The films of Tahani Rached
Tahani Rached is one of Quebec's most illustrious documentary filmmakers. Active mainly from the 1980s to the 2000s, she left a strong mark on our cinema with her first feature film, Where Dollars Grow on Trees (1980). Noticed by Denys Arcand, she was invited to participate in the collective adventure of Comfort and Indifference (1981). After working at the NFB, she directed several of the institution's flagship films, dealing in turn with the state of Haiti, Palestinian survival, the Quebec hospital system, doctors treating AIDS, the fate of Egyptian women, and an Outremont choir. Her most famous film to date remains Au Chic Resto Pop, that she dedicated in 1990 to a soup kitchen in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district. After her return to her native land, she directed three feature films in Egypt, including the disturbing These Girls (2006) about Cairo street girls, renegades against their will.
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Emergency! A Critical Situation
Emergency! A Critical Situation
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_Emergency! A Critical Situation_ explores the reality of an evening shift in the emergency department of the Centre hospitalier Pierre-Boucher, and reveals the daily lives of the nurses who work hard to provide this essential service to the public. The camera follows the footsteps of these professionals, revealing what they have to put up with to cope with the demands of their work, which is s...
Four Women of Egypt
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How do we develop understanding when everything risks to tear us apart? This feature documentary attempts to answer this question through the friendship of four Egyptian women. Muslim, Christian or independent of any religious practice, their choices are at the antipodes. Yet these four friends refuse to demonize each other and to coexist in contempt; they listen to each other and counter one a...
Au Chic Resto Pop
Duration: 2h50
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This documentary describes the activities of Chic Resto Pop, a restaurant in Montreal's Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district that provides underprivileged customers with inexpensive meals thanks to surpluses donated by local merchants. Tahani Rached films the restaurant's employees. To the rhythm of the music, their truth is expressed.
Emergency! A Critical Situation
Emergency! A Critical Situation
New product!Duration: 2h46
Subscription access
_Emergency! A Critical Situation_ explores the reality of an evening shift in the emergency department of the Centre hospitalier Pierre-Boucher, and reveals the daily lives of the nurses who work hard to provide this essential service to the public. The camera follows the footsteps of these professionals, revealing what they have to put up with to cope with the demands of their work, which is s...
Four Women of Egypt
Duration: 3h00
Subscription access
How do we develop understanding when everything risks to tear us apart? This feature documentary attempts to answer this question through the friendship of four Egyptian women. Muslim, Christian or independent of any religious practice, their choices are at the antipodes. Yet these four friends refuse to demonize each other and to coexist in contempt; they listen to each other and counter one a...
Au Chic Resto Pop
Duration: 2h50
Subscription access
This documentary describes the activities of Chic Resto Pop, a restaurant in Montreal's Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district that provides underprivileged customers with inexpensive meals thanks to surpluses donated by local merchants. Tahani Rached films the restaurant's employees. To the rhythm of the music, their truth is expressed.
