This short documentary film, consisting of interviews and footage shot in Africa, takes us straight back to the 1960s, during…
A young woman with a quiet life receives an unexpected visit from a woman who claims to be her older…
Convenience stores: those local spots where people go for much more than just milk. For this special Kino-radio episode, eight…
In a run-down neighborhood, Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves. A young adolescent, Zoe…
As a writer and director from Rouyn-Noranda, in this very personal documentary I seek to understand the spirit of the…
A look at the intimate world of young non-binary trans photographer Laurence Philomène as they put together their first book,…
Following a traumatic event at her grandparents’ house, 10-year-old Rose embarks on an obsessive quest to see and understand the…
Recently separated and new to the city, a mother of two tries to break her isolation by calling classified ad…
Mina loves to skate. Today, her father, recently divorced from her mother, accompanies her to her first figure skating lesson.…
Dominique Leclerc embarks on a thought-provoking journey into the cutting-edge world of cyborgs, biohackers and transhumanists—a collective pushing the boundaries…
Bernard Landriault, un collectionneur d’art, filmé de l’intérieur à travers ses actions, ses réflexions, sa relation avec les œuvres et…
An animated film created from pastel drawings, Premiers Jours (First Days) traces the complete cycle of life, from birth to…
Phantom Poem eludes both sight and sound. Super 8 footage of a haunted island merges with an astral soundtrack to…
A Losing Game follows three people who ran for office in Quebec’s October 2022 provincial election. The one thing they…
Doctoral student and part-time professor, Marie-Philip loves cats and Harry Potter. But a week before her 29th birthday, the young…
The documentary series Femmes en mouvement (Women in movement) explores themes related to the position of women in Gaspésian society,…
Summer in Montreal. A two-minute encounter on a street corner between Auguste, an eccentric photographer, and Isabel, his reluctant subject.…
After a Dantean journey, women from Nigeria arrive alone and ever younger in Italy, looking for a better life. Such…
A feminist perspective on the history of contraceptive methods and women’s access to free and unrestricted abortion in Quebec. Fictional…
Solo tells the story of Simon, a rising star on the Montreal drag scene. It’s love at first sight when…
Beyond the under-representation of minorities in mass media, the debate on equality now focuses on the very content of works.…
Sarah and Jonathan buy a bungalow to renovate into their dream home. Bad decisions, lack of cash and lies push…
A territory unfolds. Three bodies, three moments, three environments. How long is a moment? Where does the sea meet the…
Jacques Duhoux, a pioneer of Quebec’s northern expeditions, lives independently at the foot of the Groulx Mountains. At 85, he…
Deux femmes, une amitié. Deux histoires d’amour parallèles. Marianne vit une aventure passionnée avec Nino tandis que les amours de…
Caught up in a symbiotic relationship with her father, Inès (20 years old) embarks on a difficult path to try…
Mathilde (24 ans), qui est en fugue depuis 8 ans, revient dans la ville de son enfance après des années…
In Montreal, land speculation is a reality that surpasses fiction. While condos are built on the ruins of working-class neighborhoods,…
Three friends meet one summer at a skydiving center. Adventurous, they spend most of their time jumping – jumping for…
A film about the absurdities of everyday life, Cosmos is not so much six short films as it is one…
Giselle, 72 ans, professeure d’histoire à la retraite, part à la recherche d’un souvenir impérissable: Victor, rencontré à Paris il…
As a malfunctioning cargo spaceship is threatening to crash into Earth, Claire is going through a difficult Winter.
Sasha’s mother arrives on her doorstep like a hurricane without warning. The young musician is unable to hide her trepidation…
Sophia, 40, a chronic migraine sufferer and philosophy professor at a university for seniors, has been living with Xavier, a…
Le Dep is a psychological drama about Lydia, a young Innu woman who works at her father’s convenience store in…
Durant un voyage au Mexique, Karine et Estelle, dont leur sœur adorée vient de mourir, sont témoins des préparatifs de…
Camille is 12 years old and has a fondness for the stars that she looks at each night through her…
By helping her brother escape from prison, Antigone confronts the authorities: the police, the judicial and penal system as well…
Sofia, 35, sees nothing bright about her future. She’s unemployed despite having a Ph.D. in political philosophy, pregnant and living…
SLAXX tells the story of a possessed pair of jeans brought to life to punish the unscrupulous practices of a…
Van Horne & Waverly follows three artists as they forge, mix/illuminate and paint new works in one of Canada’s most…
This feature-length documentary retraces the journey of 4 Canadians who set off to climb the perilous north side of Mount…
Une traversée du Canada avec Jessica Vigneault. En route pour Banff on s’arrête chez sa grand-mère maternelle à Souris au…
Being an artist, a woman, an actress, and… pregnant, is it good or bad news? A tricky question because the…
No Land No Food No Life is a hard-hitting film which explores sustainable small scale agriculture and the urgent call…
FireWoman is an immersive, gender and genre bending documentary, which delves into the masculine world of firefighting… as lived by…
This feature documentary is a portrait of the country of Mexico, as seen through the eyes of Mario Rojas Alba,…
Emergency! A Critical Situation explores the reality of an evening shift in the emergency room of the Centre hospitalier Pierre-Boucher…
Filmed in 24 hours, St-Henri, The 26th of August brings together some of the most brilliant Quebec documentary filmmakers around this…
Flea markets, scrapyards, the bottom of the river, the artist Nathalie Trépanier leads us, with her, in the search for…
This DIY documentary explores the reality of Western women who’ve decided not to have children. The filmmaker met with childfree…
This feature-length film introduces viewers to Soraida, a Palestinian woman who lives in Ramallah. In her neighbourhood the women do…
Documentary on AIDS. A deeply human essay that gives another point of view: that of omnipractitioners, researchers, ethics specialists, philosophers…
Feature documentary on the Haitian community in Montreal. There are more than 40,000 Haitians living in Quebec, the vast majority…
Ma mère Rachel et ses 40 voisins sont partie prenante d’une communauté hétéroclite et tentent de vivre la coopération malgré…
Ils sont cow-boys, musiciens, chanteurs ou simples amateurs fervents. Pendant la moitié de l’année, cette faune colorée évolue dans un…
Myths for Profits is a dramatic, exposé documentary which explores ‘Canada’s role in Industries of War and Peace’. Through diverse…
Have you ever dreamed of going to sleep and never wake up? Rémi has. Eight years of insomnia has made…
Time has played a intriguing part in the existence of this film, beyond its topic and title. Dormant for 6…
It’s a Tuesday morning, somewhere… a route traveled a thousand times. Carefree passages. Schoolchildren, workers, a mother and her child,…
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…
Based on excerpts from an audition day, La Réplique (The Reply) portrays a young woman who wants to prove herself…
Edgar, a lonely and socially awkward immigrant takes care of an apartment for a friend away on vacation. As he…
Avec sensibilité et humour, quelques moments de la vie d’Agathe qui passe peu à peu de l’enfance à l’adolescence.
Cette femme aime beaucoup la Chine.
Louis (17 ans) est invité à l’enterrement de vie de garçon de son frère ainé. À la fois intimidé et…
Une jeune femme qui déteste le temps des Fêtes retourne dans sa famille pour leur donner un cadeau de Noël…
Un homme et une femme font l’amour comme pour la dernière fois. En attendant la suivante.
Nalvana lives with her mother in a small Inuit village. She wears a superheroine’s cape and dreams of finding her…
Tomorrow, Samuel leaves for a long journey. His brother Nicolas wants to prevent him from leaving and “kidnaps” him for…
The film is told from the point-of-view of a schizophrenic, or perhaps a mystic, walking through the city in search…
Madeleine exerce un métier particulier : elle travaille dans un bar chic, pas aux tables, mais dans les toilettes des…
Réflexions philosophiques sur la vie moderne.
Mohamed is deeply shaken and suspicious when his estranged eldest son Malek returns home from Syria to rural Tunisia with…
On all continents, little girls draw figures on the ground on which they hop on one foot while chanting nursery…
Ode au Nord (Ode To The North) presents the singular approach of painter Emmanuelle Gendron and highlights the northern territory…
The dreamlike view of a traditional Quebec music session makes Faces de jam an experience for all the senses. From…
For Linda Rabin, all is movement. That has been the guiding principle for this pioneer of modern dance in Quebec,…
Hot Docs presents Citizen Minutes, a short doc collection highlighting ordinary Canadians doing extraordinary things to make their communities better…
Les danses latines font un retour en force. Place à la salsa! Avec la popularité croissante des musiques du monde,…
Excluded from the job market, welfare recipients find themselves trapped in the dead end of work programs, leaving them in…
Où qu’elle soit, quoi qu’elle fasse, Cylotte rayonne comme le soleil. Pourtant, elle n’a pas eu la vie facile. Cette…
Un proverbe malaysien dit que la mort est la fiancée de la vie, que l’une et l’autre sont unies par…
Court métrage poétique, rendant hommage à une époque charnière du féminisme. Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, en Amérique du Nord,…
Documentaire sur la prostitution hommes et femmes. Sophie, Diane, Raymond et Dave sont des êtres fragiles et forts à la…
Third in a series of 13 television programs hosted by Marie-Michèle Cron, art historian and media arts critic. A look…
La première vague de fillettes chinoises adoptées au Québec depuis les années 1990 est arrivée à l’adolescence. La caméra de…
Un film éducatif réalisé en 2010 et destiné aux jeunes de 10 à 14 ans, proposant un regard critique sur…
A collaboration with Benoit LeRouzès, this mockumentary, produced for television as part of La Course Évasion autour du monde, slums it…
Portait de la sémillante et chaleureuse peintre québécoise, Marcelle Ferron, son parcours d’artiste, son enfance, sa carrière, ses succès… Femme…
La culture acadienne est indissociable de cette artiste qui l’a portée à bout de bras à travers sa voix et…
A tribute to 35 years of theater across Canada of Geordie Productions. A beautiful story following the path of many…
An experimental film that weaves the intimate thoughts of one woman (Ikwé) with the teachings of her grandmother, the Moon,…
Castle Bravo is an experimental short film about nuclear colonialism through the infamous 1954 US thermonuclear test on the inhabited…
Collective canons – McLarena is a commissioned work by the Quartier des Spectacles and the National Film Board of Canada…
Brilliantly mixing animated sequences and archival footage, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre paints a touching portrait of virtuoso pianist Oscar Peterson. As with…
間 | Unempty Space shows how sensitivity can fill someone’s feeling of emptiness inside and help them connect with what…
An experimental animated film built around a single sound recording that evokes travel, the need to communicate, solitude, fragility, the…
Un documentaire interactif qui nous plonge dans les univers de huit fans de musique pour observer comment Internet transforme leur…
“Beauty is only the beginning of horror”. An incursion into the dreams of a father and daughter.
Using the sound archives of legendary Canadian animator, Norman McLaren, this animated short recreates a unique portrait of the artist.…
Autoportrait.
Primal is an interactive web documentary, is a collaborative experience about expressing our deepest feelings, through the making of a…
Forced to leave their country, Dounia & her grandparents set off in search of a new home. As she travels…
A rant about the way the Charest government receives the messages expressed by citizens.
A short animated film about freedom of expression in the style of a contemporary western.
Failsafe is a short film about the experimental aspects of the nuclear industry. Original footage and archive. Music composed by…
Between sky and earth. Between stability and fragility. An echo.
Katiana emerges. She finally gets her head above water and speaks up for all Haitian women.
Historical allegory based on the life of Flora Tristan (1803-1844) about women resistance against patriarchal oppression, their struggles for justice…
