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American Journal
Duration: 1h51
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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
Duration: 5h08
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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
Duration: 1h40
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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.
Château rouge
Duration: 3h34
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Goutte d'Or district, Paris, Château Rouge metro station, Georges Clemenceau secondary school. Teenagers, burdened with their carelessness and their wounds, have to grow up. They are shaping their personalities, losing their way, searching for themselves. Adults try to guide them despite the violence of the system.
Má Sài Gòn (Mother Saigon)
In Saigon, family culture carries on as it has for centuries, even when blood ties are broken. Through a mosaic of intimate portraits, _Má Sài Gòn_ explores humanity’s universal desire for love, acceptance, connection and belonging through an LGBTQ+ lens. The film is a love letter – a bittersweet ode to a comforting yet disturbing mother, to a city that is as liberating as it is oppressive.
Vibrations from Gaza
This film offers an insight into the experiences of deaf children in the colonized and confined coastal territory of Gaza, Palestine, particularly the violence to which they are subjected by Israeli military operations. Born and raised under the frequent onslaught of the occupying forces, children Amani, Musa, Israa and others recite vivid memories of their experiences of bombardment and the co...
I Might Be Dead by Tomorrow
Patients arrive in the consultation room every day, broken, sick and scarred by life. In front of them sits a committed person who tries, without false hope, to repair bodies and psyches. At night, when the clinic doors are closed, the street outreach workers take to the streets to extend their support to all those unfortunate women who have chosen the streets as their home.
The Theory of Everything
_The Theory of Everything_ navigates its way between people and landscapes, between discourse and territory. Evocative landscapes whose silent presence speaks volumes. People who, asked to talk about themselves, about their connection to the world, discuss the land and the subsoil, the forests and the rivers, everything that shapes them. The people we meet are not experts. In their own way, the...
I Lost My Mom
In the style of a film diary, this documentary immerses us in the personal experience of the filmmaker and his sister as they try to ensure their mother can end her days with dignity in the CHSLD system. Amid this complex challenge, Denys Desjardins films his mother with incredible tenderness. He communicates her vulnerability and warm personality from a place of love and respect. This feature-...
Resources
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...
We, Children of the 20th Century
We, Children of the 20th Century
Subscription access_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?
Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones)
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...
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...
A Night Song
Penetrating through the interstices of the half-closed shutters, a summer light brushes its dappled shadows in Noëlla's apartment, as she is preparing to receive medical aid in dying. She is assisted by her caregiver, Pierre, who looks after the daily necessities. Dense and diffuse, the last days of a life reveal the tight weave that intertwines these seemingly infinitely repeated gestures to t...
Happy Life
In this time of anxiety and turmoil, this film explores the unusual outlets where the torments of the body and mind are soothed. In a meditative journey to the heart of these analgesic places, this documentary essay paints a portrait of a society in search of meaning and comfort.
Flat Jungle
The Waddenzee, the Wetland Sea, is a unique natural region, a coastal area of the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark which, depending on the tides, is sometimes sea, sometimes land. Johan van der Keuken films this "flat jungle", its fauna, flora and inhabitants whose lives have been disrupted by the economic, technical and industrial developments of the region.
Ain't No Time for Women
Tunis, November 2019. A group of women is gathered at Saïda's, the hairdresser, on the eve of the presidential election. The salon is transformed into a town square, mirroring the internal turmoil of the country. In this female sanctuary, we get an intimate look at the county's teenage democracy.
zo reken
zo reken ("shark bone") is the nickname given in Haiti to the Toyota Land Cruiser, a powerful all-terrain vehicle, very popular with international humanitarian organizations that have been present in the country since the 2010 earthquake. Ten years later, a \*zo reken\* is diverted from its usual use to become a mobile space for meetings and discussions between Haitians. No more foreign humanit...
I'll Come To You With Deaf Eyes
I'll Come To You With Deaf Eyes
Subscription accessThis film is a letter to my friend Vincent who died ten years ago. Vincent was Deaf. He introduced me to his language, his culture, his world. Through Vincent's life, the film examines the roots of the distress that plagues the Deaf, and also explore a rich and fascinating world, a people that struggles to preserve its language and culture.
Insurgence
A documentary about the vast political mobilization that took place in Quebec during the spring of 2012. Initially propelled by the student strike for accessible education, the scope of the movement soon broadened to take on the government, the impunity and violence of the Montreal police force, the exploitation of untapped natural resources, and the current economic system.
American Journal
Duration: 1h51
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
Duration: 5h08
Subscription access
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
Duration: 1h40
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.
Château rouge
Duration: 3h34
Subscription access
Goutte d'Or district, Paris, Château Rouge metro station, Georges Clemenceau secondary school. Teenagers, burdened with their carelessness and their wounds, have to grow up. They are shaping their personalities, losing their way, searching for themselves. Adults try to guide them despite the violence of the system.
Má Sài Gòn (Mother Saigon)
In Saigon, family culture carries on as it has for centuries, even when blood ties are broken. Through a mosaic of intimate portraits, _Má Sài Gòn_ explores humanity’s universal desire for love, acceptance, connection and belonging through an LGBTQ+ lens. The film is a love letter – a bittersweet ode to a comforting yet disturbing mother, to a city that is as liberating as it is oppressive.
Vibrations from Gaza
This film offers an insight into the experiences of deaf children in the colonized and confined coastal territory of Gaza, Palestine, particularly the violence to which they are subjected by Israeli military operations. Born and raised under the frequent onslaught of the occupying forces, children Amani, Musa, Israa and others recite vivid memories of their experiences of bombardment and the co...
I Might Be Dead by Tomorrow
Patients arrive in the consultation room every day, broken, sick and scarred by life. In front of them sits a committed person who tries, without false hope, to repair bodies and psyches. At night, when the clinic doors are closed, the street outreach workers take to the streets to extend their support to all those unfortunate women who have chosen the streets as their home.
The Theory of Everything
_The Theory of Everything_ navigates its way between people and landscapes, between discourse and territory. Evocative landscapes whose silent presence speaks volumes. People who, asked to talk about themselves, about their connection to the world, discuss the land and the subsoil, the forests and the rivers, everything that shapes them. The people we meet are not experts. In their own way, the...
I Lost My Mom
In the style of a film diary, this documentary immerses us in the personal experience of the filmmaker and his sister as they try to ensure their mother can end her days with dignity in the CHSLD system. Amid this complex challenge, Denys Desjardins films his mother with incredible tenderness. He communicates her vulnerability and warm personality from a place of love and respect. This feature-...
Resources
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...
We, Children of the 20th Century
We, Children of the 20th Century
Subscription access_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?
Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones)
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...
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...
A Night Song
Penetrating through the interstices of the half-closed shutters, a summer light brushes its dappled shadows in Noëlla's apartment, as she is preparing to receive medical aid in dying. She is assisted by her caregiver, Pierre, who looks after the daily necessities. Dense and diffuse, the last days of a life reveal the tight weave that intertwines these seemingly infinitely repeated gestures to t...
Happy Life
In this time of anxiety and turmoil, this film explores the unusual outlets where the torments of the body and mind are soothed. In a meditative journey to the heart of these analgesic places, this documentary essay paints a portrait of a society in search of meaning and comfort.
Flat Jungle
The Waddenzee, the Wetland Sea, is a unique natural region, a coastal area of the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark which, depending on the tides, is sometimes sea, sometimes land. Johan van der Keuken films this "flat jungle", its fauna, flora and inhabitants whose lives have been disrupted by the economic, technical and industrial developments of the region.
Ain't No Time for Women
Tunis, November 2019. A group of women is gathered at Saïda's, the hairdresser, on the eve of the presidential election. The salon is transformed into a town square, mirroring the internal turmoil of the country. In this female sanctuary, we get an intimate look at the county's teenage democracy.
zo reken
zo reken ("shark bone") is the nickname given in Haiti to the Toyota Land Cruiser, a powerful all-terrain vehicle, very popular with international humanitarian organizations that have been present in the country since the 2010 earthquake. Ten years later, a \*zo reken\* is diverted from its usual use to become a mobile space for meetings and discussions between Haitians. No more foreign humanit...
I'll Come To You With Deaf Eyes
I'll Come To You With Deaf Eyes
Subscription accessThis film is a letter to my friend Vincent who died ten years ago. Vincent was Deaf. He introduced me to his language, his culture, his world. Through Vincent's life, the film examines the roots of the distress that plagues the Deaf, and also explore a rich and fascinating world, a people that struggles to preserve its language and culture.
Insurgence
A documentary about the vast political mobilization that took place in Quebec during the spring of 2012. Initially propelled by the student strike for accessible education, the scope of the movement soon broadened to take on the government, the impunity and violence of the Montreal police force, the exploitation of untapped natural resources, and the current economic system.
