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The Apollo of Gaza
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In 2013, an ancient statue of Apollo was found in the waters off Gaza—before disappearing under mysterious circumstances. Is it the work of forgers, or a gift from the gods to a Palestinian people desperately in need of hope? Soon the rumours start to swirl, while behind the scenes local and international players start jostling—some driven by historical preservation and others by purely commerc...
A Losing Game
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_A Losing Game_ follows three people who ran for office in Quebec’s October 2022 provincial election. The one thing they had in common? They were all sure to lose. Through their individual campaigns, the film pulls back the curtain on our electoral system and the many ways in which it is dysfunctional: the additional barriers faced by women and racialized people, deficiencies in the voting proc...
September 11th, 1973 - The Last Stand of Salvador Allende
September 11th, 1973 - The Last Stand of Salvador Allende
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On September 11, 1973, Chilean armed forces bombed La Moneda Palace. Inside, President Salvador Allende continued to resist alongside some thirty supporters. Toward the end of the afternoon, his body was carried out of the building which was still ablaze... A few of the people who had accompanied Allende during his final hours survived. Through their testimonies, interspersed with archival foo...
Nyanga
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During the colonial era, Gaspar Yanga was kidnapped from the African coast, brought to Mexico, and enslaved. Though forced to work on the master's plantation, he never stopped dreaming of freedom. Based on historical facts and using shadow theatre with hand-drawn animation, _Nyanga_ pays tribute to the resistance against the chains of colonialism.
Okurimono
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Noriko Oi, a Japanese Canadian who has lived in Montreal for more than 20 years, is preparing to return to Nagasaki, her hometown, to help her siblings clear out the family home that will soon be sold. Within the walls of this old house lie fragments of the Oi family’s history. Noriko decides to reconstruct the past of her mother, Mitsuko, an atomic bomb survivor, in the hope of coming to terms...
Misleading Innocence (Tracing What a Bridge Can Do)
Misleading Innocence (Tracing What a Bridge Can Do)
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This film, conceived by Francesco Garutti and directed by Shahab Mihandoust, explores the controversial story of the planning and politics of a series of overpasses that span the parkways of Long Island, New York. These bridges were commissioned in the 1920s and 1930s by the public administrator Robert Moses. The story suggests that the bridges were designed to prevent the passage of buses, the...
Gods of Stone
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Filmed over fifteen years, _Deuses de pedra_ (_Gods of Stone_) paints a portrait of a rural community along the historic border between Galicia and Portugal. Through the eyes of Mariana, a young girl growing up immersed in local stories, legends, and folklore, the film explores the ties between past and present, belonging and change. As the story unfolds, the magic of tradition is confronted wi...
Volleyball
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A playful film about volleyball, shot in October 1965 during a match in Montreal between the U.S. and Soviet Olympic teams.
John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
Duration: 1h35Subscription access
An immersive film essay on tennis legend John McEnroe at the height of his career as the world champion, documenting his strive for perfection, frustrations, and the hardest loss of his career at the 1984 Roland-Garros French Open.
Regarde, elle a les yeux grand ouverts
Regarde, elle a les yeux grand ouverts
Duration: 1h57Born out of the shortcomings of the medical system, the MLAC (Movement for the Freedom of Abortion and Contraception) was founded in France in 1973, two years before the Veil Law was passed. For many years, Yann Le Masson followed a group of women from Aix-en-Provence and their loved ones in their daily lives, on the margins of legality. Within the MLAC, they discovered that together they could...
The Algerian Novel
_The Algerian Novel_ is a film devised in three chapters that offers a sensitive explanation of a nation’s complex relations with its history and the role of images in the construction of its national novel and archetypes.
499
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To reflect on the 500-year anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 2021, director Reyes offers a bold hybrid cinema experience exploring the brutal legacy of colonialism in contemporary Mexico. Through the eyes of a ghostly conquistador, the film recreates Hérnan Cortés' epic journey from the coasts of Veracruz to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, the site of contemporary Mexico City....
Kilómetro 126
_Kilómetro 126_ narrates the day of a young couple as they spent their last time together in their hometown. Focusing on small intimate and mundane moments of their lives while juxtaposing it with archival footage contrasting the settlement of a town with its future, questioning the notion of development and progress in these rural areas.
Relics of Love and War
Chinese Canadian filmmaker, Keith Lock, narrates the story of how his mother married his father while he was training with other Chinese Canadian veteran volunteers for the top secret suicide mission: Operation Oblivion. This incredible story is set against the backdrop of the Second World War, a time when Chinese Canadians could not vote, swim in pools, or hire white women for their businesses...
The Shape of Things
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A spectacular film shot during the first sculpture symposium held in North America, in Montreal in the summer of 1964, _The Shape of Things_ follows eleven sculptors from nine countries as they hammer, carve, and shape stone.
The Little Ancestor
On a windswept hill, in a place still young and devoid of all life, an ancestral house builds itself. The house comes to life and unveils its long life of one hundred and fifty years. Over the years, it leads us to feel the passage of time, the transformations of its surroundings, and its vulnerability in the face of the unstoppable frenzy of our urban growth. The house evolves quietly in the h...
Ibuka, Justice
April 6, 1994. A day like any other has turned into an apocalypse for the Rwandan people. In Kigali, Valentine and Jean-Claude, a new couple of young parents, face the threat of a mass hecatomb over their entire country. With the help of several people, they will multiply their attempts to escape from their region with their baby. _Ibuka, Justice_ is an animated, poetic rendering of the crucial...
Slet 1988
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In _Slet 1988_, dancer Sonja Vukićević, aged 74, moves through socialist-modernist spaces; her body is an archive of the last mass performance in Yugoslavia. Her gestures echo past rhythms and present realities, intertwining with a 1988 teenage girl’s diary to reveal the shift from socialist collectivism to rising individualism, while a new national collective body is creeping in and will soon ...
The Apollo of Gaza
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In 2013, an ancient statue of Apollo was found in the waters off Gaza—before disappearing under mysterious circumstances. Is it the work of forgers, or a gift from the gods to a Palestinian people desperately in need of hope? Soon the rumours start to swirl, while behind the scenes local and international players start jostling—some driven by historical preservation and others by purely commerc...
A Losing Game
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_A Losing Game_ follows three people who ran for office in Quebec’s October 2022 provincial election. The one thing they had in common? They were all sure to lose. Through their individual campaigns, the film pulls back the curtain on our electoral system and the many ways in which it is dysfunctional: the additional barriers faced by women and racialized people, deficiencies in the voting proc...
September 11th, 1973 - The Last Stand of Salvador Allende
September 11th, 1973 - The Last Stand of Salvador Allende
New product!Subscription access
On September 11, 1973, Chilean armed forces bombed La Moneda Palace. Inside, President Salvador Allende continued to resist alongside some thirty supporters. Toward the end of the afternoon, his body was carried out of the building which was still ablaze... A few of the people who had accompanied Allende during his final hours survived. Through their testimonies, interspersed with archival foo...
Nyanga
Subscription access
During the colonial era, Gaspar Yanga was kidnapped from the African coast, brought to Mexico, and enslaved. Though forced to work on the master's plantation, he never stopped dreaming of freedom. Based on historical facts and using shadow theatre with hand-drawn animation, _Nyanga_ pays tribute to the resistance against the chains of colonialism.
Okurimono
Subscription access
Noriko Oi, a Japanese Canadian who has lived in Montreal for more than 20 years, is preparing to return to Nagasaki, her hometown, to help her siblings clear out the family home that will soon be sold. Within the walls of this old house lie fragments of the Oi family’s history. Noriko decides to reconstruct the past of her mother, Mitsuko, an atomic bomb survivor, in the hope of coming to terms...
Misleading Innocence (Tracing What a Bridge Can Do)
Misleading Innocence (Tracing What a Bridge Can Do)
New product!Subscription access
This film, conceived by Francesco Garutti and directed by Shahab Mihandoust, explores the controversial story of the planning and politics of a series of overpasses that span the parkways of Long Island, New York. These bridges were commissioned in the 1920s and 1930s by the public administrator Robert Moses. The story suggests that the bridges were designed to prevent the passage of buses, the...
Gods of Stone
Subscription access
Filmed over fifteen years, _Deuses de pedra_ (_Gods of Stone_) paints a portrait of a rural community along the historic border between Galicia and Portugal. Through the eyes of Mariana, a young girl growing up immersed in local stories, legends, and folklore, the film explores the ties between past and present, belonging and change. As the story unfolds, the magic of tradition is confronted wi...
Volleyball
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A playful film about volleyball, shot in October 1965 during a match in Montreal between the U.S. and Soviet Olympic teams.
John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
Duration: 1h35Subscription access
An immersive film essay on tennis legend John McEnroe at the height of his career as the world champion, documenting his strive for perfection, frustrations, and the hardest loss of his career at the 1984 Roland-Garros French Open.
Regarde, elle a les yeux grand ouverts
Regarde, elle a les yeux grand ouverts
Duration: 1h57Born out of the shortcomings of the medical system, the MLAC (Movement for the Freedom of Abortion and Contraception) was founded in France in 1973, two years before the Veil Law was passed. For many years, Yann Le Masson followed a group of women from Aix-en-Provence and their loved ones in their daily lives, on the margins of legality. Within the MLAC, they discovered that together they could...
The Algerian Novel
_The Algerian Novel_ is a film devised in three chapters that offers a sensitive explanation of a nation’s complex relations with its history and the role of images in the construction of its national novel and archetypes.
499
Subscription access
To reflect on the 500-year anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 2021, director Reyes offers a bold hybrid cinema experience exploring the brutal legacy of colonialism in contemporary Mexico. Through the eyes of a ghostly conquistador, the film recreates Hérnan Cortés' epic journey from the coasts of Veracruz to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, the site of contemporary Mexico City....
Kilómetro 126
_Kilómetro 126_ narrates the day of a young couple as they spent their last time together in their hometown. Focusing on small intimate and mundane moments of their lives while juxtaposing it with archival footage contrasting the settlement of a town with its future, questioning the notion of development and progress in these rural areas.
Relics of Love and War
Chinese Canadian filmmaker, Keith Lock, narrates the story of how his mother married his father while he was training with other Chinese Canadian veteran volunteers for the top secret suicide mission: Operation Oblivion. This incredible story is set against the backdrop of the Second World War, a time when Chinese Canadians could not vote, swim in pools, or hire white women for their businesses...
The Shape of Things
Subscription access
A spectacular film shot during the first sculpture symposium held in North America, in Montreal in the summer of 1964, _The Shape of Things_ follows eleven sculptors from nine countries as they hammer, carve, and shape stone.
The Little Ancestor
On a windswept hill, in a place still young and devoid of all life, an ancestral house builds itself. The house comes to life and unveils its long life of one hundred and fifty years. Over the years, it leads us to feel the passage of time, the transformations of its surroundings, and its vulnerability in the face of the unstoppable frenzy of our urban growth. The house evolves quietly in the h...
Ibuka, Justice
April 6, 1994. A day like any other has turned into an apocalypse for the Rwandan people. In Kigali, Valentine and Jean-Claude, a new couple of young parents, face the threat of a mass hecatomb over their entire country. With the help of several people, they will multiply their attempts to escape from their region with their baby. _Ibuka, Justice_ is an animated, poetic rendering of the crucial...
Slet 1988
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In _Slet 1988_, dancer Sonja Vukićević, aged 74, moves through socialist-modernist spaces; her body is an archive of the last mass performance in Yugoslavia. Her gestures echo past rhythms and present realities, intertwining with a 1988 teenage girl’s diary to reveal the shift from socialist collectivism to rising individualism, while a new national collective body is creeping in and will soon ...
