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The Illinois Parables
Duration: 2h00
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_The Illinois Parables_ is an impressionistic portrait of the state of Illinois, sometimes described as a miniature version of the United States, tracing its decidedly eclectic history from the 7th to the 20th century in 11 parables.
Far from Vietnam
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In 1967, Alain Resnais, William Klein, Joris Ivens, Agnès Varda, Claude Lelouch, Jean-Luc Godard, and Chris Marker co-directed this film to express their solidarity with the struggle of the Vietnamese people. Each offers a distinct and personal perspective on this conflict, set against a backdrop of international public anger and mobilization.
The War at Home
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_The War at Home_ examines the anti-war movement in Madison, Wisconsin, during the Vietnam War era. It focuses on the escalation of protests, especially at the University of Wisconsin, and the intense clashes between students and authorities. The film combines interviews with activists, veterans, and community leaders with archival footage to portray a decade of resistance and the war’s impact ...
Paris to Pyongyang
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An immigrant tale, reimagined. 1950s Parisian elites led by Chris Marker and Claude Lanzmann visit the newly established communist state of North Korea that claims the allegiance of the filmmaker’s grandmother during the Korean War. An autobiographical investigation of family separation, sparked by the voyage of French luminaries and their artistic output – films, photographs and published memo...
Retracing Their Steps
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By opening forgotten boxes in the Montreal Gay Archive Center, fragments of history from the LGBTQIA2S+ community are rediscovered. Among them are Michael and René, the first couple to marry in Canada, Linda and Catherine, two owners of the lesbian bar Le Kiev, and Kimura, multidisciplinary artist of diverse origins. The portraits of these diverse characters bear witness to the diversity of Mon...
The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation
The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation
Duration: 3h38Subscription access
What is a military occupation? Through the testimonies of soldiers who carried it out, Avi Mograbi reveals the mechanisms of a colonialist occupation and sheds light on the logic behind such practices. In this exposé, the filmmaker refers to the 54 years of Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to outline a “brief manual of military occupation.”
Beaupré the Giant
Beaupré the Giant marked his era with his 8’3” height. Though he died young and far from home in 1904, his journey as a phenomenon was only just beginning. In a stunning series of twists and turns, his mummified body would take more than 80 years to find its way back home.
A Bear Named Wojtek
_A Bear Named Wojtek_ brings to life the extraordinary true story of a brown bear adopted by Polish soldiers in the Levant during World War II. This animated short follows Wojtek’s journey from the Persian desert to the front lines at the Battle of Monte Cassino, where he becomes both a soldier and a powerful symbol of resilience. As the soldiers form an unbreakable bond with Wojtek, the film e...
No Man Is Born to Be Stepped On
No Man Is Born to Be Stepped On
Duration: 1h12In the sertão, a desert region in northern Brazil, the vengeful spirit of a bandit of honor prowls. Lampião, who died in 1938, took justice into his own hands in a region exacerbated by agrarian conflict. Following in his footsteps, we meet the men and women who today claim to be his heirs, resisting the fascist demons of Jair Bolsonaro. Choral and poetic, bordering on the mystical, _No Man Is ...
Bye Bye Tiberias
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Leaving her native village to follow her dream of becoming an actress, Hiam Abbass also left behind her mother, grandmother and seven sisters. Thirty years later, her filmmaker daughter Lina returns with her to journey through the vanished places among the scattered memories of four generations of daring Palestinian women.
Grandmamauntsistercat
Zuza Banasińska reinvents the famous Slavic witch Baba Yaga through a clever montage of films from Łódź’s Educational Film Studio, containing sexist content. Questioning their own non-binary identity through an unsettling voice-over that tells the story of a matriarchal family, they unleash the queer dimension of images tasked with conveying a normative conception of identity.
Jean Ziegler - The Optimism of Willpower
Jean Ziegler - The Optimism of Willpower
Duration: 3h06In 1964, Che asked the young Jean Ziegler to stay in Switzerland to fight against the “brain of the capitalist monster”. Subsequently, as a writer, teacher, member of parliament and collaborator of Kofi Annan, Ziegler has tirelessly, through his books and speeches, castigated injustice, the power of capitalist oligarchies and those responsible for world hunger. Today, at the age of 82, his book...
Pacific Club
In 1979, the Pacific Club was opened in the basement of La Défense—the business district of Paris. It was the first nightclub for Arabs from the suburbs; a parallel world of dance, sweat, young loves, and one-night utopias. Azedine, 17 years old at the time, tells us the forgotten story of this club and of this generation who dreamed of becoming part of France, but who soon came face to face wi...
The Porters
Young people from Brussels consult a list of nearly 8,000 objects collected during an expedition to the Congo between 1911 and 1913. These witnesses to colonial history open a dialogue on realities once told, now shown and interpreted. A journey back in time.
Bonfires
Huge bonfires are lit by Protestants in Northern Ireland on July 12 each year, as part of the celebrations of the 1690 Battle of the Boyne. They are made from wooden pallets, tires, and garbage. To the Protestants, they are symbols of identity affirmation; to the Catholics, they mean arrogance and humiliation.
Bicentenario
Two hundred years after Simón Bolívar's liberation campaign in Colombia, _Bicentenario_ retraces Bolívar's journey across the country, searching for his lingering ghost within the contested territory. Creatively blending oral traditions, landscape cinema, and political essay, _Bicentenario_ cinematically reveals the collision of history and myth etched into the land of what would inevitably bec...
Teenage
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Once, "teenagers" didn't exist. But then, they were invented. As the cultural landscape around the world was thrown into turmoil during the industrial revolution, and with a chasm erupting between adults and youth, the concept of a new generation took shape. Whether in America, England, or Germany, this was a new idea of how people come of age.
Souvenir Souvenir
For ten years, a filmmaker tries to make a film based on his grandfather's memories of the Algerian War. Both a denial of history and a family taboo, the questions raised by the subject remain unanswered, leaving personal and collective memory shrouded in silence. The narrative delves into unspoken shame and the search for a hidden past, ultimately resolved through the making of the film.
In Flux
"Once a tributary of the Seine, now lying forgotten in the sewers of Paris, the ghost of the Bièvre fascinates me. I set off on foot to find its source and its meanders lead me to the people who live along its banks, themselves brought by a current of a different nature, with more distant origins." - Taryn Everdeen
Night Falls
A historian with the gift of clairvoyance roams the streets of the old City of Lights. In the falls of Shawinigan, he finds a meditation on human history and its loss of meaning.
The Illinois Parables
Duration: 2h00
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_The Illinois Parables_ is an impressionistic portrait of the state of Illinois, sometimes described as a miniature version of the United States, tracing its decidedly eclectic history from the 7th to the 20th century in 11 parables.
Far from Vietnam
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In 1967, Alain Resnais, William Klein, Joris Ivens, Agnès Varda, Claude Lelouch, Jean-Luc Godard, and Chris Marker co-directed this film to express their solidarity with the struggle of the Vietnamese people. Each offers a distinct and personal perspective on this conflict, set against a backdrop of international public anger and mobilization.
The War at Home
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_The War at Home_ examines the anti-war movement in Madison, Wisconsin, during the Vietnam War era. It focuses on the escalation of protests, especially at the University of Wisconsin, and the intense clashes between students and authorities. The film combines interviews with activists, veterans, and community leaders with archival footage to portray a decade of resistance and the war’s impact ...
Paris to Pyongyang
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An immigrant tale, reimagined. 1950s Parisian elites led by Chris Marker and Claude Lanzmann visit the newly established communist state of North Korea that claims the allegiance of the filmmaker’s grandmother during the Korean War. An autobiographical investigation of family separation, sparked by the voyage of French luminaries and their artistic output – films, photographs and published memo...
Retracing Their Steps
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By opening forgotten boxes in the Montreal Gay Archive Center, fragments of history from the LGBTQIA2S+ community are rediscovered. Among them are Michael and René, the first couple to marry in Canada, Linda and Catherine, two owners of the lesbian bar Le Kiev, and Kimura, multidisciplinary artist of diverse origins. The portraits of these diverse characters bear witness to the diversity of Mon...
The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation
The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation
Duration: 3h38Subscription access
What is a military occupation? Through the testimonies of soldiers who carried it out, Avi Mograbi reveals the mechanisms of a colonialist occupation and sheds light on the logic behind such practices. In this exposé, the filmmaker refers to the 54 years of Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to outline a “brief manual of military occupation.”
Beaupré the Giant
Beaupré the Giant marked his era with his 8’3” height. Though he died young and far from home in 1904, his journey as a phenomenon was only just beginning. In a stunning series of twists and turns, his mummified body would take more than 80 years to find its way back home.
A Bear Named Wojtek
_A Bear Named Wojtek_ brings to life the extraordinary true story of a brown bear adopted by Polish soldiers in the Levant during World War II. This animated short follows Wojtek’s journey from the Persian desert to the front lines at the Battle of Monte Cassino, where he becomes both a soldier and a powerful symbol of resilience. As the soldiers form an unbreakable bond with Wojtek, the film e...
No Man Is Born to Be Stepped On
No Man Is Born to Be Stepped On
Duration: 1h12In the sertão, a desert region in northern Brazil, the vengeful spirit of a bandit of honor prowls. Lampião, who died in 1938, took justice into his own hands in a region exacerbated by agrarian conflict. Following in his footsteps, we meet the men and women who today claim to be his heirs, resisting the fascist demons of Jair Bolsonaro. Choral and poetic, bordering on the mystical, _No Man Is ...
Bye Bye Tiberias
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Leaving her native village to follow her dream of becoming an actress, Hiam Abbass also left behind her mother, grandmother and seven sisters. Thirty years later, her filmmaker daughter Lina returns with her to journey through the vanished places among the scattered memories of four generations of daring Palestinian women.
Grandmamauntsistercat
Zuza Banasińska reinvents the famous Slavic witch Baba Yaga through a clever montage of films from Łódź’s Educational Film Studio, containing sexist content. Questioning their own non-binary identity through an unsettling voice-over that tells the story of a matriarchal family, they unleash the queer dimension of images tasked with conveying a normative conception of identity.
Jean Ziegler - The Optimism of Willpower
Jean Ziegler - The Optimism of Willpower
Duration: 3h06In 1964, Che asked the young Jean Ziegler to stay in Switzerland to fight against the “brain of the capitalist monster”. Subsequently, as a writer, teacher, member of parliament and collaborator of Kofi Annan, Ziegler has tirelessly, through his books and speeches, castigated injustice, the power of capitalist oligarchies and those responsible for world hunger. Today, at the age of 82, his book...
Pacific Club
In 1979, the Pacific Club was opened in the basement of La Défense—the business district of Paris. It was the first nightclub for Arabs from the suburbs; a parallel world of dance, sweat, young loves, and one-night utopias. Azedine, 17 years old at the time, tells us the forgotten story of this club and of this generation who dreamed of becoming part of France, but who soon came face to face wi...
The Porters
Young people from Brussels consult a list of nearly 8,000 objects collected during an expedition to the Congo between 1911 and 1913. These witnesses to colonial history open a dialogue on realities once told, now shown and interpreted. A journey back in time.
Bonfires
Huge bonfires are lit by Protestants in Northern Ireland on July 12 each year, as part of the celebrations of the 1690 Battle of the Boyne. They are made from wooden pallets, tires, and garbage. To the Protestants, they are symbols of identity affirmation; to the Catholics, they mean arrogance and humiliation.
Bicentenario
Two hundred years after Simón Bolívar's liberation campaign in Colombia, _Bicentenario_ retraces Bolívar's journey across the country, searching for his lingering ghost within the contested territory. Creatively blending oral traditions, landscape cinema, and political essay, _Bicentenario_ cinematically reveals the collision of history and myth etched into the land of what would inevitably bec...
Teenage
Subscription access
Once, "teenagers" didn't exist. But then, they were invented. As the cultural landscape around the world was thrown into turmoil during the industrial revolution, and with a chasm erupting between adults and youth, the concept of a new generation took shape. Whether in America, England, or Germany, this was a new idea of how people come of age.
Souvenir Souvenir
For ten years, a filmmaker tries to make a film based on his grandfather's memories of the Algerian War. Both a denial of history and a family taboo, the questions raised by the subject remain unanswered, leaving personal and collective memory shrouded in silence. The narrative delves into unspoken shame and the search for a hidden past, ultimately resolved through the making of the film.
In Flux
"Once a tributary of the Seine, now lying forgotten in the sewers of Paris, the ghost of the Bièvre fascinates me. I set off on foot to find its source and its meanders lead me to the people who live along its banks, themselves brought by a current of a different nature, with more distant origins." - Taryn Everdeen
Night Falls
A historian with the gift of clairvoyance roams the streets of the old City of Lights. In the falls of Shawinigan, he finds a meditation on human history and its loss of meaning.
