Festivals
Every month we have an appointment taken with a different partnered festival. Within a few films from the current or previous edition, the singularity of the editorial line is captured and shared in order to tell us something of the present and the vivacity of cinematographic creation.
Every month we have an appointment taken with a different partnered festival. Within a few films from the current or previous edition, the singularity of the editorial line is captured and shared in order to tell us something of the present and the vivacity of cinematographic creation.
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The Patron Saints
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Laced with black humor, _The Patron Saints_ is an unorthodox documentary about a home for the aged and disabled. By turns lyrical and unsettling, the directors eschew more traditional approaches to the subject, opting for a mesmerizing atmospheric treatment and turning narration over to the home's youngest patient and his candid confessions.
God Provides
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Shot in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and bound by elements of fiction, this unexpected documentary short is a glimpse into faith-based sentiment and inexplicable loss. While a man searches for his kitchen appliances in the bushes, elsewhere a grinning preacher takes souvenir snapshots for his congregation, and a woman with a disability journeys to a quieter place.
Interchange
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Straddling the line between photography and cinema, _Interchange_ is a near-wordless observational depiction of life alongside a stark and imposing Montreal highway. _Interchange_ weaves portraits, landscapes, architecture and objects in its reflection on the city’s inhabitants, its traffic jams, the shipping of commercial goods and the nature of time itself.
A Man Imagined
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67-year-old Lloyd gives filmmakers Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky a glimpse into his life on the margins of society. Blurring the boundaries of non-fiction cinema, the film reveals his gentle spirit and soulful solitude shaped by his troubled past.
Pacific Club
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In 1979, the Pacific Club was opened in the basement of La Défense—the business district of Paris. It was the first nightclub for Arabs from the suburbs; a parallel world of dance, sweat, young loves, and one-night utopias. Azedine, 17 years old at the time, tells us the forgotten story of this club and of this generation who dreamed of becoming part of France, but who soon came face to face wi...
Ever Since, I Have Been Flying
Ever Since, I Have Been Flying
Duration: 36 minutesSubscription access
A sixty-year-old man, who grew up in a nomadic tribe in the mountains of southeast Turkey, recalls moments from his youth that have shaped his life. He takes us back to his idyllic childhood with his mother, his first love found in a cotton field and lost in the woods, and the mistreatment suffered at the hands of the police, in a cold and dark place.
The Cactus of Klaus
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The grounds of Klaus Rinke’s Los Angeles studio overflow with an otherworldly cactus garden. The cactus—a plant firmly rooted in the horticultural zeitgeist—is a lifelong obsession of the enigmatic artist whose career as a pioneering conceptual artist spans more than 6-decades. Striking footage of the cacti garden reveals a surreal hidden geometry and illuminates the uncanny ways in which cacti...
Far Beyond the Pasturelands
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In a remote himalayan region, the villagers of Maikot are preparing for the harvest of a mysterious aphrodisiac caterpillar-mushroom worth more than gold. Lalita, a young mother, had to let go of her dreams after getting married because of the social pressures of her community. As the whole village departs to the mountains, she joins the journey to the high-altitude pasturelands in hope of prov...
Nin Kamashitshet : The Fighter
Nin Kamashitshet : The Fighter
Duration: 12 minutesSubscription access
André-Charles found in boxing much more than just a sport. This short film traces his inspiring journey and celebrates the passion that helps him overcome life's challenges.
Jacques
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For over forty years, Jacques Duhoux, a pioneering explorer in northern Quebec, has lived alone in the Uapishka (Groulx) Mountains. Now 85 years old, he continues to live off the grid, despite the inevitable decline that comes with age. A tribute to a true monument of northern exploration, _Jacques_ reveals the delicate balance between nature, aging, and the search for freedom.
Outside Center
After finding community on a rugby team in Munich, Jamaican-born Desmond tackles life by embracing his homosexual identity.
Bergen, Norway
"Yesterday, I found my abuser's address in my phone's memory. I don't have a name, I don't have a face, I only have his address." - Alexia Roc
Vibrations from Gaza
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This film offers an insight into the experiences of deaf children in the colonized and confined coastal territory of Gaza, Palestine, particularly the violence to which they are subjected by Israeli military operations. Born and raised under the frequent onslaught of the occupying forces, children Amani, Musa, Israa and others recite vivid memories of their experiences of bombardment and the co...
The Sketch
"Upon arriving in Paris, I began learning two languages: French and drawing. In an artist's studio, I met Linda Demorrir, a live model. Like me, she is transgender and an immigrant. As I sketched her outlines, I discovered that I was also learning to draw myself." - Tomas Cali
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.
No Story Here
_No Story Here_, the first film by Jeannine Gagné, co-directed with Michel Lamothe, offers a striking portrait of working-class Montréal in the 1970s. Created without a script and using just 600 feet of film, this student short freely blends images and sounds, the latter serving as echoes of the popular psyche, already foreshadowing _City Dawn_.
The Rebelious One
Half-fiction and half-documentary, _The Rebelious One_ is both a personal interpretation and a poetical rendition of Marie-Claire Blais' work that follows the Quebec writer's literary journey through eleven of her novels. Like a continuous thread leading us through the discovery of her writings, the voice, the vision and the keen consciousness of Blais recall the social events and the human dra...
Somehow Continue
Shot on 16mm film, this piece creatively portrays the making of _Creation Destruction_, a multidisciplinary outdoor performance by choreographer Dana Gingras set to music by the band Godspeed You! Black Emperor. With a keen eye for detail, Karl Lemieux captures the rehearsals and offers a glimpse into the neighborhood hosting the event.
The Seven Last Words
_The Seven Last Words_ sounds out experiential states and rituals particular to humanity, based on the seven themes expressed in a musical composition: forgiveness, salvation, relationship, abandonment, distress, triumph, and reunion. Seven award-winning Canadian filmmakers of diverse origins and art practices explore a wealth of human experience and feeling, based on the seven phrases at the o...
Dear Director
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In 1980, American jazz pianist Kazzrie Jaxen watched Ingmar Bergman’s _From the Life of the Marionettes_. Afterwards, she wrote a sixteen-page letter to Bergman, explaining how the film had changed her life. _Dear Director_ is based on this real fan letter, which Swedish director Marcus Lindeen discovered while researching unfinished Bergman scripts for a play.
The Patron Saints
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Laced with black humor, _The Patron Saints_ is an unorthodox documentary about a home for the aged and disabled. By turns lyrical and unsettling, the directors eschew more traditional approaches to the subject, opting for a mesmerizing atmospheric treatment and turning narration over to the home's youngest patient and his candid confessions.
God Provides
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Shot in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and bound by elements of fiction, this unexpected documentary short is a glimpse into faith-based sentiment and inexplicable loss. While a man searches for his kitchen appliances in the bushes, elsewhere a grinning preacher takes souvenir snapshots for his congregation, and a woman with a disability journeys to a quieter place.
Interchange
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Straddling the line between photography and cinema, _Interchange_ is a near-wordless observational depiction of life alongside a stark and imposing Montreal highway. _Interchange_ weaves portraits, landscapes, architecture and objects in its reflection on the city’s inhabitants, its traffic jams, the shipping of commercial goods and the nature of time itself.
A Man Imagined
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67-year-old Lloyd gives filmmakers Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky a glimpse into his life on the margins of society. Blurring the boundaries of non-fiction cinema, the film reveals his gentle spirit and soulful solitude shaped by his troubled past.
Pacific Club
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In 1979, the Pacific Club was opened in the basement of La Défense—the business district of Paris. It was the first nightclub for Arabs from the suburbs; a parallel world of dance, sweat, young loves, and one-night utopias. Azedine, 17 years old at the time, tells us the forgotten story of this club and of this generation who dreamed of becoming part of France, but who soon came face to face wi...
Ever Since, I Have Been Flying
Ever Since, I Have Been Flying
Duration: 36 minutesSubscription access
A sixty-year-old man, who grew up in a nomadic tribe in the mountains of southeast Turkey, recalls moments from his youth that have shaped his life. He takes us back to his idyllic childhood with his mother, his first love found in a cotton field and lost in the woods, and the mistreatment suffered at the hands of the police, in a cold and dark place.
The Cactus of Klaus
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The grounds of Klaus Rinke’s Los Angeles studio overflow with an otherworldly cactus garden. The cactus—a plant firmly rooted in the horticultural zeitgeist—is a lifelong obsession of the enigmatic artist whose career as a pioneering conceptual artist spans more than 6-decades. Striking footage of the cacti garden reveals a surreal hidden geometry and illuminates the uncanny ways in which cacti...
Far Beyond the Pasturelands
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In a remote himalayan region, the villagers of Maikot are preparing for the harvest of a mysterious aphrodisiac caterpillar-mushroom worth more than gold. Lalita, a young mother, had to let go of her dreams after getting married because of the social pressures of her community. As the whole village departs to the mountains, she joins the journey to the high-altitude pasturelands in hope of prov...
Nin Kamashitshet : The Fighter
Nin Kamashitshet : The Fighter
Duration: 12 minutesSubscription access
André-Charles found in boxing much more than just a sport. This short film traces his inspiring journey and celebrates the passion that helps him overcome life's challenges.
Jacques
Subscription access
For over forty years, Jacques Duhoux, a pioneering explorer in northern Quebec, has lived alone in the Uapishka (Groulx) Mountains. Now 85 years old, he continues to live off the grid, despite the inevitable decline that comes with age. A tribute to a true monument of northern exploration, _Jacques_ reveals the delicate balance between nature, aging, and the search for freedom.
Outside Center
After finding community on a rugby team in Munich, Jamaican-born Desmond tackles life by embracing his homosexual identity.
Bergen, Norway
"Yesterday, I found my abuser's address in my phone's memory. I don't have a name, I don't have a face, I only have his address." - Alexia Roc
Vibrations from Gaza
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This film offers an insight into the experiences of deaf children in the colonized and confined coastal territory of Gaza, Palestine, particularly the violence to which they are subjected by Israeli military operations. Born and raised under the frequent onslaught of the occupying forces, children Amani, Musa, Israa and others recite vivid memories of their experiences of bombardment and the co...
The Sketch
"Upon arriving in Paris, I began learning two languages: French and drawing. In an artist's studio, I met Linda Demorrir, a live model. Like me, she is transgender and an immigrant. As I sketched her outlines, I discovered that I was also learning to draw myself." - Tomas Cali
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.
No Story Here
_No Story Here_, the first film by Jeannine Gagné, co-directed with Michel Lamothe, offers a striking portrait of working-class Montréal in the 1970s. Created without a script and using just 600 feet of film, this student short freely blends images and sounds, the latter serving as echoes of the popular psyche, already foreshadowing _City Dawn_.
The Rebelious One
Half-fiction and half-documentary, _The Rebelious One_ is both a personal interpretation and a poetical rendition of Marie-Claire Blais' work that follows the Quebec writer's literary journey through eleven of her novels. Like a continuous thread leading us through the discovery of her writings, the voice, the vision and the keen consciousness of Blais recall the social events and the human dra...
Somehow Continue
Shot on 16mm film, this piece creatively portrays the making of _Creation Destruction_, a multidisciplinary outdoor performance by choreographer Dana Gingras set to music by the band Godspeed You! Black Emperor. With a keen eye for detail, Karl Lemieux captures the rehearsals and offers a glimpse into the neighborhood hosting the event.
The Seven Last Words
_The Seven Last Words_ sounds out experiential states and rituals particular to humanity, based on the seven themes expressed in a musical composition: forgiveness, salvation, relationship, abandonment, distress, triumph, and reunion. Seven award-winning Canadian filmmakers of diverse origins and art practices explore a wealth of human experience and feeling, based on the seven phrases at the o...
Dear Director
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In 1980, American jazz pianist Kazzrie Jaxen watched Ingmar Bergman’s _From the Life of the Marionettes_. Afterwards, she wrote a sixteen-page letter to Bergman, explaining how the film had changed her life. _Dear Director_ is based on this real fan letter, which Swedish director Marcus Lindeen discovered while researching unfinished Bergman scripts for a play.
