Women-filmmakers

Amisk

In 1973, the James Bay Festival took place over nine days in Montreal. This historic one-of-a-kind event was held in support of the James Bay Cree whose territory, resources and culture were threatened by the expansion of hydro-electric dams. First Nations, Métis and Inuit performers came from across North America to show their support in an act of Indigenous unity and solidarity few people in ...

The Dissolution of the Landscape

Through visual metaphors, the film offers an incursion into an inner landscape, a dive into subconscious, a mix of childhood memories and recurrent dreams, between surrealism and automatism.

Tornadoes

Tornado Alley, a region in the center of the United States, faces devastating tornadoes every year. While some study them closely for protection, others turn them into a profitable spectacle.

No Man Is Born to Be Stepped On

In the sertão, a desert region in northern Brazil, the vengeful spirit of a bandit of honor prowls. Lampião, who died in 1938, took justice into his own hands in a region exacerbated by agrarian conflict. Following in his footsteps, we meet the men and women who today claim to be his heirs, resisting the fascist demons of Jair Bolsonaro. Choral and poetic, bordering on the mystical, _No Man Is ...

Emergency! A Critical Situation

_Emergency! A Critical Situation_ explores the reality of an evening shift in the emergency department of the Centre hospitalier Pierre-Boucher, and reveals the daily lives of the nurses who work hard to provide this essential service to the public. The camera follows the footsteps of these professionals, revealing what they have to put up with to cope with the demands of their work, which is s...

Our Body

French documentary filmmaker Claire Simon observes the everyday operations of the gynecological ward in a public hospital in Paris. In the process, she questions what it means to live in a woman’s body, filming the diversity, singularity and beauty of patients in all stages of life. Through these many encounters, the specific fears, desires and struggles of these individuals become the health c...

Bye Bye Tiberias

Leaving her native village to follow her dream of becoming an actress, Hiam Abbass also left behind her mother, grandmother and seven sisters. Thirty years later, her filmmaker daughter Lina returns with her to journey through the vanished places among the scattered memories of four generations of daring Palestinian women.

A Country of Resistance

Riace, Calabria. After 20 years of harmony, this village, which had made welcoming migrants its future, became the target of the populist wave consuming Italy. The venom has spread and Domenico Lucano, its mayor, is the object of a cabal and forced into exile. After months of painstaking destruction, Riace faces a dilemma: resist or disappear.

Maël et la révolution

Nothing predisposed 17-year-old Maël, a working-class kid raised on the 24 Hours of Le Mans, to become involved in climate activism. At the AgroCampus de la Germinière in the Sarthe region, where he is preparing a professional horticultural baccalaureate, he faces peers who don’t share his convictions—and are sometimes fiercely opposed to them. As a budding revolutionary, whether at protests or...

Tonratun: The Armenian History told by women

In an Armenian village, five women from different generations tell their stories and discuss life and war as they prepare _lavash_. This fine bread whose dough is simply made from flour, wheat and water is an Armenian tradition – and since 2014 it has been inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. It's in the _tonratun_ (the bakehouse), devoted e...

14 paintings

The Chinese village of Dafen was once a place where thousands of professional painters made reproductions of Western masterpieces. At the government’s instigation, these artists now paint their own original works. Their paintings hang all over China, in a wide variety of settings, from hospitals to museums, and from offices and commercial buildings to outdoor public locations.

Fausto

On the Oaxacan coast of Mexico, rumblings of previous times are never far from the surface. Tales of shapeshifting, telepathy and dealings with the Devil are embedded in the colonization and enslavement of the Americas. Characters from the Faust legend mingle with the inhabitants, while attempting to colonize and control nature through a seemingly never-ending building project. Through literatu...