Psychology
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Alice in Big Noses’ Land
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Alice, c'est ma perle d'Orient, ma fille qui vient de Chine. Les gros nez, c'est nous : c'est l'expression par laquelle les Asiatiques désignent les Occidentaux. Alice a trouvé sa famille au Québec, comme près de 5 000 de ses petites compatriotes depuis le début des années 1990. Tourné sur une période de dix ans, mon documentaire présente les expériences et les questionnements de huit familles ...
Meeting with Robert Dole
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This experimental short film gives the floor to Robert Dole who gives us his story and exposes his vision of schizophrenia. The theme of mental illness is echoed here in a cinematographic treatment that explores the materiality of film and magnetic tapes to find points of meeting and detachment, spaces resonating with the fall and redemption of Robert Dole.
On the Adamant
Duration: 1h49
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The Adamant is a unique day care centre : it is a floating structure. Located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering them care that grounds them in time and space, and helps them to recover or keep up their spirits. The team running it is one of those that try to resist the deterioration and dehumanization of psychiatry as best it can. T...
A Bird of Paper
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Amélie-Jeanne is a 22-year-old psychiatry patient. A year after her fifth psychotic episode, she still feels the effects in her everyday life. Feeling fragile but hopeful, her health is improving thanks to the strong bond she shares with her father, who faces challenges of his own.
Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum
Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum
Duration: 13 minutesSubscription access
_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...
My Two Voices
A poetic reflection on the fluid nature of identity, _My Two Voices_ focuses on Ana, Claudia, and Marinela, three Latin American women who share their intimate experiences of immigrating to Canada while reflecting on themes of violence, belonging, motherhood, and reconciliation.
Main Street Soldier
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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.
Death is Dangerous, it Could Hurt
Death is Dangerous, it Could Hurt
Subscription accessThree 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.
Bloom
Through moments in the lives of three groups of girls, images gleaned from the web and live streams of young women around the world, _Bloom_ delves into the world of today's teenage girls. We delicately observe a hyper-connected but lonely generation inhabited by great lucidity, an inner struggle with self-image obsession, and a need for self-affirmation in the face of a complex sense of aliena...
The Benevolents
_The Benevolents_ takes us into the world of Tel-Aide Montreal call center, as we follow a group of future volunteers. Through an intimate treatment, the film seeks to remind us of the importance of attentive ears in a society rife with solitude.
A Short History Of Madness
_A Short History Of Madness_ is a contemporary dance film. Traveling through time in six architectural scenes, it touches on key moments in the treatment of mental illness in Quebec, from the end of the 19th century to today. The film introduces us to six mentally ill characters who are interpreted by dancers. It then goes on to follow a woman, Jacqueline, who ends up on the street after losing...
The Free Ones
_The Free Ones_ is a documentary which shows us how four detainees are dealing with the end of their prison sentence, in a sawmill. Can a factory job help them to make the necessary transformation and become free men? Hidden from society’s view and through meetings with their instructors, psychotherapists and other participants, we accompany Samuel, Pierrot, Fred and Steve talk about their hope...
No Crying at the Dinner Table
La réalisatrice Carol Nguyen interviewe sa famille. Il en résulte un portrait teinté d'amour et de peine, révélant des traumatismes intergénérationnels.
Who Cares?
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Medical students in their early twenties and experienced care workers take part in medical simulations. Faced with comedians portraying patients, they learn to speak the right words, reflect on their reactions, and build a caring practice. But in an increasingly liberal hospital system, which itself exerts violence on medical staff, is this relational ideal really possible?
Mother-To-Be
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Can a woman fully realize herself while embracing the demands of motherhood? Filmed during an actual pregnancy and based on the journal director Anne Claire Poirier kept during one of her own, this documentary captures the pregnant female body, revealing the emotions and anxieties that accompany this transformative experience.
Baby Drawings
How do we learn to draw? First, we practice holding a crayon without eating it. Then, just a few years later, we’re using sophisticated symbols to represent ourselves, our families, and our imaginations. _Baby Drawings_ covers the development of childhood art from the very first stage of scribbles all the way to the development of spatial perspective.
Tu as crié LET ME GO
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_Tu as crié LET ME GO_ is an intimate and heartrending film in which filmmaker Anne Claire Poirier undertakes a personal investigation into the tragic death of her daughter Yanne, who was murdered at the age of 26. A former drug addict and sex worker, Yanne had fallen into the margins of society. Through this film, Poirier reaches out to those living with or working alongside people struggling ...
Rehab (From Rehab)
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A sensitive and personal reflection that questions the way hospitals think spaces of care for the most vulnerable ones. Recounting her personal story as a young girl who spent her childhood in rehabilitation centres alongside her severely disabled father, the director confronts her traumatic memories with the exceptional experimentation developed at REHAB in Basel by the Swiss architects Herzog...
Days
Marie-Philip is a PhD student and part-time professor who loves cats and _Harry Potter_. But one week before her 29th birthday, she is diagnosed with breast cancer. For a year, without false modesty, we follow her through each step as she confides in us with shocking honesty. An ode to life, to courage and to the resilience of all those who fight every day against disease.
No Crying at the Dinner Table
Filmmaker Carol Nguyen interviews her family. The result is a portrait tinged with love and sorrows, revealing intergenerational traumas.
Alice in Big Noses’ Land
Subscription access
Alice, c'est ma perle d'Orient, ma fille qui vient de Chine. Les gros nez, c'est nous : c'est l'expression par laquelle les Asiatiques désignent les Occidentaux. Alice a trouvé sa famille au Québec, comme près de 5 000 de ses petites compatriotes depuis le début des années 1990. Tourné sur une période de dix ans, mon documentaire présente les expériences et les questionnements de huit familles ...
Meeting with Robert Dole
Subscription access
This experimental short film gives the floor to Robert Dole who gives us his story and exposes his vision of schizophrenia. The theme of mental illness is echoed here in a cinematographic treatment that explores the materiality of film and magnetic tapes to find points of meeting and detachment, spaces resonating with the fall and redemption of Robert Dole.
On the Adamant
Duration: 1h49
Subscription access
The Adamant is a unique day care centre : it is a floating structure. Located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering them care that grounds them in time and space, and helps them to recover or keep up their spirits. The team running it is one of those that try to resist the deterioration and dehumanization of psychiatry as best it can. T...
A Bird of Paper
Subscription access
Amélie-Jeanne is a 22-year-old psychiatry patient. A year after her fifth psychotic episode, she still feels the effects in her everyday life. Feeling fragile but hopeful, her health is improving thanks to the strong bond she shares with her father, who faces challenges of his own.
Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum
Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum
Duration: 13 minutesSubscription access
_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...
My Two Voices
A poetic reflection on the fluid nature of identity, _My Two Voices_ focuses on Ana, Claudia, and Marinela, three Latin American women who share their intimate experiences of immigrating to Canada while reflecting on themes of violence, belonging, motherhood, and reconciliation.
Main Street Soldier
Subscription access
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.
Death is Dangerous, it Could Hurt
Death is Dangerous, it Could Hurt
Subscription accessThree 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.
Bloom
Through moments in the lives of three groups of girls, images gleaned from the web and live streams of young women around the world, _Bloom_ delves into the world of today's teenage girls. We delicately observe a hyper-connected but lonely generation inhabited by great lucidity, an inner struggle with self-image obsession, and a need for self-affirmation in the face of a complex sense of aliena...
The Benevolents
_The Benevolents_ takes us into the world of Tel-Aide Montreal call center, as we follow a group of future volunteers. Through an intimate treatment, the film seeks to remind us of the importance of attentive ears in a society rife with solitude.
A Short History Of Madness
_A Short History Of Madness_ is a contemporary dance film. Traveling through time in six architectural scenes, it touches on key moments in the treatment of mental illness in Quebec, from the end of the 19th century to today. The film introduces us to six mentally ill characters who are interpreted by dancers. It then goes on to follow a woman, Jacqueline, who ends up on the street after losing...
The Free Ones
_The Free Ones_ is a documentary which shows us how four detainees are dealing with the end of their prison sentence, in a sawmill. Can a factory job help them to make the necessary transformation and become free men? Hidden from society’s view and through meetings with their instructors, psychotherapists and other participants, we accompany Samuel, Pierrot, Fred and Steve talk about their hope...
No Crying at the Dinner Table
La réalisatrice Carol Nguyen interviewe sa famille. Il en résulte un portrait teinté d'amour et de peine, révélant des traumatismes intergénérationnels.
Who Cares?
Subscription access
Medical students in their early twenties and experienced care workers take part in medical simulations. Faced with comedians portraying patients, they learn to speak the right words, reflect on their reactions, and build a caring practice. But in an increasingly liberal hospital system, which itself exerts violence on medical staff, is this relational ideal really possible?
Mother-To-Be
Subscription access
Can a woman fully realize herself while embracing the demands of motherhood? Filmed during an actual pregnancy and based on the journal director Anne Claire Poirier kept during one of her own, this documentary captures the pregnant female body, revealing the emotions and anxieties that accompany this transformative experience.
Baby Drawings
How do we learn to draw? First, we practice holding a crayon without eating it. Then, just a few years later, we’re using sophisticated symbols to represent ourselves, our families, and our imaginations. _Baby Drawings_ covers the development of childhood art from the very first stage of scribbles all the way to the development of spatial perspective.
Tu as crié LET ME GO
Subscription access
_Tu as crié LET ME GO_ is an intimate and heartrending film in which filmmaker Anne Claire Poirier undertakes a personal investigation into the tragic death of her daughter Yanne, who was murdered at the age of 26. A former drug addict and sex worker, Yanne had fallen into the margins of society. Through this film, Poirier reaches out to those living with or working alongside people struggling ...
Rehab (From Rehab)
Subscription access
A sensitive and personal reflection that questions the way hospitals think spaces of care for the most vulnerable ones. Recounting her personal story as a young girl who spent her childhood in rehabilitation centres alongside her severely disabled father, the director confronts her traumatic memories with the exceptional experimentation developed at REHAB in Basel by the Swiss architects Herzog...
Days
Marie-Philip is a PhD student and part-time professor who loves cats and _Harry Potter_. But one week before her 29th birthday, she is diagnosed with breast cancer. For a year, without false modesty, we follow her through each step as she confides in us with shocking honesty. An ode to life, to courage and to the resilience of all those who fight every day against disease.
No Crying at the Dinner Table
Filmmaker Carol Nguyen interviews her family. The result is a portrait tinged with love and sorrows, revealing intergenerational traumas.
