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Guián
Duration: 2h32
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Born into the Chinese community of Costa Rica, Nicole Chi Amén was never able to communicate with her grandmother Guián, who did not speak Spanish. After her grandmother’s death, the filmmaker embarked on a journey to China to reconnect with her roots and to reinvent, through cinema, the dialogue she never had the chance to share.
Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones)
In 1791, in Haiti, Dutty Boukman presided over a Vodou ritual in Bois-Caïman that led to the creation of the first Black republic. Since then, rituals of transformation and artistic expression have been at the core of a thriving culture as the country faces oppression, poverty, and natural disasters. _Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones)_ is a sensorial film about rituals in Haiti, from ancient to moder...
Forests
In a dark, ambiguous environment, minuscule particles drift slowly before the lens. The image focuses to reveal spruce trees and tall pines, while Innu voices tell us the story of this territory, this flooded forest. Muffled percussive sounds gradually become louder, suggesting the presence of a hydroelectric dam. The submerged trees gradually transform into firebrands as whispers bring back th...
This House
Bridgeport, January 17, 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything points to suicide, the autopsy report reveals something else. Ten years later, the director and cousin of the teenager examine the past causes and future consequences of this unsolved crime. Like an imagined biography, the film will explore the relationship between the security of the living space and the...
Sisters: Dream & Variations
Tyr and Jasa grew up in an artistic household where art was a way of life. Quirky and insightful sisters, Tyr is a musician and singer while Jasa is an interdisciplinary artist. Inspired by their great-grandmother’s recordings of Icelandic folk songs, they have developed artistic practices that draw on their colourful imaginations and Icelandic roots. Their exploration leads them to journey to ...
Juanicas
This autobiographical first film is a heartbreaking chronicle of a family struggling with rootlessness and mental illness. When she learns that her brother Juan has returned to Québec after spending some time in their birthplace, Mexico, Karina Garcia Casanova decides to film him. Her purpose is clear from the start: she is not interested in home movies, she is going to make a real film. And he...
Calamity Jane & Delphine Seyrig, A Story
Calamity Jane & Delphine Seyrig, A Story
Subscription accessThis film is a tribute to Delphine Seyrig and her fascination with the book _Calamity Jane's Letters to her Daughter_. These letters, which are letters from a mother to her absent daughter, became an emblem of feminism in the late 1970s. Seyrig had planned to make a film about Calamity Jane in order to reveal all of the sensitivity she expressed, as well as her view on life, shared in these let...
The Last Bolshevik
Based on the life and work of the Russian film director Alexander Medvedkin (1900-1989), \_The Last Bolshevik\_ is a tribute from one filmmaker to another. An archeological expedition into film history that reveals new cinematic treasures, the film prompts a reflection on the relation between art and politics in the former Soviet Union.
Beyond my Grandfather Allende
La réalisatrice, Marcia Tambutti Allende, souhaite rompre le silence entretenu autour du passé tragique de sa famille. 35 ans après le coup d’État qui a renversé son grand-père, Salvador Allende, premier président socialiste élu démocratiquement, elle estime qu’il est temps de retrouver les souvenirs familiaux, les images de leur vie quotidienne qui leur a été arrachée. Un passé int...
The Sower
En plein cœur des méandres du Kamouraska au Québec, Patrice Fortier vit dans La société des plantes où il préserve minutieusement, tel un copiste du Moyen Âge, les semences végétales rares ou oubliées pour en faire des variétés « anciennes du futur ». Patrice jardine en rêvant et transforme ses récoltes en projets artistiques. Au fil des saisons, par la patience de ses gestes, il nous transmet ...
Finding Vivian Maier
The incredible story of an unknown woman who posthumously became one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. Born to a French mother in New York before moving to Chicago, Vivian Maier took more than 100,000 photos throughout her life, but kept them hidden. It wasn’t until 2007 that John Maloof came across her work, which he has been showcasing ever since. Maier’s photos are now exhib...
Ziva Postec. The Editor Behind The Film Shoah
Ziva Postec. The Editor Behind The Film Shoah
Subscription accessAssociée à une œuvre cinématographique qui a profondément bouleversé notre rapport à l’Histoire, Ziva Postec est une artiste méconnue qui a voué près de six ans de sa vie au montage de "Shoah". Ce film-fleuve de Claude Lanzmann devait transformer à jamais notre compréhension de l’histoire de l’extermination des Juifs d’Europe pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. En plongeant dans ses souvenirs ...
The Long Holiday
Octobre 1998, Johan van der Keuken apprend que son cancer de la prostate ne lui laisse que quelques années à vivre. Caméra à l’épaule, il part en compagnie de sa femme pour un dernier voyage, dont il fera son dernier film. De Noël 1998 à l’été 1999, il sillonne les pistes du Mali, les contreforts himalayens du Bhoutan, les aéroports américains... Partout, des êtres dans leur quotidien : le ritu...
La république des Beaux-Arts - La malédiction de la momie
La république des Beaux-Arts - La malédiction de la momie
Duration: 2h30Subscription access
This film traces the history of the École des beaux-arts de Montréal, from its founding in 1923 to its dissolution in 1969, when it was integrated into the Université du Québec à Montréal. At that time, tensions were rising within the education system: CEGEPs and universities were being occupied by students. In this climate of protest, the students of the École des beaux-arts seized control of ...
Okurimono
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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...
A Fidai Film
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In the summer of 1982, the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive. The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images. Taking this as a premise, _A Fidai Film_ explores the visual memory of this looting and appropriates images now in the hands of Israeli archives.
Paris to Pyongyang
An immigrant tale, reimagined. 1950s Parisian elites led by Chris Marker and Claude Lanzmann visit the newly established communist state of North Korea that claims the allegiance of the filmmaker’s grandmother during the Korean War. An autobiographical investigation of family separation, sparked by the voyage of French luminaries and their artistic output – films, photographs and published memo...
To Remain in the No Longer
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In 1962, Oscar Niemeyer was invited to conceive an international fairground in the city of Tripoli, Lebanon, which was never completed. _To Remain in the No Longer_ looks at how architecture operates in this failed state. By examining the precarity of the project site that remains to this day, the film reflects on the country’s current socio-economic crisis.
The Dissolution of the Landscape
The Dissolution of the Landscape
Duration: 24 minutesThrough 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.
Guián
Duration: 2h32
Subscription access
Born into the Chinese community of Costa Rica, Nicole Chi Amén was never able to communicate with her grandmother Guián, who did not speak Spanish. After her grandmother’s death, the filmmaker embarked on a journey to China to reconnect with her roots and to reinvent, through cinema, the dialogue she never had the chance to share.
Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones)
In 1791, in Haiti, Dutty Boukman presided over a Vodou ritual in Bois-Caïman that led to the creation of the first Black republic. Since then, rituals of transformation and artistic expression have been at the core of a thriving culture as the country faces oppression, poverty, and natural disasters. _Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones)_ is a sensorial film about rituals in Haiti, from ancient to moder...
Forests
In a dark, ambiguous environment, minuscule particles drift slowly before the lens. The image focuses to reveal spruce trees and tall pines, while Innu voices tell us the story of this territory, this flooded forest. Muffled percussive sounds gradually become louder, suggesting the presence of a hydroelectric dam. The submerged trees gradually transform into firebrands as whispers bring back th...
This House
Bridgeport, January 17, 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything points to suicide, the autopsy report reveals something else. Ten years later, the director and cousin of the teenager examine the past causes and future consequences of this unsolved crime. Like an imagined biography, the film will explore the relationship between the security of the living space and the...
Sisters: Dream & Variations
Tyr and Jasa grew up in an artistic household where art was a way of life. Quirky and insightful sisters, Tyr is a musician and singer while Jasa is an interdisciplinary artist. Inspired by their great-grandmother’s recordings of Icelandic folk songs, they have developed artistic practices that draw on their colourful imaginations and Icelandic roots. Their exploration leads them to journey to ...
Juanicas
This autobiographical first film is a heartbreaking chronicle of a family struggling with rootlessness and mental illness. When she learns that her brother Juan has returned to Québec after spending some time in their birthplace, Mexico, Karina Garcia Casanova decides to film him. Her purpose is clear from the start: she is not interested in home movies, she is going to make a real film. And he...
Calamity Jane & Delphine Seyrig, A Story
Calamity Jane & Delphine Seyrig, A Story
Subscription accessThis film is a tribute to Delphine Seyrig and her fascination with the book _Calamity Jane's Letters to her Daughter_. These letters, which are letters from a mother to her absent daughter, became an emblem of feminism in the late 1970s. Seyrig had planned to make a film about Calamity Jane in order to reveal all of the sensitivity she expressed, as well as her view on life, shared in these let...
The Last Bolshevik
Based on the life and work of the Russian film director Alexander Medvedkin (1900-1989), \_The Last Bolshevik\_ is a tribute from one filmmaker to another. An archeological expedition into film history that reveals new cinematic treasures, the film prompts a reflection on the relation between art and politics in the former Soviet Union.
Beyond my Grandfather Allende
La réalisatrice, Marcia Tambutti Allende, souhaite rompre le silence entretenu autour du passé tragique de sa famille. 35 ans après le coup d’État qui a renversé son grand-père, Salvador Allende, premier président socialiste élu démocratiquement, elle estime qu’il est temps de retrouver les souvenirs familiaux, les images de leur vie quotidienne qui leur a été arrachée. Un passé int...
The Sower
En plein cœur des méandres du Kamouraska au Québec, Patrice Fortier vit dans La société des plantes où il préserve minutieusement, tel un copiste du Moyen Âge, les semences végétales rares ou oubliées pour en faire des variétés « anciennes du futur ». Patrice jardine en rêvant et transforme ses récoltes en projets artistiques. Au fil des saisons, par la patience de ses gestes, il nous transmet ...
Finding Vivian Maier
The incredible story of an unknown woman who posthumously became one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. Born to a French mother in New York before moving to Chicago, Vivian Maier took more than 100,000 photos throughout her life, but kept them hidden. It wasn’t until 2007 that John Maloof came across her work, which he has been showcasing ever since. Maier’s photos are now exhib...
Ziva Postec. The Editor Behind The Film Shoah
Ziva Postec. The Editor Behind The Film Shoah
Subscription accessAssociée à une œuvre cinématographique qui a profondément bouleversé notre rapport à l’Histoire, Ziva Postec est une artiste méconnue qui a voué près de six ans de sa vie au montage de "Shoah". Ce film-fleuve de Claude Lanzmann devait transformer à jamais notre compréhension de l’histoire de l’extermination des Juifs d’Europe pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. En plongeant dans ses souvenirs ...
The Long Holiday
Octobre 1998, Johan van der Keuken apprend que son cancer de la prostate ne lui laisse que quelques années à vivre. Caméra à l’épaule, il part en compagnie de sa femme pour un dernier voyage, dont il fera son dernier film. De Noël 1998 à l’été 1999, il sillonne les pistes du Mali, les contreforts himalayens du Bhoutan, les aéroports américains... Partout, des êtres dans leur quotidien : le ritu...
La république des Beaux-Arts - La malédiction de la momie
La république des Beaux-Arts - La malédiction de la momie
Duration: 2h30Subscription access
This film traces the history of the École des beaux-arts de Montréal, from its founding in 1923 to its dissolution in 1969, when it was integrated into the Université du Québec à Montréal. At that time, tensions were rising within the education system: CEGEPs and universities were being occupied by students. In this climate of protest, the students of the École des beaux-arts seized control of ...
Okurimono
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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...
A Fidai Film
Subscription access
In the summer of 1982, the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive. The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images. Taking this as a premise, _A Fidai Film_ explores the visual memory of this looting and appropriates images now in the hands of Israeli archives.
Paris to Pyongyang
An immigrant tale, reimagined. 1950s Parisian elites led by Chris Marker and Claude Lanzmann visit the newly established communist state of North Korea that claims the allegiance of the filmmaker’s grandmother during the Korean War. An autobiographical investigation of family separation, sparked by the voyage of French luminaries and their artistic output – films, photographs and published memo...
To Remain in the No Longer
Subscription access
In 1962, Oscar Niemeyer was invited to conceive an international fairground in the city of Tripoli, Lebanon, which was never completed. _To Remain in the No Longer_ looks at how architecture operates in this failed state. By examining the precarity of the project site that remains to this day, the film reflects on the country’s current socio-economic crisis.
The Dissolution of the Landscape
The Dissolution of the Landscape
Duration: 24 minutesThrough 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.
