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The Bronswik Affair
Duration: 48 minutes
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This funny yet serious short film demonstrates the effectiveness of advertising and the marketing machine. Its comic appeal lies in the characters and the absurd situations they find themselves in, but it also shines a harsh light on our tendency towards needless consumerism prompted by a steady flow of commercials.
Snowbirds
Duration: 1h36
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_Snowbirds_ is a mid-length documentary that reaches out to golden age Canadians living in Florida during the winter season. This is the growing trend of an entire generation migrating to the tropics, seeking a leisure society that can entertain them. With tenderness and humor, this sociological documentary goes to the heart of their daily lives by painting a human portrait of this typically Ca...
NDDJ (Notre-Dame-du-Jambon)
Duration: 38 minutes
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Karan and Rohan, two biracial brothers raised in an alternative, unique, and marginal environment, creatively find ways to pass the time. Like many kids, a trip to buy candy often feels like the perfect escape from boredom. This short film is an ode to the power of reality and fiction, the love between two brothers, and the beauty of the Quebec countryside.
Idle Times
Beginning in the late 19th century, the history of baseball tells the story of the transformation of pastures and mindsets in North America. Slow and repetitive, the game makes ample room for daydreaming and boasting. Full-bodied and mannered, it evokes the vastness of a new continent while also recalling its British origins. Filmed at the Victoria Stadium in Quebec and developed with the colla...
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...
Painting with Falls
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_Painting with Falls_ is first and foremost an investigation into a painting : _Landscape with the Fall of Icarus_ painted by Pieter Bruegel around 1555. The author's personal reading of this painting raises countless questions. Here's one that could contain them all: what does it mean to _look_? Unemployed people, anonymous passers-by, philosophers, a psychoanalyst, politicians and the directo...
Year of the Robot
At the crossroads of art and science, this film centers on human beings and robots as their artificial counterparts. Like a series of archival documents detailing the first contacts and exchanges between human beings and a robot, the film studies cognitive dissonance, a minuscule, mysterious relational space lying between them both.
La cabale des oursins
The “urchins” in question are slag heaps, the vast mounds formed by the waste from former mines. The "cabal" is launched by Moullet himself, considering the contempt in which these mountains of waste removed from the subsoil by generations of miners are held. He undertakes their ascent, review and praise, leading us - with rigour and humour - to love them.
Ten Meter Tower
A ten-metre-high diving board. People climb up: to leap or to climb down? The situation highlights a dilemma: endure the instinctive fear of taking the plunge or the humiliation of having to climb down. _Ten Meter Tower_ is an entertaining study of human vulnerability.
Leisure Time - A Summer's Day
An ethnographic comedy showing people at leisure in the setting of their "sommerhus", a sort of summer residence popular in Denmark. Among the cast: a teenage girl who treads water in an indoor swimming pool, two old sisters bemused by a TV system, some drunken friends indulging in a risky game of darts, a man in underpants hooked on virtual reality and a woman with a nervy Shih Tzu who narrate...
Making a Scene
The filmmaker offers passers-by a mask and invites them to become either an elephant or a mosquito. A look at people's inhibitions.
Snow Search
Four performers searching for each other, each carrying one quarter of a photographic portrait of artist Michael Snow. A lyrical exploration through the city and an homage to Snow.
The Bermuda Triangle
A group of friends introduce you to the mythical and festive intersection of St-Denis and Mont-Royal streets in Montreal, recalling nightlife stories in the area.
Michel in the Suête
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A hilarious comic documentary about Michel Williatte-Battet's attempt to carry out a normal day’s activities during a Suête wind storm. The results are unpredictable and side-splitting! Suêtes are hurricane-force southeasterly winds that beat down on the French Acadian coastal area of north-western Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, during the spring and autumn.
Nouvelles de Roumanie
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The news reports supplied by our Western Media concerning the events of 1990 in Romania do not sit well with Constantin Ivanovici, a Canadian of Romanian origin. That's why he decided to go over there, to see for himself and film the situation from his perspective.
Thanks Boss!
François Ruffin is determined to re-establish a dialogue between the richest man in the world, Bernard Arnault, head of the luxury group LVMH, and the workers he has dismissed over the years. In northern France, Ruffin meets Serge and Jocelyne Klur, former employees of a Kenzo suit factory, relocated to Poland under Arnault's orders. Seeing that the Klurs live in extreme poverty and that their ...
Along the Coast
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A tourist and documentary visit along the Riviera. Exoticism, the colors of tourism, those of the carnival and Eden. An island. Parasols that close at the end on a pretty song by Delerue. The French Riviera seen in color by Agnès Varda, who cultivates the unusual image. A commissioned film transformed into an essay on tourism, not without a certain humor.
Dida
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Fifteen years ago Nikola left Serbia to follow his heart to Switzerland. Since then his life is shared between two countries and three women: his mother Dida, his grandmother and his wife. His mother has learning disabilities and has been dependent on the grandmother since ever. As grandmother is getting older, Belgrade is now calling Nikola back home. A heartwarming and amusing documentary abo...
Little Berlin
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When the Iron Curtain cuts his tiny german village in half, Peter the bull gets separated from his 36 cows. Based on a true story and narrated by Christoph Waltz.
The Bronswik Affair
Duration: 48 minutes
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This funny yet serious short film demonstrates the effectiveness of advertising and the marketing machine. Its comic appeal lies in the characters and the absurd situations they find themselves in, but it also shines a harsh light on our tendency towards needless consumerism prompted by a steady flow of commercials.
Snowbirds
Duration: 1h36
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_Snowbirds_ is a mid-length documentary that reaches out to golden age Canadians living in Florida during the winter season. This is the growing trend of an entire generation migrating to the tropics, seeking a leisure society that can entertain them. With tenderness and humor, this sociological documentary goes to the heart of their daily lives by painting a human portrait of this typically Ca...
NDDJ (Notre-Dame-du-Jambon)
Duration: 38 minutes
Subscription access
Karan and Rohan, two biracial brothers raised in an alternative, unique, and marginal environment, creatively find ways to pass the time. Like many kids, a trip to buy candy often feels like the perfect escape from boredom. This short film is an ode to the power of reality and fiction, the love between two brothers, and the beauty of the Quebec countryside.
Idle Times
Beginning in the late 19th century, the history of baseball tells the story of the transformation of pastures and mindsets in North America. Slow and repetitive, the game makes ample room for daydreaming and boasting. Full-bodied and mannered, it evokes the vastness of a new continent while also recalling its British origins. Filmed at the Victoria Stadium in Quebec and developed with the colla...
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...
Painting with Falls
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_Painting with Falls_ is first and foremost an investigation into a painting : _Landscape with the Fall of Icarus_ painted by Pieter Bruegel around 1555. The author's personal reading of this painting raises countless questions. Here's one that could contain them all: what does it mean to _look_? Unemployed people, anonymous passers-by, philosophers, a psychoanalyst, politicians and the directo...
Year of the Robot
At the crossroads of art and science, this film centers on human beings and robots as their artificial counterparts. Like a series of archival documents detailing the first contacts and exchanges between human beings and a robot, the film studies cognitive dissonance, a minuscule, mysterious relational space lying between them both.
La cabale des oursins
The “urchins” in question are slag heaps, the vast mounds formed by the waste from former mines. The "cabal" is launched by Moullet himself, considering the contempt in which these mountains of waste removed from the subsoil by generations of miners are held. He undertakes their ascent, review and praise, leading us - with rigour and humour - to love them.
Ten Meter Tower
A ten-metre-high diving board. People climb up: to leap or to climb down? The situation highlights a dilemma: endure the instinctive fear of taking the plunge or the humiliation of having to climb down. _Ten Meter Tower_ is an entertaining study of human vulnerability.
Leisure Time - A Summer's Day
An ethnographic comedy showing people at leisure in the setting of their "sommerhus", a sort of summer residence popular in Denmark. Among the cast: a teenage girl who treads water in an indoor swimming pool, two old sisters bemused by a TV system, some drunken friends indulging in a risky game of darts, a man in underpants hooked on virtual reality and a woman with a nervy Shih Tzu who narrate...
Making a Scene
The filmmaker offers passers-by a mask and invites them to become either an elephant or a mosquito. A look at people's inhibitions.
Snow Search
Four performers searching for each other, each carrying one quarter of a photographic portrait of artist Michael Snow. A lyrical exploration through the city and an homage to Snow.
The Bermuda Triangle
A group of friends introduce you to the mythical and festive intersection of St-Denis and Mont-Royal streets in Montreal, recalling nightlife stories in the area.
Michel in the Suête
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A hilarious comic documentary about Michel Williatte-Battet's attempt to carry out a normal day’s activities during a Suête wind storm. The results are unpredictable and side-splitting! Suêtes are hurricane-force southeasterly winds that beat down on the French Acadian coastal area of north-western Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, during the spring and autumn.
Nouvelles de Roumanie
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The news reports supplied by our Western Media concerning the events of 1990 in Romania do not sit well with Constantin Ivanovici, a Canadian of Romanian origin. That's why he decided to go over there, to see for himself and film the situation from his perspective.
Thanks Boss!
François Ruffin is determined to re-establish a dialogue between the richest man in the world, Bernard Arnault, head of the luxury group LVMH, and the workers he has dismissed over the years. In northern France, Ruffin meets Serge and Jocelyne Klur, former employees of a Kenzo suit factory, relocated to Poland under Arnault's orders. Seeing that the Klurs live in extreme poverty and that their ...
Along the Coast
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A tourist and documentary visit along the Riviera. Exoticism, the colors of tourism, those of the carnival and Eden. An island. Parasols that close at the end on a pretty song by Delerue. The French Riviera seen in color by Agnès Varda, who cultivates the unusual image. A commissioned film transformed into an essay on tourism, not without a certain humor.
Dida
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Fifteen years ago Nikola left Serbia to follow his heart to Switzerland. Since then his life is shared between two countries and three women: his mother Dida, his grandmother and his wife. His mother has learning disabilities and has been dependent on the grandmother since ever. As grandmother is getting older, Belgrade is now calling Nikola back home. A heartwarming and amusing documentary abo...
Little Berlin
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When the Iron Curtain cuts his tiny german village in half, Peter the bull gets separated from his 36 cows. Based on a true story and narrated by Christoph Waltz.
