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Weather Diary 1
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In _Weather Diary 1_, George Kuchar travels to Oklahoma in search of tornadoes, but spends most of his time watching TV and eating. The film is part of _The Weather Diaries_ (mid-1980s–2000s), a series of often humorous, low-budget video journals documenting his annual spring trips to observe storms in the American Midwest.
Orbits
Duration: 46 minutes
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Marie-Christine, who lost her sight some years ago, explores life in a particularly sensory way—through her fingertips. Through her personal experience, she arouses her son’s curiosity and sense of wonder about the beauty of the universe. Drawing from a constellation of highly textured analogue images and a rich tapestry of sound, _Orbits_ journeys into the sensorial depths of Marie-Christine’s...
No God No Father
Duration: 22 minutes
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_No God No Father_ is a documentary/fiction that explores the intimate relationship a young man has with the Internet. In the absence of a father figure, he turns to Google as an unexpected mentor. From learning everyday tasks like shaving, to discovering deeper knowledge, the algorithm becomes much more than a simple search engine, blurring the boundaries between real and virtual.
3000 Nights
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Inspired by a true story and shot in a real prison, _3000 Nights_ tells the story of a newlywed Palestinian schoolteacher who is falsely arrested and incarcerated in an Israeli prison where she gives birth to her son. Through her struggle to raise her child behind bars, the film traces a young mother’s journey of hope, resilience and survival against all odds.
Marie-Paule is moving
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An intimate portrait of a grandson's grandmother who leaves her home to go and live in a nursing home.
The Rose Family
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In October 1970, members of the Front de libération du Québec kidnapped minister Pierre Laporte, unleashing an unprecedented crisis in Quebec. Fifty years later, Félix Rose tries to understand what led his father and uncle to commit these acts. The result of ten years of research, _The Rose Family_ brings to life moments and figures that were previously known only through a few photographs, and...
Here and There
At the beginning of the summer of their 16th year, Adam, Ana, and Dahlia turn to their families and friends to question their cultural heritage. Through intimate conversations, _Here and There_ juxtaposes the different influences and realities that shape the development of the cultural identities of second and third-generation immigrants.
Leveret Road
Jeanne, 10, a neuroatypical with a passion for skateboarding and snowboarding, has been diagnosed with dysorthographia, ADHD, dyscalculia and a developmental coordination disorder. She faces a decline in her academic performance and must learn to maintain her confidence and focus on her strengths.
Here and There
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At the beginning of the summer of their 16th year, Adam, Ana, and Dahlia turn to their families and friends to question their cultural heritage. Through intimate conversations, _Here and There_ juxtaposes the different influences and realities that shape the development of the cultural identities of second and third-generation immigrants.
Leveret Road
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Jeanne, 10, a neuroatypical with a passion for skateboarding and snowboarding, has been diagnosed with dysorthographia, ADHD, dyscalculia and a developmental coordination disorder. She faces a decline in her academic performance and must learn to maintain her confidence and focus on her strengths.
The Dissolution of the Landscape
The Dissolution of the Landscape
Subscription accessThrough visual metaphors, the film offers an incursion into an inner landscape, a dive into subconscious, a mix of childhood memories and recurrent dreams, between surrealism and automatism.
Before Fall
On the eve of an inevitable exile towards the urban centers, the youth of Temiscamingue is torn between the desire of a better future and the attachment to its territory.
Alice in Big Noses’ Land
Alice, c'est ma perle d'Orient, ma fille qui vient de Chine. Les gros nez, c'est nous : c'est l'expression par laquelle les Asiatiques désignent les Occidentaux. Alice a trouvé sa famille au Québec, comme près de 5 000 de ses petites compatriotes depuis le début des années 1990. Tourné sur une période de dix ans, mon documentaire présente les expériences et les questionnements de huit familles ...
Nine Easy Dances
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A filmmaker and former dancer returns to her family home to make a film with her parents, but when they fail to live up to unrealistic expectations, and when her mother's cancer metastasizes, she hires professional dancers to play them, in what becomes a darkly humorous docufiction about both loss and transformation.
Parc-Ex The Heart of MTL
Every Sunday, Hudson returns to Park Extension to see his father. Along the way, he runs into his childhood friend, Baki. Together, they wander their old stomping grounds, just like when they were kids. As they walk, Hudson reminisces about how the neighbourhood shaped who he has become.
Mathilde and the Love Room
Puffing on super slim cigarettes, and wearing high heels, Madame Mathilde, as she's often called, is an exceptional, tireless public health nurse on a mission to help the homeless in Brussels through countless projects. Will she succeed in convincing Valérie and Mohammed to find some intimacy in her "Love Room"?
The Kettle
In a letter to her attacker, a young woman describes all the harm she would, in turn, inflict on him. Authenticity and violence reverse the victim-culprit relationship.
4125 Parthenais
A Romanian caretaker orchestrates arrivals and departures; she decides who will be allowed access to this noisy and anonymous building. Who lives at 4125 Parthenais? Primarily men, not so young anymore, most of them welfare recipients. People who have, out of frustration or by choice, withdrawn from the Capitalist society. A fallen suburbanite, a caretaker who thinks he’s an Earl, a gay Jehova’...
A Bird of Paper
Amélie-Jeanne is a 22-year-old psychiatry patient. A year after her fifth psychotic episode, she still feels the effects in her everyday life. Feeling fragile but hopeful, her health is improving thanks to the strong bond she shares with her father, who faces challenges of his own.
Weather Diary 1
Subscription access
In _Weather Diary 1_, George Kuchar travels to Oklahoma in search of tornadoes, but spends most of his time watching TV and eating. The film is part of _The Weather Diaries_ (mid-1980s–2000s), a series of often humorous, low-budget video journals documenting his annual spring trips to observe storms in the American Midwest.
Orbits
Duration: 46 minutes
Subscription access
Marie-Christine, who lost her sight some years ago, explores life in a particularly sensory way—through her fingertips. Through her personal experience, she arouses her son’s curiosity and sense of wonder about the beauty of the universe. Drawing from a constellation of highly textured analogue images and a rich tapestry of sound, _Orbits_ journeys into the sensorial depths of Marie-Christine’s...
No God No Father
Duration: 22 minutes
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_No God No Father_ is a documentary/fiction that explores the intimate relationship a young man has with the Internet. In the absence of a father figure, he turns to Google as an unexpected mentor. From learning everyday tasks like shaving, to discovering deeper knowledge, the algorithm becomes much more than a simple search engine, blurring the boundaries between real and virtual.
3000 Nights
Subscription access
Inspired by a true story and shot in a real prison, _3000 Nights_ tells the story of a newlywed Palestinian schoolteacher who is falsely arrested and incarcerated in an Israeli prison where she gives birth to her son. Through her struggle to raise her child behind bars, the film traces a young mother’s journey of hope, resilience and survival against all odds.
Marie-Paule is moving
Subscription access
An intimate portrait of a grandson's grandmother who leaves her home to go and live in a nursing home.
The Rose Family
Subscription access
In October 1970, members of the Front de libération du Québec kidnapped minister Pierre Laporte, unleashing an unprecedented crisis in Quebec. Fifty years later, Félix Rose tries to understand what led his father and uncle to commit these acts. The result of ten years of research, _The Rose Family_ brings to life moments and figures that were previously known only through a few photographs, and...
Here and There
At the beginning of the summer of their 16th year, Adam, Ana, and Dahlia turn to their families and friends to question their cultural heritage. Through intimate conversations, _Here and There_ juxtaposes the different influences and realities that shape the development of the cultural identities of second and third-generation immigrants.
Leveret Road
Jeanne, 10, a neuroatypical with a passion for skateboarding and snowboarding, has been diagnosed with dysorthographia, ADHD, dyscalculia and a developmental coordination disorder. She faces a decline in her academic performance and must learn to maintain her confidence and focus on her strengths.
Here and There
Subscription access
At the beginning of the summer of their 16th year, Adam, Ana, and Dahlia turn to their families and friends to question their cultural heritage. Through intimate conversations, _Here and There_ juxtaposes the different influences and realities that shape the development of the cultural identities of second and third-generation immigrants.
Leveret Road
Subscription access
Jeanne, 10, a neuroatypical with a passion for skateboarding and snowboarding, has been diagnosed with dysorthographia, ADHD, dyscalculia and a developmental coordination disorder. She faces a decline in her academic performance and must learn to maintain her confidence and focus on her strengths.
The Dissolution of the Landscape
The Dissolution of the Landscape
Subscription accessThrough visual metaphors, the film offers an incursion into an inner landscape, a dive into subconscious, a mix of childhood memories and recurrent dreams, between surrealism and automatism.
Before Fall
On the eve of an inevitable exile towards the urban centers, the youth of Temiscamingue is torn between the desire of a better future and the attachment to its territory.
Alice in Big Noses’ Land
Alice, c'est ma perle d'Orient, ma fille qui vient de Chine. Les gros nez, c'est nous : c'est l'expression par laquelle les Asiatiques désignent les Occidentaux. Alice a trouvé sa famille au Québec, comme près de 5 000 de ses petites compatriotes depuis le début des années 1990. Tourné sur une période de dix ans, mon documentaire présente les expériences et les questionnements de huit familles ...
Nine Easy Dances
Subscription access
A filmmaker and former dancer returns to her family home to make a film with her parents, but when they fail to live up to unrealistic expectations, and when her mother's cancer metastasizes, she hires professional dancers to play them, in what becomes a darkly humorous docufiction about both loss and transformation.
Parc-Ex The Heart of MTL
Every Sunday, Hudson returns to Park Extension to see his father. Along the way, he runs into his childhood friend, Baki. Together, they wander their old stomping grounds, just like when they were kids. As they walk, Hudson reminisces about how the neighbourhood shaped who he has become.
Mathilde and the Love Room
Puffing on super slim cigarettes, and wearing high heels, Madame Mathilde, as she's often called, is an exceptional, tireless public health nurse on a mission to help the homeless in Brussels through countless projects. Will she succeed in convincing Valérie and Mohammed to find some intimacy in her "Love Room"?
The Kettle
In a letter to her attacker, a young woman describes all the harm she would, in turn, inflict on him. Authenticity and violence reverse the victim-culprit relationship.
4125 Parthenais
A Romanian caretaker orchestrates arrivals and departures; she decides who will be allowed access to this noisy and anonymous building. Who lives at 4125 Parthenais? Primarily men, not so young anymore, most of them welfare recipients. People who have, out of frustration or by choice, withdrawn from the Capitalist society. A fallen suburbanite, a caretaker who thinks he’s an Earl, a gay Jehova’...
A Bird of Paper
Amélie-Jeanne is a 22-year-old psychiatry patient. A year after her fifth psychotic episode, she still feels the effects in her everyday life. Feeling fragile but hopeful, her health is improving thanks to the strong bond she shares with her father, who faces challenges of his own.
