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A Life Like Any Other
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"My father immortalized the most beautiful moments of his life in family films, while my mother's difficulties hit the blind spot in his images. Today, I'm revisiting these films to tell another story: that of a woman who sees her role as a mother gradually taking away her freedom." (Faustine Cros)
I Lost My Mom
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In the style of a film diary, this documentary immerses us in the personal experience of the filmmaker and his sister as they try to ensure their mother can end her days with dignity in the CHSLD system. Amid this complex challenge, Denys Desjardins films his mother with incredible tenderness. He communicates her vulnerability and warm personality from a place of love and respect. This feature-...
The Mountains
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Armed with 30 years of home-video, 75.000 family photos and three tightly fit superhero costumes, the director Christian, ventures into landscapes of long-lost time, in an attempt to confront a 25-year old tragedy, and the hidden wounds left in its wake.
The Grand Ball
This is the story of a ball. A grand ball. Every summer, more than two thousand people flock from all over Europe to a corner of the French countryside. For 7 days and 8 nights, they dance again and again, lose track of time, brave their fatigue and their bodies. It turns, it laughs, it twirls, it cries, it sings. And life pulses.
La peau de l'ours
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When asked about language and learning, children respond about the meaning of certain words and expressions.
Les vrais perdants
This feature documentary poses the problem of child-rearing in our competitive society. While helping children develop their talents, encouraging them in their passions, whether it be field hockey, gymnastics or piano, parents and coaches seek, more or less consciously, to make them live their own need for competition and their own dreams by proxy. The children confide to the camera on this sub...
Faire le pont
A cultural mediation project carried out by Spira and the Joujouthèque de la Basse-ville with the objective to create short films with underprivileged youth and/or youth from immigrant backgrounds from the inner city of Quebec. This project resulted in the short documentary film Faire le pont directed by Clarissa Rebouças and 8 to 9 year olds from the Joujouthèque Basse-Ville.
Wandering, a Rohingya Story
Within a few months, the Kutupalong refugee camp has become the biggest in the world. Out of sight, 700,000 people of the Rohingya Muslim minority fled Myanmar in 2017 to escape genocide and seek asylum in Bangladesh. Prisoners of a major yet little publicized humanitarian crisis, Kalam, Mohammad, Montas and other exiles want to make their voice heard. Between poetry and nightmares, food distri...
A Life Like Any Other
Subscription access
"My father immortalized the most beautiful moments of his life in family films, while my mother's difficulties hit the blind spot in his images. Today, I'm revisiting these films to tell another story: that of a woman who sees her role as a mother gradually taking away her freedom." (Faustine Cros)
I Lost My Mom
Subscription access
In the style of a film diary, this documentary immerses us in the personal experience of the filmmaker and his sister as they try to ensure their mother can end her days with dignity in the CHSLD system. Amid this complex challenge, Denys Desjardins films his mother with incredible tenderness. He communicates her vulnerability and warm personality from a place of love and respect. This feature-...
The Mountains
Subscription access
Armed with 30 years of home-video, 75.000 family photos and three tightly fit superhero costumes, the director Christian, ventures into landscapes of long-lost time, in an attempt to confront a 25-year old tragedy, and the hidden wounds left in its wake.
The Grand Ball
This is the story of a ball. A grand ball. Every summer, more than two thousand people flock from all over Europe to a corner of the French countryside. For 7 days and 8 nights, they dance again and again, lose track of time, brave their fatigue and their bodies. It turns, it laughs, it twirls, it cries, it sings. And life pulses.
La peau de l'ours
Subscription access
When asked about language and learning, children respond about the meaning of certain words and expressions.
Les vrais perdants
This feature documentary poses the problem of child-rearing in our competitive society. While helping children develop their talents, encouraging them in their passions, whether it be field hockey, gymnastics or piano, parents and coaches seek, more or less consciously, to make them live their own need for competition and their own dreams by proxy. The children confide to the camera on this sub...
Faire le pont
A cultural mediation project carried out by Spira and the Joujouthèque de la Basse-ville with the objective to create short films with underprivileged youth and/or youth from immigrant backgrounds from the inner city of Quebec. This project resulted in the short documentary film Faire le pont directed by Clarissa Rebouças and 8 to 9 year olds from the Joujouthèque Basse-Ville.
Wandering, a Rohingya Story
Within a few months, the Kutupalong refugee camp has become the biggest in the world. Out of sight, 700,000 people of the Rohingya Muslim minority fled Myanmar in 2017 to escape genocide and seek asylum in Bangladesh. Prisoners of a major yet little publicized humanitarian crisis, Kalam, Mohammad, Montas and other exiles want to make their voice heard. Between poetry and nightmares, food distri...
