Portrait

Jean Painlevé, fantaisie pour biologie marine

_Jean Painlevé, fantaisie pour biologie marine_ traces the life and work of a man who played an essential role in the history of cinema. This atypical filmmaker, steeped in both scientific research and avant-garde thinking, was close to Jean Vigo, Alexander Calder, Luis Buñuel, and Sergei M. Eisenstein. He was able to create a dialogue between two disciplines: art and science. Thanks to their a...

The Sea Horse

The seahorse is the only fish that moves vertically. It is also one of the few animals in which the male nourishes the eggs deposited by the female in his brood pouch and actually gives birth to the young. To film at the bottom of the Garonne estuary, the first mobile underwater camera was improvised. This film, accompanied by music from Darius Milhaud, shows with precision and humor the life o...

The Love Life of an Octopus

The fluid grace of an eight-armed embrace, the velvety gaze of an inscrutable eye… Painlevé creates a fascinating portrait of the octopus, a mysterious underwater creature, set to a soundtrack composed by Pierre Henry, one of the pioneers of electroacoustic music.

If It Happens

Tomek, Marcel Łoziński's son, is 18 years old. Exactly 12 years ago, when he was 6, his father filmed him during a visit to a park in Warsaw. Tomek stopped near elderly people and, with childlike naivety, asked them about joy, loneliness, fear of death, dreams, love... On his birthday, Tomek returns to the garden of his childhood. 

Up the River with Acid

_Up the River with Acid_ is an intimate, impressionistic documentary by Harald Hutter that unfolds over two days in the life of his father, Horst, a former professor whose daily life is profoundly disrupted by cognitive decline. Shot on 16 mm, the film gently observes gestures, silences, and perceptions as memory begins to fragment, while subtly sketching the deep bond that unites Horst and his...

Claude Gauvreau- Poète

The poet Claude Gauvreau, a towering figure of the spoken word, appears here in full command of his lyrical expression. During the Night of Poetry on March 27, 1970, he recites several of his poems, followed by excerpts from his famous work _La charge de l'orignal épormyable_, and finally takes part in a series of interviews. Released a few years after the poet’s tragic death, this moving portr...

Stand Out of my Sunlight

Joseph is an elderly man living with Diogenes syndrome, a compulsive hoarding disorder that has left his apartment overflowing. For Messaline, who comes to help him clean, it becomes an opportunity to discover him in two ways: through their conversations, and through the objects he has accumulated—layered memories of a life lived in that apartment. This film, about memory, identity, and social ...

Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum

_Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum_ is a first person autobiographical experimental film exploring the ramifications of the devastating breakup of a romantic relationship. A triptych of self-portraits — entire camera rolls, each subjected to different methods of intervention with the celluloid itself — are intercut with short excerpts of altered footage from a B movie trailer and punctu...

Chasing the Dazzling Light

Director Yaser Kassab followed in his father’s footsteps, emigrating from Syria to Europe as a young man, and, like his father, he also aspired to become a filmmaker. They now work together on this film remotely. From Syria, the father provides guidance to his son over the phone or via video calls, offering advice on future film projects and life in general—loving conversations punctuated by we...

Main Street Soldier

World War II veteran Ray LeClair relives his marches through a haze of alcoholism on Winnipeg's Historic Main Street. The film draws from Ray’s two battlefields: war and the street.

You Laugh Like A Duck: Children Living in Manitoba and Nova Scotia

_You Laugh Like a Duck_ follows the activities of young women on a Hutterite colony in Manitoba, Indigenous youth on reserves in both Manitoba and Nova Scotia, and urban, self-characterized "white, middle-class" teenagers in both Winnipeg and Halifax to demonstrate the diversity of their life experiences.

Dog Stories

_Dog Stories_ reveals as much about the people telling the stories as the dogs they are describing. The dog owners are more honest about their feelings about a dog than almost any other aspect of their lives, and in the process they reveal a lot about themselves.