Portrait

The Day to Come Is a Bright New Day

Early morning in a Montreal diner: filter coffee, bacon, French toast. Stories and solitudes are shared. Silences, glances, a chance encounter, and the promise of a brand-new day. A restaurant that feels like a refuge, where the chaos of the world nonetheless finds its way in, captured with tenderness and love for its characters.

Adolescents

Over five years, _Adolescentes_ follows Emma and Anaïs, two inseparable friends from different backgrounds and with very different personalities, through their journey from adolescence to adulthood. First loves, doubts, discoveries and profound transformations punctuate their lives, offering a rare portrait of a generation and a changing France.

Time Indefinite

Forty-year-old documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee has a penchant for filming everything around him. Following the announcement of his impending marriage, he turns on his camera to capture life as it unfolds during this new phase of his life. Both in personal and philosophical terms, McElwee reflects through self-narration on life, death, love, family, and parenthood.

Gods of Stone

Filmed over fifteen years, _Deuses de pedra_ (_Gods of Stone_) paints a portrait of a rural community along the historic border between Galicia and Portugal. Through the eyes of Mariana, a young girl growing up immersed in local stories, legends, and folklore, the film explores the ties between past and present, belonging and change. As the story unfolds, the magic of tradition is confronted wi...

A Portrait of Ga

"My mother seemed a good subject for a portrait, (she was there), and I thought it offered a chance to do a sort of 'abstract film', in the sense that it didn’t have what you might call 'the grammar of film'. It’s mostly discontinuous shots linked just by subject, in one case by colour, only rarely by movement." – Margaret Tait

Baisanos

Through an intimate portrayal of the activities of the Club Deportivo Palestino fan group, _Baisanos_ builds a dialogue between two narrators representing Chile and Palestine. Together, they reflect on identity, the meaning of returning to Palestine, and the different ways of going back. In this way, the connection between two distant territories emerges within a space of celebration, where dre...

Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections

Jonas Mekas, a pioneer of the film diary, portrays his friend Andy Warhol and his inner circle from the early 1960s to the late 1980s, offering an intimate behind-the-scenes look at the artist’s life and career.

Amsterdam Global Village

After travelling the world from north to south and east to west, Johan van der Keuken turns his camera to his hometown, a welcoming city open to the world, creating a sweeping portrait of Amsterdam and its inhabitants. The peaceful circles formed by the canals of the old city inspire a structure built around lateral movements through the seasons and through time, movements interrupted by a seri...

Ten Minutes Older

During a puppet show, a camera captures in a single ten-minute shot the various emotions reflected on the children's faces.

Le roi du drum

_Le roi du drum_ tells the story of a beloved folk hero from Montreal's East End: Guy Nadon, a gifted self-taught jazz musician whose only misfortune was being born in Quebec in the 1930s. A marginalized artist—often misunderstood and seldom supported—Nadon never stopped nurturing his boundless imagination as a percussionist and performer, all while remaining deeply rooted in his neighbourhood....

Christmas at Moose Factory

Filmed at Christmastime in a residential school in Northern Ontario, this first short film by Alanis Obomsawin is composed entirely of drawings and stories told by young Cree children. The film gives voice to the many children forced to attend this residential school, revealing their beauty and resilience.

Sol

Solomon Tapatsiaq Uyarasuk was a charismatic young Inuk – an amateur acrobat, musician and poet. A beautiful soul, tormented by his people’s lot, who died far too young. This film is a stirring tribute to the young man. Starting with a celebration of Sol’s life, which ended suddenly in a holding cell under suspicious circumstances, the filmmakers shift into an investigative mode, seeking to unc...