Films from REGARD
REGARD, the International Short Film Festival in Saguenay, is one of the major events entirely dedicated to short films in Canada. Every year, the Festival showcases more than 200 films, including nearly fifty documentaries that punctuate the various thematic programs, the Official Competition, the Youth Competition, and the Focus Competition. Exclusively on Tënk, REGARD presents three favorite short films from its 27th edition. A selection under the theme of neighborhood, where multiple perspectives converge.
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Neighbors In My Backyard
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Between Parc-Extension and the town of Mont-Royal, a scar in space creates a strange dichotomy between two neighborhoods.
Neighbour Abdi
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How can you understand a violent past? Somali-born Abdi is a furniture designer and support worker. He reenacts his life, marked by war and criminality, with the help of his neighbour, filmmaker Douwe Dijkstra. By means of playful reconstructions in a special effects studio, they both embark on a candid and investigative journey through a painful history, focusing on the creative process throug...
Thirty-Second Season
Normand lost his wife Alexandra eight years ago and has been living isolated in his Parc-Extension apartment since. His longtime solitude is interrupted when an old friend walks in with his camera.
(Sin asunto)
Somewhere in Colombia, a Nile crocodile hides from the tourists of the zoo. Carlos, his caretaker, is trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter. Far away somewhere in France, a director suffers from sleep paralysis and struggles to complete his film. Gradually, these three stories converge.
Playeros : Beach Workers
We dream of going to the beach; Nelson dreams of escaping it. We want to go on vacation; Nelson wants only to work. While we sleep, he is awake. By day, he walks among us. Yet, Nelson goes unnoticed...
Expiration
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Steeve Day has been suffering from ALS for 8 years and decides to call for assistance in dying. At the same time, visits to hospitals are suspended. Steeve then decides to rent a hotel room to spend his last days and receive his loved ones. This is the starting point of the film.
The Marmot's Call
Following a conflict with a marmot, Leo and Madeleine feel forced to vacate the house where they raised their children. A few days before moving to a retirement residence, accompanied by their three children, they reflect upon the sixty years spent in that house.
Northstarling
Filmed during the cruel winter months in Winnipeg, Northstarling, follows a day in the life of a woman living on the brink of poverty - the border of a great abyss where her only companions are snow crunched memories and cavity ridden buildings.
Hibiscus Season
Zaire, January 1993. Rachel, an 8-year-old French girl, and her family live in Kinshasha in a house overlooking the Congo River. The day to day routines - shopping, lunching, napping - are interrupted when Zairean soldiers begin violently looting the city. She, her mother and her sister take refuge at the French Embassy and wait for the events to calm down. In spite of the surrounding turmoil,...
Douma Underground
With the barrel bombs falling on Ghouta, civilians sought shelter in the basements of their homes. I was one of them and holding on to my camera, I tried to film what I couldn’t express in words.
Katatjatuuk Kangirsumi (Chants de gorge à Kangirsuk)
Katatjatuuk Kangirsumi (Chants de gorge à Kangirsuk)
Eva Kaukai et Manon Chamberland sont deux chanteuses de gorge originaires du petit village de Kangirsuk, au Nunavik. Leurs voix hypnotisantes traversent les quatre saisons de leur terre arctique.
Adjournment
Cinq personnes étrangères à la justice se retrouvent liées malgré elles par un procès d'assises. C'est au cours des suspensions de l'audience qu'ils exprimeront leurs réactions.
Train Hopper
Un jeune homme parcourt l'Amérique en sautant d'un train de marchandises à l'autre. Tel un beatnik des temps modernes, ce passager clandestin nous mène sur les chemins de son errance à la recherche d'espaces de liberté.
Neighbors In My Backyard
Subscription access
Between Parc-Extension and the town of Mont-Royal, a scar in space creates a strange dichotomy between two neighborhoods.
Neighbour Abdi
Subscription access
How can you understand a violent past? Somali-born Abdi is a furniture designer and support worker. He reenacts his life, marked by war and criminality, with the help of his neighbour, filmmaker Douwe Dijkstra. By means of playful reconstructions in a special effects studio, they both embark on a candid and investigative journey through a painful history, focusing on the creative process throug...
Thirty-Second Season
Normand lost his wife Alexandra eight years ago and has been living isolated in his Parc-Extension apartment since. His longtime solitude is interrupted when an old friend walks in with his camera.
(Sin asunto)
Somewhere in Colombia, a Nile crocodile hides from the tourists of the zoo. Carlos, his caretaker, is trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter. Far away somewhere in France, a director suffers from sleep paralysis and struggles to complete his film. Gradually, these three stories converge.
Playeros : Beach Workers
We dream of going to the beach; Nelson dreams of escaping it. We want to go on vacation; Nelson wants only to work. While we sleep, he is awake. By day, he walks among us. Yet, Nelson goes unnoticed...
Expiration
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Steeve Day has been suffering from ALS for 8 years and decides to call for assistance in dying. At the same time, visits to hospitals are suspended. Steeve then decides to rent a hotel room to spend his last days and receive his loved ones. This is the starting point of the film.
The Marmot's Call
Following a conflict with a marmot, Leo and Madeleine feel forced to vacate the house where they raised their children. A few days before moving to a retirement residence, accompanied by their three children, they reflect upon the sixty years spent in that house.
Northstarling
Filmed during the cruel winter months in Winnipeg, Northstarling, follows a day in the life of a woman living on the brink of poverty - the border of a great abyss where her only companions are snow crunched memories and cavity ridden buildings.
Hibiscus Season
Zaire, January 1993. Rachel, an 8-year-old French girl, and her family live in Kinshasha in a house overlooking the Congo River. The day to day routines - shopping, lunching, napping - are interrupted when Zairean soldiers begin violently looting the city. She, her mother and her sister take refuge at the French Embassy and wait for the events to calm down. In spite of the surrounding turmoil,...
Douma Underground
With the barrel bombs falling on Ghouta, civilians sought shelter in the basements of their homes. I was one of them and holding on to my camera, I tried to film what I couldn’t express in words.
Katatjatuuk Kangirsumi (Chants de gorge à Kangirsuk)
Katatjatuuk Kangirsumi (Chants de gorge à Kangirsuk)
Eva Kaukai et Manon Chamberland sont deux chanteuses de gorge originaires du petit village de Kangirsuk, au Nunavik. Leurs voix hypnotisantes traversent les quatre saisons de leur terre arctique.
Adjournment
Cinq personnes étrangères à la justice se retrouvent liées malgré elles par un procès d'assises. C'est au cours des suspensions de l'audience qu'ils exprimeront leurs réactions.
Train Hopper
Un jeune homme parcourt l'Amérique en sautant d'un train de marchandises à l'autre. Tel un beatnik des temps modernes, ce passager clandestin nous mène sur les chemins de son errance à la recherche d'espaces de liberté.
