RIDM's programming
The Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM) is one of the most important documentary film festivals in North America and offers the public the best of documentary cinema by bringing together great filmmakers and new talents to discover. Each year, this festival is particularly anticipated by Tënk, whose mission is very close. That's why this year, we’re presenting two films by Quebec filmmaker Jeannine Gagné, specially digitized for the occasion!
This year, the RIDM will take place from November 20 to December 1. Hope to see you there!
Check out the full program here!
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No Story Here
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_No Story Here_, the first film by Jeannine Gagné, co-directed with Michel Lamothe, offers a striking portrait of working-class Montréal in the 1970s. Created without a script and using just 600 feet of film, this student short freely blends images and sounds, the latter serving as echoes of the popular psyche, already foreshadowing _City Dawn_.
The Rebelious One
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Half-fiction and half-documentary, _The Rebelious One_ is both a personal interpretation and a poetical rendition of Marie-Claire Blais' work that follows the Quebec writer's literary journey through eleven of her novels. Like a continuous thread leading us through the discovery of her writings, the voice, the vision and the keen consciousness of Blais recall the social events and the human dra...
Il passo
Gabriele is thirteen and has a strong will to prove himself. He chooses to spend the summer in the mountains to look after cattle and returns home a new person. Dotted with feats of strength and unexpected moments of tenderness, _Il passo_ is an unusual coming-to-age story, set in a world bound to disappear.
FREM
As the climate crisis becomes increasingly urgent, and artificial intelligence expands exponentially, _FREM_ presents a striking and sometimes uncomfortable reaction to the current wave of post-humanist, anthropocentric thinking. A unique and wildly experimental documentary, Viera Čákanyová’s film provides a haunting and futurist portrayal of one of the most beautiful yet extreme landscapes on ...
I Wanna Sleep with You
_I Want to Sleep with You_ is a private film, like a diary or a conversation overheard by chance, in which five couples lay themselves bare to share their most intimate experiences, to tell what love is today, what variations it offers and what compromises it imposes to overcome the risk of loneliness.
Alda
Mrs O. suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Her story is told by combining documentary footage with her own filmed diaries, which she shoots using a portable digital camera. With this device, she records instructions for various activities in her daily life, memories, thoughts and comments, trying to preserve them from being forgotten in her memoryless future. Through the individual story of a gra...
White on White
_White on White_ is director Viera Čákanyová’s video diary that she kept while staying at the Polish Antarctic station, where in 2017 she shot the film _FREM,_ whose main character was an artificial neural network. During her stay, the author chats with various artificial intelligences, leading conversations that touch on the nature of film, art, and the meaning of life while also revealing a w...
A Steady Job
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Each month, a multitude of nurses from the South of Italy cross the country to try their luck in an open competition in the great cities of the North. There are just few positions for the thousands of candidates. The majority of them try several times a year. To save money, they travel at night on a bus that drops them off at dawn at the exam site. Each of them has her own story, her own hopes ...
The Hyperwomen
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In the Kuikuro village of Ipatse, in the Upper Xingu, an old woman feels that she will die soon. She wishes to sing and dance one last time during the Jamurikumalu, a ritual in which all the women of the surrounding villages participate. The rehearsals begin.
Seven Years in May
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One fine evening in May, Rafaël dos Santos was beaten up by corrupt cops who came to blackmail him. Rafael had to flee Belo Horizonte. Then begins a descent into the underworld of drugs, gangsterism and police repression.
Clandestine Break
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*Clandestine Intervention* is a documentary that seeks to translate the state of mind of the Brazilian people in the face of the country’s social and political reality during the 2006 elections. A broad reflection emerges in the anonymous voices surprised at random in the crowd. They are ordinary people, from different professions, with different visions, who speak to the camera about their imp...
The Master and Divino
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Two filmmakers portray life in the mission of Sangradouro : Aldabert Heide, an eccentric German missionary who began filming with his Super 8 camera in 1957, and Divino Tserewahu, a young Xavánte director. From complicity to competition, from irony to emotion, they bring their archives to life, revealing the underside of the catechization of indigenous peoples in Brazil.
The White Death of The Black Wizard
The White Death of The Black Wizard
Duration: 20 minutesSubscription access
Memories of the Brazilian slavery past overflow into ethereal landscapes and harrowing noises. Through a visual poetic essay, an intimate and sensory journey reflects on the silencing and invisibility of black people in the diaspora.
Room for a Man
A young gay filmmaker who shares a Beirut apartment with his mother and pet dog attempts to reconstruct his identity by renovating his bedroom. But as the Syrian construction workers come and go in the freshly embattled household, new questions, old arguments and unexpected passions get stirred. Venturing further, the filmmaker contacts his estranged father to ask about the Argentinian passport...
Woman of the Sun: A Chronology of Seeing
Woman of the Sun: A Chronology of Seeing
Shafie Abad is a village of the Iranian desert, submitted for centuries to traditional laws, frozen in time. But one day, a group a woman seizes cameras and gather in a collective. In their impulse, they decided to fund a weaver’s cooperative. The beginning of an emancipatory adventure, where the change of social condition involves a sight revolution.
Overseas
Aux Philippines, on déploie les femmes en masse à l’étranger comme aides ménagères ou nounous. Elles laissent souvent derrière elles leurs propres enfants, avant de se jeter dans l’inconnu. Dans un centre de formation au travail domestique, comme tant d’autres aux Philippines, un groupe de candidates au départ se préparent au mal du pays et aux maltraitances qui pourraient les atteindre. Lors d...
Mutts
Les pelages bruns, beiges, blancs et noirs se fondent à l’ocre de la terre et des murs inondés de soleil. Calme à l’heure du repos, l’endroit devient assourdissant quand vient le moment de nourrir les bêtes qui entament alors leur concert d’aboiements. Dans le refuge pour chiens errants d’Agadir au Maroc, plus de 750 animaux trouvent aide et protection en attendant d’être adoptés par une famill...
Just Don't Think I'll Scream
Janvier 2016. L'histoire amoureuse qui m'avait amené dans le village d'Alsace où je vis est terminée depuis six mois. À 45 ans, je me retrouve désormais seul, sans voiture, sans emploi ni réelle perspective d'avenir, en plein cœur d'une nature luxuriante dont la proximité ne suffit pas à apaiser le désarroi profond dans lequel je suis plongé. La France, encore sous le choc des attentats de nove...
No Story Here
Subscription access
_No Story Here_, the first film by Jeannine Gagné, co-directed with Michel Lamothe, offers a striking portrait of working-class Montréal in the 1970s. Created without a script and using just 600 feet of film, this student short freely blends images and sounds, the latter serving as echoes of the popular psyche, already foreshadowing _City Dawn_.
The Rebelious One
Subscription access
Half-fiction and half-documentary, _The Rebelious One_ is both a personal interpretation and a poetical rendition of Marie-Claire Blais' work that follows the Quebec writer's literary journey through eleven of her novels. Like a continuous thread leading us through the discovery of her writings, the voice, the vision and the keen consciousness of Blais recall the social events and the human dra...
Il passo
Gabriele is thirteen and has a strong will to prove himself. He chooses to spend the summer in the mountains to look after cattle and returns home a new person. Dotted with feats of strength and unexpected moments of tenderness, _Il passo_ is an unusual coming-to-age story, set in a world bound to disappear.
FREM
As the climate crisis becomes increasingly urgent, and artificial intelligence expands exponentially, _FREM_ presents a striking and sometimes uncomfortable reaction to the current wave of post-humanist, anthropocentric thinking. A unique and wildly experimental documentary, Viera Čákanyová’s film provides a haunting and futurist portrayal of one of the most beautiful yet extreme landscapes on ...
I Wanna Sleep with You
_I Want to Sleep with You_ is a private film, like a diary or a conversation overheard by chance, in which five couples lay themselves bare to share their most intimate experiences, to tell what love is today, what variations it offers and what compromises it imposes to overcome the risk of loneliness.
Alda
Mrs O. suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Her story is told by combining documentary footage with her own filmed diaries, which she shoots using a portable digital camera. With this device, she records instructions for various activities in her daily life, memories, thoughts and comments, trying to preserve them from being forgotten in her memoryless future. Through the individual story of a gra...
White on White
_White on White_ is director Viera Čákanyová’s video diary that she kept while staying at the Polish Antarctic station, where in 2017 she shot the film _FREM,_ whose main character was an artificial neural network. During her stay, the author chats with various artificial intelligences, leading conversations that touch on the nature of film, art, and the meaning of life while also revealing a w...
A Steady Job
Subscription access
Each month, a multitude of nurses from the South of Italy cross the country to try their luck in an open competition in the great cities of the North. There are just few positions for the thousands of candidates. The majority of them try several times a year. To save money, they travel at night on a bus that drops them off at dawn at the exam site. Each of them has her own story, her own hopes ...
The Hyperwomen
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In the Kuikuro village of Ipatse, in the Upper Xingu, an old woman feels that she will die soon. She wishes to sing and dance one last time during the Jamurikumalu, a ritual in which all the women of the surrounding villages participate. The rehearsals begin.
Seven Years in May
Subscription access
One fine evening in May, Rafaël dos Santos was beaten up by corrupt cops who came to blackmail him. Rafael had to flee Belo Horizonte. Then begins a descent into the underworld of drugs, gangsterism and police repression.
Clandestine Break
Subscription access
*Clandestine Intervention* is a documentary that seeks to translate the state of mind of the Brazilian people in the face of the country’s social and political reality during the 2006 elections. A broad reflection emerges in the anonymous voices surprised at random in the crowd. They are ordinary people, from different professions, with different visions, who speak to the camera about their imp...
The Master and Divino
Subscription access
Two filmmakers portray life in the mission of Sangradouro : Aldabert Heide, an eccentric German missionary who began filming with his Super 8 camera in 1957, and Divino Tserewahu, a young Xavánte director. From complicity to competition, from irony to emotion, they bring their archives to life, revealing the underside of the catechization of indigenous peoples in Brazil.
The White Death of The Black Wizard
The White Death of The Black Wizard
Duration: 20 minutesSubscription access
Memories of the Brazilian slavery past overflow into ethereal landscapes and harrowing noises. Through a visual poetic essay, an intimate and sensory journey reflects on the silencing and invisibility of black people in the diaspora.
Room for a Man
A young gay filmmaker who shares a Beirut apartment with his mother and pet dog attempts to reconstruct his identity by renovating his bedroom. But as the Syrian construction workers come and go in the freshly embattled household, new questions, old arguments and unexpected passions get stirred. Venturing further, the filmmaker contacts his estranged father to ask about the Argentinian passport...
Woman of the Sun: A Chronology of Seeing
Woman of the Sun: A Chronology of Seeing
Shafie Abad is a village of the Iranian desert, submitted for centuries to traditional laws, frozen in time. But one day, a group a woman seizes cameras and gather in a collective. In their impulse, they decided to fund a weaver’s cooperative. The beginning of an emancipatory adventure, where the change of social condition involves a sight revolution.
Overseas
Aux Philippines, on déploie les femmes en masse à l’étranger comme aides ménagères ou nounous. Elles laissent souvent derrière elles leurs propres enfants, avant de se jeter dans l’inconnu. Dans un centre de formation au travail domestique, comme tant d’autres aux Philippines, un groupe de candidates au départ se préparent au mal du pays et aux maltraitances qui pourraient les atteindre. Lors d...
Mutts
Les pelages bruns, beiges, blancs et noirs se fondent à l’ocre de la terre et des murs inondés de soleil. Calme à l’heure du repos, l’endroit devient assourdissant quand vient le moment de nourrir les bêtes qui entament alors leur concert d’aboiements. Dans le refuge pour chiens errants d’Agadir au Maroc, plus de 750 animaux trouvent aide et protection en attendant d’être adoptés par une famill...
Just Don't Think I'll Scream
Janvier 2016. L'histoire amoureuse qui m'avait amené dans le village d'Alsace où je vis est terminée depuis six mois. À 45 ans, je me retrouve désormais seul, sans voiture, sans emploi ni réelle perspective d'avenir, en plein cœur d'une nature luxuriante dont la proximité ne suffit pas à apaiser le désarroi profond dans lequel je suis plongé. La France, encore sous le choc des attentats de nove...
