Documentary filmmaker and popular education instructor mathilde capone has a master’s degree in social anthropology. A feminist, anti-colonialist, lesbian and queer activist, they are involved in thought-provoking collective initiatives. Their independent feature Consent factory: lesbo-queer perspectives (2019) was presented at the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma and Image+Nation. EVICTION (2023), their second feature, which depicts the eviction of a queer housing collective, premiered at the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM), where it won the People’s Choice Award. Rebel Housing, about the opening of the first lesbian retirement home in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke, is their next film.
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...
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...