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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Where the Grass is greener
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This trip on the edge of surrealism transports the audience through the various corners of the suburbs in order to find where the grass is greener. An unsettling exploration of a seemingly peaceful place that takes a look beyond the white picket fence.
The Act of Beauty
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Nestled at the heart of the Bic mountains, in this territory called Lower St. Lawrence, hides a community of wise and audacious people taking root. The collective farm Sageterre is the work of Jean Bédard, writer, philosopher but most importantly, a peasant. His writing calls for action. His work on the land cultivates ideas. Jean Bédard fights to see a new, more humane world, rise.
Bras de fer
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On October 26 2012, a red dust covers the neighbourhood of Limoilou in Quebec city, where Véronique Lalande and her husband Louis Duchesne live with their one-year-old boy. Iron oxide, nickel, zinc, arsenic and other heavy metals fall on the districts close to the Port of Québec, which is home to the St. Lawrence Stevedoring, the largest nickel ferry in North America. Véronique Lalande calls, w...
Belle River
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2019\. Spring flooding in Mississippi hits record highs. In Louisiana, the residents of Pierre Part are preparing for the worst. Barring an unexpected turn of events, local authorities will soon be forced to open the floodgates of the Morganza Spillway, in order to save the cities of New Orleans and Baton Rouge from further uncontrolled flooding. Faith and resilience are the two best weapons th...
Parc-Ex The Heart of MTL
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Every Sunday, Hudson returns to Park Extension to see his father. Along the way, he runs into his childhood friend, Baki. Together, they wander their old stomping grounds, just like when they were kids. As they walk, Hudson reminisces about how the neighbourhood shaped who he has become.
The River Where We Live
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The interior delta of the Niger River is a vast region inhabited by a million people. A unique social, political and communal organization has developed over this territory, giving a profound meaning to living together in relation to the movement of the river. The delta is fashioned as much by the immutable alternation of the seasons as by a state of perpetual metamorphosis. A single place can...
The Invisible Hand
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The African country of Guinea contains the biggest bauxite deposits in the world. However, the profits from the extraction of this ore, which is used to produce aluminum, does not go to the Guineans. Despite this, beside the capital’s factories are all kinds of craftsmen, who melt down used aluminum cans to make new objects necessary for the lives of the community, making them into pots, bricks...
Into the Delta
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The life of a fishing family in the inland delta of the Niger River in Mali is upended by the effects of globalization: rising fuel and staple food prices, the fishing crisis, and climate change. The film is threaded with questions about intergenerational transmission, about the relationship to history and memory in a region where traces of the beginning of things still endure.
Direct Action
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In January 2018, the construction of an airport in rural Notre-Dame-des-Landes was officially canceled, putting an end to years of resistance led by one of the most important activist communities in France. From 2022 to 2023, filmmakers Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell immersed themselves in the ZAD (zone-to-defend) to create a portrait of collective life in the years after this unprecedented...
Ghost Strata
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_Ghost Strata_ refers to the missing elements from within the rock strata that despite their absence offer hints of what was once there. The film is divided into the months of the year in which the footage was captured. Filmed in various places over the globe, charting various personal movements of the filmmaker, _Ghost Strata_ explores the differing scales of impact that humanity’s presence ha...
Mountain Flesh
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In a Swiss mountain village, hikers head out, a fountain splashes reassuringly and a churchwarden prepares a mass. There’s something going on here, but what is it? Men with high-tech measuring instruments pepper the landscape, and local people study their surroundings intensely. An ecological dystopia about a community living under constant threat.
7 Walks with Mark Brown
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Following the English botanist Mark Brown through the landscapes of the Normandy coast, Pierre Creton and Vincent Barré explore the world of plants and flowers in seven walks. The documentary unfolds in two stages, from the filmed journal to the resulting cinematic herbarium.
Vivant parmi les vivants
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Following in the footsteps of a Przewalski's mare, a city dog, and two philosophers (Baptiste Morizot and Vinciane Despret), this is a fascinating reflection on our relationship with other living beings which, by reversing the perspective, raises new questions about our place in the world.
The Specter of Waves
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Forced to protect themselves and flee from exposure to the electromagnetic waves and fields that surround us, François, Suzanne and Lorraine share with us the torments imposed by electrohypersensitivity. Through an intimate approach, _The Spectre of Waves_ sheds light on the humanity behind the taboos that accompany this often-misunderstood intolerance syndrome.
Archeology of Light
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_Archeology of Light_ invites us into the heart of Minganie's landscapes in Quebec. A place surrounded by countless presences. Everything there is perception. Every perception emerges from the interplay between the observer's gaze and the living world: the trees, the moss carpeting the forest floor, the water winding through rocks, light filtered by the canopy, the sun's reflection on the restl...
Amazonia, an Encounter with the Guardian of the Rainforest
Amazonia, an Encounter with the Guardian of the Rainforest
Duration: 3h14Subscription access
With a hybrid style blending political essay and road movie, this documentary by Santiago Bertolino takes us into the heart of the Amazonian reality. Following Marie-Josée Béliveau, an ecologist and ethnogeographer, they journey together along the 4000 km from the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil to one of its sources in Ecuador where they meet with the guardians of the forest. As a result, ...
Somber Tides
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_Somber Tides_ is a cry from the species, startled into survival against the elements; one last breath before being trampled by the Earth or maybe conversely a battle to wage against winds and tides clutching on before extinction.
The White Guard
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The Mexican landscape fades away into ashes and dust, fragmented, defaced and scorched. Behind barbed wirefences, forests, rivers and mountains fall to the hands of private companies. Once transformed, the landscape becomes a separate universe, an incongruous and dangerous area where the new masters and their mercenaries terrorize people into silence. Like other farmers from across the country,...
Where the Grass is greener
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This trip on the edge of surrealism transports the audience through the various corners of the suburbs in order to find where the grass is greener. An unsettling exploration of a seemingly peaceful place that takes a look beyond the white picket fence.
The Act of Beauty
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Nestled at the heart of the Bic mountains, in this territory called Lower St. Lawrence, hides a community of wise and audacious people taking root. The collective farm Sageterre is the work of Jean Bédard, writer, philosopher but most importantly, a peasant. His writing calls for action. His work on the land cultivates ideas. Jean Bédard fights to see a new, more humane world, rise.
Bras de fer
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On October 26 2012, a red dust covers the neighbourhood of Limoilou in Quebec city, where Véronique Lalande and her husband Louis Duchesne live with their one-year-old boy. Iron oxide, nickel, zinc, arsenic and other heavy metals fall on the districts close to the Port of Québec, which is home to the St. Lawrence Stevedoring, the largest nickel ferry in North America. Véronique Lalande calls, w...
Belle River
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2019\. Spring flooding in Mississippi hits record highs. In Louisiana, the residents of Pierre Part are preparing for the worst. Barring an unexpected turn of events, local authorities will soon be forced to open the floodgates of the Morganza Spillway, in order to save the cities of New Orleans and Baton Rouge from further uncontrolled flooding. Faith and resilience are the two best weapons th...
Parc-Ex The Heart of MTL
Subscription access
Every Sunday, Hudson returns to Park Extension to see his father. Along the way, he runs into his childhood friend, Baki. Together, they wander their old stomping grounds, just like when they were kids. As they walk, Hudson reminisces about how the neighbourhood shaped who he has become.
The River Where We Live
Subscription access
The interior delta of the Niger River is a vast region inhabited by a million people. A unique social, political and communal organization has developed over this territory, giving a profound meaning to living together in relation to the movement of the river. The delta is fashioned as much by the immutable alternation of the seasons as by a state of perpetual metamorphosis. A single place can...
The Invisible Hand
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The African country of Guinea contains the biggest bauxite deposits in the world. However, the profits from the extraction of this ore, which is used to produce aluminum, does not go to the Guineans. Despite this, beside the capital’s factories are all kinds of craftsmen, who melt down used aluminum cans to make new objects necessary for the lives of the community, making them into pots, bricks...
Into the Delta
Subscription access
The life of a fishing family in the inland delta of the Niger River in Mali is upended by the effects of globalization: rising fuel and staple food prices, the fishing crisis, and climate change. The film is threaded with questions about intergenerational transmission, about the relationship to history and memory in a region where traces of the beginning of things still endure.
Direct Action
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In January 2018, the construction of an airport in rural Notre-Dame-des-Landes was officially canceled, putting an end to years of resistance led by one of the most important activist communities in France. From 2022 to 2023, filmmakers Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell immersed themselves in the ZAD (zone-to-defend) to create a portrait of collective life in the years after this unprecedented...
Ghost Strata
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_Ghost Strata_ refers to the missing elements from within the rock strata that despite their absence offer hints of what was once there. The film is divided into the months of the year in which the footage was captured. Filmed in various places over the globe, charting various personal movements of the filmmaker, _Ghost Strata_ explores the differing scales of impact that humanity’s presence ha...
Mountain Flesh
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In a Swiss mountain village, hikers head out, a fountain splashes reassuringly and a churchwarden prepares a mass. There’s something going on here, but what is it? Men with high-tech measuring instruments pepper the landscape, and local people study their surroundings intensely. An ecological dystopia about a community living under constant threat.
7 Walks with Mark Brown
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Following the English botanist Mark Brown through the landscapes of the Normandy coast, Pierre Creton and Vincent Barré explore the world of plants and flowers in seven walks. The documentary unfolds in two stages, from the filmed journal to the resulting cinematic herbarium.
Vivant parmi les vivants
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Following in the footsteps of a Przewalski's mare, a city dog, and two philosophers (Baptiste Morizot and Vinciane Despret), this is a fascinating reflection on our relationship with other living beings which, by reversing the perspective, raises new questions about our place in the world.
The Specter of Waves
Subscription access
Forced to protect themselves and flee from exposure to the electromagnetic waves and fields that surround us, François, Suzanne and Lorraine share with us the torments imposed by electrohypersensitivity. Through an intimate approach, _The Spectre of Waves_ sheds light on the humanity behind the taboos that accompany this often-misunderstood intolerance syndrome.
Archeology of Light
Subscription access
_Archeology of Light_ invites us into the heart of Minganie's landscapes in Quebec. A place surrounded by countless presences. Everything there is perception. Every perception emerges from the interplay between the observer's gaze and the living world: the trees, the moss carpeting the forest floor, the water winding through rocks, light filtered by the canopy, the sun's reflection on the restl...
Amazonia, an Encounter with the Guardian of the Rainforest
Amazonia, an Encounter with the Guardian of the Rainforest
Duration: 3h14Subscription access
With a hybrid style blending political essay and road movie, this documentary by Santiago Bertolino takes us into the heart of the Amazonian reality. Following Marie-Josée Béliveau, an ecologist and ethnogeographer, they journey together along the 4000 km from the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil to one of its sources in Ecuador where they meet with the guardians of the forest. As a result, ...
Somber Tides
Subscription access
_Somber Tides_ is a cry from the species, startled into survival against the elements; one last breath before being trampled by the Earth or maybe conversely a battle to wage against winds and tides clutching on before extinction.
The White Guard
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The Mexican landscape fades away into ashes and dust, fragmented, defaced and scorched. Behind barbed wirefences, forests, rivers and mountains fall to the hands of private companies. Once transformed, the landscape becomes a separate universe, an incongruous and dangerous area where the new masters and their mercenaries terrorize people into silence. Like other farmers from across the country,...
