Absolutely Canadian is a national one-hour series showcasing documentaries and performance programs that tell unique stories from communities across Canada.…
Hot Docs presents Citizen Minutes, a short doc collection highlighting ordinary Canadians doing extraordinary things to make their communities better…
Black Life: Untold Stories is an eight-part documentary series that reframes the rich and complex histories of Black experiences in…
In the late 80s, after fleeing the war in Lebanon, Zeina and Fady’s family settled in Ottawa. The family home…
Called to shoot a film in her hometown, Montreal, a director finds inspiration in a mysterious woman, Estelle David, who…
na·nit·ic / adjective: The first brood of worker ants produced by a queen ant using only the reserved nutrition in…
Quatre générations de Montagnaises racontent la vie dans les réserves : des grand-mères ne parlant que montagnais qui ont vécu…
Yelda del Carmen leaves her Cuban homeland for Montreal, where she must rebuild her dance career from scratch. Realizing the…
Manawan 1977. A vehicle falls into a river near a Native community. Two white Quebecers escape, but five Atikamekw lose…
Rosalie is striving to build a more positive relationship with her body. In her thirties and living with a disability…
Bridgeport, January 17, 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything points to suicide, the autopsy…
Femmes des bois offers an incursion into the unique world of forestry camps, where men and women from all over…
After crossing 11 countries irregularly to seek asylum in Canada, Peggy, Simon and their 3 children are waiting for the…
The Myth of the Black Woman is a feature-length documentary that investigates the image of black women in society, from…
Within the walls of a women’s shelter, a talking circle unmasks domestic violence to help women regain their dignity and…
A true collective legacy, the documentary The Inheritors (Les héritières) is one of the highlights of the 50th anniversary of…
Eileen, a scriptwriter, has been writing letters to Federico Fellini who has become her friend, and means of escape. Various…
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Tajikistan, a former Soviet Socialist Republic, plunged into a devastating civil war. A…
In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which had legalized abortion in the U.S. since 1973. This…
This video provides a simple and effective summary of the work of an artifact maker. It tells the story of…
Amato is about the diversity of polyamorous models in the Quebec landscape. Three unique and interrelated stories are staged through…
What if lesbo-queer communities had something to share about the singularities of their sexualities? Through the complex topic of consent,…
Les femmes de Raël takes us inside the world of a sectarian group. Two women who have spent a large…
Innovation! What about our environmental and social impact? Today, Quebec benefits from an abundance of sustainable innovations created by local…
Today. Northern Quebec at the beginning of winter. Mani, an ambitious lawyer in her 20s, returns to her remote Indigenous…
Le jour de ses 16 ans, Catherine reçoit un discman jaune, le livre Moi, Christiane F… et le droit d’aller…
Camille wanders through the countryside talking with frogs and chickens: she sails through life as a carefree soul. But for…
An engineer (Emmanuel Schwartz) abandoned by his lover, a filmmaker (Jennifer Alleyn) abandoned by her actor, an actress friend in…
Fourteen-year old Juliette lives in the country with her father and her older brother. When Juliette was younger, her mother…
The film is made up of six short stories by six Canadian directors around the theme of Montreal. The six…
On December 23, the day before Christmas, the frenzy of the holiday season is everywhere and seizes many… In this…
A dramatic comedy that invites us to the eventful reunion of three high school friends. After a festive and drunken…
La rencontre, le développement, la crystallisation de l’amitié entre Isabelle et Virginie, sont le noyau du film autour duquel se…
Après la mort tragique de sa fille, une femme se réfugie dans la maison de ses ancêtres maternels en Kamouraska.…
Born into a family of circus performers, Laura has spent much of her young life on tour with her father…
L’Hôtel des Voyageurs est ce petit établissement hôtelier situé au centre de la ville, à proximité d,une gare où l’on…
The story begins in 1978 in a small village on the Lower St. Lawrence, as the Leblanc family is rocked…
Camille is 12 years old and has a fondness for the stars that she looks at each night through her…
À Montréal, la spéculation foncière constitue une réalité qui dépasse la fiction. Tandis que des condos se construisent sur les…
Two girls grow up as best friends in an Innu community. While Mikuan has a loving family, Shaniss is picking…
Sofia, 35, sees nothing bright about her future. She’s unemployed despite having a Ph.D. in political philosophy, pregnant and living…
Yan, Simon, Roxanne, Maxime et sa sœur Lily, des amis de longue date, sont au début de la vingtaine. L’âge…
In the late 1960s, in the Pointe-Saint-Charles neighbourhood of Montreal, a religious group called the Fils de la charité begins…
Lights Above Water is a documentary created with the children of Waswanipi, a Cree community in Northern Quebec (James Bay…
Après avoir brièvement pensé à accrocher ses patins, l’auteur-compositeur-interprète Stephen Faulkner (alias Cassonade) décide de remonter sur scène avec un…
In a remote himalayan region, the villagers of Maikot are preparing for the harvest of a mysterious aphrodisiac caterpillar-mushroom worth…
These provocative 20-minute movies made by high school students provide an insider’s look at youth culture. Made by four 17-year-old…
A story of love, revolution, and betrayal, No More Tears Sister explores the price of truth in times of war.…
Un portrait éclaté, impressionniste et touchant du rapport des femmes à leurs seins. Comment traîter ce territoire intime et public…
Van Horne & Waverly follows three artists as they forge, mix/illuminate and paint new works in one of Canada’s most…
Vous croyez que seuls les Québécois ont des aspirations indépendantistes au Canada? Détrompez-vous. Il y a des séparatistes un peu…
D’hôtel en motel partout à travers l’énorme pays, la caméra pose sa lentille devant des citoyens animés ou désillusionnés par…
“Jaffa Gate Is Ours!” screamed the headlines in 2005. Greek Orthodox Patriarch Irineos was accused of selling church property to…
La femme peut-elle se réaliser entièrement tout en acceptant le plus difficile partage qu’implique la maternité? Tourné durant une grossesse…
L’identité québécoise, faite d’une histoire, d’une langue et d’une culture distinctes, signifie-t-elle encore quelque chose en 2015? Ce documentaire animé…
Alanis Obomsawin’s documentary The People of the Kattawapiskak River exposes the housing crisis faced by 1,700 Cree in Northern Ontario,…
Fondé par Jeanne Mance en 1642 en même temps que la ville, l’Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal est sur le point de…
Tyr and Jasa grew up in an artistic household where art was a way of life. Quirky and insightful sisters,…
Cinéaste indépendant de la première heure, René Bail est une des figures les plus méconnues du cinéma québécois des années…
This morning, Chantal (60 years old) comes to pick up Susan (92 years old) by car. Susan seems more nervous…
Manu habite un centre jeunesse. Pendant sa fin de semaine de sortie, sa mère le laisse chez son père. Et…
Have you ever felt the world you live in amplifies the fear and questions that you hold within? Take a…
On the morning of their first anniversary, Julien and Camille must make the decision of their lifetimes: which one leave…
Jeune femme célibataire et sans le sou, Sophie choisit, alors que le monde entier semble se liguer contre elle, de…
Sigwan tells the touching story of a young girl who is comforted and counselled by the animals of the forest. Written…
On a summer morning, boredom meets the unwelcoming apartment where 6-year-old Chichou is playing by herself. In the remnants of…
Cette femme aime beaucoup la Chine.
Based on a true story, Mokhtar recounts the tale of a young boy who lives with his family of goatherds…
Michael is faced with a dilemma, when a night of drinking with friends, turns into a sensual exploration of sexual…
Mohamed is deeply shaken and suspicious when his estranged eldest son Malek returns home from Syria to rural Tunisia with…
Under the sweltering July sun, the phantom-like silhouettes of Mexican farm workers stand in the fields of rural Quebec. One…
Miryam Bouchard reinvents Snow White in her own way. Fabrique-moi un conte: Eight directors adapt eight classic tales in a…
Edgar, a lonely and socially awkward immigrant takes care of an apartment for a friend away on vacation. As he…
After a year away from home, Chantale, who now lives and studies in Paris, returns to Québec City, to spend…
Une chef cuisinière renommée souffre de boulimie d’information. Lors d’un lancement de livre, elle rencontre l’auteur, un ex-boulimique d’information. Ce…
An aging woman and her nurse develop a friendship that inspires her to unearth unacknowledged longing and thus help her…
L’amour et l’argent : un tabou qui persiste au sein des couples! À travers différents témoignages de couples et d’expert-e-s tel-l-es…
Docu-fiction visant à déboulonner les idées préconçues à l’égard d’autrui, en mettant en scène deux camarades de classe de race…
Un film intime sur l’apprentissage de la vieillesse, Dorothy Todd Hénaut suit ses parents à travers crises cardiaques et luttes…
«Nous avons la chance d’être nos maîtres, de pouvoir créer de nouvelles formes et de nous situer, pour ainsi dire,…
Portraits documentaires d’enfants de la francophonie à travers le monde. Luan habite dans un appartement en plein cœur de Montréal,…
A collection of family secrets, confessions and confrontation. Filmmaker Carol Nguyen interviews her own family to craft an emotionally complex…
Jean-François Deschènes, a Quebec co-operator, wanted to share his experience with rural youth in the Third World. He ends up…
A rare bird, the artist René Derouin flies over his universe that links Quebec to Mexico. He takes a nuanced…
Documentaire sur l’itinérance au féminin. L’itinérance qui me fascine n’est pas toujours apparente et ne prend pas nécessairement la forme…
Court métrage qui nous fait vivre le printemps dans les rues de Montréal. Les petites filles sortent bolos, cordes à…
Une relation singulière entre une étendue de terre entourée d’eau et un homme. Entre une vie particulière permettant de laisser…
La réussite de 3 jeunes mamans arrivées en détresse à la Petite Maison de la Miséricorde où l’on accueille les…
Paroles d’adolescents sur les représentations de la science.
A series of newspaper articles from here and elsewhere serve as a starting point for an intimate conversation between Alexandre…
Le premier volet de cette fresque historique trace le portrait nuancé de femmes au long parcours. Ces religieuses révèlent la…
In this video Chantal Pontbriand discusses her critical and curatorial practice. Chantal Pontbriand, founder and director of the contemporary art…
Flea markets, scrapyards, the bottom of the river, the artist Nathalie Trépanier leads us, with her, in the search for…
PATOF the clown left his mark on a generation of young Quebecers in the 1970s, but his dazzling success is…
1er mai is an experimental short film about the “May Day” March on Kyiv (Ukraine) in 1986, while the nuclear…
Deux sorcières modernes, l’une de 25, l’autre de 50 ans, vivent des expériences de prise de pouvoir sur le corps…
Collective canons – McLarena is a commissioned work by the Quartier des Spectacles and the National Film Board of Canada…
Court métrage tourné en 2008 suite aux audiences publiques tenues par la Commission Bouchard-Taylor sur les accommodements raisonnables au Québec.
Years after the disappearance of her father in Scotland, a young woman recalls her childhood on a Caribbean island.
Failsafe is a short film about the experimental aspects of the nuclear industry. Original footage and archive. Music composed by…
Brilliantly mixing animated sequences and archival footage, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre paints a touching portrait of virtuoso pianist Oscar Peterson. As with…
Film inspiré des poèmes de Nadine Ltaif.
Katiana emerges. She finally gets her head above water and speaks up for all Haitian women.
Using the sound archives of legendary Canadian animator, Norman McLaren, this animated short recreates a unique portrait of the artist.…
A photographic journey on the notion of home as a space of well-being with four Montreal teenagers. This interactive work,…
Le rêve éveillé d’un jeune pêcheur, surpris par la nature de sa prise. Première prise a été réalisé dans le cadre de…
A summer in the life of a mother and her two children. “Précis of the Everyday” is a tender look…
“Where Have All The Flowers Gone”, sang Marlene Dietrich. Jack Kerouac and the rebellious Beat Generation have long permeated California.…
C’est la Fête des Pères. J’attends le métro. Je suis là, debout comme tout le monde, quand tout à coup…
Time has played a intriguing part in the existence of this film, beyond its topic and title. Dormant for 6…
Vous avez dit big data? Découvrez par vous-mêmes les règles de l’interprétation algorithmique… Et ses absurdités. Série web documentaire interactive…
Des maux illisibles est un essai interactif qui dresse le portrait de l’analphabétisme au Québec à travers le témoignage de…
