Memory
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The King is Not My Cousin
Duration: 1h02
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In 2017, author Elzéa Foule Aventurin engaged in a series of interviews with her granddaughter. Together, they retrace, not without mischief, a family history sailing from one end of the Black Atlantic to the other. A story of silence, pride and revolt.
For You, Lord, For You
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Around an austere brick altar lost in the middle of the desert like a drifting raft, the Panchwa festival (Rajasthan, India) is a gateway to the beyond, a celebration during which Kalbeliya gypsies converse with their dead. While they come to celebrate the King of Panchwa, their hero buried here, the festival is also a privileged moment for the Kalbeliya imagination to unfold. Goddesses and war...
Octopus
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_Octopus_ surfaced during trauma, in the aftermath of the cataclysmic Port of Beirut explosion. The film silently navigates that unfolding, giving space to the myriad of existential questions birthed by the enormity of the happening. Questions of unexamined worldviews, of suffering and meaning, of collective purpose, and of many other quiet thoughts strewn amidst the rubble. What are we saying ...
African Glory
Did the first African to reach the Americas arrive as a king and not a slave? West Africa in the 13th century saw the rise of a vast empire — the Manden Empire. One hundred and eighty years before Christopher Columbus, its emperor Abu Bakr II set off to cross the Atlantic with an armada of 2,000 ships. He never returned. Drawing on both fact and fiction, this film sets out to restore the Manden...
In the Billowing Night
Jean-René is a retired factory worker who has lived in Mâcon, France, since emigrating from Reunion Island at the age of 17. Today, for the first time ever, the quiet man recounts his story to his daughter. His journey is interspersed with enigmatic dreams and pains that are rooted in the wounds of the French colonial past.
The Dreamed Ones
In the intimacy of a Viennese studio, two young actors revive the literary scene and atmosphere of the post-war period through their reading of the correspondence between Romanian Jewish poet Paul Celan and Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann, daughter of a former National Socialist Party activist.
The Waldheim Waltz
When Austrian diplomat and former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim announced he was running for president in 1986, the news was greeted with joy and seen as a safe bet by his fellow countrymen and women. That is, until his Nazi past was revealed – an awkward detail he’d conveniently forgotten to mention during all his years in public office. Despite some people’s stupefaction and protests, ul...
A Bird Called Memory
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A bird called Memory has forgotten how to fly back home. Lua, a trans woman, searches for Memory in the streets, but the city can sometimes be a hostile place...
La suite canadienne
In 1958, Ludmilla Chiriaeff's ballet _Suite canadienne_ was broadcast during the concert hour on Radio-Canada. This piece, now considered foundational for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, features dancers dressed as peasants in the settings of a fantasized colonial rurality. The discovery of this archival document is the starting point for the creation project led by amateur dancer and saxophonist...
Éloge du retour
"My father was taken from me when I was a child, then my mother and my brother when I was barely a teenager. I left, to isolate myself, to escape, to flee. Can time erase the past? Upon my return from a long exile, I remember. Travelling back in time, inner movements, the future beckons. A tribute to my homeland." (Lysanne Thibodeau)
Lettre d'un cinéaste ou le retour d'un amateur de bibliothèques
Lettre d'un cinéaste ou le retour d'un amateur de bibliothèques
Duration: 16 minutesSubscription access
Filmmaker Raúl Ruiz returned to his hometown in Chile and brought back this film shot in Super 8. In search of a mysterious pink-covered book, Ruiz takes a stroll through the city of Santiago and its suburbs, visiting his birthplace and the homes of old friends. In the background, the 1973 Chilean coup d'état and Augusto Pinochet's regime.
I Remember Nothing
December 2010: revolution breaks out in Tunisia, the country of the filmmaker's father. In a strange way, the cries of fury of the Tunisian people echoed the inner turmoil that had been growing inside her for several weeks. At the same time, she was going through a manic-depressive episode of great intensity, and was diagnosed as bipolar and admitted to a psychiatric clinic. When she emerged fr...
Gods, Weeds and Revolutions
A young woman returns to Tunisia and must come to terms with her grandfather’s illness and the country’s dark past under dictatorship.
Three Comrades of Montreal
Giovanni, Francesco, and Salvatore have passed the age of 80 and are proud to still consider themselves communist or socialist comrades. All three left their poor villages in southern Italy after the war to settle in Montreal, where they maintained close ties with Italian left-wing parties while also being active in Canadian progressive unions and parties. Through images, personal documents, an...
Hunting with my Ancestors - Bowhead Whale Hunt
Hunting with my Ancestors - Bowhead Whale Hunt
Duration: 1h40Subscription access
Inuit have hunted bowhead whales for thousands of years, using stone tools to hunt these 25-ton mammals. In 2016, Igloolik community received a tag to harvest a bowhead; Zacharias Kunuk documents this hunt - from the selection of hunting captains and planning to the large-scale hunt and the ensuing community-wide harvest and distribution of food.
Dis-moi
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Echoing her own mother's voice recounting her relationships with her mother and grandmother, filmmaker Chantal Akerman visits three elderly Jewish women and asks them to speak about their ancestors. Seated in their living rooms and filmed in static shots, these grandmothers share their memories, the life of Jewish communities before the war, the Holocaust, and the efforts to survive the horror....
Damascus Dreams
How does one remember a homeland they are so deeply connected to and disconnected from? When Canadian-born filmmaker Emilie Serri travels to Syria for the first time in ten years, she feels alienated. A year later, when her grandmother dies and the war begins, she tries to piece back together an image of this elusive country she desperately wants to call her own. Gathering evidence from the pas...
Caffè Italia, Montréal
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Avoiding the trap of nostalgia, Paul Tana paints an endearing and nuanced portrait of Montreal's Italian community using archival documents, fiction, testimonies, and extracts from a theatrical creation. From the first waves of immigration at the beginning of the century to the concert of the young rocker Aldo Nova, the film highlights, sometimes with humour, the contradictions of Italians in t...
Odette Robert
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In 1971, Jean Eustache had the idea to film his grandmother, Odette Robert. She recounts her life to him: her unhappy youth, her early marriage to a womanizing man, the tragic deaths of her parents and children... A poignant testimony of the life of a woman from the early 20th century, between cigarettes and whisky.
The King is Not My Cousin
Duration: 1h02
Subscription access
In 2017, author Elzéa Foule Aventurin engaged in a series of interviews with her granddaughter. Together, they retrace, not without mischief, a family history sailing from one end of the Black Atlantic to the other. A story of silence, pride and revolt.
For You, Lord, For You
Subscription access
Around an austere brick altar lost in the middle of the desert like a drifting raft, the Panchwa festival (Rajasthan, India) is a gateway to the beyond, a celebration during which Kalbeliya gypsies converse with their dead. While they come to celebrate the King of Panchwa, their hero buried here, the festival is also a privileged moment for the Kalbeliya imagination to unfold. Goddesses and war...
Octopus
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_Octopus_ surfaced during trauma, in the aftermath of the cataclysmic Port of Beirut explosion. The film silently navigates that unfolding, giving space to the myriad of existential questions birthed by the enormity of the happening. Questions of unexamined worldviews, of suffering and meaning, of collective purpose, and of many other quiet thoughts strewn amidst the rubble. What are we saying ...
African Glory
Did the first African to reach the Americas arrive as a king and not a slave? West Africa in the 13th century saw the rise of a vast empire — the Manden Empire. One hundred and eighty years before Christopher Columbus, its emperor Abu Bakr II set off to cross the Atlantic with an armada of 2,000 ships. He never returned. Drawing on both fact and fiction, this film sets out to restore the Manden...
In the Billowing Night
Jean-René is a retired factory worker who has lived in Mâcon, France, since emigrating from Reunion Island at the age of 17. Today, for the first time ever, the quiet man recounts his story to his daughter. His journey is interspersed with enigmatic dreams and pains that are rooted in the wounds of the French colonial past.
The Dreamed Ones
In the intimacy of a Viennese studio, two young actors revive the literary scene and atmosphere of the post-war period through their reading of the correspondence between Romanian Jewish poet Paul Celan and Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann, daughter of a former National Socialist Party activist.
The Waldheim Waltz
When Austrian diplomat and former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim announced he was running for president in 1986, the news was greeted with joy and seen as a safe bet by his fellow countrymen and women. That is, until his Nazi past was revealed – an awkward detail he’d conveniently forgotten to mention during all his years in public office. Despite some people’s stupefaction and protests, ul...
A Bird Called Memory
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A bird called Memory has forgotten how to fly back home. Lua, a trans woman, searches for Memory in the streets, but the city can sometimes be a hostile place...
La suite canadienne
In 1958, Ludmilla Chiriaeff's ballet _Suite canadienne_ was broadcast during the concert hour on Radio-Canada. This piece, now considered foundational for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, features dancers dressed as peasants in the settings of a fantasized colonial rurality. The discovery of this archival document is the starting point for the creation project led by amateur dancer and saxophonist...
Éloge du retour
"My father was taken from me when I was a child, then my mother and my brother when I was barely a teenager. I left, to isolate myself, to escape, to flee. Can time erase the past? Upon my return from a long exile, I remember. Travelling back in time, inner movements, the future beckons. A tribute to my homeland." (Lysanne Thibodeau)
Lettre d'un cinéaste ou le retour d'un amateur de bibliothèques
Lettre d'un cinéaste ou le retour d'un amateur de bibliothèques
Duration: 16 minutesSubscription access
Filmmaker Raúl Ruiz returned to his hometown in Chile and brought back this film shot in Super 8. In search of a mysterious pink-covered book, Ruiz takes a stroll through the city of Santiago and its suburbs, visiting his birthplace and the homes of old friends. In the background, the 1973 Chilean coup d'état and Augusto Pinochet's regime.
I Remember Nothing
December 2010: revolution breaks out in Tunisia, the country of the filmmaker's father. In a strange way, the cries of fury of the Tunisian people echoed the inner turmoil that had been growing inside her for several weeks. At the same time, she was going through a manic-depressive episode of great intensity, and was diagnosed as bipolar and admitted to a psychiatric clinic. When she emerged fr...
Gods, Weeds and Revolutions
A young woman returns to Tunisia and must come to terms with her grandfather’s illness and the country’s dark past under dictatorship.
Three Comrades of Montreal
Giovanni, Francesco, and Salvatore have passed the age of 80 and are proud to still consider themselves communist or socialist comrades. All three left their poor villages in southern Italy after the war to settle in Montreal, where they maintained close ties with Italian left-wing parties while also being active in Canadian progressive unions and parties. Through images, personal documents, an...
Hunting with my Ancestors - Bowhead Whale Hunt
Hunting with my Ancestors - Bowhead Whale Hunt
Duration: 1h40Subscription access
Inuit have hunted bowhead whales for thousands of years, using stone tools to hunt these 25-ton mammals. In 2016, Igloolik community received a tag to harvest a bowhead; Zacharias Kunuk documents this hunt - from the selection of hunting captains and planning to the large-scale hunt and the ensuing community-wide harvest and distribution of food.
Dis-moi
Subscription access
Echoing her own mother's voice recounting her relationships with her mother and grandmother, filmmaker Chantal Akerman visits three elderly Jewish women and asks them to speak about their ancestors. Seated in their living rooms and filmed in static shots, these grandmothers share their memories, the life of Jewish communities before the war, the Holocaust, and the efforts to survive the horror....
Damascus Dreams
How does one remember a homeland they are so deeply connected to and disconnected from? When Canadian-born filmmaker Emilie Serri travels to Syria for the first time in ten years, she feels alienated. A year later, when her grandmother dies and the war begins, she tries to piece back together an image of this elusive country she desperately wants to call her own. Gathering evidence from the pas...
Caffè Italia, Montréal
Subscription access
Avoiding the trap of nostalgia, Paul Tana paints an endearing and nuanced portrait of Montreal's Italian community using archival documents, fiction, testimonies, and extracts from a theatrical creation. From the first waves of immigration at the beginning of the century to the concert of the young rocker Aldo Nova, the film highlights, sometimes with humour, the contradictions of Italians in t...
Odette Robert
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In 1971, Jean Eustache had the idea to film his grandmother, Odette Robert. She recounts her life to him: her unhappy youth, her early marriage to a womanizing man, the tragic deaths of her parents and children... A poignant testimony of the life of a woman from the early 20th century, between cigarettes and whisky.
