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Still Recording
Duration: 2h03
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For five years, at the heart of the Syrian civil war, a group of aspiring filmmakers documented the fighting and the daily life of the people in the city of Douma, in Eastern Ghouta, a besieged suburb of Damascus.
After the Odyssey
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After a Dantean journey, women from Nigeria arrive alone and ever younger in Italy, looking for a better life. Such horrors as human trafficking and sexual slavery are waiting for them, as we discover in this ensemble film, featuring harrowing stories told in a sensible way that spares us from the unbearable. These tales provoke a broader reflection on migration and otherness.
Dog Stories
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_Dog Stories_ reveals as much about the people telling the stories as the dogs they are describing. The dog owners are more honest about their feelings about a dog than almost any other aspect of their lives, and in the process they reveal a lot about themselves.
Don't Blink - Robert Frank
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Robert Frank revolutionised photography and independent film. He documented the Beats, Welsh coal miners, Peruvian Indians, The Stones, London bankers, and the Americans. This is the bumpy ride, revealed with unblinking honesty by the reclusive artist himself.
The Tree of Authenticity
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In the heart of a Congolese equatorial forest, the remnants of a research center dedicated to tropical agriculture reveal the weight of the colonial past and its inextricable ties to climate change. This three-part essay offers a powerful analysis of Belgium’s colonial history and its enduring consequences today.
Damascus Dreams
Duration: 2h46
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How does one remember a homeland they are so deeply connected to and disconnected from? When Canadian-born filmmaker Emilie Serri travels to Syria for the first time in ten years, she feels alienated. A year later, when her grandmother dies and the war begins, she tries to piece back together an image of this elusive country she desperately wants to call her own. Gathering evidence from the pas...
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance
Duration: 3h58Subscription access
In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, set the stage for a historic confrontation that would grab international headlines and sear itself into the Canadian consciousness. Director Alanis Obomsawin—at times with a small crew, at times alone—spent 78 days behind Kanien’kéhaka lines filming the armed standoff between protesto...
Still Recording
Duration: 2h03
Subscription access
For five years, at the heart of the Syrian civil war, a group of aspiring filmmakers documented the fighting and the daily life of the people in the city of Douma, in Eastern Ghouta, a besieged suburb of Damascus.
After the Odyssey
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After a Dantean journey, women from Nigeria arrive alone and ever younger in Italy, looking for a better life. Such horrors as human trafficking and sexual slavery are waiting for them, as we discover in this ensemble film, featuring harrowing stories told in a sensible way that spares us from the unbearable. These tales provoke a broader reflection on migration and otherness.
Dog Stories
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_Dog Stories_ reveals as much about the people telling the stories as the dogs they are describing. The dog owners are more honest about their feelings about a dog than almost any other aspect of their lives, and in the process they reveal a lot about themselves.
Don't Blink - Robert Frank
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Robert Frank revolutionised photography and independent film. He documented the Beats, Welsh coal miners, Peruvian Indians, The Stones, London bankers, and the Americans. This is the bumpy ride, revealed with unblinking honesty by the reclusive artist himself.
The Tree of Authenticity
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In the heart of a Congolese equatorial forest, the remnants of a research center dedicated to tropical agriculture reveal the weight of the colonial past and its inextricable ties to climate change. This three-part essay offers a powerful analysis of Belgium’s colonial history and its enduring consequences today.
Damascus Dreams
Duration: 2h46
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How does one remember a homeland they are so deeply connected to and disconnected from? When Canadian-born filmmaker Emilie Serri travels to Syria for the first time in ten years, she feels alienated. A year later, when her grandmother dies and the war begins, she tries to piece back together an image of this elusive country she desperately wants to call her own. Gathering evidence from the pas...
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance
Duration: 3h58Subscription access
In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, set the stage for a historic confrontation that would grab international headlines and sear itself into the Canadian consciousness. Director Alanis Obomsawin—at times with a small crew, at times alone—spent 78 days behind Kanien’kéhaka lines filming the armed standoff between protesto...
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Amazonia, an Encounter with the Guardian of the Rainforest
Amazonia, an Encounter with the Guardian of the Rainforest
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With a hybrid style blending political essay and road movie, this documentary by Santiago Bertolino takes us into the heart of the Amazonian reality. Following Marie-Josée Béliveau, an ecologist and ethnogeographer, they journey together along the 4000 km from the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil to one of its sources in Ecuador where they meet with the guardians of the forest. As a result, ...
Somber Tides
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_Somber Tides_ is a cry from the species, startled into survival against the elements; one last breath before being trampled by the Earth or maybe conversely a battle to wage against winds and tides clutching on before extinction.
The White Guard
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The Mexican landscape fades away into ashes and dust, fragmented, defaced and scorched. Behind barbed wirefences, forests, rivers and mountains fall to the hands of private companies. Once transformed, the landscape becomes a separate universe, an incongruous and dangerous area where the new masters and their mercenaries terrorize people into silence. Like other farmers from across the country,...
Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum
Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum
New product!Duration: 13 minutes
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_Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum_ is a first person autobiographical experimental film exploring the ramifications of the devastating breakup of a romantic relationship. A triptych of self-portraits — entire camera rolls, each subjected to different methods of intervention with the celluloid itself — are intercut with short excerpts of altered footage from a B movie trailer and punctu...
L'éclat du mal / The Bleeding Heart of It
L'éclat du mal / The Bleeding Heart of It
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The house that bursts; the scene of the crime; the nucleus. A universe collapses on itself: all hell breaks loose.
Jours en fleurs
Duration: 5 minutes
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_Jours en fleurs_ is a reclamation of flower-power that celebrates both the fertile and the fierce forces of nature, reinventing their relationship to the feminine. Images of flowering trees soaked in menstrual blood for several months undergo a gestation of decay, whose visceral ravages give rise to a beauty that is at once dark and luminous, endowing them with the Baudelairean “formless and m...
Jolicoeur Touriste
Duration: 11 minutes
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An enclosed space, a struggle against the constraints of personal isolation explored through a fractured narrative. A man living in a broken-down rented room in a Tourist Inn travels through his drunkenness, his memories and his fantasies, transcending the limits of time and space which suddenly intertwine. A film about loss and absence.
Still Recording
Duration: 2h03
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For five years, at the heart of the Syrian civil war, a group of aspiring filmmakers documented the fighting and the daily life of the people in the city of Douma, in Eastern Ghouta, a besieged suburb of Damascus.
Amazonia, an Encounter with the Guardian of the Rainforest
Amazonia, an Encounter with the Guardian of the Rainforest
New product!Duration: 1h37
Subscription access
With a hybrid style blending political essay and road movie, this documentary by Santiago Bertolino takes us into the heart of the Amazonian reality. Following Marie-Josée Béliveau, an ecologist and ethnogeographer, they journey together along the 4000 km from the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil to one of its sources in Ecuador where they meet with the guardians of the forest. As a result, ...
Somber Tides
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_Somber Tides_ is a cry from the species, startled into survival against the elements; one last breath before being trampled by the Earth or maybe conversely a battle to wage against winds and tides clutching on before extinction.
The White Guard
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The Mexican landscape fades away into ashes and dust, fragmented, defaced and scorched. Behind barbed wirefences, forests, rivers and mountains fall to the hands of private companies. Once transformed, the landscape becomes a separate universe, an incongruous and dangerous area where the new masters and their mercenaries terrorize people into silence. Like other farmers from across the country,...
Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum
Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum
New product!Duration: 13 minutes
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_Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum_ is a first person autobiographical experimental film exploring the ramifications of the devastating breakup of a romantic relationship. A triptych of self-portraits — entire camera rolls, each subjected to different methods of intervention with the celluloid itself — are intercut with short excerpts of altered footage from a B movie trailer and punctu...
L'éclat du mal / The Bleeding Heart of It
L'éclat du mal / The Bleeding Heart of It
New product!Duration: 8 minutes
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The house that bursts; the scene of the crime; the nucleus. A universe collapses on itself: all hell breaks loose.
Jours en fleurs
Duration: 5 minutes
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_Jours en fleurs_ is a reclamation of flower-power that celebrates both the fertile and the fierce forces of nature, reinventing their relationship to the feminine. Images of flowering trees soaked in menstrual blood for several months undergo a gestation of decay, whose visceral ravages give rise to a beauty that is at once dark and luminous, endowing them with the Baudelairean “formless and m...
Jolicoeur Touriste
Duration: 11 minutes
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An enclosed space, a struggle against the constraints of personal isolation explored through a fractured narrative. A man living in a broken-down rented room in a Tourist Inn travels through his drunkenness, his memories and his fantasies, transcending the limits of time and space which suddenly intertwine. A film about loss and absence.
Still Recording
Duration: 2h03
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For five years, at the heart of the Syrian civil war, a group of aspiring filmmakers documented the fighting and the daily life of the people in the city of Douma, in Eastern Ghouta, a besieged suburb of Damascus.
