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Urban Forests
Duration: 3h10
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While green spaces have long been neglected in cities, community-led efforts in recent years have helped restore the many benefits of urban forests. Through a number of innovative nature restoration projects in cities across Canada—from Montreal to Vancouver, via Toronto, Laval, Varennes, and New Westminster—this documentary explores initiatives aimed at bringing nature back into the urban envi...
People's Park
Duration: 1h17
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A mesmerizing, one-of-a-kind window into modern China, _People's Park_ is an exhilarating single shot documentary that immerses viewers in an unbroken journey through a famous urban park in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. The film explores the dozens of moods, rhythms, and performances coexisting in tight proximity within the park's prismatic social space. A sensory meditation on cinematic time and ...
The Woods Dreams Are Made of
Duration: 2h26
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There are days when we’ve had enough of the city, when our eyes can’t stand seeing nothing but buildings, and our ears can no longer bear hearing the sound of engines. So we leave. We move from the sidewalk to the trail, and suddenly we’re in the woods. The hum of the city fades away; we’re in a meadow far, far away. It’s the countryside, the forest, childhood returning. We believe it; we’re th...
Feu fantôme
Duration: 58 minutes
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"A long time ago, I was raped by a boy I really liked. A few years later, he reached out to me again to take responsibility for his actions. This film is our open letter to rape culture." — Morgane Ambre
Al Basateen (The Orchards)
Duration: 50 minutes
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In 2015 in Damascus, the Basateen al-Razi neighborhood was razed to the ground to punish the population for rising up against Bashar al-Assad’s regime. This site is set to make way for Marota City, a project for a modern, connected neighborhood featuring 80 skyscrapers. Having lost everything, two former residents recall their neighborhood, where their homes once stood alongside the city’s olde...
The Day to Come Is a Bright New Day
The Day to Come Is a Bright New Day
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Early morning in a Montreal diner: filter coffee, bacon, French toast. Stories and solitudes are shared. Silences, glances, a chance encounter, and the promise of a brand-new day. A restaurant that feels like a refuge, where the chaos of the world nonetheless finds its way in, captured with tenderness and love for its characters.
Gan Tang, The Lake
Duration: 28 minutes
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"In my hometown of Jiujiang, China, a natural lake and an amusement park share the same name: Gan Tang. The name, meaning “pear trees,” is often associated with a beautiful imagery and comes from the oldest Chinese poem collection, _Book of Odes_. [...] In the summer of 2023, the lake was blocked from the public, drained, and cleansed, followed by the demolition of the Gan Tang Park. The govern...
Adolescents
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Over five years, _Adolescentes_ follows Emma and Anaïs, two inseparable friends from different backgrounds and with very different personalities, through their journey from adolescence to adulthood. First loves, doubts, discoveries and profound transformations punctuate their lives, offering a rare portrait of a generation and a changing France.
Time Indefinite
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Forty-year-old documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee has a penchant for filming everything around him. Following the announcement of his impending marriage, he turns on his camera to capture life as it unfolds during this new phase of his life. Both in personal and philosophical terms, McElwee reflects through self-narration on life, death, love, family, and parenthood.
Diary
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Larissa faces the many hardships of post-Soviet life: poverty, an alcoholic husband, and an uncertain future. By chance, she discovers her grandmother’s diary, in which she had recorded a dream that seems strangely connected to her own life. A poetic film about memory, family, and the traces of the past.
Out-Takes From the Life of a Happy Man
Out-Takes From the Life of a Happy Man
Duration: 2h16Subscription access
"A motion picture composed of brief diaristic scenes not used in completed films from the years 1960-2000; and self-referential video footage taped during the editing. Brief glimpses of family, friends, girl-friends, the City, seasons of the year, travels. Occasionally I talk, reminisce, or play music I taped during those earlier years, plus more recent piano improvisations by Auguste Varkalis....
Gods of Stone
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Filmed over fifteen years, _Deuses de pedra_ (_Gods of Stone_) paints a portrait of a rural community along the historic border between Galicia and Portugal. Through the eyes of Mariana, a young girl growing up immersed in local stories, legends, and folklore, the film explores the ties between past and present, belonging and change. As the story unfolds, the magic of tradition is confronted wi...
Garden Pieces
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"_Garden Pieces_ is a set of three pieces: _Round the Garden_ is literally a look right round a back garden, from a central point, repeated da capo. As a garden, it’s a place of potentiality still, but it is a place all right. _Fliers_ is an animated piece, scratched-on, with added dyes. _Grove_, the longest of the three, studies and contemplates a group of trees planted maybe sixty years ago i...
Colour Poems
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"Nine linked short films. Memory, chance observation, and the subsuming of one in the other. [...] A poem started in words is continued by the picture, part of another poem is read for the last of the nine. Some images are formed by direct-on-film animation, others are found by the camera." – Margaret Tait
Aerial
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"There’s a general theme of the four elements, earth, air, fire and water – in a different order – air, water, earth, fire and then air again, with all the elements intermingled. But just as a sort of song or even a kind of nursery rhyme. Although I don’t understand musical structure – I can’t really follow the structure of piece of music when I’m listening to it – but I think that film- struct...
A Portrait of Ga
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"My mother seemed a good subject for a portrait, (she was there), and I thought it offered a chance to do a sort of 'abstract film', in the sense that it didn’t have what you might call 'the grammar of film'. It’s mostly discontinuous shots linked just by subject, in one case by colour, only rarely by movement." – Margaret Tait
Samuel and the Light
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Samuel lives in Ponta Negra, a small fishing village on the coast of Paraty, Brazil. Following the boy and his family over the course of six years, the film gradually reveals a more complex reality and its inherent contradictions. The arrival of electricity and tourism crystallizes the dismantling of an idealized paradise, painting a nuanced portrait of contemporary Brazil.
Goodnight Goodnight
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With overconsumption of electric light, the resulting light pollution, and the subsequent loss of the night sky, we have effectively rid our lives of context. By suppressing natural temporalities and obscuring our place within the solar system, we are left with a distorted sense of permanence—the permanence of our structures, institutions, and relationships. _Goodnight Goodnight_ is a mid-lengt...
Testerep
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A team of scientists explores the vanished island of Testerep along the Belgian coast. Traditional excavations are combined with advanced technologies, such as computer simulations and sound wave analyses, to trace the coastal evolution over 5,000 years. As researchers decode the mysteries, they contemplate the symbiotic relationship between humans, technology, and our temporal landscape, offer...
Rising Up at Night
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Kinshasa and its inhabitants are in darkness. They wait and struggle to get access to light. Between hope, disappointment and religious faith, _Tongo Saa_ is a subtle and fragmented portrait of a population that, despite the challenges, is sublimated by the beauty of Kinshasa's nights.
Urban Forests
Duration: 3h10
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While green spaces have long been neglected in cities, community-led efforts in recent years have helped restore the many benefits of urban forests. Through a number of innovative nature restoration projects in cities across Canada—from Montreal to Vancouver, via Toronto, Laval, Varennes, and New Westminster—this documentary explores initiatives aimed at bringing nature back into the urban envi...
People's Park
Duration: 1h17
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A mesmerizing, one-of-a-kind window into modern China, _People's Park_ is an exhilarating single shot documentary that immerses viewers in an unbroken journey through a famous urban park in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. The film explores the dozens of moods, rhythms, and performances coexisting in tight proximity within the park's prismatic social space. A sensory meditation on cinematic time and ...
The Woods Dreams Are Made of
Duration: 2h26
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There are days when we’ve had enough of the city, when our eyes can’t stand seeing nothing but buildings, and our ears can no longer bear hearing the sound of engines. So we leave. We move from the sidewalk to the trail, and suddenly we’re in the woods. The hum of the city fades away; we’re in a meadow far, far away. It’s the countryside, the forest, childhood returning. We believe it; we’re th...
Feu fantôme
Duration: 58 minutes
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"A long time ago, I was raped by a boy I really liked. A few years later, he reached out to me again to take responsibility for his actions. This film is our open letter to rape culture." — Morgane Ambre
Al Basateen (The Orchards)
Duration: 50 minutes
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In 2015 in Damascus, the Basateen al-Razi neighborhood was razed to the ground to punish the population for rising up against Bashar al-Assad’s regime. This site is set to make way for Marota City, a project for a modern, connected neighborhood featuring 80 skyscrapers. Having lost everything, two former residents recall their neighborhood, where their homes once stood alongside the city’s olde...
The Day to Come Is a Bright New Day
The Day to Come Is a Bright New Day
New product!Duration: 1h30
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Early morning in a Montreal diner: filter coffee, bacon, French toast. Stories and solitudes are shared. Silences, glances, a chance encounter, and the promise of a brand-new day. A restaurant that feels like a refuge, where the chaos of the world nonetheless finds its way in, captured with tenderness and love for its characters.
Gan Tang, The Lake
Duration: 28 minutes
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"In my hometown of Jiujiang, China, a natural lake and an amusement park share the same name: Gan Tang. The name, meaning “pear trees,” is often associated with a beautiful imagery and comes from the oldest Chinese poem collection, _Book of Odes_. [...] In the summer of 2023, the lake was blocked from the public, drained, and cleansed, followed by the demolition of the Gan Tang Park. The govern...
Adolescents
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Over five years, _Adolescentes_ follows Emma and Anaïs, two inseparable friends from different backgrounds and with very different personalities, through their journey from adolescence to adulthood. First loves, doubts, discoveries and profound transformations punctuate their lives, offering a rare portrait of a generation and a changing France.
Time Indefinite
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Forty-year-old documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee has a penchant for filming everything around him. Following the announcement of his impending marriage, he turns on his camera to capture life as it unfolds during this new phase of his life. Both in personal and philosophical terms, McElwee reflects through self-narration on life, death, love, family, and parenthood.
Diary
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Larissa faces the many hardships of post-Soviet life: poverty, an alcoholic husband, and an uncertain future. By chance, she discovers her grandmother’s diary, in which she had recorded a dream that seems strangely connected to her own life. A poetic film about memory, family, and the traces of the past.
Out-Takes From the Life of a Happy Man
Out-Takes From the Life of a Happy Man
Duration: 2h16Subscription access
"A motion picture composed of brief diaristic scenes not used in completed films from the years 1960-2000; and self-referential video footage taped during the editing. Brief glimpses of family, friends, girl-friends, the City, seasons of the year, travels. Occasionally I talk, reminisce, or play music I taped during those earlier years, plus more recent piano improvisations by Auguste Varkalis....
Gods of Stone
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Filmed over fifteen years, _Deuses de pedra_ (_Gods of Stone_) paints a portrait of a rural community along the historic border between Galicia and Portugal. Through the eyes of Mariana, a young girl growing up immersed in local stories, legends, and folklore, the film explores the ties between past and present, belonging and change. As the story unfolds, the magic of tradition is confronted wi...
Garden Pieces
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"_Garden Pieces_ is a set of three pieces: _Round the Garden_ is literally a look right round a back garden, from a central point, repeated da capo. As a garden, it’s a place of potentiality still, but it is a place all right. _Fliers_ is an animated piece, scratched-on, with added dyes. _Grove_, the longest of the three, studies and contemplates a group of trees planted maybe sixty years ago i...
Colour Poems
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"Nine linked short films. Memory, chance observation, and the subsuming of one in the other. [...] A poem started in words is continued by the picture, part of another poem is read for the last of the nine. Some images are formed by direct-on-film animation, others are found by the camera." – Margaret Tait
Aerial
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"There’s a general theme of the four elements, earth, air, fire and water – in a different order – air, water, earth, fire and then air again, with all the elements intermingled. But just as a sort of song or even a kind of nursery rhyme. Although I don’t understand musical structure – I can’t really follow the structure of piece of music when I’m listening to it – but I think that film- struct...
A Portrait of Ga
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"My mother seemed a good subject for a portrait, (she was there), and I thought it offered a chance to do a sort of 'abstract film', in the sense that it didn’t have what you might call 'the grammar of film'. It’s mostly discontinuous shots linked just by subject, in one case by colour, only rarely by movement." – Margaret Tait
Samuel and the Light
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Samuel lives in Ponta Negra, a small fishing village on the coast of Paraty, Brazil. Following the boy and his family over the course of six years, the film gradually reveals a more complex reality and its inherent contradictions. The arrival of electricity and tourism crystallizes the dismantling of an idealized paradise, painting a nuanced portrait of contemporary Brazil.
Goodnight Goodnight
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With overconsumption of electric light, the resulting light pollution, and the subsequent loss of the night sky, we have effectively rid our lives of context. By suppressing natural temporalities and obscuring our place within the solar system, we are left with a distorted sense of permanence—the permanence of our structures, institutions, and relationships. _Goodnight Goodnight_ is a mid-lengt...
Testerep
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A team of scientists explores the vanished island of Testerep along the Belgian coast. Traditional excavations are combined with advanced technologies, such as computer simulations and sound wave analyses, to trace the coastal evolution over 5,000 years. As researchers decode the mysteries, they contemplate the symbiotic relationship between humans, technology, and our temporal landscape, offer...
Rising Up at Night
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Kinshasa and its inhabitants are in darkness. They wait and struggle to get access to light. Between hope, disappointment and religious faith, _Tongo Saa_ is a subtle and fragmented portrait of a population that, despite the challenges, is sublimated by the beauty of Kinshasa's nights.
