Our highlights are these artworks that had a lasting effect on our memory. They impose themselves as unforgettable glimpses, unbelievable life experiences that we have decided to share thus with complete subjectivity. This section will give you a good idea of Tënk’s editorial direction.
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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...
NYC-based choreographer Hadar Ahuvia interrogates the roots of the Israeli folk dances she grew up dancing with her mother in the US. Facing romanticized stories about her grandparents, settlers in Palestine in the 1930s, she begins a personal endeavor to confront the founding mythologies and transgressions of Zionism. A web of artistic portraits emerges—Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian dancers...
In the intimacy of a Viennese studio, two young actors revive the literary scene and atmosphere of the post-war period through their reading of the correspondence between Romanian Jewish poet Paul Celan and Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann, daughter of a former National Socialist Party activist.
In 1958, Ludmilla Chiriaeff's ballet _Suite canadienne_ was broadcast during the concert hour on Radio-Canada. This piece, now considered foundational for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, features dancers dressed as peasants in the settings of a fantasized colonial rurality. The discovery of this archival document is the starting point for the creation project led by amateur dancer and saxophonist...
József works at the largest still-operational grain silo in Budapest. He has been doing this job for over 30 years and lives in a container home next to the structure, where trucks and trains rumble past his window. When he is lowered into the ten-story-deep silos to clean them, he looks like a scuba diver at work. It’s dangerous work for József, especially because he has been exposed to crop d...
December 2010: revolution breaks out in Tunisia, the country of the filmmaker's father. In a strange way, the cries of fury of the Tunisian people echoed the inner turmoil that had been growing inside her for several weeks. At the same time, she was going through a manic-depressive episode of great intensity, and was diagnosed as bipolar and admitted to a psychiatric clinic. When she emerged fr...
One Day In the Life of Noah Piugattuk
Duration: 3h46Kapuivik, north Baffin Island, 1961. Noah Piugattuk’s nomadic Inuit band live and hunt by dogteam, just as his ancestors did when he was born in 1900. When the white man known as Boss arrives in camp, what appears as a chance meeting soon opens up the prospect of momentous change.
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...
How does one remember a homeland they are so deeply connected to and disconnected from? When Canadian-born filmmaker Emilie Serri travels to Syria for the first time in ten years, she feels alienated. A year later, when her grandmother dies and the war begins, she tries to piece back together an image of this elusive country she desperately wants to call her own. Gathering evidence from the pas...
In the 70s, young people in Baie-Comeau - Hauterive were trying to find their place in an industrial society devoted to work and consumerism. Often left to their own devices as they waited to enter the job market, many of them sought their paths in artistic creation. The 1974 St. John's Day festival gave them a chance to shout out loud about their existence and shake up the existing order. We f...
The Grand National at the Saint-Hyacinthe Agricultural Exhibition is the most significant truck and tractor pulling event in Canada. Over three days, in front of 20,000 spectators, more than sixty competitors from across North America compete. This film follows the experience of one competitor amidst this event, highlighting the close bonds between humans and machines.
Being in a Place – A Portrait of Margaret Tait
Duration: 2h04Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival materials, including sound recordings, film outtakes, and unpublished notebooks, this film focuses on Margaret Tait, one of Scotland's most enigmatic filmmakers. Using one of Tait's unrealized scripts as a starting point, _Being in a Place_ pays tribute to the strengths of Tait's methods, the significance of fragmented bodies of works, and the intrinsic va...
Ivanna, a young Nenets woman and mother of five children living in North Siberia, decides to take her life into her own hands, emancipating from an abusive relationship and abandoning the traditional nomadic way of life in the tundra to emigrate to the city.
At only 14 years old, Aurora lost everything during the horror of the Armenian genocide. Two years later, through luck and extraordinary courage, she escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Starring as herself in _Auction of Souls_, an early Hollywood blockbuster, Aurora became the face of one of the largest charity campaigns in American history. With a blend of vivid ani...
In the style of a film diary, this documentary immerses us in the personal experience of the filmmaker and his sister as they try to ensure their mother can end her days with dignity in the CHSLD system. Amid this complex challenge, Denys Desjardins films his mother with incredible tenderness. He communicates her vulnerability and warm personality from a place of love and respect. This feature-...
Taking place in a future that does not yet exist, _Notes From Eremocene_ questions the ideal techno-optimistic model that lies ahead of us. From a curious, playful and critical standpoint, filmmaker Viera Čákanyová explores the potential of blockchain technology and artificial intelligence in dealing with complex global problems we humans create – climate change and the crisis of representative...
Otto spends night and day blurring faces on Google Streetview for a cent each. It's the kind of work he and his friends around the world can find on the Amazon Mechanical Turk, the crowdworking platform. Alongside his turker friends, Otto sinks into a robotic world that raise the question of humanity.
_Animal Macula_ plunges us into the heart of a sprawling and winding network where animals transform as they move from one sequence to another, all drawn from 125 years of cinema. An enigma is contained in each image where an animal appears, diffused in the signs that he sends us in silence. Through archaeological work and collage, it is to this enigma that the film seeks to approach. By lett...
Unique, mostly unseen before, archive footage from March 1953, presents the funeral of Joseph Stalin as the culmination of the dictator’s personality cult. The news of Stalin’s death on March 5, 1953, shocked the entire Soviet Union. The burial ceremony was attended by tens of thousands of mourners. We observe every stage of the funeral spectacle, described by Pravda newspaper, as the Great Far...
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...
Currently, post pandemic, one in two young people show symptoms of anxiety and depression. _The World Is Ours_ is a film that gives the opportunity to six Montreal teenage girls to leave their urban environment for the first time to take part in a nature canoe-camping expedition. By presenting their struggles and small victories, the film poetically and luminously embraces their vulnerability, ...
The car of a photographer on assignment in Jamaica breaks down in the middle of a ghetto, a notoriously violent area. Forced to wait for days until his car is repaired, he retreats into himself, in shock. Then, gradually, he begins to open his eyes, relearns to listen, and accepts being elsewhere. Now, it's impossible for him to take back home photographs of a pretty woman on the beach. They wo...
Through moments in the lives of three groups of girls, images gleaned from the web and live streams of young women around the world, _Bloom_ delves into the world of today's teenage girls. We delicately observe a hyper-connected but lonely generation inhabited by great lucidity, an inner struggle with self-image obsession, and a need for self-affirmation in the face of a complex sense of aliena...
_And the Dogs Were Quiet_ is based on recorded excerpts from Aimé Césaire’s play of the same name where the rebel expresses himself in a long pain-racked poem in front of the mother, crying out loud his revolt against the enslavement of his people. Gabriel Glissant and Sarah Maldoror appear as actors at the Museum of Man in Paris which is devoted to Black Africa, integrating three spectators in...
_The Law in These Parts_ reveals the legal framework of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories and exposes the injustices inherent in a legal system designed by Israel but applied only to Palestinians. Through archival footage and interviews with Israeli military judges, prosecutors, and legal advisors, this documentary unravels an intricate system of military control that symbolize...
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...
Monchoachi, An Untamed Wor(l)d
Duration: 2h18Retired from the world and residing in the foothills of the Vauclin mountain in Martinique, Monchoachi writes every afternoon after his morning walk through the island's forests. A poet (he insists one should pronounce this word trembling), philosopher and essayist, he endeavours to construct a thought he describes as untamed—a thought detached from the Occident, and therefore inherently free. ...
With the tremor of time passing by, Charlotte Gainsbourg started to look at her mother Jane Birkin in a way she never did, both overcoming a shared sense of reserve. Through the camera lens, they expose themselves to one another, begin to step back, leaving space for a mother-daughter relationship to unfold.
When a Vienna museum guard befriends an enigmatic visitor, the grand Kunsthistorisches Museum becomes a mysterious crossroads which sparks the exploration of their lives, the city and the ways art reflects and shapes the world.
Hatidze is one of the last people to harvest honey in the traditional way, in the desert mountains of North Macedonia. Without any protection and with passion, she connects with the bees. She only takes the honey she needs to make a modest living, always ensuring to leave half for the bees to maintain the delicate balance between humans and nature. But this equilibrium is soon disrupted by a no...
A journey alongside PJ Harvey, following the creative process of her new album _The Hope Six Demolition Project_, conceived through her travels around the globe, to Afghanistan, Kosovo and the slums of Washington DC.
In the heart of the high Tibetan plateaux, among unexplored and inaccessible valleys, lies one of the last sanctuaries of the wild world, home to rare and unknown species of fauna. Photographer Vincent Munier takes writer and adventurer Sylvain Tesson on a quest to catch a glimpse of the snow leopard, one of the rarest and most difficult big cats to approach. Over a period of several weeks, he ...
In the Desert - Avidan's Dream
Duration: 1h43_In the Desert_ is a diptych documentary about two realities, two families in one land. Both parts have a dialectic relationship to each other, an inherent tension that exists by their very juxtaposition: _Omar's Dream_ is about a Palestinian family; _Avidan's Dream_ is about a Jewish one. Both families live in an area of the West Bank that is governed by Palestinian Authority but controlled by...
_In the Desert_ is a diptych documentary about two realities, two families in one land. Both parts have a dialectic relationship to each other, an inherent tension that exists by their very juxtaposition: _Omar's Dream_ is about a Palestinian family; _Avidan's Dream_ is about a Jewish one. Both families live in an area of the West Bank that is governed by Palestinian Authority but controlled by...
Filmmaker Danae Elon began to film her three young sons as soon as she and her partner Philip decided to leave New York and return to Jerusalem. The decision was prompted by the death of her father, leading Israeli intellectual and writer Amos Elon. It was his dying wish that Danae not return, but her attachment to the place she always called home was stronger. On a journey back Danae’s camera ...
Ukrainian filmmaker Olha Zhurba’s debut feature tells the story of Roma, who at the age of 13 became the poster child of the 2014 revolution. A street kid who ran around the front lines of Kyiv throwing stones and Molotov cocktails, Roma’s face defined an uprising. But behind the camouflage uniform, sunglasses and fearlessness hid a lonely boy from an orphanage. When Roma turns 18, his only opt...
Chantal Birman, a liberal midwife and feminist, has dedicated her life to defending women's rights. At nearly seventy years old, she still provides care and advice to women who have just given birth. From painful moments to intensely joyful experiences, witnessing her visits provides unique insight into the delicate moment of going home. Through the portrait of this committed woman, Aude Pépin ...
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...
NYC-based choreographer Hadar Ahuvia interrogates the roots of the Israeli folk dances she grew up dancing with her mother in the US. Facing romanticized stories about her grandparents, settlers in Palestine in the 1930s, she begins a personal endeavor to confront the founding mythologies and transgressions of Zionism. A web of artistic portraits emerges—Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian dancers...
In the intimacy of a Viennese studio, two young actors revive the literary scene and atmosphere of the post-war period through their reading of the correspondence between Romanian Jewish poet Paul Celan and Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann, daughter of a former National Socialist Party activist.
In 1958, Ludmilla Chiriaeff's ballet _Suite canadienne_ was broadcast during the concert hour on Radio-Canada. This piece, now considered foundational for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, features dancers dressed as peasants in the settings of a fantasized colonial rurality. The discovery of this archival document is the starting point for the creation project led by amateur dancer and saxophonist...
József works at the largest still-operational grain silo in Budapest. He has been doing this job for over 30 years and lives in a container home next to the structure, where trucks and trains rumble past his window. When he is lowered into the ten-story-deep silos to clean them, he looks like a scuba diver at work. It’s dangerous work for József, especially because he has been exposed to crop d...
December 2010: revolution breaks out in Tunisia, the country of the filmmaker's father. In a strange way, the cries of fury of the Tunisian people echoed the inner turmoil that had been growing inside her for several weeks. At the same time, she was going through a manic-depressive episode of great intensity, and was diagnosed as bipolar and admitted to a psychiatric clinic. When she emerged fr...
One Day In the Life of Noah Piugattuk
Duration: 3h46Kapuivik, north Baffin Island, 1961. Noah Piugattuk’s nomadic Inuit band live and hunt by dogteam, just as his ancestors did when he was born in 1900. When the white man known as Boss arrives in camp, what appears as a chance meeting soon opens up the prospect of momentous change.
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...
How does one remember a homeland they are so deeply connected to and disconnected from? When Canadian-born filmmaker Emilie Serri travels to Syria for the first time in ten years, she feels alienated. A year later, when her grandmother dies and the war begins, she tries to piece back together an image of this elusive country she desperately wants to call her own. Gathering evidence from the pas...
In the 70s, young people in Baie-Comeau - Hauterive were trying to find their place in an industrial society devoted to work and consumerism. Often left to their own devices as they waited to enter the job market, many of them sought their paths in artistic creation. The 1974 St. John's Day festival gave them a chance to shout out loud about their existence and shake up the existing order. We f...
The Grand National at the Saint-Hyacinthe Agricultural Exhibition is the most significant truck and tractor pulling event in Canada. Over three days, in front of 20,000 spectators, more than sixty competitors from across North America compete. This film follows the experience of one competitor amidst this event, highlighting the close bonds between humans and machines.
Being in a Place – A Portrait of Margaret Tait
Duration: 2h04Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival materials, including sound recordings, film outtakes, and unpublished notebooks, this film focuses on Margaret Tait, one of Scotland's most enigmatic filmmakers. Using one of Tait's unrealized scripts as a starting point, _Being in a Place_ pays tribute to the strengths of Tait's methods, the significance of fragmented bodies of works, and the intrinsic va...
Ivanna, a young Nenets woman and mother of five children living in North Siberia, decides to take her life into her own hands, emancipating from an abusive relationship and abandoning the traditional nomadic way of life in the tundra to emigrate to the city.
At only 14 years old, Aurora lost everything during the horror of the Armenian genocide. Two years later, through luck and extraordinary courage, she escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Starring as herself in _Auction of Souls_, an early Hollywood blockbuster, Aurora became the face of one of the largest charity campaigns in American history. With a blend of vivid ani...
In the style of a film diary, this documentary immerses us in the personal experience of the filmmaker and his sister as they try to ensure their mother can end her days with dignity in the CHSLD system. Amid this complex challenge, Denys Desjardins films his mother with incredible tenderness. He communicates her vulnerability and warm personality from a place of love and respect. This feature-...
Taking place in a future that does not yet exist, _Notes From Eremocene_ questions the ideal techno-optimistic model that lies ahead of us. From a curious, playful and critical standpoint, filmmaker Viera Čákanyová explores the potential of blockchain technology and artificial intelligence in dealing with complex global problems we humans create – climate change and the crisis of representative...
Otto spends night and day blurring faces on Google Streetview for a cent each. It's the kind of work he and his friends around the world can find on the Amazon Mechanical Turk, the crowdworking platform. Alongside his turker friends, Otto sinks into a robotic world that raise the question of humanity.
_Animal Macula_ plunges us into the heart of a sprawling and winding network where animals transform as they move from one sequence to another, all drawn from 125 years of cinema. An enigma is contained in each image where an animal appears, diffused in the signs that he sends us in silence. Through archaeological work and collage, it is to this enigma that the film seeks to approach. By lett...
Unique, mostly unseen before, archive footage from March 1953, presents the funeral of Joseph Stalin as the culmination of the dictator’s personality cult. The news of Stalin’s death on March 5, 1953, shocked the entire Soviet Union. The burial ceremony was attended by tens of thousands of mourners. We observe every stage of the funeral spectacle, described by Pravda newspaper, as the Great Far...
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...
Currently, post pandemic, one in two young people show symptoms of anxiety and depression. _The World Is Ours_ is a film that gives the opportunity to six Montreal teenage girls to leave their urban environment for the first time to take part in a nature canoe-camping expedition. By presenting their struggles and small victories, the film poetically and luminously embraces their vulnerability, ...
The car of a photographer on assignment in Jamaica breaks down in the middle of a ghetto, a notoriously violent area. Forced to wait for days until his car is repaired, he retreats into himself, in shock. Then, gradually, he begins to open his eyes, relearns to listen, and accepts being elsewhere. Now, it's impossible for him to take back home photographs of a pretty woman on the beach. They wo...
Through moments in the lives of three groups of girls, images gleaned from the web and live streams of young women around the world, _Bloom_ delves into the world of today's teenage girls. We delicately observe a hyper-connected but lonely generation inhabited by great lucidity, an inner struggle with self-image obsession, and a need for self-affirmation in the face of a complex sense of aliena...
_And the Dogs Were Quiet_ is based on recorded excerpts from Aimé Césaire’s play of the same name where the rebel expresses himself in a long pain-racked poem in front of the mother, crying out loud his revolt against the enslavement of his people. Gabriel Glissant and Sarah Maldoror appear as actors at the Museum of Man in Paris which is devoted to Black Africa, integrating three spectators in...
_The Law in These Parts_ reveals the legal framework of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories and exposes the injustices inherent in a legal system designed by Israel but applied only to Palestinians. Through archival footage and interviews with Israeli military judges, prosecutors, and legal advisors, this documentary unravels an intricate system of military control that symbolize...
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...
Monchoachi, An Untamed Wor(l)d
Duration: 2h18Retired from the world and residing in the foothills of the Vauclin mountain in Martinique, Monchoachi writes every afternoon after his morning walk through the island's forests. A poet (he insists one should pronounce this word trembling), philosopher and essayist, he endeavours to construct a thought he describes as untamed—a thought detached from the Occident, and therefore inherently free. ...
With the tremor of time passing by, Charlotte Gainsbourg started to look at her mother Jane Birkin in a way she never did, both overcoming a shared sense of reserve. Through the camera lens, they expose themselves to one another, begin to step back, leaving space for a mother-daughter relationship to unfold.
When a Vienna museum guard befriends an enigmatic visitor, the grand Kunsthistorisches Museum becomes a mysterious crossroads which sparks the exploration of their lives, the city and the ways art reflects and shapes the world.
Hatidze is one of the last people to harvest honey in the traditional way, in the desert mountains of North Macedonia. Without any protection and with passion, she connects with the bees. She only takes the honey she needs to make a modest living, always ensuring to leave half for the bees to maintain the delicate balance between humans and nature. But this equilibrium is soon disrupted by a no...
A journey alongside PJ Harvey, following the creative process of her new album _The Hope Six Demolition Project_, conceived through her travels around the globe, to Afghanistan, Kosovo and the slums of Washington DC.
In the heart of the high Tibetan plateaux, among unexplored and inaccessible valleys, lies one of the last sanctuaries of the wild world, home to rare and unknown species of fauna. Photographer Vincent Munier takes writer and adventurer Sylvain Tesson on a quest to catch a glimpse of the snow leopard, one of the rarest and most difficult big cats to approach. Over a period of several weeks, he ...
In the Desert - Avidan's Dream
Duration: 1h43_In the Desert_ is a diptych documentary about two realities, two families in one land. Both parts have a dialectic relationship to each other, an inherent tension that exists by their very juxtaposition: _Omar's Dream_ is about a Palestinian family; _Avidan's Dream_ is about a Jewish one. Both families live in an area of the West Bank that is governed by Palestinian Authority but controlled by...
_In the Desert_ is a diptych documentary about two realities, two families in one land. Both parts have a dialectic relationship to each other, an inherent tension that exists by their very juxtaposition: _Omar's Dream_ is about a Palestinian family; _Avidan's Dream_ is about a Jewish one. Both families live in an area of the West Bank that is governed by Palestinian Authority but controlled by...
Filmmaker Danae Elon began to film her three young sons as soon as she and her partner Philip decided to leave New York and return to Jerusalem. The decision was prompted by the death of her father, leading Israeli intellectual and writer Amos Elon. It was his dying wish that Danae not return, but her attachment to the place she always called home was stronger. On a journey back Danae’s camera ...
Ukrainian filmmaker Olha Zhurba’s debut feature tells the story of Roma, who at the age of 13 became the poster child of the 2014 revolution. A street kid who ran around the front lines of Kyiv throwing stones and Molotov cocktails, Roma’s face defined an uprising. But behind the camouflage uniform, sunglasses and fearlessness hid a lonely boy from an orphanage. When Roma turns 18, his only opt...
Chantal Birman, a liberal midwife and feminist, has dedicated her life to defending women's rights. At nearly seventy years old, she still provides care and advice to women who have just given birth. From painful moments to intensely joyful experiences, witnessing her visits provides unique insight into the delicate moment of going home. Through the portrait of this committed woman, Aude Pépin ...