Gender and sexuality
67 products
Attention féministes!
Portraits of young contemporary feminists. Geneviève, Barbara, Pascale, Coco and Marco: so many ways of being feminists today! At a time when ideologies have been declared dead, these young people still believe in a better world! Through their personal and social commitment, we discover the “new” face of feminism, that of the girls and boys of generations X and Y. A dynamic movement, a mode of ...
Passiflora
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Montreal, September 1984. Within a span of five days, Montreal’s Olympic Stadium hosts Pope John Paul II and Michael Jackson. A perfect opportunity to explore the impact of the media on the masses. With caustic irony, this film gives voice to people excluded by Church doctrine: the gay and lesbian community, and women who’ve had abortions or been abused. Beyond documentary, fiction or news repo...
Dad Can Dance
David was a ballet dancer, and for 45 years, almost nobody knew. In _Dad Can Dance_, his son discovers long-buried family secrets about their shared love for movement in this self-affirming story that explores the joy of being an artist.
A Bird Called Memory
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A bird called Memory has forgotten how to fly back home. Lua, a trans woman, searches for Memory in the streets, but the city can sometimes be a hostile place...
Queerying Nature
For the past twenty years, scientists, armed with a fresh and liberated perspective, have revealed an animal world where sexualities, genders, and families rhyme with diversity. Being queer: it's natural! From one encounter to another, the film intertwines the reflections and emotions of two artists inspired by this queer nature and the plurality of animal behaviors, poetically illustrated.
Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields
Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields
Duration: 3h22In an Argentina divided between a deep conservatism and an unprecedented momentum in feminism, the film delves into the political journey and intimate lives of Claudia and Violeta. The fight they lead with their comrades against patriarchal violence is visceral and embodied. Convinced of their role at the center of an ongoing revolution that intersects with so many struggles, and in defiance of...
Quitter Chouchou
"I spend the holidays at my mother’s. The atmosphere is tense: not only does she find it hard to accept that I’m not the girly daughter she dreamt of having, but she is also in the middle of divorcing my stepfather. The stay promises to be eventful."
First Months of Freedom
Cat, a transgender woman from Tennessee, got off parole in 2020. This film documents her first months of freedom in the pandemic. The piece was composed from phone videos, Skype calls, archival material, and original footage. Cat shares stories from her childhood and her life inside men's prisons, including her relationship with her husband and former cellmate who remains incarcerated.
Três Tigres Tristes
São Paulo, in a dystopian future not so far from the present. A virus is circulating, attacking mainly the brain and the ability to remember. Three young queer friends drift through a city bled white by the pandemic and rampant capitalism, remembering their dead lovers, sharing their experiences with HIV, getting make-up tips for masked faces and finally reuniting with other social misfits in t...
Never Silent Again
_Never Silent Again_ is a minimalist documentary art work centered on the liberation of speech and listening. The project is inspired by the role played by social media in the #MeToo movement. Powerful weapons against the culture of silence, these media reveal voices that have remained muted or stifled for a long time, expressing an impressive amount of anger and desires. In this vein, this fi...
Souris, tu m'inquiètes
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Family happiness often hinges on an unsuspected tragedy: the loss of identity of the woman who now lives only in relation to her husband and children. Faced with this "nameless discomfort," Francine (Micheline Lanctôt), a seemingly fulfilled young woman, is forced to leave her family for a while, in an attempt to find out who she is. This film, composed of a dramatized part enriched by document...
J'me marie, j'me marie pas
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What value, whether radiant or destructive, does love hold in women's lives? Does marriage enable them to realize their full potential? Can motherhood be separated from a relationship with a man, or is it a choice to be refused? To shed light on these questions and many others, four women in search of their liberation, belonging to the generation of 28-30-year-olds in the early 1970s, express t...
Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age
Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age
Duration: 2h40On two continents, four women fall victim to extreme cyber violence: Marion Séclin, a French actress and YouTuber, Laura Boldrini, President of the Italian Parliament, Kiah Morris, an American Democratic representative, and Laurence Gratton, a young Quebecois teacher. Abandoned by law enforcement, the political class, and Web giants who make billions from hatred, they decide to fight back and n...
Histoires d'entrejambes
"You will give birth in pain." Why? Are there other narratives? Because birth does not always rhyme with pain, Crotch stories transmits a new imaginary : women who are on their way to reclaiming their bodies and their labors.
Mutzenbacher
Through a newspaper advertisement, Ruth Beckermann organizes a casting for a film based on a well-known pornographic text. For over a hundred years, the novel _Josefine Mutzenbacher or The Story of a Viennese Whore_ has been the subject of controversy for its lustful depiction of child and female sexuality. Although it was banned for a time, it has also been celebrated as an important work of V...
Frank's Cock
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An anonymous narrator recounts how he met and fell in love with an older man, Frank, who is now HIV-positive on the eve of their 10th anniversary.
My Name Is Annemarie Schwarzenbach
My Name Is Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Duration: 2h52A film casting in Paris. Young actresses (and actors) try to incarnate the Swiss writer and traveller Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908-1942). In order to get the role of this emblematic and sulphurous figure of the late 30s, a child of the “lost generation”, antifascist and gay, these actors play scenes of her life, and talk about their own life through the prism of her fascinating and ambiguous p...
Born in Flames
A political science fiction film shot as a documentary, _Born in Flames_ takes us to the near future of New York, ten years after the failure of a social revolution. At the call of the Women's Army, several groups of activists finally unite to form a shifting, non-hierarchical network that baffles the FBI. They fought in an explosive atmosphere against a society whose institutions were racist, ...
Thank God I'm a Lesbian
Twelve Canadian, American and French lesbians of various ages, colours and cultures talk candidly and humorously about the many aspects of the lesbian identity. Far from being dogmatic, this documentary is an upbeat series of standpoints.
Tender Fictions
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Barbara Hammer constructs an autobiography before someone else does it for her in this post-modern sequel to her 1992 cult documentary _Nitrate Kisses_. From her childhood spent being groomed to be the next Shirley Temple to her work as an activist and filmmaker, Hammer takes a wry look at her life and a changing world.
Attention féministes!
Portraits of young contemporary feminists. Geneviève, Barbara, Pascale, Coco and Marco: so many ways of being feminists today! At a time when ideologies have been declared dead, these young people still believe in a better world! Through their personal and social commitment, we discover the “new” face of feminism, that of the girls and boys of generations X and Y. A dynamic movement, a mode of ...
Passiflora
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Montreal, September 1984. Within a span of five days, Montreal’s Olympic Stadium hosts Pope John Paul II and Michael Jackson. A perfect opportunity to explore the impact of the media on the masses. With caustic irony, this film gives voice to people excluded by Church doctrine: the gay and lesbian community, and women who’ve had abortions or been abused. Beyond documentary, fiction or news repo...
Dad Can Dance
David was a ballet dancer, and for 45 years, almost nobody knew. In _Dad Can Dance_, his son discovers long-buried family secrets about their shared love for movement in this self-affirming story that explores the joy of being an artist.
A Bird Called Memory
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A bird called Memory has forgotten how to fly back home. Lua, a trans woman, searches for Memory in the streets, but the city can sometimes be a hostile place...
Queerying Nature
For the past twenty years, scientists, armed with a fresh and liberated perspective, have revealed an animal world where sexualities, genders, and families rhyme with diversity. Being queer: it's natural! From one encounter to another, the film intertwines the reflections and emotions of two artists inspired by this queer nature and the plurality of animal behaviors, poetically illustrated.
Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields
Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields
Duration: 3h22In an Argentina divided between a deep conservatism and an unprecedented momentum in feminism, the film delves into the political journey and intimate lives of Claudia and Violeta. The fight they lead with their comrades against patriarchal violence is visceral and embodied. Convinced of their role at the center of an ongoing revolution that intersects with so many struggles, and in defiance of...
Quitter Chouchou
"I spend the holidays at my mother’s. The atmosphere is tense: not only does she find it hard to accept that I’m not the girly daughter she dreamt of having, but she is also in the middle of divorcing my stepfather. The stay promises to be eventful."
First Months of Freedom
Cat, a transgender woman from Tennessee, got off parole in 2020. This film documents her first months of freedom in the pandemic. The piece was composed from phone videos, Skype calls, archival material, and original footage. Cat shares stories from her childhood and her life inside men's prisons, including her relationship with her husband and former cellmate who remains incarcerated.
Três Tigres Tristes
São Paulo, in a dystopian future not so far from the present. A virus is circulating, attacking mainly the brain and the ability to remember. Three young queer friends drift through a city bled white by the pandemic and rampant capitalism, remembering their dead lovers, sharing their experiences with HIV, getting make-up tips for masked faces and finally reuniting with other social misfits in t...
Never Silent Again
_Never Silent Again_ is a minimalist documentary art work centered on the liberation of speech and listening. The project is inspired by the role played by social media in the #MeToo movement. Powerful weapons against the culture of silence, these media reveal voices that have remained muted or stifled for a long time, expressing an impressive amount of anger and desires. In this vein, this fi...
Souris, tu m'inquiètes
Subscription access
Family happiness often hinges on an unsuspected tragedy: the loss of identity of the woman who now lives only in relation to her husband and children. Faced with this "nameless discomfort," Francine (Micheline Lanctôt), a seemingly fulfilled young woman, is forced to leave her family for a while, in an attempt to find out who she is. This film, composed of a dramatized part enriched by document...
J'me marie, j'me marie pas
Subscription access
What value, whether radiant or destructive, does love hold in women's lives? Does marriage enable them to realize their full potential? Can motherhood be separated from a relationship with a man, or is it a choice to be refused? To shed light on these questions and many others, four women in search of their liberation, belonging to the generation of 28-30-year-olds in the early 1970s, express t...
Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age
Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age
Duration: 2h40On two continents, four women fall victim to extreme cyber violence: Marion Séclin, a French actress and YouTuber, Laura Boldrini, President of the Italian Parliament, Kiah Morris, an American Democratic representative, and Laurence Gratton, a young Quebecois teacher. Abandoned by law enforcement, the political class, and Web giants who make billions from hatred, they decide to fight back and n...
Histoires d'entrejambes
"You will give birth in pain." Why? Are there other narratives? Because birth does not always rhyme with pain, Crotch stories transmits a new imaginary : women who are on their way to reclaiming their bodies and their labors.
Mutzenbacher
Through a newspaper advertisement, Ruth Beckermann organizes a casting for a film based on a well-known pornographic text. For over a hundred years, the novel _Josefine Mutzenbacher or The Story of a Viennese Whore_ has been the subject of controversy for its lustful depiction of child and female sexuality. Although it was banned for a time, it has also been celebrated as an important work of V...
Frank's Cock
Subscription access
An anonymous narrator recounts how he met and fell in love with an older man, Frank, who is now HIV-positive on the eve of their 10th anniversary.
My Name Is Annemarie Schwarzenbach
My Name Is Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Duration: 2h52A film casting in Paris. Young actresses (and actors) try to incarnate the Swiss writer and traveller Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908-1942). In order to get the role of this emblematic and sulphurous figure of the late 30s, a child of the “lost generation”, antifascist and gay, these actors play scenes of her life, and talk about their own life through the prism of her fascinating and ambiguous p...
Born in Flames
A political science fiction film shot as a documentary, _Born in Flames_ takes us to the near future of New York, ten years after the failure of a social revolution. At the call of the Women's Army, several groups of activists finally unite to form a shifting, non-hierarchical network that baffles the FBI. They fought in an explosive atmosphere against a society whose institutions were racist, ...
Thank God I'm a Lesbian
Twelve Canadian, American and French lesbians of various ages, colours and cultures talk candidly and humorously about the many aspects of the lesbian identity. Far from being dogmatic, this documentary is an upbeat series of standpoints.
Tender Fictions
Subscription access
Barbara Hammer constructs an autobiography before someone else does it for her in this post-modern sequel to her 1992 cult documentary _Nitrate Kisses_. From her childhood spent being groomed to be the next Shirley Temple to her work as an activist and filmmaker, Hammer takes a wry look at her life and a changing world.
