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La méthode scandinave
Anik Salas
Filmmaker Anik Salas travels to Scandinavian societies – world leaders in gender equality – to understand the key to their success. Part investigation, part manifesto, her documentary reveals one essential truth: change does not happen by magic, but through political will and concrete strategies. An urgent, fiercely committed film that refuses to postpone equality to another century.
Kaïros
Jennifer Alleyn
After a year of filming abroad, Manu, a once prominent actor, returns to his hometown. But getting back into the business isn’t as easy as he thought. After several unsuccessful auditions, he’s no longer sure of anything. Against all odds, he lands a job hosting a nighttime call-in radio show. His listeners are mainly newcomers, refugees and exiles with varied life experiences, working graveyard shifts. Manu gradually appropriates this space, this gathering of mixed voices, to launch philosophical questions into the night. His words are engaging. He becomes an anchor for many listeners. His life takes on new meaning.
Pour une histoire des Noirs au canada
Marilyn Cooke
Eva Kabuya
Pour une histoire des Noirs au Canada (For a History of Black Canadians) is a vibrant and exciting animated series that tells the extraordinary stories of Black people who have shaped Canadian history. Over the course of its 20 episodes, young viewers are immersed in unique stories that span different eras and fields, from politics to sports to the arts. In this series, we patrol the streets of Ontario with Peter Butler III, the province’s first Black police officer, and lace up our skates with Willie O’Ree, the NHL’s first Black player. We follow Yvette Bony, the first doctor to perform a bone marrow transplant on a child in Quebec, and we take the plunge from the highest peaks with Jennifer Abel, the first Black woman to win an Olympic medal in diving. Vibrant, accessible, and moving, Pour une histoire des Noirs au Canada explores, with great sensitivity, themes such as racism and slavery. We celebrate the achievements and legacy of these figures who, with great determination and courage in the face of adversity, have written an important part of…
Tough Old Broads
Stacey Tenenbaum
Kathrine Switzer, Siila Watt-Cloutier, and Sharon Farmer. They are the first woman to run the Boston Marathon officially, the first woman to connect climate change to human rights, and the first woman to serve as Chief White House Photographer. These trailblazing women broke barriers in their time and continue to pursue their passions to this day. They’re living proof that you can follow your dreams and maybe change the world in the process.
Mon amour c’est pour le restant de mes jours
André-Line Beauparlant
An intimate and unfiltered portrait of the legendary figure of Quebec cinema, Robert Morin, who has also been my partner for 25 years. Through my eyes, I sketch the contours of a singular man and a complex, uncompromising artist—much like his films. A documentary that interweaves excerpts from his films with previously unseen footage shot while he was on set, hunting, by the fire, by the river, in the woods at Montcerf, in Montreal, and in Rome. Reflections on creation, love, life, and death that he shares with me, his daughter Alix, colleagues, and friends. We see him as he is: a Robert Morin who doesn’t try to please, true to himself, without pretense or evasion.
Pipe Dreams
Stacey Tenenbaum
Pipe Dreams follows five young organists as they compete in Canada’s prestigious International Organ Competition (CIOC). Who will master the ‘king of instruments’ and come out victorious in Montreal? Pipe Dreams gives you an inside look into the wonderful world of competitive organ playing. From the quietest tinkling of a bell to the rumble of a locomotive… This is organ playing like you have never heard it before!
Bleu Tango
Marion Chuniaud-Lacau
Born mute, Azalia has made her body her language. Her desire to express herself has never been stifled by the limitations imposed by the world around her. Through her art, the young woman breaks free from the social, physical, and psychological constraints associated with the cerebral palsy she has.
Origen
Marion Chuniaud-Lacau
A choreographer in the midst of creation retraces her own steps back to 1990s violence-torn Colombia. Through her memories, she is immersed in a new introspective space, with different perceptions of body and time, ultimately becoming free to exist. This movie is freely inspired from « Mémoire d’un corps à travers le temps » by choreographer Yesenia Fuentes.
Malika in Waiting
Marlene Edoyan
Within the boundaries of limited space and through the visual repetition of gestures, the film immerses us in the life of Malika, a migrant worker from Sri Lanka living in Beirut. As she navigates a transformative period of grief and loss, Malika finds herself in a deep state of introspection, searching for the strength to carry on. Her loneliness mirrors that of the elderly woman she works for, forging an unexpected connection between two seemingly disparate lives. In their shared moments of isolation and despair, an unlikely friendship emerges, creating space for both women to find solace and resilience in each other.
Un feu au loin
Marlene Edoyan
In southern Georgia, the picturesque village of Gandzani embodies the living memory of an Armenian community where the echoes of exile and nostalgia for the Soviet era still resonate. As the seasons pass, this sensitive film paints an impressionistic portrait of life across this vast, open landscape. A Fire There explores the concerns and uncertainties of three friends on the cusp of adulthood as they confront their individual and shared futures. Henrikh moves to the capital, Tbilisi, to study international affairs and pursue his dream of democracy. Karlen, a shepherd weighed down by family obligations, considers migrant work in Russia as a possible path toward independence. Meanwhile, Hakob, caught in the repetition of daily labour, searches for his place within patriarchal norms and expectations, as his long-distance relationship begins to fade. With a deep sense of camaraderie, A Fire There paints an intimate portrait of a generation of young men who aspire to move beyond the limitations imposed by geography, history and society. The film embraces a quiet visual poetry, magnifying the raw beauty of this wind-swept territory. In doing…
Widnet il-Baħar – Les oreilles de la mer
mathilde capone
Malta, a tiny archipelago in the heart of the Mediterranean, bears the traces of all those who crossed it, conquered it, inhabited it… or left it. In its cemeteries, its churches, and its old towns with slippery sidewalks, migrant memories emerge, carried by a language of Arabic origin that still resonates. Widnet il-Bahar means “ears of the sea,” a shell native to the island of Malta, which forms part of artist mathilde capone’s identity. In the form of a travel journal, mathilde sets out to discover it and questions its history, landscapes, language, and people. With the help of a Super 8 camera, a sensitive dialogue emerges from the interplay of impressions, encounters, and reflections. The camera, blurred, reveals a timid apprehension in the face of this quest. A real character, Malta reveals itself under its curious gaze, while mathilde’s voice guides us through her journey, echoing the ghosts and mirages of her own origins.
Beau temps, mauvais temps
Florence Lafond
Renée, 83, broke her ankle. Fortunately, she can rely on her granddaughter Florence, who steps in as her caregiver. While this ordeal brings them closer than ever, it inevitably confronts them with the reality of Renée’s decline.