reality and its inherent contradictions. The arrival of electricity and tourism crystallizes the dismantling of an idealized paradise, painting a nuanced portrait of contemporary Brazil.
Goodnight Goodnight
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With overconsumption of electric light, the resulting light pollution, and the subsequent loss of the night sky, we have effectively rid our lives of context. By suppressing natural temporalities and obscuring our place within the solar system, we are left with a distorted sense of permanence—the permanence of our structures, institutions, and relationships. _Goodnight Goodnight_ is a mid-lengt...
Testerep
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A team of scientists explores the vanished island of Testerep along the Belgian coast. Traditional excavations are combined with advanced technologies, such as computer simulations and sound wave analyses, to trace the coastal evolution over 5,000 years. As researchers decode the mysteries, they contemplate the symbiotic relationship between humans, technology, and our temporal landscape, offer...
Pushing Through
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In the stark Québec winter, ice floes cover the St. Lawrence River. Otherworldly, determined silhouettes appear, and we fall into the cadence of ice canoes rowing into an unfathomable landscape. Producing sensations as extreme as the surroundings, the voyage immerses us in the elements and confounds us with a close focus on astonishing, minute details. The film explores how our interior and ext...
Playeros : Beach Workers
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We dream of going to the beach; Nelson dreams of escaping it. We want to go on vacation; Nelson wants only to work. While we sleep, he is awake. By day, he walks among us. Yet, Nelson goes unnoticed...
Manicouagan
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Porté par une quête, ce film dévoile de manière onirique la rencontre d'individus hors du commun qui habitent le vaste territoire de Manicouagan-Uapishka et qui contribuent ensemble à en définir les empreintes géomorphologiques et socioculturelles à travers le temps. Il explore avec sensibilité les liens profonds qui existent entre les humains et la nature. Les Innus de Pessamit partagent leur ...
Living Here
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_Living Here_ is a story made of solitude and wind, told with the poetry of Nunavik's stark tundra and the beauty of young Martha's words.
Arctic Cliffhangers
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Canada’s Arctic seabirds are revealing much about the Earth’s changing oceans and climate. \*Arctic Cliffhangers\* spotlights the biology and life history of seabirds, providing insights into the impacts of industrial pollution and the role that climate change plays in the transformation of marine ecosystems. In addition to communicating some of the latest scientific findings on polar marine re...
Land of Cold
Immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa have chosen to start their lives over north of the 49th parallel. Here, in the vast expanses of Northern Canada, they reflect on the challenges and splendors of a season they’ve never yet experienced: winter.
The Blueberry Blues
In Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec, summer means blueberry season. Once the fields paint themselves blue, fruit gatherers of all kinds rush to pick these precious boreal berries before the first frost. _The Blueberry Blues_ celebrates a territory and the people who return to this hardy little fruit each summer, connecting generations and cultures. Together, like blueberries emerging from the ashes of a ...
L'aventurine
As if it could perch on the bridge of the majestic Percé Rock, this film offers a unique perspective on the Gaspé Peninsula—a region shaped by nature, culture, and history. Throughout this poetic road movie, Carlos Ferrand meets the people who call this region home—biologists, children, activists, and artists—revealing the treasures of a landscape where geology meets magic.
In Praise of Darkness
Deep in Ecuador’s Mullumica Valley, figures are busy extracting obsidian, an opaque volcanic rock. The rock then begins its metamorphosis, transported from the quarry to the pristine confines of a laboratory where it takes on its ultimate role – as a replacement for the director’s artificial eye. A mineral chronicle charting the course of healing.
Urban Forests
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While green spaces have long been neglected in cities, community-led efforts in recent years have helped restore the many benefits of urban forests. Through a number of innovative nature restoration projects in cities across Canada—from Montreal to Vancouver, via Toronto, Laval, Varennes, and New Westminster—this documentary explores initiatives aimed at bringing nature back into the urban envi...
The Woods Dreams Are Made of
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There are days when we’ve had enough of the city, when our eyes can’t stand seeing nothing but buildings, and our ears can no longer bear hearing the sound of engines. So we leave. We move from the sidewalk to the trail, and suddenly we’re in the woods. The hum of the city fades away; we’re in a meadow far, far away. It’s the countryside, the forest, childhood returning. We believe it; we’re th...
Al Basateen (The Orchards)
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In 2015 in Damascus, the Basateen al-Razi neighborhood was razed to the ground to punish the population for rising up against Bashar al-Assad’s regime. This site is set to make way for Marota City, a project for a modern, connected neighborhood featuring 80 skyscrapers. Having lost everything, two former residents recall their neighborhood, where their homes once stood alongside the city’s olde...
Gan Tang, The Lake
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"In my hometown of Jiujiang, China, a natural lake and an amusement park share the same name: Gan Tang. The name, meaning “pear trees,” is often associated with a beautiful imagery and comes from the oldest Chinese poem collection, _Book of Odes_. [...] In the summer of 2023, the lake was blocked from the public, drained, and cleansed, followed by the demolition of the Gan Tang Park. The govern...
Colour Poems
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"Nine linked short films. Memory, chance observation, and the subsuming of one in the other. [...] A poem started in words is continued by the picture, part of another poem is read for the last of the nine. Some images are formed by direct-on-film animation, others are found by the camera." – Margaret Tait
Aerial
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"There’s a general theme of the four elements, earth, air, fire and water – in a different order – air, water, earth, fire and then air again, with all the elements intermingled. But just as a sort of song or even a kind of nursery rhyme. Although I don’t understand musical structure – I can’t really follow the structure of piece of music when I’m listening to it – but I think that film- struct...
Samuel and the Light
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Samuel lives in Ponta Negra, a small fishing village on the coast of Paraty, Brazil. Following the boy and his family over the course of six years, the film gradually reveals a more complex reality and its inherent contradictions. The arrival of electricity and tourism crystallizes the dismantling of an idealized paradise, painting a nuanced portrait of contemporary Brazil.
Goodnight Goodnight
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With overconsumption of electric light, the resulting light pollution, and the subsequent loss of the night sky, we have effectively rid our lives of context. By suppressing natural temporalities and obscuring our place within the solar system, we are left with a distorted sense of permanence—the permanence of our structures, institutions, and relationships. _Goodnight Goodnight_ is a mid-lengt...
Testerep
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A team of scientists explores the vanished island of Testerep along the Belgian coast. Traditional excavations are combined with advanced technologies, such as computer simulations and sound wave analyses, to trace the coastal evolution over 5,000 years. As researchers decode the mysteries, they contemplate the symbiotic relationship between humans, technology, and our temporal landscape, offer...
