A stranger shows up posing as a home buyer at a suburban house that is up for sale. ‘What the…
Breaking Down the Walls (Briser les murs) immerses us in the heart of a unique place in Quebec where, for…
A documentary filmmaker follows a group of six young snowboarders, chronicling their powerful friendship, passion for snowboard, and their violent…
Ariane, Nora, and Marie-Josée are at a point in their lives where they feel like they are swimming against the…
Lena, a 7-year-old black girl receives a drawing mocking her hair. With the help of her big sister, they will…
Imane ran a feminist blog in a country where women are considered minors for life. Two weeks before the outbreak…
Vintage Heart is the story of Pauline, a 42-year-old single woman at a crossroads. Passionate about literature but stuck in…
With a permanent smile on her face, Lucie is unshakeable. It is this attitude that Benjamin will be confronted with…
Violette (60 years old) has a hoarding disorder. Barbara is a social worker. She visits Violette to help her. But…
La série documentaire Pas une de plus pose un regard inédit sur le phénomène de la violence conjugale, grâce à…
Through moments in the lives of three groups of girls, images gleaned from the web and live streams of young…
A compelling call for justice, Stolen Time follows charismatic elder rights lawyer Melissa Miller as she takes on the corporate…
A glimpse into the lives of four women through the contents of their fridges.
As a malfunctioning cargo spaceship is threatening to crash into Earth, Claire is going through a difficult Winter.
Noémie (15) has been living in a youth center for three years. When she loses all hope of being taken…
A woman rents a house in a small town. Her memories of Afghanistan linger. She soon realizes that she is…
Since 2010, Parthenais has held within its walls the life of a whole queer community. They are gay, lesbian, trans,…
A poetic crossover in a ruined world where everyone survives alone amid collective despair. Moving bodies, dance, and physical feats…
This wry and delightful found-footage film reveals a little-known chapter in labor history: the story of female telephone operators’ central…
Filmmaker Lawrence Côté-Collins finds her attacker in prison. She wants to understand, forgive, and support a suffering man. Billy is…
Shining a light into the murky world of police infiltration, incitement, and agent provocateurs, Manufacturing The Threat shows how Canada’s…
Every day, we have to deal with intimidation tactics and the most insidious and diverse forms of harassment. Every day,…
Walking the line between fact and fiction, Fire-Jo Ball shines a light on Jo-Ann, a 57-year-old barmaid who dreams of…
Heart-broken following a break-up, Martine receives the unexpected visit of her mother, Monique. Too engrossed in her own sadness, Martine…
Jessy, 12 ans, a l’enfance dure, mais il ne le sait pas; tous les gamins du voisinage ont la même…
Giselle, 72 ans, professeure d’histoire à la retraite, part à la recherche d’un souvenir impérissable: Victor, rencontré à Paris il…
A formerly successful Montreal musician trudges through the darkest days of winter, armed with a backpack full of weed and…
Le Dep is a psychological drama about Lydia, a young Innu woman who works at her father’s convenience store in…
Two young sisters – Clara and Sarah Gagnon – have always lived in the countryside with their parents, in a…
Solo tells the story of Simon, a rising star on the Montreal drag scene. It’s love at first sight when…
«Les personnages féminins qu’il y a dans La Cuisine rouge sont à la fois des mères, des prostituées, des folles…
Once her studies completed, Priscilla (Janaina Suaudeau), a young Brazilian whose visa has expired, must find a job if she…
Three elderly hermits live in the woods, cut off from the rest of the world. While wildfires threaten the region,…
An engineer (Emmanuel Schwartz) abandoned by his lover, a filmmaker (Jennifer Alleyn) abandoned by her actor, an actress friend in…
Two girls grow up as best friends in an Innu community. While Mikuan has a loving family, Shaniss is picking…
Deux femmes, une amitié. Deux histoires d’amour parallèles. Marianne vit une aventure passionnée avec Nino tandis que les amours de…
Rustic Oracle is the story of a missing teenage girl told through the eyes of her 8-year-old sister. The story…
Thirteen-year-old Marie was assaulted by her older brother Serge. Disturbed by the incident, she doesn’t dare tell her family about…
Anne Trister is the chronicle of a young woman painter discovering herself, life and its ruptures. Shaken by the loss…
Mourir à tue-tête s’attaque à un sujet que les mentalités collectives s’acharnent à considérer comme tabou : le viol de…
Family happiness often hinges on an unsuspected tragedy: the loss of identity of a woman who now lives only in…
Nerdy women – the “hidden half” of fan culture – open up about their lives in the world of conventions,…
13 détenues et ex-détenues témoignent de leur passage en prison.
Comme bien d’autres villes nord-américaines et européennes, Montréal fait face à la transformation sociale et économique qu’on nomme gentrification. Une…
This documentary opens the door to the magnificent world of choral music, a world inhabited by exceptional beings with the…
Qui n’a jamais jeté un regard curieux sur la une sanglante d’un tabloïd ou éprouvé le désir de regarder par…
Documentaire explorant les métiers féminins au Québec. Le film situe des personnages tels que l’Indienne, la fille du Roy, la…
L’emploi pour tout le monde, pour la vie, c’est fini! Aux confins d’une époque qui s’achève, le monde du travail…
En sillonnant les rangs des campagnes québécoises, on peut parfois repérer des architectures et des installations inhabituelles. Ces curieuses constructions…
Eight native women storytellers, writers and poets honoring their words. Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau tells the genesis of her relations to…
Hoping to reconnect, three brothers embark on a fishing trip with their father, whose absence from their childhood has left…
C’est l’histoire d’un miracle qui n’a jamais eu lieu… C’est l’histoire d’une famille… C’est l’histoire de mon frère handicapé… En…
In this feature-length documentary, women who have worked as prostitutes denounce the current trend toward making prostitution a job “like…
Being an artist, a woman, an actress, and… pregnant, is it good or bad news? A tricky question because the…
De Marjo à Louise Forestier, de Nanette à Sylvie Tremblay, de Diane Dufresne à Louise Portal, On fait toutes du…
A closer look at the conflict between the Mi’gmaq and their non-Aboriginal neighbors over fishing rights in Burnt Church, New…
In this feature documentary, a Haitian, exiled in Canada for twenty years, returns to his country after the departure of…
Bridgeport, January 17, 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything points to suicide, the autopsy…
na·nit·ic / adjective: The first brood of worker ants produced by a queen ant using only the reserved nutrition in…
Les tableaux d’Une courte histoire de la folie nous emmènent à travers l’histoire des traitements de la maladie mentale au…
Jeune femme célibataire et sans le sou, Sophie choisit, alors que le monde entier semble se liguer contre elle, de…
Based on excerpts from an audition day, La Réplique (The Reply) portrays a young woman who wants to prove herself…
Louis (17 ans) est invité à l’enterrement de vie de garçon de son frère ainé. À la fois intimidé et…
Michèle is experiencing the emotions and upheavals inherent in the changes taking place within her during menopause. With a fresh,…
Do you really feel free? Have you ever had the feeling of running in circles or that you were being…
Un homme et une femme font l’amour comme pour la dernière fois. En attendant la suivante.
A woman-tampon joins a man-astronaut on a road trip to the moon. Daniel is on a mission to scatter his…
Phœnix Jones, un conseiller en voyages de 38 ans, dynamique et trop dévoué, souffre d’un burnout à la suite de…
Sigwan tells the touching story of a young girl who is comforted and counselled by the animals of the forest. Written…
Under the omniscient gaze of an iguana, a 10-year-old boy takes care of his mother, a singer going adrift.
At 16 years old, Nina is helpless with regards to her 4-month-old baby Jessie’s incessant crying. Without any escape from…
S’appuyant sur une chanson de Louise Portal, ce court métrage musical illustre quelques aspects de l’histoire des femmes en intégrant…
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…
Denis Manzanno no longer has any contact with money. He survives by bartering. Portrait of a man on the margins.
Lined up in perfect rows like an army, students mindlessly copy the teacher who, herself, is being controlled like a…
Zagros follows the creation of hand-made carpets across the Zagros mountains in Western Iran, the land of Bakhtiaris. Wool is the…
Shot in Montreal over a four-month period, from May to September 2020, Jules’ Impossible Summer charts the evolving relationship between…
Oser suivre ses désirs, créer, entreprendre, s’engager, se choisir… Voilà le cadeau de la maturité. Des femmes de 50 à…
Le projet Sapporo est une ode poétique au travail du calligraphe japonais Gazanbou Higuchi. Fenêtre inédite sur le monde de la…
Exploration paysagère et poétique des ruisseaux tributaires de la rivière Richelieu; enquête sur les phénomènes merveilleux de ces cours d’eau…
This short documentary highlights how discrimination prevents foreign-trained doctors from practising in Canada – even after they’ve received their Canadian…
In this feature documentary, Swiss citizen Yves Delaunay seeks to understand how the Inuit are coping with the mutation of…
Hot Docs presents Citizen Minutes, a short doc collection highlighting ordinary Canadians doing extraordinary things to make their communities better…
De la fenêtre de l’autobus, traversée des paysages en été.
Les Créateurs associés de Val-David ont été un des plus grands rassemblements d’artistes au Québec dans les années 1975 à…
Documentaire sur la Maison d’hébergement pour femmes immigrantes. La Maison pour femmes immigrantes offre un milieu de vie sécuritaire aux…
Imaginez que vous pesez 450 livres et que vous ne pouvez même plus lacer vos chaussures. Avec un taux d’obésité…
Female is an animated documentary on the difficulties of childbirth and motherhood. Anonymously, woman share their most intimate secrets of…
Under the direction of Hélène Bélanger-Martin, a film crew took up residence in painter and sculptor André Desjardins’ studio from…
This short documentary by celebrated filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin is a portrait of Eugene “Gene Boy” (pronounced Genie Boy) Benedict, from…
In a knowledge economy dominated by information technologies and written communication, 48% of Canadians and 53% of Quebecers aged 16…
Vidéo sur la situation des aidant(e)s naturel(le)s. Rencontre avec trois femmes et un homme qui ont pris en charge un…
What has Janette Bertrand accomplished, what has she contributed to change in a lasting way? She has been a journalist,…
In a run-down neighborhood, Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves. A young adolescent, Zoe…
Forced to leave their country, Dounia & her grandparents set off in search of a new home. As she travels…
This semi-animated documentary is a creative, colourful portrait of the great Quebec filmmaker Claude Jutra, director of Mon oncle Antoine…
From Saint-Jean Terre-Neuve, a woman leaves phone messages on the voicemail of a mysterious Sabrina… The Rise and Fall of a…
Coup de gueule sur les motivations derrière la guerre en Irak.
This short animation was created using tests created in the production of A Chairy Tale (1957) by master of animation Norman McLaren. Flocons is…
Female Genital Mutilation is practiced in 28 countries.
Court métrage tourné en 2008 suite aux audiences publiques tenues par la Commission Bouchard-Taylor sur les accommodements raisonnables au Québec.
C’est la Fête des Pères. J’attends le métro. Je suis là, debout comme tout le monde, quand tout à coup…
LIKE IT is a short film reminiscent of another era. It was written, shot and edited on an impulse –…
A primal and sensual dance is performed by a burlesque artist on stage to the delight of a blood thirsty…
Without inhibitions or voyeurism, Myriam Fougère films women’s bodies with grace. Young or old, the bodies are beautiful, though far…
Magie blanche relate des moments dans la journée d’une jeune fille, le jour de ses 13 ans, un vendredi 13… Magie…
Released in 1971, this lyrical short documentary marked the directorial debut of legendary Abenaki director Alanis Obomsawin. Filmed at a…
Fish yearns to see the sea once again. He asks a cat, a mouse, a dog, and a crow for…
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…
Une poésie – graver en couleur, texture, rythme. C’est l’art nomade, une signature en mouvement – passion en pianissimo.