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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No Story Here
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_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
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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
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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.
For You, Lord, For You
Around an austere brick altar lost in the middle of the desert like a drifting raft, the Panchwa festival (Rajasthan, India) is a gateway to the beyond, a celebration during which Kalbeliya gypsies converse with their dead. While they come to celebrate the King of Panchwa, their hero buried here, the festival is also a privileged moment for the Kalbeliya imagination to unfold. Goddesses and war...
We Don't Care About Music Anyway...
We Don't Care About Music Anyway...
Duration: 2h40While featuring key figures from Tokyo’s avant-garde music scene of the mid-2000s, _We Don’t Care About Music Anyway..._ offers a kaleidoscopic vision of the megacity, juxtaposing music with noise, sound with imagery, representation with reality, and fiction with documentary. Beyond the music and performances, the film explores the future and modes of existence of an entire city and society.
Kings of the Wind & Electric Queens
Kings of the Wind & Electric Queens
Duration: 1h52Since Antiquity, the Sonepur fair in the Indian state of Bihar has been the largest animal market in Asia. Mobilizing all the showmen of this state renowned for its indomitability, it is the place of expression par excellence for Bihari popular culture. The characters in _Kings of the Wind & Electric Queens_ are the custodians of this culture. Like the different figures in a tarot deck, they ar...
I Might Be Dead by Tomorrow
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Patients arrive in the consultation room every day, broken, sick and scarred by life. In front of them sits a committed person who tries, without false hope, to repair bodies and psyches. At night, when the clinic doors are closed, the street outreach workers take to the streets to extend their support to all those unfortunate women who have chosen the streets as their home.
Where The River Widens
Inspired by the friendship and the work of fishermen, Zack Greenleaf sings the mig'mag culture of his Gesgapegiag village, "where the river widens.”
The Last Herd
Isolated in the remote mountains of the Gaspésie National Park, a last herd of caribou resists defiantly against human encroachment. When the first European settlers arrived on the East Coast of North America in 1534, caribou numbered in the tens of thousands. Today scarcely 100 remain. They are the last survivors. This documentary tells of their plight and the precarious tipping point on which...
Joseph Samuel Jacques Julien
Jacques is 59 years old and has spent his entire career as a salesman in Quebec City. The past few months have been especially challenging for him: mourning the loss of his wife, he finds it difficult to regain his footing. Should he change his life? Change his identity? Amidst a growing political turmoil, the narrator remains hopeful, insisting that Jacques still has reason to hope.
Idle Times
Beginning in the late 19th century, the history of baseball tells the story of the transformation of pastures and mindsets in North America. Slow and repetitive, the game makes ample room for daydreaming and boasting. Full-bodied and mannered, it evokes the vastness of a new continent while also recalling its British origins. Filmed at the Victoria Stadium in Quebec and developed with the colla...
Rumba Rules, New Genealogies
Immersing itself in the daily life of one of the great orchestras of the current generation, this film proposes an incursion into the arcanes of a monumental genre of African music. Ya Mayi, Lumumba, Xéna La Guerrière, Pitchou Travolta, Alfred Solo, Soleil Patron and many others: nearly thirty artists feed the creative life of the Brigade Sarbati Orchestra. By entering the group and the city of...
Listed
_Listed_ shares the story of Faizal Karim, a Canadian man falsely flagged on the Canadian No-Fly List, a terrorist watch list under the Passenger Protect Program. Through Faizal’s personal account of racial profiling and detainment due to being falsely flagged, the film exposes the systemic issues underlying the No-Fly List and its impact on marginalized communities. By examining the potential ...
Parc-Ex The Heart of MTL
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.
No Story Here
Subscription access
_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
Subscription access
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
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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.
For You, Lord, For You
Around an austere brick altar lost in the middle of the desert like a drifting raft, the Panchwa festival (Rajasthan, India) is a gateway to the beyond, a celebration during which Kalbeliya gypsies converse with their dead. While they come to celebrate the King of Panchwa, their hero buried here, the festival is also a privileged moment for the Kalbeliya imagination to unfold. Goddesses and war...
We Don't Care About Music Anyway...
We Don't Care About Music Anyway...
Duration: 2h40While featuring key figures from Tokyo’s avant-garde music scene of the mid-2000s, _We Don’t Care About Music Anyway..._ offers a kaleidoscopic vision of the megacity, juxtaposing music with noise, sound with imagery, representation with reality, and fiction with documentary. Beyond the music and performances, the film explores the future and modes of existence of an entire city and society.
Kings of the Wind & Electric Queens
Kings of the Wind & Electric Queens
Duration: 1h52Since Antiquity, the Sonepur fair in the Indian state of Bihar has been the largest animal market in Asia. Mobilizing all the showmen of this state renowned for its indomitability, it is the place of expression par excellence for Bihari popular culture. The characters in _Kings of the Wind & Electric Queens_ are the custodians of this culture. Like the different figures in a tarot deck, they ar...
I Might Be Dead by Tomorrow
Subscription access
Patients arrive in the consultation room every day, broken, sick and scarred by life. In front of them sits a committed person who tries, without false hope, to repair bodies and psyches. At night, when the clinic doors are closed, the street outreach workers take to the streets to extend their support to all those unfortunate women who have chosen the streets as their home.
Where The River Widens
Inspired by the friendship and the work of fishermen, Zack Greenleaf sings the mig'mag culture of his Gesgapegiag village, "where the river widens.”
The Last Herd
Isolated in the remote mountains of the Gaspésie National Park, a last herd of caribou resists defiantly against human encroachment. When the first European settlers arrived on the East Coast of North America in 1534, caribou numbered in the tens of thousands. Today scarcely 100 remain. They are the last survivors. This documentary tells of their plight and the precarious tipping point on which...
Joseph Samuel Jacques Julien
Jacques is 59 years old and has spent his entire career as a salesman in Quebec City. The past few months have been especially challenging for him: mourning the loss of his wife, he finds it difficult to regain his footing. Should he change his life? Change his identity? Amidst a growing political turmoil, the narrator remains hopeful, insisting that Jacques still has reason to hope.
Idle Times
Beginning in the late 19th century, the history of baseball tells the story of the transformation of pastures and mindsets in North America. Slow and repetitive, the game makes ample room for daydreaming and boasting. Full-bodied and mannered, it evokes the vastness of a new continent while also recalling its British origins. Filmed at the Victoria Stadium in Quebec and developed with the colla...
Rumba Rules, New Genealogies
Immersing itself in the daily life of one of the great orchestras of the current generation, this film proposes an incursion into the arcanes of a monumental genre of African music. Ya Mayi, Lumumba, Xéna La Guerrière, Pitchou Travolta, Alfred Solo, Soleil Patron and many others: nearly thirty artists feed the creative life of the Brigade Sarbati Orchestra. By entering the group and the city of...
Listed
_Listed_ shares the story of Faizal Karim, a Canadian man falsely flagged on the Canadian No-Fly List, a terrorist watch list under the Passenger Protect Program. Through Faizal’s personal account of racial profiling and detainment due to being falsely flagged, the film exposes the systemic issues underlying the No-Fly List and its impact on marginalized communities. By examining the potential ...
Parc-Ex The Heart of MTL
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.
