Layovers
Sometimes, it is worthwhile to get off the path and stopover in order to dig deeper and reflect. Once every two months, we call upon individuals whose thoughts, approaches, and methods we admire to select five films around a subject of their choice. You want to participate? Feel free to contact us at info@tenk.ca
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A Country of Resistance
Duration: 3h14
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Riace, Calabria. After 20 years of harmony, this village, which had made welcoming migrants its future, became the target of the populist wave consuming Italy. The venom has spread and Domenico Lucano, its mayor, is the object of a cabal and forced into exile. After months of painstaking destruction, Riace faces a dilemma: resist or disappear.
Maël et la révolution
Duration: 1h20
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Nothing predisposed 17-year-old Maël, a working-class kid raised on the 24 Hours of Le Mans, to become involved in climate activism. At the AgroCampus de la Germinière in the Sarthe region, where he is preparing a professional horticultural baccalaureate, he faces peers who don’t share his convictions—and are sometimes fiercely opposed to them. As a budding revolutionary, whether at protests or...
K-Family Affairs
Duration: 1h30
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Filmmaker Arum Nam's parents are part of the proud 386 generation, which played a significant role in achieving democratization in South Korea. Eager to pass on a better world to Arum, her father became a public servant, and her mother, a feminist activist. But Arum’s perspective shifts at 18 with the Sewol ferry disaster. Also reflecting on events like #MeToo and impeachment, Arum ponders her ...
The Tie
Duration: 3h14
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20-year-old Bastien has been a militant member of France main far-right party for five years. As the presidential campaign heats up, his superior urges him to take on greater responsibilities. Bastien rises to the challenge and is surprised to find himself dreaming of a political career. But as his ambitions grow, buried demons from his past begin to resurface — threatening everything he’s work...
Doctors with Heart
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This deeply human documentary offers a unique perspective on AIDS, giving voice to general practitioners, researchers, ethicists, philosophers, and humanists. Here, the disease becomes a lens through which the strengths and flaws of our society are revealed, challenging our scientific, moral, and social principles. A global and groundbreaking approach that transcends life, death, and AIDS itself.
Le récit d’A
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_Le récit d'A_ weaves multiple narratives within a single video, parallel worlds that echo one another without ever intersecting. Esther Valiquette incorporates autobiographical fragments, blending animation and medical imagery to reflect on a broader trace: that of a generation devastated by AIDS, and her own life, stripped of its youth. The video also explores the act of seeing, a shifting aw...
Where the Trains Used to Go
A magical journey along the remains of a narrow-gauge railway in southeastern Norway. Using a specially developed animation technique and filmed on large-format film, the movie takes us swiftly along the tracks of the _Tertitten_, which used to be a sideline to the main railway between Oslo and Stockholm.
A Year Along the Abandoned Road
A Year Along the Abandoned Road
Duration: 26 minutesThe film is a portrait of a deserted fisherman’s village in Northern Norway, shot on analog 65/70mm film with a specially developed "nature animation" technique. In one continuous shot, we "fly" along the remains of an internal village road, while at the same time a whole year passes by at 50 000 times normal speed. Most of the year, the village of Børfjord lies empty with virgin snow between c...
Nénette
Born in 1969 in Borneo lowland rain forests, Nénette has just turned 40. It’s extremely rare for an orangutan to reach that age! Residing at the menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris since 1972, she’s been there longer than any member of the staff. An undisputed star of the place, she sees hundreds of visitors pass by her cage each day. Naturally, everyone has their own comments to make...
Akeji, the Breath of the Mountain
Akeji, the Breath of the Mountain
Duration: 2h26In Japan's Himuro Valley, Akeji and Asako seem to have lived forever in a hermitage, surrounded by animals and the spirits of nature. Season after season, Asako gathers plants to transform into pigments, while Akeji prays and devotes himself to painting. The cycle of nature appears unchanging. Yet time crackles, and reality eventually catches up with them...
Belle River
2019\. Spring flooding in Mississippi hits record highs. In Louisiana, the residents of Pierre Part are preparing for the worst. Barring an unexpected turn of events, local authorities will soon be forced to open the floodgates of the Morganza Spillway, in order to save the cities of New Orleans and Baton Rouge from further uncontrolled flooding. Faith and resilience are the two best weapons th...
NYC RGB
With _NYC RGB_ Viktoria Schmid shows us a view of New York that we’ve never seen before, made possible by historical color film processes. The material, triple exposed with different color filters, mixes colors, space, and time to a perception that is possible only in film. Evidence of cinema’s potential for bursting open reality.
These Streets Will Never Look the Same
These Streets Will Never Look the Same
Duration: 3h12Subscription access
A car slowly navigates the winding streets and disparate airwaves of the United States of America to uncover the scars of capitalism in natural landscapes, urban environments, people, and wildlife. An intricately built meditative audio-visual experience.
One Nation Under
_One Nation Under_ is an investigation into what it means to be an American, questioning idyllic notions of freedom and power by observing the structures around us and hearing from the people overshadowed by them.
Attention féministes!
Portraits of young contemporary feminists. Geneviève, Barbara, Pascale, Coco and Marco: so many ways of being feminists today! At a time when ideologies have been declared dead, these young people still believe in a better world! Through their personal and social commitment, we discover the “new” face of feminism, that of the girls and boys of generations X and Y. A dynamic movement, a mode of ...
Un toit, un droit
Is it normal for a family to find itself homeless on July 1st? Is it normal for immigrants to be evicted from their apartments? Camera in hand, the Collectif (...) Parenthèses went to meet tenants and landlords in Quebec and Europe to answer this vital question: shouldn't housing be a right for every citizen?
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.
A Country of Resistance
Duration: 3h14
Subscription access
Riace, Calabria. After 20 years of harmony, this village, which had made welcoming migrants its future, became the target of the populist wave consuming Italy. The venom has spread and Domenico Lucano, its mayor, is the object of a cabal and forced into exile. After months of painstaking destruction, Riace faces a dilemma: resist or disappear.
Maël et la révolution
Duration: 1h20
Subscription access
Nothing predisposed 17-year-old Maël, a working-class kid raised on the 24 Hours of Le Mans, to become involved in climate activism. At the AgroCampus de la Germinière in the Sarthe region, where he is preparing a professional horticultural baccalaureate, he faces peers who don’t share his convictions—and are sometimes fiercely opposed to them. As a budding revolutionary, whether at protests or...
K-Family Affairs
Duration: 1h30
Subscription access
Filmmaker Arum Nam's parents are part of the proud 386 generation, which played a significant role in achieving democratization in South Korea. Eager to pass on a better world to Arum, her father became a public servant, and her mother, a feminist activist. But Arum’s perspective shifts at 18 with the Sewol ferry disaster. Also reflecting on events like #MeToo and impeachment, Arum ponders her ...
The Tie
Duration: 3h14
Subscription access
20-year-old Bastien has been a militant member of France main far-right party for five years. As the presidential campaign heats up, his superior urges him to take on greater responsibilities. Bastien rises to the challenge and is surprised to find himself dreaming of a political career. But as his ambitions grow, buried demons from his past begin to resurface — threatening everything he’s work...
Doctors with Heart
Subscription access
This deeply human documentary offers a unique perspective on AIDS, giving voice to general practitioners, researchers, ethicists, philosophers, and humanists. Here, the disease becomes a lens through which the strengths and flaws of our society are revealed, challenging our scientific, moral, and social principles. A global and groundbreaking approach that transcends life, death, and AIDS itself.
Le récit d’A
Subscription access
_Le récit d'A_ weaves multiple narratives within a single video, parallel worlds that echo one another without ever intersecting. Esther Valiquette incorporates autobiographical fragments, blending animation and medical imagery to reflect on a broader trace: that of a generation devastated by AIDS, and her own life, stripped of its youth. The video also explores the act of seeing, a shifting aw...
Where the Trains Used to Go
A magical journey along the remains of a narrow-gauge railway in southeastern Norway. Using a specially developed animation technique and filmed on large-format film, the movie takes us swiftly along the tracks of the _Tertitten_, which used to be a sideline to the main railway between Oslo and Stockholm.
A Year Along the Abandoned Road
A Year Along the Abandoned Road
Duration: 26 minutesThe film is a portrait of a deserted fisherman’s village in Northern Norway, shot on analog 65/70mm film with a specially developed "nature animation" technique. In one continuous shot, we "fly" along the remains of an internal village road, while at the same time a whole year passes by at 50 000 times normal speed. Most of the year, the village of Børfjord lies empty with virgin snow between c...
Nénette
Born in 1969 in Borneo lowland rain forests, Nénette has just turned 40. It’s extremely rare for an orangutan to reach that age! Residing at the menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris since 1972, she’s been there longer than any member of the staff. An undisputed star of the place, she sees hundreds of visitors pass by her cage each day. Naturally, everyone has their own comments to make...
Akeji, the Breath of the Mountain
Akeji, the Breath of the Mountain
Duration: 2h26In Japan's Himuro Valley, Akeji and Asako seem to have lived forever in a hermitage, surrounded by animals and the spirits of nature. Season after season, Asako gathers plants to transform into pigments, while Akeji prays and devotes himself to painting. The cycle of nature appears unchanging. Yet time crackles, and reality eventually catches up with them...
Belle River
2019\. Spring flooding in Mississippi hits record highs. In Louisiana, the residents of Pierre Part are preparing for the worst. Barring an unexpected turn of events, local authorities will soon be forced to open the floodgates of the Morganza Spillway, in order to save the cities of New Orleans and Baton Rouge from further uncontrolled flooding. Faith and resilience are the two best weapons th...
NYC RGB
With _NYC RGB_ Viktoria Schmid shows us a view of New York that we’ve never seen before, made possible by historical color film processes. The material, triple exposed with different color filters, mixes colors, space, and time to a perception that is possible only in film. Evidence of cinema’s potential for bursting open reality.
These Streets Will Never Look the Same
These Streets Will Never Look the Same
Duration: 3h12Subscription access
A car slowly navigates the winding streets and disparate airwaves of the United States of America to uncover the scars of capitalism in natural landscapes, urban environments, people, and wildlife. An intricately built meditative audio-visual experience.
One Nation Under
_One Nation Under_ is an investigation into what it means to be an American, questioning idyllic notions of freedom and power by observing the structures around us and hearing from the people overshadowed by them.
Attention féministes!
Portraits of young contemporary feminists. Geneviève, Barbara, Pascale, Coco and Marco: so many ways of being feminists today! At a time when ideologies have been declared dead, these young people still believe in a better world! Through their personal and social commitment, we discover the “new” face of feminism, that of the girls and boys of generations X and Y. A dynamic movement, a mode of ...
Un toit, un droit
Is it normal for a family to find itself homeless on July 1st? Is it normal for immigrants to be evicted from their apartments? Camera in hand, the Collectif (...) Parenthèses went to meet tenants and landlords in Quebec and Europe to answer this vital question: shouldn't housing be a right for every citizen?
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.
