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Letters to the Prime Minister
Duration: 42 minutes
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Montreal author Marie-Célie Agnant collects stories, dreams and demands from Parc-Extension neighbours, in order to write a letter to their deputy, Justin Trudeau, then the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada.
Nine Easy Dances
Duration: 40 minutes
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A filmmaker and former dancer returns to her family home to make a film with her parents, but when they fail to live up to unrealistic expectations, and when her mother's cancer metastasizes, she hires professional dancers to play them, in what becomes a darkly humorous docufiction about both loss and transformation.
Natsik Hunting
Duration: 16 minutes
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25-year-old Mosha Michael made an assured directorial debut with this seven-minute short, a spare, narration-free depiction of an Inuit seal hunt. After participating in a Super 8 workshop in Frobisher Bay in 1974, Michael shot and edited the film himself. His voice can be heard on the lively, guitar-accompanied soundtrack. Released in 1975, _Natsik Hunting_ is believed to be Canada’s first Inu...
On the Adamant
Duration: 1h49
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The Adamant is a unique day care centre : it is a floating structure. Located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering them care that grounds them in time and space, and helps them to recover or keep up their spirits. The team running it is one of those that try to resist the deterioration and dehumanization of psychiatry as best it can. T...
Into the Delta
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The life of a fishing family in the inland delta of the Niger River in Mali is upended by the effects of globalization: rising fuel and staple food prices, the fishing crisis, and climate change. The film is threaded with questions about intergenerational transmission, about the relationship to history and memory in a region where traces of the beginning of things still endure.
Standing on The Edge of the World
Standing on The Edge of the World
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After several failed attempts to reach Europe, César, Félou and Érik find themselves in Bamako, Mali – deported but still driven to pursue their dreams. Meanwhile Amih fights with unshakeable determination to escape a life of unfulfillment and forge a brighter future for herself and her children.
The River Where We Live
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The interior delta of the Niger River is a vast region inhabited by a million people. A unique social, political and communal organization has developed over this territory, giving a profound meaning to living together in relation to the movement of the river. The delta is fashioned as much by the immutable alternation of the seasons as by a state of perpetual metamorphosis. A single place can...
The Invisible Hand
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The African country of Guinea contains the biggest bauxite deposits in the world. However, the profits from the extraction of this ore, which is used to produce aluminum, does not go to the Guineans. Despite this, beside the capital’s factories are all kinds of craftsmen, who melt down used aluminum cans to make new objects necessary for the lives of the community, making them into pots, bricks...
The Kettle
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In a letter to her attacker, a young woman describes all the harm she would, in turn, inflict on him. Authenticity and violence reverse the victim-culprit relationship.
4125 Parthenais
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A Romanian caretaker orchestrates arrivals and departures; she decides who will be allowed access to this noisy and anonymous building. Who lives at 4125 Parthenais? Primarily men, not so young anymore, most of them welfare recipients. People who have, out of frustration or by choice, withdrawn from the Capitalist society. A fallen suburbanite, a caretaker who thinks he’s an Earl, a gay Jehova’...
Shadows of Spring
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Emerging from the multiple perspective of this film, a memory of a neighbourhood is recreated which tells of the fragility of working class habitats. Residents and workers from southwest Montreal recount its tragic history: The immigration and settling of the Irish in the 19th century; the expropriation of Griffintown; the destruction of Goose Village; the industrial decline of Pointe-Saint Ch...
Fighting Through the Night
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Filmed over the course of two years, \_Fighting Through the Night\_ is a long journey to the heart of Greece today. In this country thrown into torment by a totalitarian economy, institutional violence is met with stubborn resistance. Driven by both complementary and dissonant energies, the film is suffused with a desire for freedom and the rebellious power of the people it brings together. Whe...
A Bird of Paper
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Amélie-Jeanne is a 22-year-old psychiatry patient. A year after her fifth psychotic episode, she still feels the effects in her everyday life. Feeling fragile but hopeful, her health is improving thanks to the strong bond she shares with her father, who faces challenges of his own.
Y'a qu'à pas baiser !
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This documentary about abortion was made when it was still illegal in France. It looks at why women decide not to keep their child and how an abortion is carried out according to the Karman method. The film also shows the first women’s demonstration in favour of abortion held on November 20, 1971.
Le temps qu'il fait
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Nestor, Lei, Pierrette, Mohamed, Hafida, Marius, Marc, Galina, Genady, Mike and Lala: through their presence, \_Le temps qu’il fait\_ weaves a mosaic of stories in which dreams and disappointments, hopes and worries intertwine with the life that is before them. In counterpoint, there are these new landscapes of financial centers, abandoned industrial spaces and wasteland from which we hear the...
Parc-Ex The Heart of MTL
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Every Sunday, Hudson returns to Park Extension to see his father. Along the way, he runs into his childhood friend, Baki. Together, they wander their old stomping grounds, just like when they were kids. As they walk, Hudson reminisces about how the neighbourhood shaped who he has become.
Landscape in the Mind's Eye
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Through the eyes of children and women from different generations, this film reveals the soul of a small village on Quebec’s North Shore. Madame Kennedy shares a vital bond with the forest; Diane, faced with the hardships of her life’s journey, lifts her head high; Cathy, at 18, possesses the biting clarity of those who have had to fight. The strength and determination of each woman converge i...
Mathilde and the Love Room
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Puffing on super slim cigarettes, and wearing high heels, Madame Mathilde, as she's often called, is an exceptional, tireless public health nurse on a mission to help the homeless in Brussels through countless projects. Will she succeed in convincing Valérie and Mohammed to find some intimacy in her "Love Room"?
Baby Trans
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_Baby Trans _portrays Laure\*, a gentle and intense soul. As she begins feminizing hormone therapy, Laure learns to navigate the bodily, emotional, and identity changes she experiences. (\*The main protagonist featured in the documentary has since changed her name for Laure.)
Letters to the Prime Minister
Duration: 42 minutes
Subscription access
Montreal author Marie-Célie Agnant collects stories, dreams and demands from Parc-Extension neighbours, in order to write a letter to their deputy, Justin Trudeau, then the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada.
Nine Easy Dances
Duration: 40 minutes
Subscription access
A filmmaker and former dancer returns to her family home to make a film with her parents, but when they fail to live up to unrealistic expectations, and when her mother's cancer metastasizes, she hires professional dancers to play them, in what becomes a darkly humorous docufiction about both loss and transformation.
Natsik Hunting
Duration: 16 minutes
Subscription access
25-year-old Mosha Michael made an assured directorial debut with this seven-minute short, a spare, narration-free depiction of an Inuit seal hunt. After participating in a Super 8 workshop in Frobisher Bay in 1974, Michael shot and edited the film himself. His voice can be heard on the lively, guitar-accompanied soundtrack. Released in 1975, _Natsik Hunting_ is believed to be Canada’s first Inu...
On the Adamant
Duration: 1h49
Subscription access
The Adamant is a unique day care centre : it is a floating structure. Located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering them care that grounds them in time and space, and helps them to recover or keep up their spirits. The team running it is one of those that try to resist the deterioration and dehumanization of psychiatry as best it can. T...
Into the Delta
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The life of a fishing family in the inland delta of the Niger River in Mali is upended by the effects of globalization: rising fuel and staple food prices, the fishing crisis, and climate change. The film is threaded with questions about intergenerational transmission, about the relationship to history and memory in a region where traces of the beginning of things still endure.
Standing on The Edge of the World
Standing on The Edge of the World
New product!Subscription access
After several failed attempts to reach Europe, César, Félou and Érik find themselves in Bamako, Mali – deported but still driven to pursue their dreams. Meanwhile Amih fights with unshakeable determination to escape a life of unfulfillment and forge a brighter future for herself and her children.
The River Where We Live
Subscription access
The interior delta of the Niger River is a vast region inhabited by a million people. A unique social, political and communal organization has developed over this territory, giving a profound meaning to living together in relation to the movement of the river. The delta is fashioned as much by the immutable alternation of the seasons as by a state of perpetual metamorphosis. A single place can...
The Invisible Hand
Subscription access
The African country of Guinea contains the biggest bauxite deposits in the world. However, the profits from the extraction of this ore, which is used to produce aluminum, does not go to the Guineans. Despite this, beside the capital’s factories are all kinds of craftsmen, who melt down used aluminum cans to make new objects necessary for the lives of the community, making them into pots, bricks...
The Kettle
Subscription access
In a letter to her attacker, a young woman describes all the harm she would, in turn, inflict on him. Authenticity and violence reverse the victim-culprit relationship.
4125 Parthenais
Subscription access
A Romanian caretaker orchestrates arrivals and departures; she decides who will be allowed access to this noisy and anonymous building. Who lives at 4125 Parthenais? Primarily men, not so young anymore, most of them welfare recipients. People who have, out of frustration or by choice, withdrawn from the Capitalist society. A fallen suburbanite, a caretaker who thinks he’s an Earl, a gay Jehova’...
Shadows of Spring
Subscription access
Emerging from the multiple perspective of this film, a memory of a neighbourhood is recreated which tells of the fragility of working class habitats. Residents and workers from southwest Montreal recount its tragic history: The immigration and settling of the Irish in the 19th century; the expropriation of Griffintown; the destruction of Goose Village; the industrial decline of Pointe-Saint Ch...
Fighting Through the Night
Subscription access
Filmed over the course of two years, \_Fighting Through the Night\_ is a long journey to the heart of Greece today. In this country thrown into torment by a totalitarian economy, institutional violence is met with stubborn resistance. Driven by both complementary and dissonant energies, the film is suffused with a desire for freedom and the rebellious power of the people it brings together. Whe...
A Bird of Paper
Subscription access
Amélie-Jeanne is a 22-year-old psychiatry patient. A year after her fifth psychotic episode, she still feels the effects in her everyday life. Feeling fragile but hopeful, her health is improving thanks to the strong bond she shares with her father, who faces challenges of his own.
Y'a qu'à pas baiser !
Subscription access
This documentary about abortion was made when it was still illegal in France. It looks at why women decide not to keep their child and how an abortion is carried out according to the Karman method. The film also shows the first women’s demonstration in favour of abortion held on November 20, 1971.
Le temps qu'il fait
Subscription access
Nestor, Lei, Pierrette, Mohamed, Hafida, Marius, Marc, Galina, Genady, Mike and Lala: through their presence, \_Le temps qu’il fait\_ weaves a mosaic of stories in which dreams and disappointments, hopes and worries intertwine with the life that is before them. In counterpoint, there are these new landscapes of financial centers, abandoned industrial spaces and wasteland from which we hear the...
Parc-Ex The Heart of MTL
Subscription access
Every Sunday, Hudson returns to Park Extension to see his father. Along the way, he runs into his childhood friend, Baki. Together, they wander their old stomping grounds, just like when they were kids. As they walk, Hudson reminisces about how the neighbourhood shaped who he has become.
Landscape in the Mind's Eye
Subscription access
Through the eyes of children and women from different generations, this film reveals the soul of a small village on Quebec’s North Shore. Madame Kennedy shares a vital bond with the forest; Diane, faced with the hardships of her life’s journey, lifts her head high; Cathy, at 18, possesses the biting clarity of those who have had to fight. The strength and determination of each woman converge i...
Mathilde and the Love Room
Subscription access
Puffing on super slim cigarettes, and wearing high heels, Madame Mathilde, as she's often called, is an exceptional, tireless public health nurse on a mission to help the homeless in Brussels through countless projects. Will she succeed in convincing Valérie and Mohammed to find some intimacy in her "Love Room"?
Baby Trans
Subscription access
_Baby Trans _portrays Laure\*, a gentle and intense soul. As she begins feminizing hormone therapy, Laure learns to navigate the bodily, emotional, and identity changes she experiences. (\*The main protagonist featured in the documentary has since changed her name for Laure.)
