Main Film : 40 years of independent cinema
For 40 years, Main Film has supported independent filmmakers in defining their creative voices and cinematic visions through practice and artistic enrichment, regardless of medium, practice, experience or distribution context.
Today we are pleased to highlight these emerging filmmakers who have all benefited from our support through, for example, our Active Member program, our Film Factory support program (exploratory cinema) or DOC! (support for the creation of documentary films).
And we are grateful that 40 years later we are able to continue this exceptional mission.
For this occasion, we have invited several filmmakers to share with you their feelings after viewing the films presented.
We wish you a pleasant discovery!
Leïla Oulmi
Main Film's General Director
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5:1
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Filmmaker Sara Ben-Saud takes us into her family home, where she was confined with her parents and adult brother and sister during the early months of the lockdown, to experience the sometimes funny and sometimes challenging realities of pandemic coexistence.
Mad Dog Labine
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In a town fired up by the energy of the hunt, Lindsay and Justine, two teenage outcasts, get their hands on a winning ten-thousand-dollar scratcher. A daring blend of documentary and fiction, *Mad Dog Labine* is a cinematic UFO featuring two young non-professional actresses in a surprising feel-good movie.
Tshiuetin
_Tshiuetin_ means “north wind” in the Innu language. As the name of the train line that extends 132.5 miles from Emeril (Labrador) to Schefferville (Quebec), it is an emblem of this northern area and also symbolizes the positive impact of the company on aboriginal communities in the region. Since 2005, ownership of Tshiuetin Railway Inc. has been held with pride by a group of First Nations. Thi...
Eva
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In this poetic and experimental documentary, a young woman questions Stella, a mother and cancer survivor, and watches Sonya, her daughter, to understand and communicate with Eva, the mother she lost as a child. In their time together, and in their common stories, maybe grief can ease.
The Spirit Keepers of Makuta'ay
The Spirit Keepers of Makuta'ay
Duration: 11 minutesSubscription access
Shot on Super 8 film on location in the traditional Amis territory, *The Spirit Keepers of Makuta’ay* travels through villages on the east coast of Taiwan, where nature, colonization and population migration merge to create a unique spiritual landscape.
The Fourfold
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Based on the ancient animistic beliefs and shamanic rituals in Mongolia and Siberia, the film explores the indigenous worldview and wisdom. Against the backdrop of the modern existential crisis and the human-induced rapid environmental change, there is a necessity to reclaim the ideas of animism for planetary health and non-human materialities.
Passage
Gabrielle and Yoan are 18 years old. Even though they both grew up in Temiscamingue, their aspirations are opposite. While Yoan wants to leave the area to break away from his loneliness and explore his homosexuality, Gabrielle is torn at the thought of going over a hundred kilometers away from home to carry on with her studies.
Transatlantic
Documentary essay, filmed during an Atlantic crossing aboard a cargo ship. A film about immensity and faith, about the uninterrupted movements of the waves and their power. *Transatlantic* tells the story of the journey and daily life aboard and reveals the ship as a microcosm and a metaphor : a human island in the heart of a great elsewhere.
A Moon Of Nickel And Ice
The mining town of Norilsk sits in the heart of the Siberian Arctic, huddled behind its wind walls and bathed in the smoke and sulfur of its factories. While teenagers in the icy city dream of exile and nickel miners ponder the lost Soviet comradeship, descendants of Gulag prisoners and theatre artists seek to shed light on Norilsk’s dark past, buried under ice and censorship. *A Moon of Nickel...
5:1
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Filmmaker Sara Ben-Saud takes us into her family home, where she was confined with her parents and adult brother and sister during the early months of the lockdown, to experience the sometimes funny and sometimes challenging realities of pandemic coexistence.
Mad Dog Labine
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In a town fired up by the energy of the hunt, Lindsay and Justine, two teenage outcasts, get their hands on a winning ten-thousand-dollar scratcher. A daring blend of documentary and fiction, *Mad Dog Labine* is a cinematic UFO featuring two young non-professional actresses in a surprising feel-good movie.
Tshiuetin
_Tshiuetin_ means “north wind” in the Innu language. As the name of the train line that extends 132.5 miles from Emeril (Labrador) to Schefferville (Quebec), it is an emblem of this northern area and also symbolizes the positive impact of the company on aboriginal communities in the region. Since 2005, ownership of Tshiuetin Railway Inc. has been held with pride by a group of First Nations. Thi...
Eva
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In this poetic and experimental documentary, a young woman questions Stella, a mother and cancer survivor, and watches Sonya, her daughter, to understand and communicate with Eva, the mother she lost as a child. In their time together, and in their common stories, maybe grief can ease.
The Spirit Keepers of Makuta'ay
The Spirit Keepers of Makuta'ay
Duration: 11 minutesSubscription access
Shot on Super 8 film on location in the traditional Amis territory, *The Spirit Keepers of Makuta’ay* travels through villages on the east coast of Taiwan, where nature, colonization and population migration merge to create a unique spiritual landscape.
The Fourfold
Subscription access
Based on the ancient animistic beliefs and shamanic rituals in Mongolia and Siberia, the film explores the indigenous worldview and wisdom. Against the backdrop of the modern existential crisis and the human-induced rapid environmental change, there is a necessity to reclaim the ideas of animism for planetary health and non-human materialities.
Passage
Gabrielle and Yoan are 18 years old. Even though they both grew up in Temiscamingue, their aspirations are opposite. While Yoan wants to leave the area to break away from his loneliness and explore his homosexuality, Gabrielle is torn at the thought of going over a hundred kilometers away from home to carry on with her studies.
Transatlantic
Documentary essay, filmed during an Atlantic crossing aboard a cargo ship. A film about immensity and faith, about the uninterrupted movements of the waves and their power. *Transatlantic* tells the story of the journey and daily life aboard and reveals the ship as a microcosm and a metaphor : a human island in the heart of a great elsewhere.
A Moon Of Nickel And Ice
The mining town of Norilsk sits in the heart of the Siberian Arctic, huddled behind its wind walls and bathed in the smoke and sulfur of its factories. While teenagers in the icy city dream of exile and nickel miners ponder the lost Soviet comradeship, descendants of Gulag prisoners and theatre artists seek to shed light on Norilsk’s dark past, buried under ice and censorship. *A Moon of Nickel...
