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If It Happens
Duration: 38 minutes
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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.
The Specter of Waves
Duration: 1h44
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Forced to protect themselves and flee from exposure to the electromagnetic waves and fields that surround us, François, Suzanne and Lorraine share with us the torments imposed by electrohypersensitivity. Through an intimate approach, _The Spectre of Waves_ sheds light on the humanity behind the taboos that accompany this often-misunderstood intolerance syndrome.
Elementary
Duration: 3h30
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In the Makarenko public elementary school in the Paris outskirts, children want to learn and to be cheered while teachers know they do not only teach, they also educate. With care, tenacity and efforts, children are trained to become not only responsible citizens but also human beings.
Monsieur le Directeur
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“Mr. Director...” This is how letters addressed to the Director of Belgian public radio between 1958 and 1968 began. Any excuse was good enough to put pen to paper: a listener complained about the broadcast of a song with lyrics deemed too risqué, a young girl wondered how to become an announcer, factory workers wanted to hear more operettas during their lunch break, and so on. During this deca...
Amazonia, an Encounter with the Guardian of the Rainforest
Amazonia, an Encounter with the Guardian of the Rainforest
Duration: 3h14Subscription access
With a hybrid style blending political essay and road movie, this documentary by Santiago Bertolino takes us into the heart of the Amazonian reality. Following Marie-Josée Béliveau, an ecologist and ethnogeographer, they journey together along the 4000 km from the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil to one of its sources in Ecuador where they meet with the guardians of the forest. As a result, ...
The White Guard
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The Mexican landscape fades away into ashes and dust, fragmented, defaced and scorched. Behind barbed wirefences, forests, rivers and mountains fall to the hands of private companies. Once transformed, the landscape becomes a separate universe, an incongruous and dangerous area where the new masters and their mercenaries terrorize people into silence. Like other farmers from across the country,...
Still Recording
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For five years, at the heart of the Syrian civil war, a group of aspiring filmmakers documented the fighting and the daily life of the people in the city of Douma, in Eastern Ghouta, a besieged suburb of Damascus.
Damascus is Breathing
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Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, director Omar Malas has been asking himself a question: what would be the impact of the pandemic on Syrians after years of war? This documentary project is an attempt to portray the work of a citizen-led initiative in which he took part during the first wave of the pandemic.
The Stone Speakers
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Present-day Bosnia-Herzegovina is a country still reeling from the civil war in the early 90s. The Bosnian economy never recovered, and the country remains divided. In order to cope, many towns have transformed themselves into unique tourist destinations that bring together history, religion, politics and folklore. The tourist sites promoted are not only a reflection of people’s attempts to mak...
My Two Voices
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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.
After the Odyssey
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After a Dantean journey, women from Nigeria arrive alone and ever younger in Italy, looking for a better life. Such horrors as human trafficking and sexual slavery are waiting for them, as we discover in this ensemble film, featuring harrowing stories told in a sensible way that spares us from the unbearable. These tales provoke a broader reflection on migration and otherness.
Twice Colonized
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Renowned Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter has led a lifelong fight for the rights of her people. A member of a historically marginalized and oppressed community, Aaju’s heritage puts her in the unique position of someone who has been “twice colonized” – first by European settlers who arrived in the Arctic, and then by modern-day Canadian policies and institutions. But while launching an effort to establ...
Le Métif enragé
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A film that reveals the vitality, colour, talent and fury in Western Canada’s oldest and largest French city: St. Boniface. In a devilish mood, local poet George Morrissette uses a hometown fiddle competition to recite a poem about Franco-Manitobans and the Métis French. The audience turns against him and we witness a dramatic confrontation.
You Laugh Like A Duck: Children Living in Manitoba and Nova Scotia
You Laugh Like A Duck: Children Living in Manitoba and Nova Scotia
Duration: 56 minutesSubscription access
_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
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_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.
From Greece
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Greece, filmed at a pivotal moment in its history, just before the 1967 military coup — a country where tensions between fascism and anti-fascism persisted after the war and erupted in a confused search for a truly free future. Nestler films the Greek people with respect and sensitivity, creating one of his masterpieces, built on a rigorous interplay between candid footage, commentary, and docu...
Space Down
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A team of astronauts is launched into space during the pandemic. As the planet takes a pause, its inhabitants share their experiences of COVID-19 and the consequences it might have on their mental health.
American Journal
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Remember America. Remember the cities, the houses, all the people, the arrivals, the departures, the children coming, the children leaving, death, life, movement, speech. Remember the deep inner sigh of everything that lives in America. Bend down. Pick up what others have lost from life. And do something with it...
Dry Ground Burning
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Just released from prison, Léa (Léa Alves Silva) returns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her half-sister Chitara (Joana Darc Furtado), the fearless leader of an all-female gang that steals and refines oil from underground pipes and sells gasoline to a clandestine network of motorcyclists. Living in constant opposition to Jair Bolsonaro’s fiercely authoritarian and ...
Zlata
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Twelve-year old Zlata has to find her way in Belgium, after she inevitably had to flee the war in home country Ukraine. Her father Petro and Findus, the cat, stayed behind, mother Ira and little brother Martin came along. Step by step the adolescent girl explores not only her new living environment, but also her own identity. Awaiting the uncertain arrival of her father, Zlata slowly opens up.
If It Happens
Duration: 38 minutes
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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.
The Specter of Waves
Duration: 1h44
Subscription access
Forced to protect themselves and flee from exposure to the electromagnetic waves and fields that surround us, François, Suzanne and Lorraine share with us the torments imposed by electrohypersensitivity. Through an intimate approach, _The Spectre of Waves_ sheds light on the humanity behind the taboos that accompany this often-misunderstood intolerance syndrome.
Elementary
Duration: 3h30
Subscription access
In the Makarenko public elementary school in the Paris outskirts, children want to learn and to be cheered while teachers know they do not only teach, they also educate. With care, tenacity and efforts, children are trained to become not only responsible citizens but also human beings.
Monsieur le Directeur
Subscription access
“Mr. Director...” This is how letters addressed to the Director of Belgian public radio between 1958 and 1968 began. Any excuse was good enough to put pen to paper: a listener complained about the broadcast of a song with lyrics deemed too risqué, a young girl wondered how to become an announcer, factory workers wanted to hear more operettas during their lunch break, and so on. During this deca...
Amazonia, an Encounter with the Guardian of the Rainforest
Amazonia, an Encounter with the Guardian of the Rainforest
Duration: 3h14Subscription access
With a hybrid style blending political essay and road movie, this documentary by Santiago Bertolino takes us into the heart of the Amazonian reality. Following Marie-Josée Béliveau, an ecologist and ethnogeographer, they journey together along the 4000 km from the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil to one of its sources in Ecuador where they meet with the guardians of the forest. As a result, ...
The White Guard
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The Mexican landscape fades away into ashes and dust, fragmented, defaced and scorched. Behind barbed wirefences, forests, rivers and mountains fall to the hands of private companies. Once transformed, the landscape becomes a separate universe, an incongruous and dangerous area where the new masters and their mercenaries terrorize people into silence. Like other farmers from across the country,...
Still Recording
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For five years, at the heart of the Syrian civil war, a group of aspiring filmmakers documented the fighting and the daily life of the people in the city of Douma, in Eastern Ghouta, a besieged suburb of Damascus.
Damascus is Breathing
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Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, director Omar Malas has been asking himself a question: what would be the impact of the pandemic on Syrians after years of war? This documentary project is an attempt to portray the work of a citizen-led initiative in which he took part during the first wave of the pandemic.
The Stone Speakers
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Present-day Bosnia-Herzegovina is a country still reeling from the civil war in the early 90s. The Bosnian economy never recovered, and the country remains divided. In order to cope, many towns have transformed themselves into unique tourist destinations that bring together history, religion, politics and folklore. The tourist sites promoted are not only a reflection of people’s attempts to mak...
My Two Voices
Subscription access
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.
After the Odyssey
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After a Dantean journey, women from Nigeria arrive alone and ever younger in Italy, looking for a better life. Such horrors as human trafficking and sexual slavery are waiting for them, as we discover in this ensemble film, featuring harrowing stories told in a sensible way that spares us from the unbearable. These tales provoke a broader reflection on migration and otherness.
Twice Colonized
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Renowned Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter has led a lifelong fight for the rights of her people. A member of a historically marginalized and oppressed community, Aaju’s heritage puts her in the unique position of someone who has been “twice colonized” – first by European settlers who arrived in the Arctic, and then by modern-day Canadian policies and institutions. But while launching an effort to establ...
Le Métif enragé
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A film that reveals the vitality, colour, talent and fury in Western Canada’s oldest and largest French city: St. Boniface. In a devilish mood, local poet George Morrissette uses a hometown fiddle competition to recite a poem about Franco-Manitobans and the Métis French. The audience turns against him and we witness a dramatic confrontation.
You Laugh Like A Duck: Children Living in Manitoba and Nova Scotia
You Laugh Like A Duck: Children Living in Manitoba and Nova Scotia
Duration: 56 minutesSubscription access
_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
Subscription access
_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.
From Greece
Subscription access
Greece, filmed at a pivotal moment in its history, just before the 1967 military coup — a country where tensions between fascism and anti-fascism persisted after the war and erupted in a confused search for a truly free future. Nestler films the Greek people with respect and sensitivity, creating one of his masterpieces, built on a rigorous interplay between candid footage, commentary, and docu...
Space Down
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A team of astronauts is launched into space during the pandemic. As the planet takes a pause, its inhabitants share their experiences of COVID-19 and the consequences it might have on their mental health.
American Journal
Subscription access
Remember America. Remember the cities, the houses, all the people, the arrivals, the departures, the children coming, the children leaving, death, life, movement, speech. Remember the deep inner sigh of everything that lives in America. Bend down. Pick up what others have lost from life. And do something with it...
Dry Ground Burning
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Just released from prison, Léa (Léa Alves Silva) returns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her half-sister Chitara (Joana Darc Furtado), the fearless leader of an all-female gang that steals and refines oil from underground pipes and sells gasoline to a clandestine network of motorcyclists. Living in constant opposition to Jair Bolsonaro’s fiercely authoritarian and ...
Zlata
Subscription access
Twelve-year old Zlata has to find her way in Belgium, after she inevitably had to flee the war in home country Ukraine. Her father Petro and Findus, the cat, stayed behind, mother Ira and little brother Martin came along. Step by step the adolescent girl explores not only her new living environment, but also her own identity. Awaiting the uncertain arrival of her father, Zlata slowly opens up.
