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Amazonia, an Encounter with the Guardian of the Rainforest
Amazonia, an Encounter with the Guardian of the Rainforest
New product!Duration: 1h37
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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
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_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
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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,...
Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum
Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum
New product!Duration: 13 minutes
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_Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum_ is a first person autobiographical experimental film exploring the ramifications of the devastating breakup of a romantic relationship. A triptych of self-portraits — entire camera rolls, each subjected to different methods of intervention with the celluloid itself — are intercut with short excerpts of altered footage from a B movie trailer and punctu...
L'éclat du mal / The Bleeding Heart of It
L'éclat du mal / The Bleeding Heart of It
New product!Duration: 8 minutes
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The house that bursts; the scene of the crime; the nucleus. A universe collapses on itself: all hell breaks loose.
Jours en fleurs
Duration: 5 minutes
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_Jours en fleurs_ is a reclamation of flower-power that celebrates both the fertile and the fierce forces of nature, reinventing their relationship to the feminine. Images of flowering trees soaked in menstrual blood for several months undergo a gestation of decay, whose visceral ravages give rise to a beauty that is at once dark and luminous, endowing them with the Baudelairean “formless and m...
Jolicoeur Touriste
Duration: 11 minutes
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An enclosed space, a struggle against the constraints of personal isolation explored through a fractured narrative. A man living in a broken-down rented room in a Tourist Inn travels through his drunkenness, his memories and his fantasies, transcending the limits of time and space which suddenly intertwine. A film about loss and absence.
Still Recording
Duration: 2h03
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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.
Chasing the Dazzling Light
Duration: 2h06
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Director Yaser Kassab followed in his father’s footsteps, emigrating from Syria to Europe as a young man, and, like his father, he also aspired to become a filmmaker. They now work together on this film remotely. From Syria, the father provides guidance to his son over the phone or via video calls, offering advice on future film projects and life in general—loving conversations punctuated by we...
Damascus is Breathing
Duration: 53 minutes
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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.
Toroboro: The Name of the Plants
Toroboro: The Name of the Plants
Duration: 3h28Subscription access
Twenty-five years after a renowned ethno-botanical study in the Ecuadorian Amazon region inhabited by the Waorani, the central figures involved reunite. Members of the community talk about the genocidal colonization of their people since the arrival of Christian missionaries. The main threats to their survival are now the oil and timber industries.
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...
Main Street Soldier
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World War II veteran Ray LeClair relives his marches through a haze of alcoholism on Winnipeg's Historic Main Street. The film draws from Ray’s two battlefields: war and the street.
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.
Amazonia, an Encounter with the Guardian of the Rainforest
Amazonia, an Encounter with the Guardian of the Rainforest
New product!Duration: 1h37
Subscription 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
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_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
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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,...
Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum
Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum
New product!Duration: 13 minutes
Subscription access
_Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum_ is a first person autobiographical experimental film exploring the ramifications of the devastating breakup of a romantic relationship. A triptych of self-portraits — entire camera rolls, each subjected to different methods of intervention with the celluloid itself — are intercut with short excerpts of altered footage from a B movie trailer and punctu...
L'éclat du mal / The Bleeding Heart of It
L'éclat du mal / The Bleeding Heart of It
New product!Duration: 8 minutes
Subscription access
The house that bursts; the scene of the crime; the nucleus. A universe collapses on itself: all hell breaks loose.
Jours en fleurs
Duration: 5 minutes
Subscription access
_Jours en fleurs_ is a reclamation of flower-power that celebrates both the fertile and the fierce forces of nature, reinventing their relationship to the feminine. Images of flowering trees soaked in menstrual blood for several months undergo a gestation of decay, whose visceral ravages give rise to a beauty that is at once dark and luminous, endowing them with the Baudelairean “formless and m...
Jolicoeur Touriste
Duration: 11 minutes
Subscription access
An enclosed space, a struggle against the constraints of personal isolation explored through a fractured narrative. A man living in a broken-down rented room in a Tourist Inn travels through his drunkenness, his memories and his fantasies, transcending the limits of time and space which suddenly intertwine. A film about loss and absence.
Still Recording
Duration: 2h03
Subscription access
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.
Chasing the Dazzling Light
Duration: 2h06
Subscription access
Director Yaser Kassab followed in his father’s footsteps, emigrating from Syria to Europe as a young man, and, like his father, he also aspired to become a filmmaker. They now work together on this film remotely. From Syria, the father provides guidance to his son over the phone or via video calls, offering advice on future film projects and life in general—loving conversations punctuated by we...
Damascus is Breathing
Duration: 53 minutes
Subscription access
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
Subscription access
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
Subscription access
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.
Toroboro: The Name of the Plants
Toroboro: The Name of the Plants
Duration: 3h28Subscription access
Twenty-five years after a renowned ethno-botanical study in the Ecuadorian Amazon region inhabited by the Waorani, the central figures involved reunite. Members of the community talk about the genocidal colonization of their people since the arrival of Christian missionaries. The main threats to their survival are now the oil and timber industries.
Twice Colonized
Subscription access
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...
Main Street Soldier
Subscription access
World War II veteran Ray LeClair relives his marches through a haze of alcoholism on Winnipeg's Historic Main Street. The film draws from Ray’s two battlefields: war and the street.
Le Métif enragé
Subscription access
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.
