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Baby Drawings
Duration: 8 minutes
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How do we learn to draw? First, we practice holding a crayon without eating it. Then, just a few years later, we’re using sophisticated symbols to represent ourselves, our families, and our imaginations. _Baby Drawings_ covers the development of childhood art from the very first stage of scribbles all the way to the development of spatial perspective.
The Body/transmutationem
Duration: 30 minutes
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_The Body/transmutationem_ is a poetic and intimate documentary short that explores gender transition through the intersecting journeys of two queer individuals. Set to the verses of Uruguayan poet Eduardo Galeano, the film blends everyday scenes, sensitive interviews, and contemplative imagery to examine bodily transformation, identity, and freedom.
Paris to Pyongyang
Duration: 32 minutes
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An immigrant tale, reimagined. 1950s Parisian elites led by Chris Marker and Claude Lanzmann visit the newly established communist state of North Korea that claims the allegiance of the filmmaker’s grandmother during the Korean War. An autobiographical investigation of family separation, sparked by the voyage of French luminaries and their artistic output – films, photographs and published memo...
Retracing Their Steps
Duration: 42 minutes
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By opening forgotten boxes in the Montreal Gay Archive Center, fragments of history from the LGBTQIA2S+ community are rediscovered. Among them are Michael and René, the first couple to marry in Canada, Linda and Catherine, two owners of the lesbian bar Le Kiev, and Kimura, multidisciplinary artist of diverse origins. The portraits of these diverse characters bear witness to the diversity of Mon...
The Great Silence
Duration: 32 minutes
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_The Great Silence_ focuses on the world’s largest single aperture radio telescope, located in Esperanza, Puerto Rico, which transmits and captures radio waves to and from the farthest edges of the universe. This site is also home to the last remaining wild population of endangered Puerto Rican parrots, Amazona vittata, who make their habitat in the surrounding Rio Abajo forest. Allora & Calzad...
Eviction
Duration: 2h24
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Since 2010, Parthenais has held within its walls the life of a whole queer community. They are gay, lesbian, trans, and they live together in Centre-Sud in the heart of Montreal, in a triplex that is falling apart. Between the parties that sometimes welcome more than two hundred people until the wee hours of the morning, the collective dinners, the great joys and the small despairs, this old fl...
The Sparkle
Duration: 34 minutes
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Kim and Billy work at carnivals. This summer, Kim procrastinates. He plans to leave this family of colleagues to devote himself to his passion, the search for precious stones. The layoff of Billy, his best friend, accelerates his disenchantment. We always dream of elsewhere.
Victor-Lévy Beaulieu : Du bord des bêtes
Victor-Lévy Beaulieu : Du bord des bêtes
New product!Duration: 49 minutes
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Victor-Lévy Beaulieu is one of the most prolific Quebec writers of the past 50 years. In both his personal life and his work, he is a man of words who boldly and unapologetically voices his convictions. Enriched with excerpts from his writings that deepen his reflections, this documentary reveals both the light and shadow within the man and his work. It also captures the whispers of his house —...
Lisière
Duration: 2h30
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“A few cabins built along a hillside, on the margins of society and without men. A refuge, a space for collective and feminist transformation. From this edge of the world, alongside those who build it, I question my place in nature and in society, in my relationship, the freedom of my body, and the choice to have a child.” (Éva Tourrent)
To Remain in the No Longer
Duration: 1h16
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In 1962, Oscar Niemeyer was invited to conceive an international fairground in the city of Tripoli, Lebanon, which was never completed. _To Remain in the No Longer_ looks at how architecture operates in this failed state. By examining the precarity of the project site that remains to this day, the film reflects on the country’s current socio-economic crisis.
Tu as crié LET ME GO
Duration: 3h14
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_Tu as crié LET ME GO_ is an intimate and heartrending film in which filmmaker Anne Claire Poirier undertakes a personal investigation into the tragic death of her daughter Yanne, who was murdered at the age of 26. A former drug addict and sex worker, Yanne had fallen into the margins of society. Through this film, Poirier reaches out to those living with or working alongside people struggling ...
Rehab (From Rehab)
Duration: 2h52
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A sensitive and personal reflection that questions the way hospitals think spaces of care for the most vulnerable ones. Recounting her personal story as a young girl who spent her childhood in rehabilitation centres alongside her severely disabled father, the director confronts her traumatic memories with the exceptional experimentation developed at REHAB in Basel by the Swiss architects Herzog...
The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation
The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation
Duration: 3h38Subscription access
What is a military occupation? Through the testimonies of soldiers who carried it out, Avi Mograbi reveals the mechanisms of a colonialist occupation and sheds light on the logic behind such practices. In this exposé, the filmmaker refers to the 54 years of Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to outline a “brief manual of military occupation.”
Days
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Marie-Philip is a PhD student and part-time professor who loves cats and _Harry Potter_. But one week before her 29th birthday, she is diagnosed with breast cancer. For a year, without false modesty, we follow her through each step as she confides in us with shocking honesty. An ode to life, to courage and to the resilience of all those who fight every day against disease.
Just Above the Surface of the Earth (For a Coming Extinction)
Just Above the Surface of the Earth (For a Coming Extinction)
Duration: 2h18Subscription access
A poetic portrait of contemporary wildlife conservation, _Just Above the Surface of the Earth (For a Coming Extinction)_ reflects on empathy, agency, and the role of hope in the midst of a sixth mass extinction. This debut nonfiction feature examines scientists and citizen scientists who conduct surveys of frogs, which serve as an indicator species; study sea stars threatened by disease; track ...
Wild Feast
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A wounded moose escapes its hunters, later dying deep in the forest and becoming... a communal feast. As the seasons go by, mammals, birds and insects invite themselves to the banquet – multiplying ensuing games, rituals and conflicts. In exploring and occasionally foiling nature’s wildlife codes, our story becomes a simple yet poignant reflection on death, on its natural place in this world an...
Geographies of Solitude
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_Geographies of Solitude_ is an immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island and the life of Zoe Lucas, a naturalist and environmentalist who has lived over 40 years on this remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Shot on 16mm and created using a scope of innovative eco-friendly filmmaking techniques, this feature-length experimental documentary is a playful and reverent col...
Délire atta
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_Délire atta_ takes found footage and sound from six archival films and transforms them through a process of abstraction and recontextualization. Image and sound engage in a dialogue of texture and transformation, revealing unexpected resonances within the archive and generating new possibilities from what might otherwise be seen as fixed or obsolete.
Baby Drawings
Duration: 8 minutes
Subscription access
How do we learn to draw? First, we practice holding a crayon without eating it. Then, just a few years later, we’re using sophisticated symbols to represent ourselves, our families, and our imaginations. _Baby Drawings_ covers the development of childhood art from the very first stage of scribbles all the way to the development of spatial perspective.
The Body/transmutationem
Duration: 30 minutes
Subscription access
_The Body/transmutationem_ is a poetic and intimate documentary short that explores gender transition through the intersecting journeys of two queer individuals. Set to the verses of Uruguayan poet Eduardo Galeano, the film blends everyday scenes, sensitive interviews, and contemplative imagery to examine bodily transformation, identity, and freedom.
Paris to Pyongyang
Duration: 32 minutes
Subscription access
An immigrant tale, reimagined. 1950s Parisian elites led by Chris Marker and Claude Lanzmann visit the newly established communist state of North Korea that claims the allegiance of the filmmaker’s grandmother during the Korean War. An autobiographical investigation of family separation, sparked by the voyage of French luminaries and their artistic output – films, photographs and published memo...
Retracing Their Steps
Duration: 42 minutes
Subscription access
By opening forgotten boxes in the Montreal Gay Archive Center, fragments of history from the LGBTQIA2S+ community are rediscovered. Among them are Michael and René, the first couple to marry in Canada, Linda and Catherine, two owners of the lesbian bar Le Kiev, and Kimura, multidisciplinary artist of diverse origins. The portraits of these diverse characters bear witness to the diversity of Mon...
The Great Silence
Duration: 32 minutes
Subscription access
_The Great Silence_ focuses on the world’s largest single aperture radio telescope, located in Esperanza, Puerto Rico, which transmits and captures radio waves to and from the farthest edges of the universe. This site is also home to the last remaining wild population of endangered Puerto Rican parrots, Amazona vittata, who make their habitat in the surrounding Rio Abajo forest. Allora & Calzad...
Eviction
Duration: 2h24
Subscription access
Since 2010, Parthenais has held within its walls the life of a whole queer community. They are gay, lesbian, trans, and they live together in Centre-Sud in the heart of Montreal, in a triplex that is falling apart. Between the parties that sometimes welcome more than two hundred people until the wee hours of the morning, the collective dinners, the great joys and the small despairs, this old fl...
The Sparkle
Duration: 34 minutes
Subscription access
Kim and Billy work at carnivals. This summer, Kim procrastinates. He plans to leave this family of colleagues to devote himself to his passion, the search for precious stones. The layoff of Billy, his best friend, accelerates his disenchantment. We always dream of elsewhere.
Victor-Lévy Beaulieu : Du bord des bêtes
Victor-Lévy Beaulieu : Du bord des bêtes
New product!Duration: 49 minutes
Subscription access
Victor-Lévy Beaulieu is one of the most prolific Quebec writers of the past 50 years. In both his personal life and his work, he is a man of words who boldly and unapologetically voices his convictions. Enriched with excerpts from his writings that deepen his reflections, this documentary reveals both the light and shadow within the man and his work. It also captures the whispers of his house —...
Lisière
Duration: 2h30
Subscription access
“A few cabins built along a hillside, on the margins of society and without men. A refuge, a space for collective and feminist transformation. From this edge of the world, alongside those who build it, I question my place in nature and in society, in my relationship, the freedom of my body, and the choice to have a child.” (Éva Tourrent)
To Remain in the No Longer
Duration: 1h16
Subscription access
In 1962, Oscar Niemeyer was invited to conceive an international fairground in the city of Tripoli, Lebanon, which was never completed. _To Remain in the No Longer_ looks at how architecture operates in this failed state. By examining the precarity of the project site that remains to this day, the film reflects on the country’s current socio-economic crisis.
Tu as crié LET ME GO
Duration: 3h14
Subscription access
_Tu as crié LET ME GO_ is an intimate and heartrending film in which filmmaker Anne Claire Poirier undertakes a personal investigation into the tragic death of her daughter Yanne, who was murdered at the age of 26. A former drug addict and sex worker, Yanne had fallen into the margins of society. Through this film, Poirier reaches out to those living with or working alongside people struggling ...
Rehab (From Rehab)
Duration: 2h52
Subscription access
A sensitive and personal reflection that questions the way hospitals think spaces of care for the most vulnerable ones. Recounting her personal story as a young girl who spent her childhood in rehabilitation centres alongside her severely disabled father, the director confronts her traumatic memories with the exceptional experimentation developed at REHAB in Basel by the Swiss architects Herzog...
The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation
The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation
Duration: 3h38Subscription access
What is a military occupation? Through the testimonies of soldiers who carried it out, Avi Mograbi reveals the mechanisms of a colonialist occupation and sheds light on the logic behind such practices. In this exposé, the filmmaker refers to the 54 years of Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to outline a “brief manual of military occupation.”
Days
Subscription access
Marie-Philip is a PhD student and part-time professor who loves cats and _Harry Potter_. But one week before her 29th birthday, she is diagnosed with breast cancer. For a year, without false modesty, we follow her through each step as she confides in us with shocking honesty. An ode to life, to courage and to the resilience of all those who fight every day against disease.
Just Above the Surface of the Earth (For a Coming Extinction)
Just Above the Surface of the Earth (For a Coming Extinction)
Duration: 2h18Subscription access
A poetic portrait of contemporary wildlife conservation, _Just Above the Surface of the Earth (For a Coming Extinction)_ reflects on empathy, agency, and the role of hope in the midst of a sixth mass extinction. This debut nonfiction feature examines scientists and citizen scientists who conduct surveys of frogs, which serve as an indicator species; study sea stars threatened by disease; track ...
Wild Feast
Subscription access
A wounded moose escapes its hunters, later dying deep in the forest and becoming... a communal feast. As the seasons go by, mammals, birds and insects invite themselves to the banquet – multiplying ensuing games, rituals and conflicts. In exploring and occasionally foiling nature’s wildlife codes, our story becomes a simple yet poignant reflection on death, on its natural place in this world an...
Geographies of Solitude
Subscription access
_Geographies of Solitude_ is an immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island and the life of Zoe Lucas, a naturalist and environmentalist who has lived over 40 years on this remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Shot on 16mm and created using a scope of innovative eco-friendly filmmaking techniques, this feature-length experimental documentary is a playful and reverent col...
Délire atta
Subscription access
_Délire atta_ takes found footage and sound from six archival films and transforms them through a process of abstraction and recontextualization. Image and sound engage in a dialogue of texture and transformation, revealing unexpected resonances within the archive and generating new possibilities from what might otherwise be seen as fixed or obsolete.
