The Films of Vues sur mer
Every year, in the early weeks of April, coinciding with the sugaring season and other springtime dawns, the Vues sur mer Festival excitedly welcomes cinephiles. It's a long-established tradition during which documentary films flourish. Founded in 2011, Vues sur mer, one of the few festivals devoted exclusively to documentary, has built a reputation for being intimate, warm and welcoming. Each year, it highlights documentaries from here and abroad, salutes the work of emerging talents, and showcases documentary filmmakers from the Gaspé region, all in a spirit of conviviality and proximity between spectators and filmmakers.
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On tire pas sur une plante pour qu'elle pousse
On tire pas sur une plante pour qu'elle pousse
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During a summer in their chosen Haute-Gaspésie, Rosie-Roch confides in us about their complex relationship with their body and the recent unfolding of their identity.
Land of Cold
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Immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa have chosen to start their lives over north of the 49th parallel. Here, in the vast expanses of Northern Canada, they reflect on the challenges and splendors of a season they’ve never yet experienced: winter.
The Blueberry Blues
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In Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec, summer means blueberry season. Once the fields paint themselves blue, fruit gatherers of all kinds rush to pick these precious boreal berries before the first frost. _The Blueberry Blues_ celebrates a territory and the people who return to this hardy little fruit each summer, connecting generations and cultures. Together, like blueberries emerging from the ashes of a ...
L'aventurine
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As if it could perch on the bridge of the majestic Percé Rock, this film offers a unique perspective on the Gaspé Peninsula—a region shaped by nature, culture, and history. Throughout this poetic road movie, Carlos Ferrand meets the people who call this region home—biologists, children, activists, and artists—revealing the treasures of a landscape where geology meets magic.
Amazonia, an Encounter with the Guardian of the Rainforest
Amazonia, an Encounter with the Guardian of the Rainforest
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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, ...
Somber Tides
_Somber Tides_ is a cry from the species, startled into survival against the elements; one last breath before being trampled by the Earth or maybe conversely a battle to wage against winds and tides clutching on before extinction.
The White Guard
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,...
Where The River Widens
Inspired by the friendship and the work of fishermen, Zack Greenleaf sings the mig'mag culture of his Gesgapegiag village, "where the river widens.”
The Last Herd
Isolated in the remote mountains of the Gaspésie National Park, a last herd of caribou resists defiantly against human encroachment. When the first European settlers arrived on the East Coast of North America in 1534, caribou numbered in the tens of thousands. Today scarcely 100 remain. They are the last survivors. This documentary tells of their plight and the precarious tipping point on which...
My Father's Tools
Taking a cinéma-vérité approach, filmmaker Heather Condo simply documents the art of weaving black ash rib baskets, a tradition handed down from generation to generation. With no voice-over or dialogue, the film focuses on the work of the director's partner, Stephen Jerome, his talent and the attention to detail involved in making these baskets. The result is both a physical and spiritual exper...
The Land of Shipwrecks
Through the eyes of photographer Marius Jomphe, four local historians and several contemporary “stranded men” of Gaspé, _The Land of Shipwrecks_ paint a portrait of this "city at the end of the world" that has preserved its essence through the ages: A place where nature is full of mystery, the sea evokes dizziness, and where shipwreck remains a mode of settlement.
Le commun des mortels
_Le commun des mortels_, which roughly translates to “average guy,” is the story of a life on the edge of the currents of history, which is how most of us live. It’s a life of resourcefulness, symbols, faith and sweat. How did Éverard Leblanc, an uncomplicated man, succeed in traversing an entire century? The narrator recounts his transition from various perspectives: French Canadian to Québéco...
On tire pas sur une plante pour qu'elle pousse
On tire pas sur une plante pour qu'elle pousse
New product!Subscription access
During a summer in their chosen Haute-Gaspésie, Rosie-Roch confides in us about their complex relationship with their body and the recent unfolding of their identity.
Land of Cold
Subscription access
Immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa have chosen to start their lives over north of the 49th parallel. Here, in the vast expanses of Northern Canada, they reflect on the challenges and splendors of a season they’ve never yet experienced: winter.
The Blueberry Blues
Subscription access
In Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec, summer means blueberry season. Once the fields paint themselves blue, fruit gatherers of all kinds rush to pick these precious boreal berries before the first frost. _The Blueberry Blues_ celebrates a territory and the people who return to this hardy little fruit each summer, connecting generations and cultures. Together, like blueberries emerging from the ashes of a ...
L'aventurine
Subscription access
As if it could perch on the bridge of the majestic Percé Rock, this film offers a unique perspective on the Gaspé Peninsula—a region shaped by nature, culture, and history. Throughout this poetic road movie, Carlos Ferrand meets the people who call this region home—biologists, children, activists, and artists—revealing the treasures of a landscape where geology meets magic.
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, ...
Somber Tides
_Somber Tides_ is a cry from the species, startled into survival against the elements; one last breath before being trampled by the Earth or maybe conversely a battle to wage against winds and tides clutching on before extinction.
The White Guard
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,...
Where The River Widens
Inspired by the friendship and the work of fishermen, Zack Greenleaf sings the mig'mag culture of his Gesgapegiag village, "where the river widens.”
The Last Herd
Isolated in the remote mountains of the Gaspésie National Park, a last herd of caribou resists defiantly against human encroachment. When the first European settlers arrived on the East Coast of North America in 1534, caribou numbered in the tens of thousands. Today scarcely 100 remain. They are the last survivors. This documentary tells of their plight and the precarious tipping point on which...
My Father's Tools
Taking a cinéma-vérité approach, filmmaker Heather Condo simply documents the art of weaving black ash rib baskets, a tradition handed down from generation to generation. With no voice-over or dialogue, the film focuses on the work of the director's partner, Stephen Jerome, his talent and the attention to detail involved in making these baskets. The result is both a physical and spiritual exper...
The Land of Shipwrecks
Through the eyes of photographer Marius Jomphe, four local historians and several contemporary “stranded men” of Gaspé, _The Land of Shipwrecks_ paint a portrait of this "city at the end of the world" that has preserved its essence through the ages: A place where nature is full of mystery, the sea evokes dizziness, and where shipwreck remains a mode of settlement.
Le commun des mortels
_Le commun des mortels_, which roughly translates to “average guy,” is the story of a life on the edge of the currents of history, which is how most of us live. It’s a life of resourcefulness, symbols, faith and sweat. How did Éverard Leblanc, an uncomplicated man, succeed in traversing an entire century? The narrator recounts his transition from various perspectives: French Canadian to Québéco...
