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In February 2021, Myanmar wakes up to the sounds of a military coup. The hopes of an entire generation are extinguished. Protests are held, but the dictatorship is too powerful: arrests, imprisonments and threats of execution ensue. The capital becomes a large open-air prison, but a few anonymous voices still have the strength to cry out.
Otto spends night and day blurring faces on Google Streetview for a cent each. It's the kind of work he and his friends around the world can find on the Amazon Mechanical Turk, the crowdworking platform. Alongside his turker friends, Otto sinks into a robotic world that raise the question of humanity.
In 2018, an incel called Anathematic Anarchist posted a suicide note on Reddit entitled "America is responsible for my death." This film is an attempt to find answers to his words. A virtual drift through the internet in search of his digital tracks that eventually turns into an inner journey between our connected solitudes.
In an employment assistance community organization, asylum seekers are offered jobs in slaughterhouses that will allow them to restart lives they were abruptly forced to leave behind. On a livestock farm, cows, pigs, and farmers are subjected to the rhythm of an industrial agricultural model. Outside, only the corn plants that serve to feed the animals pierce the aridity of desert-like soil. _R...
For the Yenish, respect for one’s elders and religious fervour flirt indifferently with vandalism. Fred Dorkel is one of them: feared and respected by his community, he earns his living by stealing cars. One night, his life is turned upside down: an angel appears to him. For Fred, this is the sign of a second chance that he has to take. He decides to settle down, but this choice creates a clash...
At sixteen, Marusya is determined to end her life, like many other Russian teenagers. Then, she meets her soulmate. For ten years, they document the euphoria and anxiety, the happiness and misery of their youth stifled by a violent and autocratic regime within a "Russia of Depression." A heartfelt cry, a tribute to an entire generation silenced.
We, Children of the 20th Century
Duration: 1h23_We, Children of the 20th Century_ depicts street children from Saint Petersburg: harmless vagabonds, early smokers, but also burglars and even murderers. The collapse of taboos and established authority has significantly diminished their inhibitions. Even their parents no longer harbor any ambitions for them. In this social void, who will show these children what life should look like?
Between Parc-Extension and the town of Mont-Royal, a scar in space creates a strange dichotomy between two neighborhoods.
Romain Goupil was born with a camera in his hand. With this camera, he films everything: the stories he invents and his life that he stages. As he develops a taste for political action, Romain Goupil continues to film everything: the activists, the encounters, the protests. He meets Michel Recanati, a passionate activist. A deep friendship is born between these two young high school students wh...
_How to Disappear_ is an anti-war movie in the true sense of the word, searching for possibilities for peace in the most unlikely place of an online war game, _Battlefield V_. It’s a tribute to disobedience and desertion - in both digital and physical-real warfare.
In 1791, in Haiti, Dutty Boukman presided over a Vodou ritual in Bois-Caïman that led to the creation of the first Black republic. Since then, rituals of transformation and artistic expression have been at the core of a thriving culture as the country faces oppression, poverty, and natural disasters. _Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones)_ is a sensorial film about rituals in Haiti, from ancient to moder...
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...
Family happiness often hinges on an unsuspected tragedy: the loss of identity of the woman who now lives only in relation to her husband and children. Faced with this "nameless discomfort," Francine (Micheline Lanctôt), a seemingly fulfilled young woman, is forced to leave her family for a while, in an attempt to find out who she is. This film, composed of a dramatized part enriched by document...
The story of two characters we hear but never see. Like an old manuscript tucked away at the back of a drawer, the film begins as a young student films the markets of London in 1969. Twenty-five years later, she invites a man to watch the film that captures her youth. The couple engages in a dialogue about the images of that era, and a budding love emerges as the film comes to an end. Much like...
Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age
Duration: 2h40On two continents, four women fall victim to extreme cyber violence: Marion Séclin, a French actress and YouTuber, Laura Boldrini, President of the Italian Parliament, Kiah Morris, an American Democratic representative, and Laurence Gratton, a young Quebecois teacher. Abandoned by law enforcement, the political class, and Web giants who make billions from hatred, they decide to fight back and n...
Filmmaker Peter Mettler embarks on a mission that takes him around the world. He is determined to record the diverse modes of transcendence that people in different cultures adopt in order to live life to the fullest. As he traverses civilization and wilderness and encounters a range of lifestyles and ideas, the filmmaker’s mind-expanding trip around the world grows into a poem of images and so...
Every year, at the beginning of the month of December, Marc-Antoine goes back to New York city in order to sell Christmas trees in the streets. From his little shack, he is witnessing the daily life of New Yorkers seeking the perfect Christmas ornament. This vantage point gives him an original view on American society and the different social class that compose it.
Imagined as a city of the future during the Soviet era, the once-celebrated manganese-mining town of Chiatura in Georgia is now all but abandoned, crumbling around those who still inhabit it. And yet, as anywhere, people live their lives and go about their daily business. There is joy here, and there are the usual challenges. Rati Oneli’s _City of the Sun_ takes us on a languorous tour of this ...
In the Desert - Avidan's Dream
Duration: 1h43_In the Desert_ is a diptych documentary about two realities, two families in one land. Both parts have a dialectic relationship to each other, an inherent tension that exists by their very juxtaposition: _Omar's Dream_ is about a Palestinian family; _Avidan's Dream_ is about a Jewish one. Both families live in an area of the West Bank that is governed by Palestinian Authority but controlled by...
The Peugeot production lines shown through deafening images. This is the core of the Peugeot empire : the exploitation of human work to the extreme. Outside, everything belongs to the Peugeot group : the city, the stores, leisure, holidays, housing...
In February 2021, Myanmar wakes up to the sounds of a military coup. The hopes of an entire generation are extinguished. Protests are held, but the dictatorship is too powerful: arrests, imprisonments and threats of execution ensue. The capital becomes a large open-air prison, but a few anonymous voices still have the strength to cry out.
Otto spends night and day blurring faces on Google Streetview for a cent each. It's the kind of work he and his friends around the world can find on the Amazon Mechanical Turk, the crowdworking platform. Alongside his turker friends, Otto sinks into a robotic world that raise the question of humanity.
In 2018, an incel called Anathematic Anarchist posted a suicide note on Reddit entitled "America is responsible for my death." This film is an attempt to find answers to his words. A virtual drift through the internet in search of his digital tracks that eventually turns into an inner journey between our connected solitudes.
In an employment assistance community organization, asylum seekers are offered jobs in slaughterhouses that will allow them to restart lives they were abruptly forced to leave behind. On a livestock farm, cows, pigs, and farmers are subjected to the rhythm of an industrial agricultural model. Outside, only the corn plants that serve to feed the animals pierce the aridity of desert-like soil. _R...
For the Yenish, respect for one’s elders and religious fervour flirt indifferently with vandalism. Fred Dorkel is one of them: feared and respected by his community, he earns his living by stealing cars. One night, his life is turned upside down: an angel appears to him. For Fred, this is the sign of a second chance that he has to take. He decides to settle down, but this choice creates a clash...
At sixteen, Marusya is determined to end her life, like many other Russian teenagers. Then, she meets her soulmate. For ten years, they document the euphoria and anxiety, the happiness and misery of their youth stifled by a violent and autocratic regime within a "Russia of Depression." A heartfelt cry, a tribute to an entire generation silenced.
We, Children of the 20th Century
Duration: 1h23_We, Children of the 20th Century_ depicts street children from Saint Petersburg: harmless vagabonds, early smokers, but also burglars and even murderers. The collapse of taboos and established authority has significantly diminished their inhibitions. Even their parents no longer harbor any ambitions for them. In this social void, who will show these children what life should look like?
Between Parc-Extension and the town of Mont-Royal, a scar in space creates a strange dichotomy between two neighborhoods.
Romain Goupil was born with a camera in his hand. With this camera, he films everything: the stories he invents and his life that he stages. As he develops a taste for political action, Romain Goupil continues to film everything: the activists, the encounters, the protests. He meets Michel Recanati, a passionate activist. A deep friendship is born between these two young high school students wh...
_How to Disappear_ is an anti-war movie in the true sense of the word, searching for possibilities for peace in the most unlikely place of an online war game, _Battlefield V_. It’s a tribute to disobedience and desertion - in both digital and physical-real warfare.
In 1791, in Haiti, Dutty Boukman presided over a Vodou ritual in Bois-Caïman that led to the creation of the first Black republic. Since then, rituals of transformation and artistic expression have been at the core of a thriving culture as the country faces oppression, poverty, and natural disasters. _Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones)_ is a sensorial film about rituals in Haiti, from ancient to moder...
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...
Family happiness often hinges on an unsuspected tragedy: the loss of identity of the woman who now lives only in relation to her husband and children. Faced with this "nameless discomfort," Francine (Micheline Lanctôt), a seemingly fulfilled young woman, is forced to leave her family for a while, in an attempt to find out who she is. This film, composed of a dramatized part enriched by document...
The story of two characters we hear but never see. Like an old manuscript tucked away at the back of a drawer, the film begins as a young student films the markets of London in 1969. Twenty-five years later, she invites a man to watch the film that captures her youth. The couple engages in a dialogue about the images of that era, and a budding love emerges as the film comes to an end. Much like...
Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age
Duration: 2h40On two continents, four women fall victim to extreme cyber violence: Marion Séclin, a French actress and YouTuber, Laura Boldrini, President of the Italian Parliament, Kiah Morris, an American Democratic representative, and Laurence Gratton, a young Quebecois teacher. Abandoned by law enforcement, the political class, and Web giants who make billions from hatred, they decide to fight back and n...
Filmmaker Peter Mettler embarks on a mission that takes him around the world. He is determined to record the diverse modes of transcendence that people in different cultures adopt in order to live life to the fullest. As he traverses civilization and wilderness and encounters a range of lifestyles and ideas, the filmmaker’s mind-expanding trip around the world grows into a poem of images and so...
Every year, at the beginning of the month of December, Marc-Antoine goes back to New York city in order to sell Christmas trees in the streets. From his little shack, he is witnessing the daily life of New Yorkers seeking the perfect Christmas ornament. This vantage point gives him an original view on American society and the different social class that compose it.
Imagined as a city of the future during the Soviet era, the once-celebrated manganese-mining town of Chiatura in Georgia is now all but abandoned, crumbling around those who still inhabit it. And yet, as anywhere, people live their lives and go about their daily business. There is joy here, and there are the usual challenges. Rati Oneli’s _City of the Sun_ takes us on a languorous tour of this ...
In the Desert - Avidan's Dream
Duration: 1h43_In the Desert_ is a diptych documentary about two realities, two families in one land. Both parts have a dialectic relationship to each other, an inherent tension that exists by their very juxtaposition: _Omar's Dream_ is about a Palestinian family; _Avidan's Dream_ is about a Jewish one. Both families live in an area of the West Bank that is governed by Palestinian Authority but controlled by...
The Peugeot production lines shown through deafening images. This is the core of the Peugeot empire : the exploitation of human work to the extreme. Outside, everything belongs to the Peugeot group : the city, the stores, leisure, holidays, housing...