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In My Head
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_In My Head_ is an experimental first-person short film about the filmmaker’s multiple sclerosis as told through magnetic resonance images. Weaving medical imagery from hospital appointments with visual and sound fragments from daily life, this film-journal sketches the movement of life that persists with the disease.
Dear Audrey
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Activist-filmmaker Martin Duckworth has devoted his life to peace and justice. But he has now put his camera aside to dedicate himself to the most important cause of his life: caring for his wife, photographer Audrey Schirmer, who is in the late stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Embracing each new stage of this reality with courage and resilience, Martin bears witness to his unconditional love for...
Un soleil entre deux nuages
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This documentary gives a voice to children living with cystic fibrosis or leukemia. With the words of children but the wisdom of old souls, they face a heartbreaking reality, fighting every day against illness and for life itself. Through this film, director Marquise Lepage pays tribute to their courage and resilience.
Point and Line to Plane
Devastated after the death of a friend, a young woman (Deragh Campbell) attempts to extract meaning from this intense loss as she discovers signs in her daily life and through encounters with the art of Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint. Amidst travels that are at once internal and external, she searches for traces of her friend as connections uncannily accumulate. Shapes and colours from ac...
What These Ashes Wanted
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_What These Ashes Wanted_—which combines hand-processed film, video diaries, found sound, text, and narration—is a ritual of grief that feels both collective and intimate. Our own stories of loss fill the gaps between Hoffman’s images of Egyptian tombs, wintertime frolics, and insect activity.
The Ones Who Stay
Four young Cuban artists choose to stay in Cuba during what has now become the island's largest migration crisis. _The One Who Stay_ is an intimate portrait of those who stay behind, loosing loved ones and shaping the identity of a generation at risk of fading away.
Ada for Mayor
_Ada for Mayor_ follows Ada Colau for one year, from her time spent organizing the anti-eviction fight in Barcelona to the day she is sworn-in as its mayor. The intimate chronicle – featuring Colau’s own video diary – and privileged access to the inner-workings of a new citizen platform reveal an extraordinary journey in which two prevalent themes are united: a historic victory illustrative of ...
À hauteur d'homme
_À hauteur d'homme (At the Height of a Man)_ is a cinematic chronicle of the final weeks of Bernard Landry’s administration. Strategy meetings, closed-door sessions, cabinet meetings… This documentary offers an intimate glimpse into the world of Quebec’s 28th premier and unprecedented access to his final election campaign. A contemporary allegory of the exercise of power, directed by Jean-Claud...
Mom
Filmmaker Xun Sero grew up as a Tzotzil Mexican among the sacredness of the Virgin of Guadalupe and Mother Earth. As the son of a single mother, he grew up between mockery for not having a father and blaming his mother for it. _Mom_ is a dialogue between a mother and a son who explore their contradictions, who know and recognize each other, and reflect on the perpetuation of naturalized violence.
Surfing on Grace
David follows, over the course of five years, his brother Louis – a slalom skateboarding champion –through his evolution as an athlete. With an introspective approach, he tries to find common features in both their paths and stumbles upon the concept of grace. It thus forces Louis to ponder upon philosophical questions, while David finds himself trapped in the reflective process he started. The...
Okurimono
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...
Les femmes me touchent
A musical film based on a song by _Les Folles Alliées_, illustrating the unacceptable insults directed at the female body and intellect: sexual harassment, sexist advertisements and music videos, pornography, domestic violence, and rape.
On tire pas sur une plante pour qu'elle pousse
On tire pas sur une plante pour qu'elle pousse
Subscription accessDuring a summer in their chosen Haute-Gaspésie, Rosie-Roch confides in us about their complex relationship with their body and the recent unfolding of their identity.
Land of Cold
Immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa have chosen to start their lives over north of the 49th parallel. Here, in the vast expanses of Northern Canada, they reflect on the challenges and splendors of a season they’ve never yet experienced: winter.
Bonbons bijoux
Sylvie Laliberté’s work centers on self-representation and narrative, and is often delivered in a humorously faux-naïve and playful aesthetic. In her first video, _Bonbons bijoux_, the artist speaks directly to the camera about simple, trivial things, delivered in a whimsical and spirited manner. In a succession of brief vignettes, the artist, like a candid half-woman, half-child, tells stories...
Her Scream
Audrey, a woman in her mid-fifties, has never been able to make peace with her tumultuous family history. She now decides to confront her demons. Supported by her son, the director of the documentary, she revisits a striking scene from her past: the moment when she told her parents that her grandfather had sexually assaulted her. Together, through a year-long production process, they transform ...
In My Mother's Garden
"Through conversations regarding my mother’s gardening practice, we explore subjects of loss, growth, and care. Filming her as she weeds, the process of clearing out overgrowth and invasive plants, I follow her around the garden she has upkept these last twenty-five years. Slowly, I begin to realize, what grounds me here isn’t the rosebush I’ve known since infancy, but the person who planted it...
Regretters
Two Swedish men in their 60s meet for the first time to reflect on their experiences of gender transition and detransition, sharing their personal journeys and the choices that shaped their lives.
In My Head
Subscription access
_In My Head_ is an experimental first-person short film about the filmmaker’s multiple sclerosis as told through magnetic resonance images. Weaving medical imagery from hospital appointments with visual and sound fragments from daily life, this film-journal sketches the movement of life that persists with the disease.
Dear Audrey
Subscription access
Activist-filmmaker Martin Duckworth has devoted his life to peace and justice. But he has now put his camera aside to dedicate himself to the most important cause of his life: caring for his wife, photographer Audrey Schirmer, who is in the late stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Embracing each new stage of this reality with courage and resilience, Martin bears witness to his unconditional love for...
Un soleil entre deux nuages
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This documentary gives a voice to children living with cystic fibrosis or leukemia. With the words of children but the wisdom of old souls, they face a heartbreaking reality, fighting every day against illness and for life itself. Through this film, director Marquise Lepage pays tribute to their courage and resilience.
Point and Line to Plane
Devastated after the death of a friend, a young woman (Deragh Campbell) attempts to extract meaning from this intense loss as she discovers signs in her daily life and through encounters with the art of Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint. Amidst travels that are at once internal and external, she searches for traces of her friend as connections uncannily accumulate. Shapes and colours from ac...
What These Ashes Wanted
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_What These Ashes Wanted_—which combines hand-processed film, video diaries, found sound, text, and narration—is a ritual of grief that feels both collective and intimate. Our own stories of loss fill the gaps between Hoffman’s images of Egyptian tombs, wintertime frolics, and insect activity.
The Ones Who Stay
Four young Cuban artists choose to stay in Cuba during what has now become the island's largest migration crisis. _The One Who Stay_ is an intimate portrait of those who stay behind, loosing loved ones and shaping the identity of a generation at risk of fading away.
Ada for Mayor
_Ada for Mayor_ follows Ada Colau for one year, from her time spent organizing the anti-eviction fight in Barcelona to the day she is sworn-in as its mayor. The intimate chronicle – featuring Colau’s own video diary – and privileged access to the inner-workings of a new citizen platform reveal an extraordinary journey in which two prevalent themes are united: a historic victory illustrative of ...
À hauteur d'homme
_À hauteur d'homme (At the Height of a Man)_ is a cinematic chronicle of the final weeks of Bernard Landry’s administration. Strategy meetings, closed-door sessions, cabinet meetings… This documentary offers an intimate glimpse into the world of Quebec’s 28th premier and unprecedented access to his final election campaign. A contemporary allegory of the exercise of power, directed by Jean-Claud...
Mom
Filmmaker Xun Sero grew up as a Tzotzil Mexican among the sacredness of the Virgin of Guadalupe and Mother Earth. As the son of a single mother, he grew up between mockery for not having a father and blaming his mother for it. _Mom_ is a dialogue between a mother and a son who explore their contradictions, who know and recognize each other, and reflect on the perpetuation of naturalized violence.
Surfing on Grace
David follows, over the course of five years, his brother Louis – a slalom skateboarding champion –through his evolution as an athlete. With an introspective approach, he tries to find common features in both their paths and stumbles upon the concept of grace. It thus forces Louis to ponder upon philosophical questions, while David finds himself trapped in the reflective process he started. The...
Okurimono
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...
Les femmes me touchent
A musical film based on a song by _Les Folles Alliées_, illustrating the unacceptable insults directed at the female body and intellect: sexual harassment, sexist advertisements and music videos, pornography, domestic violence, and rape.
On tire pas sur une plante pour qu'elle pousse
On tire pas sur une plante pour qu'elle pousse
Subscription accessDuring a summer in their chosen Haute-Gaspésie, Rosie-Roch confides in us about their complex relationship with their body and the recent unfolding of their identity.
Land of Cold
Immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa have chosen to start their lives over north of the 49th parallel. Here, in the vast expanses of Northern Canada, they reflect on the challenges and splendors of a season they’ve never yet experienced: winter.
Bonbons bijoux
Sylvie Laliberté’s work centers on self-representation and narrative, and is often delivered in a humorously faux-naïve and playful aesthetic. In her first video, _Bonbons bijoux_, the artist speaks directly to the camera about simple, trivial things, delivered in a whimsical and spirited manner. In a succession of brief vignettes, the artist, like a candid half-woman, half-child, tells stories...
Her Scream
Audrey, a woman in her mid-fifties, has never been able to make peace with her tumultuous family history. She now decides to confront her demons. Supported by her son, the director of the documentary, she revisits a striking scene from her past: the moment when she told her parents that her grandfather had sexually assaulted her. Together, through a year-long production process, they transform ...
In My Mother's Garden
"Through conversations regarding my mother’s gardening practice, we explore subjects of loss, growth, and care. Filming her as she weeds, the process of clearing out overgrowth and invasive plants, I follow her around the garden she has upkept these last twenty-five years. Slowly, I begin to realize, what grounds me here isn’t the rosebush I’ve known since infancy, but the person who planted it...
Regretters
Two Swedish men in their 60s meet for the first time to reflect on their experiences of gender transition and detransition, sharing their personal journeys and the choices that shaped their lives.
