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Bergen, Norway
Duration: 18 minutes
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"Yesterday, I found my abuser's address in my phone's memory. I don't have a name, I don't have a face, I only have his address." - Alexia Roc
Vibrations from Gaza
Duration: 34 minutes
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This film offers an insight into the experiences of deaf children in the colonized and confined coastal territory of Gaza, Palestine, particularly the violence to which they are subjected by Israeli military operations. Born and raised under the frequent onslaught of the occupying forces, children Amani, Musa, Israa and others recite vivid memories of their experiences of bombardment and the co...
The Secret Garden
Duration: 54 minutes
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The inhabitants of a city awake one morning to find that never-before-seen trees, plants, and flowers suddenly erupted throughout the streets and in the squares. Strange and mysterious events start taking place as Camelia and Nahla investigate the origins of these new and peculiar creatures.
Cherry
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A portrait of the artist Marie-Lise Chouinard, a radiant woman full of contagious vitality who, in her early thirties, received a grim diagnosis. _Cherry_ is a vibrant testament to her resilience, the power of friendship, and the unwavering strength of hope.
Some of My Friends
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Seven portraits of people who present themselves at work and in daily life. Seven ways of being present to the world. People who are exceptional because they are like everyone else.
A Man Leaning
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A major poet of the late 20th century, Thierry Metz (1956-1997) worked as a laborer or seasonal worker in the Lot-et-Garonne region. He transformed each stage of his life into poetic material. The film sheds light on the tragic intensity of his brief existence and the radical nature of his artistic commitment.
Snowbirds
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_Snowbirds_ is a mid-length documentary that reaches out to golden age Canadians living in Florida during the winter season. This is the growing trend of an entire generation migrating to the tropics, seeking a leisure society that can entertain them. With tenderness and humor, this sociological documentary goes to the heart of their daily lives by painting a human portrait of this typically Ca...
Night Falls
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A historian with the gift of clairvoyance roams the streets of the old City of Lights. In the falls of Shawinigan, he finds a meditation on human history and its loss of meaning.
In the Eyes of a Beast
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Filmmaker Dominique Loreau set out to explore the relationships between people and animals sharing the same spaces. In farms, alongside an ethologist in the field, in slaughterhouses, zoos, museums, urban settings, a dance rehearsal room, and even during a performance where an actor transforms into an animal, she captures the gazes of animals observing humans and humans observing animals. She t...
NDDJ (Notre-Dame-du-Jambon)
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Karan and Rohan, two biracial brothers raised in an alternative, unique, and marginal environment, creatively find ways to pass the time. Like many kids, a trip to buy candy often feels like the perfect escape from boredom. This short film is an ode to the power of reality and fiction, the love between two brothers, and the beauty of the Quebec countryside.
Tolyatti Adrift
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A portrait of the disenchanted youth of Tolyatti, a stricken city that was once a symbol of Soviet progress and the automobile. Filmmaker Laura Sistero encounters a youth adrift, expressing its dreams of escapism through crazy races aboard old, cobbled-together Lada cars, in a film propelled by spectacular slides to the rhythm of an electro-rock soundtrack.
All The Time In The World
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Featuring the perspectives of three children (aged 10, 8, and 4), _All The Time In The World_ is an inspiring, humorous, and family-friendly documentary that chronicles the natural rhythm of life as a family chooses to live by the seasons instead of by the clock, highlighting the connection, creativity, and ingenuity that flourish as a result.
Picturing a People: George Johnston, Tlingit Photographer
Picturing a People: George Johnston, Tlingit Photographer
Duration: 51 minutesSubscription access
A unique portrait of George Johnston, a photographer who was himself a creator of portraits and a keeper of his culture. Johnston cared deeply about the traditions of the Tlingit people, and he recorded a critical period in the history of the Tlingit nation. As filmmaker Carol Geddes says, his legacy was "to help us dream the future as much as to remember the past."
Magic Mountain
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After recovering from tuberculosis, Mariam has a recurring nightmare about being kept high up in the mountains, in the middle of the forest in an old palace where outcasts live. The building is majestic but inhabitants are rejected from society. One day, Mariam goes to meet the secret community to overcome her fear. In becoming friends with the tuberculosis patients of Abastumani and in sharing...
No Story Here
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_No Story Here_, the first film by Jeannine Gagné, co-directed with Michel Lamothe, offers a striking portrait of working-class Montréal in the 1970s. Created without a script and using just 600 feet of film, this student short freely blends images and sounds, the latter serving as echoes of the popular psyche, already foreshadowing _City Dawn_.
The Rebelious One
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Half-fiction and half-documentary, _The Rebelious One_ is both a personal interpretation and a poetical rendition of Marie-Claire Blais' work that follows the Quebec writer's literary journey through eleven of her novels. Like a continuous thread leading us through the discovery of her writings, the voice, the vision and the keen consciousness of Blais recall the social events and the human dra...
Pauline Julien, Intimate and Political
Pauline Julien, Intimate and Political
Duration: 2h36Subscription access
With a meticulous selection of interviews, performances and photos drawn from a vast and rich archival collection, _Pauline Julien, Intimate and Political_ follows the iconic Quebec singer and eternally free spirit on a journey through key moments in the province’s history.
Doctors with Heart
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This deeply human documentary offers a unique perspective on AIDS, giving voice to general practitioners, researchers, ethicists, philosophers, and humanists. Here, the disease becomes a lens through which the strengths and flaws of our society are revealed, challenging our scientific, moral, and social principles. A global and groundbreaking approach that transcends life, death, and AIDS itself.
Le récit d’A
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_Le récit d'A_ weaves multiple narratives within a single video, parallel worlds that echo one another without ever intersecting. Esther Valiquette incorporates autobiographical fragments, blending animation and medical imagery to reflect on a broader trace: that of a generation devastated by AIDS, and her own life, stripped of its youth. The video also explores the act of seeing, a shifting aw...
The King is Not My Cousin
In 2017, author Elzéa Foule Aventurin engaged in a series of interviews with her granddaughter. Together, they retrace, not without mischief, a family history sailing from one end of the Black Atlantic to the other. A story of silence, pride and revolt.
Bergen, Norway
Duration: 18 minutes
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"Yesterday, I found my abuser's address in my phone's memory. I don't have a name, I don't have a face, I only have his address." - Alexia Roc
Vibrations from Gaza
Duration: 34 minutes
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This film offers an insight into the experiences of deaf children in the colonized and confined coastal territory of Gaza, Palestine, particularly the violence to which they are subjected by Israeli military operations. Born and raised under the frequent onslaught of the occupying forces, children Amani, Musa, Israa and others recite vivid memories of their experiences of bombardment and the co...
The Secret Garden
Duration: 54 minutes
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The inhabitants of a city awake one morning to find that never-before-seen trees, plants, and flowers suddenly erupted throughout the streets and in the squares. Strange and mysterious events start taking place as Camelia and Nahla investigate the origins of these new and peculiar creatures.
Cherry
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A portrait of the artist Marie-Lise Chouinard, a radiant woman full of contagious vitality who, in her early thirties, received a grim diagnosis. _Cherry_ is a vibrant testament to her resilience, the power of friendship, and the unwavering strength of hope.
Some of My Friends
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Seven portraits of people who present themselves at work and in daily life. Seven ways of being present to the world. People who are exceptional because they are like everyone else.
A Man Leaning
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A major poet of the late 20th century, Thierry Metz (1956-1997) worked as a laborer or seasonal worker in the Lot-et-Garonne region. He transformed each stage of his life into poetic material. The film sheds light on the tragic intensity of his brief existence and the radical nature of his artistic commitment.
Snowbirds
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_Snowbirds_ is a mid-length documentary that reaches out to golden age Canadians living in Florida during the winter season. This is the growing trend of an entire generation migrating to the tropics, seeking a leisure society that can entertain them. With tenderness and humor, this sociological documentary goes to the heart of their daily lives by painting a human portrait of this typically Ca...
Night Falls
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A historian with the gift of clairvoyance roams the streets of the old City of Lights. In the falls of Shawinigan, he finds a meditation on human history and its loss of meaning.
In the Eyes of a Beast
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Filmmaker Dominique Loreau set out to explore the relationships between people and animals sharing the same spaces. In farms, alongside an ethologist in the field, in slaughterhouses, zoos, museums, urban settings, a dance rehearsal room, and even during a performance where an actor transforms into an animal, she captures the gazes of animals observing humans and humans observing animals. She t...
NDDJ (Notre-Dame-du-Jambon)
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Karan and Rohan, two biracial brothers raised in an alternative, unique, and marginal environment, creatively find ways to pass the time. Like many kids, a trip to buy candy often feels like the perfect escape from boredom. This short film is an ode to the power of reality and fiction, the love between two brothers, and the beauty of the Quebec countryside.
Tolyatti Adrift
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A portrait of the disenchanted youth of Tolyatti, a stricken city that was once a symbol of Soviet progress and the automobile. Filmmaker Laura Sistero encounters a youth adrift, expressing its dreams of escapism through crazy races aboard old, cobbled-together Lada cars, in a film propelled by spectacular slides to the rhythm of an electro-rock soundtrack.
All The Time In The World
Subscription access
Featuring the perspectives of three children (aged 10, 8, and 4), _All The Time In The World_ is an inspiring, humorous, and family-friendly documentary that chronicles the natural rhythm of life as a family chooses to live by the seasons instead of by the clock, highlighting the connection, creativity, and ingenuity that flourish as a result.
Picturing a People: George Johnston, Tlingit Photographer
Picturing a People: George Johnston, Tlingit Photographer
Duration: 51 minutesSubscription access
A unique portrait of George Johnston, a photographer who was himself a creator of portraits and a keeper of his culture. Johnston cared deeply about the traditions of the Tlingit people, and he recorded a critical period in the history of the Tlingit nation. As filmmaker Carol Geddes says, his legacy was "to help us dream the future as much as to remember the past."
Magic Mountain
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After recovering from tuberculosis, Mariam has a recurring nightmare about being kept high up in the mountains, in the middle of the forest in an old palace where outcasts live. The building is majestic but inhabitants are rejected from society. One day, Mariam goes to meet the secret community to overcome her fear. In becoming friends with the tuberculosis patients of Abastumani and in sharing...
No Story Here
Subscription access
_No Story Here_, the first film by Jeannine Gagné, co-directed with Michel Lamothe, offers a striking portrait of working-class Montréal in the 1970s. Created without a script and using just 600 feet of film, this student short freely blends images and sounds, the latter serving as echoes of the popular psyche, already foreshadowing _City Dawn_.
The Rebelious One
Subscription access
Half-fiction and half-documentary, _The Rebelious One_ is both a personal interpretation and a poetical rendition of Marie-Claire Blais' work that follows the Quebec writer's literary journey through eleven of her novels. Like a continuous thread leading us through the discovery of her writings, the voice, the vision and the keen consciousness of Blais recall the social events and the human dra...
Pauline Julien, Intimate and Political
Pauline Julien, Intimate and Political
Duration: 2h36Subscription access
With a meticulous selection of interviews, performances and photos drawn from a vast and rich archival collection, _Pauline Julien, Intimate and Political_ follows the iconic Quebec singer and eternally free spirit on a journey through key moments in the province’s history.
Doctors with Heart
Subscription access
This deeply human documentary offers a unique perspective on AIDS, giving voice to general practitioners, researchers, ethicists, philosophers, and humanists. Here, the disease becomes a lens through which the strengths and flaws of our society are revealed, challenging our scientific, moral, and social principles. A global and groundbreaking approach that transcends life, death, and AIDS itself.
Le récit d’A
Subscription access
_Le récit d'A_ weaves multiple narratives within a single video, parallel worlds that echo one another without ever intersecting. Esther Valiquette incorporates autobiographical fragments, blending animation and medical imagery to reflect on a broader trace: that of a generation devastated by AIDS, and her own life, stripped of its youth. The video also explores the act of seeing, a shifting aw...
The King is Not My Cousin
In 2017, author Elzéa Foule Aventurin engaged in a series of interviews with her granddaughter. Together, they retrace, not without mischief, a family history sailing from one end of the Black Atlantic to the other. A story of silence, pride and revolt.
