Portrait

Death is Dangerous, it Could Hurt

Three rhythmic storylines are characterized by the rituals of everyday life and the vicissitudes of existence, coalescing around a common experience: that of shooting up as a mode of drug use. 

The Act of Beauty

Nestled at the heart of the Bic mountains, in this territory called Lower St. Lawrence, hides a community of wise and audacious people taking root. The collective farm Sageterre is the work of Jean Bédard, writer, philosopher but most importantly, a peasant. His writing calls for action. His work on the land cultivates ideas. Jean Bédard fights to see a new, more humane world, rise.

Maël et la révolution

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...

God Provides

Shot in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and bound by elements of fiction, this unexpected documentary short is a glimpse into faith-based sentiment and inexplicable loss. While a man searches for his kitchen appliances in the bushes, elsewhere a grinning preacher takes souvenir snapshots for his congregation, and a woman with a disability journeys to a quieter place.

Interchange

Straddling the line between photography and cinema, _Interchange_ is a near-wordless observational depiction of life alongside a stark and imposing Montreal highway. _Interchange_ weaves portraits, landscapes, architecture and objects in its reflection on the city’s inhabitants, its traffic jams, the shipping of commercial goods and the nature of time itself.

A Man Imagined

67-year-old Lloyd gives filmmakers Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky a glimpse into his life on the margins of society. Blurring the boundaries of non-fiction cinema, the film reveals his gentle spirit and soulful solitude shaped by his troubled past.

The Cactus of Klaus

The grounds of Klaus Rinke’s Los Angeles studio overflow with an otherworldly cactus garden. The cactus—a plant firmly rooted in the horticultural zeitgeist—is a lifelong obsession of the enigmatic artist whose career as a pioneering conceptual artist spans more than 6-decades. Striking footage of the cacti garden reveals a surreal hidden geometry and illuminates the uncanny ways in which cacti...

Island of the Hungry Ghosts

Located off the coast of Indonesia, Australia's Christmas Island is populated by migratory crabs moving by the millions from the jungle to the ocean. Poh Lin is a "trauma therapist" who lives with her family in this wild and hostile landscape. Every day, she talks to asylum seekers held indefinitely in a high-security detention center, working tirelessly to support them in a situation that is a...

Ramboy

On Achill, an Irish island populated mainly by sheep, Cian, a young teenager, hopes to spend the summer vacations with his friends. But for Martin, his grandfather, it's time to introduce him to farm work.

On the Edge

How can one provide proper care in a failing institution? In a hospital on the outskirts of Paris, Dr. Abdel-Kader, a liaison psychiatrist, moves between the emergency room and the intensive care unit, treating patients with mental disorders or chronic illnesses that keep them bedridden. Despite pressure for efficiency and a lack of resources, he strives to ease their suffering.

Má Sài Gòn (Mother Saigon)

In Saigon, family culture carries on as it has for centuries, even when blood ties are broken. Through a mosaic of intimate portraits, _Má Sài Gòn_ explores humanity’s universal desire for love, acceptance, connection and belonging through an LGBTQ+ lens. The film is a love letter – a bittersweet ode to a comforting yet disturbing mother, to a city that is as liberating as it is oppressive.

Far Beyond the Pasturelands

In a remote himalayan region, the villagers of Maikot are preparing for the harvest of a mysterious aphrodisiac caterpillar-mushroom worth more than gold. Lalita, a young mother, had to let go of her dreams after getting married because of the social pressures of her community. As the whole village departs to the mountains, she joins the journey to the high-altitude pasturelands in hope of prov...