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The immense Polish tractor factory Ursus was dismantled during the fall of the Soviet Union. With the active complicity of the men and women who worked there, Jaśmina Wójcik undertook the somewhat crazy project of a production that draws inspiration from musical comedy, Russian cinema, and opera.
At sixteen, Marusya is determined to end her life, like many other Russian teenagers. Then, she meets her soulmate. For ten years, they document the euphoria and anxiety, the happiness and misery of their youth stifled by a violent and autocratic regime within a "Russia of Depression." A heartfelt cry, a tribute to an entire generation silenced.
Normand lost his wife Alexandra eight years ago and has been living isolated in his Parc-Extension apartment since. His longtime solitude is interrupted when an old friend walks in with his camera.
A woman gives voice to Annie Ernaux’s text _The Years_, sharing these fragments of a life. Family-life scenes describe the passage of time where each gesture and every face become the expression of a confession that’s both a personal revelation and a collective narrative.
How do you reconstruct the image of a grandmother you never knew when her memory has been veiled by a family taboo since her passing in 1946? Between the spoken and the unspoken, we hear intertwined voices gradually unveiling Germaine's story. Memories of her children remain vivid, yet they are accompanied by haunting questions from the past. What if this family secret mirrored the experiences ...
Images of the World and the Inscription of War
Duration: 2h28_Images of the World and Inscription in War_ is an essay whose central motif is the aerial photograph of the camp at Auschwitz taken on April 4, 1944 by an American reconnaissance plane. On this photo, analysts identified the surrounding factories but not the concentration and extermination camp. Dialectic montage and a distanced commentary compose this film which analyses the conditions under ...
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...
Juliette Achard and her brother Clément grew up in a Paris suburb. Clément became a livestock farmer in the Limousin region. On the outskirts of the farm, brother and sister shoot the sequences of a western inspired by the films they used to watch together. The difficulties encountered by the young farmer, the memories of a childhood dream and the history of an entire region intertwine.
_In Flow of Words_ follows the journeys of three interpreters at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. They translated the shocking testimonies of witnesses, victims, and defendants, never allowing their emotions, feelings, and personal history to interfere. In contrast to their role in the courtroom, this film puts their voices and experiences at the forefront of the s...
They are part of the first generation after the Indochina War. They were born in Vietnam or Martinique. They have inherited a unique and conflicting history. They are wounded by silence, rejection, and misunderstandings. Their fathers, Martinican soldiers, took part in this conflict alongside mainland French forces and all other colonial forces from 1946 to 1954. Their Vietnamese mothers experi...
The story of two characters we hear but never see. Like an old manuscript tucked away at the back of a drawer, the film begins as a young student films the markets of London in 1969. Twenty-five years later, she invites a man to watch the film that captures her youth. The couple engages in a dialogue about the images of that era, and a budding love emerges as the film comes to an end. Much like...
Madeleine Dansereau was the first female jeweler in Quebec. She began her career at the age of 47, just as doctors diagnosed her with breast cancer. Her daughter, filmmaker Mireille Dansereau, reflects on their relationship over the last twenty years while maintaining her film career as a backdrop.
_The Roar of Their Engines_ is a short documentary film set in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, a territory that still bears the scars of an ongoing 50 years-old conflict, where peace talks are at a standstill. Meanwhile, the Turkish-Cypriot population is aging, silently and away from the spotlight, on disputed and over-militarized lands. This war no longer concerns them.
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 short dance film brings to the screen three duets that are both sensual and brutal. Three stories overlap to tell the memory; what remains of the nostalgic sensations of their union. The choreographies sublimate the cracks that human experience generates, which sediment in us as so many emotional vestiges.
Using Super 8 footage shot in the early 70s by Carlos Ferrand who was then the director of photography for Peru's revolutionary military government, _Mecánicos piratas de Lima_ is a profoundly poetic journey into a timeless past, a precious ethnographic work completed more than 45 years after filming, in 2021.
Much of the footage that comprises _Orchard_ is of a 19th century ruin that included a walled orchard of the southwest of Ireland. It is set deep in the woods and the crumbling brick and mortar of the broken walls have become the anchor for the roots of slender trees, so uninhibited for all this time that they reach 20 feet in height and have thick roots that follow like slow lazy trickles of w...
Filmed from 1964 to 1969, Walden was Jonas Mekas’ first completed diary film, composed of moments, events, and experiences he immortalized with his Bolex camera. An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde arts scene of the 1960s, featuring many of Mekas' friends of that period, including Andy Warhol, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and The Velvet Underground, Walden is also a home movie, an earnest an...
Filmed from 1964 to 1969, _Walden_ was Jonas Mekas’ first completed diary film, composed of moments, events, and experiences he immortalized with his Bolex camera. An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde arts scene of the 1960s, featuring many of Mekas' friends of that period, including Andy Warhol, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and The Velvet Underground, _Walden_ is also a home movie, an earnes...
In late 19th-century Norway, Edvard Munch is a promising young painter, but he is also a man tormented by love dramas, the fear of falling ill, and gripped by an idea: to be recognized at the height of his talent. Wounded by critics and rejected by the bourgeoisie to which he aspires to belong, he eventually finds refuge with the anarchists. Thus begins the incredible destiny of an essential ar...
The immense Polish tractor factory Ursus was dismantled during the fall of the Soviet Union. With the active complicity of the men and women who worked there, Jaśmina Wójcik undertook the somewhat crazy project of a production that draws inspiration from musical comedy, Russian cinema, and opera.
At sixteen, Marusya is determined to end her life, like many other Russian teenagers. Then, she meets her soulmate. For ten years, they document the euphoria and anxiety, the happiness and misery of their youth stifled by a violent and autocratic regime within a "Russia of Depression." A heartfelt cry, a tribute to an entire generation silenced.
Normand lost his wife Alexandra eight years ago and has been living isolated in his Parc-Extension apartment since. His longtime solitude is interrupted when an old friend walks in with his camera.
A woman gives voice to Annie Ernaux’s text _The Years_, sharing these fragments of a life. Family-life scenes describe the passage of time where each gesture and every face become the expression of a confession that’s both a personal revelation and a collective narrative.
How do you reconstruct the image of a grandmother you never knew when her memory has been veiled by a family taboo since her passing in 1946? Between the spoken and the unspoken, we hear intertwined voices gradually unveiling Germaine's story. Memories of her children remain vivid, yet they are accompanied by haunting questions from the past. What if this family secret mirrored the experiences ...
Images of the World and the Inscription of War
Duration: 2h28_Images of the World and Inscription in War_ is an essay whose central motif is the aerial photograph of the camp at Auschwitz taken on April 4, 1944 by an American reconnaissance plane. On this photo, analysts identified the surrounding factories but not the concentration and extermination camp. Dialectic montage and a distanced commentary compose this film which analyses the conditions under ...
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...
Juliette Achard and her brother Clément grew up in a Paris suburb. Clément became a livestock farmer in the Limousin region. On the outskirts of the farm, brother and sister shoot the sequences of a western inspired by the films they used to watch together. The difficulties encountered by the young farmer, the memories of a childhood dream and the history of an entire region intertwine.
_In Flow of Words_ follows the journeys of three interpreters at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. They translated the shocking testimonies of witnesses, victims, and defendants, never allowing their emotions, feelings, and personal history to interfere. In contrast to their role in the courtroom, this film puts their voices and experiences at the forefront of the s...
They are part of the first generation after the Indochina War. They were born in Vietnam or Martinique. They have inherited a unique and conflicting history. They are wounded by silence, rejection, and misunderstandings. Their fathers, Martinican soldiers, took part in this conflict alongside mainland French forces and all other colonial forces from 1946 to 1954. Their Vietnamese mothers experi...
The story of two characters we hear but never see. Like an old manuscript tucked away at the back of a drawer, the film begins as a young student films the markets of London in 1969. Twenty-five years later, she invites a man to watch the film that captures her youth. The couple engages in a dialogue about the images of that era, and a budding love emerges as the film comes to an end. Much like...
Madeleine Dansereau was the first female jeweler in Quebec. She began her career at the age of 47, just as doctors diagnosed her with breast cancer. Her daughter, filmmaker Mireille Dansereau, reflects on their relationship over the last twenty years while maintaining her film career as a backdrop.
_The Roar of Their Engines_ is a short documentary film set in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, a territory that still bears the scars of an ongoing 50 years-old conflict, where peace talks are at a standstill. Meanwhile, the Turkish-Cypriot population is aging, silently and away from the spotlight, on disputed and over-militarized lands. This war no longer concerns them.
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 short dance film brings to the screen three duets that are both sensual and brutal. Three stories overlap to tell the memory; what remains of the nostalgic sensations of their union. The choreographies sublimate the cracks that human experience generates, which sediment in us as so many emotional vestiges.
Using Super 8 footage shot in the early 70s by Carlos Ferrand who was then the director of photography for Peru's revolutionary military government, _Mecánicos piratas de Lima_ is a profoundly poetic journey into a timeless past, a precious ethnographic work completed more than 45 years after filming, in 2021.
Much of the footage that comprises _Orchard_ is of a 19th century ruin that included a walled orchard of the southwest of Ireland. It is set deep in the woods and the crumbling brick and mortar of the broken walls have become the anchor for the roots of slender trees, so uninhibited for all this time that they reach 20 feet in height and have thick roots that follow like slow lazy trickles of w...
Filmed from 1964 to 1969, Walden was Jonas Mekas’ first completed diary film, composed of moments, events, and experiences he immortalized with his Bolex camera. An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde arts scene of the 1960s, featuring many of Mekas' friends of that period, including Andy Warhol, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and The Velvet Underground, Walden is also a home movie, an earnest an...
Filmed from 1964 to 1969, _Walden_ was Jonas Mekas’ first completed diary film, composed of moments, events, and experiences he immortalized with his Bolex camera. An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde arts scene of the 1960s, featuring many of Mekas' friends of that period, including Andy Warhol, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and The Velvet Underground, _Walden_ is also a home movie, an earnes...
In late 19th-century Norway, Edvard Munch is a promising young painter, but he is also a man tormented by love dramas, the fear of falling ill, and gripped by an idea: to be recognized at the height of his talent. Wounded by critics and rejected by the bourgeoisie to which he aspires to belong, he eventually finds refuge with the anarchists. Thus begins the incredible destiny of an essential ar...