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To reflect on the 500-year anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 2021, director Reyes offers a bold hybrid cinema experience exploring the brutal legacy of colonialism in contemporary Mexico. Through the eyes of a ghostly conquistador, the film recreates Hérnan Cortés' epic journey from the coasts of Veracruz to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, the site of contemporary Mexico City....

Un printemps de square

In a working-class neighborhood of Paris, high school students and other young people living in the nearby social housing gather in a small public square over the course of a spring. A documentary shot between 1977 and 1978 and re-edited by the director in 2022.

Everything Everywhere Again Alive

In the early 1970s, Keith Lock moved to the hippie community of Buck Lake, north of Kingston, Ontario. He went there to join members of Toronto’s underground scene, capturing the daily life of a horizontal, ideal society, free from urban oppression. The result is one of the masterpieces of Canadian experimental cinema, but above all a free-spirited film that challenges the very idea of freedom.

Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain

Drifting between moving-image formats and collaging local textures and bygone voices, Oscar Ruiz Navia’s film reflects on loss and mourning as experiences of temporal dislocation.

Animus femina

Four women in close contact with wildlife explore our relationship with living beings through repair, reflection, art and "living-with". Four exceptional journeys that invite us to decenter our human gaze and rethink our ways of inhabiting the world in a time of climate crisis.

About Some Meaningless Events

A group of young filmmakers ask residents of Casablanca for their opinions on Moroccan cinema as part of a film project. During the shoot, a dispute breaks out between a dockworker and his superior, resulting in the accidental death of the latter. Having captured the incident on film, the crew begins to question the man’s motives and reflect on the role of cinema in society and the forms it can...

Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections

Jonas Mekas, a pioneer of the film diary, portrays his friend Andy Warhol and his inner circle from the early 1960s to the late 1980s, offering an intimate behind-the-scenes look at the artist’s life and career.

Regarde, elle a les yeux grand ouverts

Born out of the shortcomings of the medical system, the MLAC (Movement for the Freedom of Abortion and Contraception) was founded in France in 1973, two years before the Veil Law was passed. For many years, Yann Le Masson followed a group of women from Aix-en-Provence and their loved ones in their daily lives, on the margins of legality. Within the MLAC, they discovered that together they could...

Amsterdam Global Village

After travelling the world from north to south and east to west, Johan van der Keuken turns his camera to his hometown, a welcoming city open to the world, creating a sweeping portrait of Amsterdam and its inhabitants. The peaceful circles formed by the canals of the old city inspire a structure built around lateral movements through the seasons and through time, movements interrupted by a seri...

A Sound Of My Own

After the death of her father, Marja Burchard followed in his footsteps and became the leader of the legendary krautrock collective Embryo. While carrying on his musical legacy, she also strives to forge her own path in a male-dominated industry. _A Sound of My Own_ immerses viewers in Marja's sonic world, where images and sounds from the past and present merge into a composition of her life—un...

Upstairs With David Amram

Before her illustrious career as one of Canada’s foremost documentary filmmakers, Alanis Obomsawin was an acclaimed singer and musician at the forefront of the Indigenous rights movement in North America. During this unprecedented time, she befriended fellow musician and activist David Amram, often described as the “Renaissance man of American music.” A legendary talent and multi-instrumentalis...

Le roi du drum

_Le roi du drum_ tells the story of a beloved folk hero from Montreal's East End: Guy Nadon, a gifted self-taught jazz musician whose only misfortune was being born in Quebec in the 1930s. A marginalized artist—often misunderstood and seldom supported—Nadon never stopped nurturing his boundless imagination as a percussionist and performer, all while remaining deeply rooted in his neighbourhood....