Films de la semaine
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On the Adamant
Duration: 1h49
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The Adamant is a unique day care centre : it is a floating structure. Located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering them care that grounds them in time and space, and helps them to recover or keep up their spirits. The team running it is one of those that try to resist the deterioration and dehumanization of psychiatry as best it can. T...
Letters to the Prime Minister
Duration: 42 minutes
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Montreal author Marie-Célie Agnant collects stories, dreams and demands from Parc-Extension neighbours, in order to write a letter to their deputy, Justin Trudeau, then the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada.
Nine Easy Dances
Duration: 40 minutes
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A filmmaker and former dancer returns to her family home to make a film with her parents, but when they fail to live up to unrealistic expectations, and when her mother's cancer metastasizes, she hires professional dancers to play them, in what becomes a darkly humorous docufiction about both loss and transformation.
Natsik Hunting
Duration: 16 minutes
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25-year-old Mosha Michael made an assured directorial debut with this seven-minute short, a spare, narration-free depiction of an Inuit seal hunt. After participating in a Super 8 workshop in Frobisher Bay in 1974, Michael shot and edited the film himself. His voice can be heard on the lively, guitar-accompanied soundtrack. Released in 1975, _Natsik Hunting_ is believed to be Canada’s first Inu...
On the Adamant
Duration: 1h49
Subscription access
The Adamant is a unique day care centre : it is a floating structure. Located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering them care that grounds them in time and space, and helps them to recover or keep up their spirits. The team running it is one of those that try to resist the deterioration and dehumanization of psychiatry as best it can. T...
Letters to the Prime Minister
Duration: 42 minutes
Subscription access
Montreal author Marie-Célie Agnant collects stories, dreams and demands from Parc-Extension neighbours, in order to write a letter to their deputy, Justin Trudeau, then the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada.
Nine Easy Dances
Duration: 40 minutes
Subscription access
A filmmaker and former dancer returns to her family home to make a film with her parents, but when they fail to live up to unrealistic expectations, and when her mother's cancer metastasizes, she hires professional dancers to play them, in what becomes a darkly humorous docufiction about both loss and transformation.
Natsik Hunting
Duration: 16 minutes
Subscription access
25-year-old Mosha Michael made an assured directorial debut with this seven-minute short, a spare, narration-free depiction of an Inuit seal hunt. After participating in a Super 8 workshop in Frobisher Bay in 1974, Michael shot and edited the film himself. His voice can be heard on the lively, guitar-accompanied soundtrack. Released in 1975, _Natsik Hunting_ is believed to be Canada’s first Inu...
