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Le dep
Sonia Bonspille Boileau
Le Dep is a psychological drama about Lydia, a young Innu woman who works at her father’s convenience store in a small First Nations community in rural Quebec. One night, as she prepares to close up shop, a masked robber enters the store and holds her at gunpoint. This traumatic experience becomes even more troubling when Lydia recognizes her assailant. Before long, she will have to make a decision that will forever change the course of her life.
La cueca sola
Marilú Mallet
Documentaire sur le coup d’état du 11 septembre 1973, au Chili. Une dictature militaire s’installe au pouvoir pour 17 ans. Des milliers d’hommes disparaissent. «Donde Estan?», (Où sont-ils?), demandent leurs femmes, leurs partenaires de cueca, cette danse chilienne qui se joue à deux. Dans un sursaut de douleur, elles montent au front et arrachent la démocratie. Pourtant, dans l’entrebâillement de leur vie, elles continuent de danser la Cueca Sola, seules. Ce documentaire raconte la vie de cinq femmes au destin écorché par la dictature, devenues des héroïnes de la démocratie.
Oscar
Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre
Brilliantly mixing animated sequences and archival footage, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre paints a touching portrait of virtuoso pianist Oscar Peterson. As with her previous films (McLaren’s Negative and Jutra), Saint-Pierre pursues her bold and personal approach with this animated documentary of Oscar Peterson at the twilight of an exceptional career, as he wistfully meditates on the price of fame and the impacts of the artist’s life on family life. From the young prodigy’s beginnings in Little Burgundy to his triumphs on the international stage alongside the biggest stars of his time, Oscar explores the profound solitude of an artist constantly on tour, and the difficulty in reconciling his professional success with his role as husband and father. Set to the tunes of Peterson’s sometimes catchy, sometimes melancholy-tinged compositions, the film alternates between animated sequences and footage of radio and video interviews to tell a heartfelt story about a life in jazz.
McLarena
Mouna Andraos
Collective canons – McLarena is a commissioned work by the Quartier des Spectacles and the National Film Board of Canada for the McLaren Wall-to-Wall tribute, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Norman McLaren’s birth. The installation is inspired by the film Canon (1964), created by Norman McLaren and Grant Munro. The film illustrates the principle of a musical and visual canon with a character proceeding through a sequence of movements, which are reproduced in regular intervals.
La cuisine rouge
Paule Baillargeon
Frédérique Collin
«Les personnages féminins qu’il y a dans La Cuisine rouge sont à la fois des mères, des prostituées, des folles et des actrices. Mais en même temps, et à leur insu, elles sont des êtres nouveaux anarchistes, portant en elles les germes de la révolution.» (Paule Baillargeon)
Le sexe des étoiles
Paule Baillargeon
Camille is 12 years old and has a fondness for the stars that she looks at each night through her telescope. She lives with her mother, but constantly dreams of Pierre, the father she adores who lives in New York. There he is, appearing suddenly one night as Marie-Pierre. Despite this transformation, Camille decides to follow her transsexual father so that she may live with him. With the energy of despair, she decides to try convince him to become a man again, but the strange being who accedes to her wishes is no longer the father she once knew. (ONF website)
Trente tableaux
Paule Baillargeon
Paule Baillargeon is 37 years old, 11 years old, 65 years old. . . In this film composed of fragments, she tells her story: the story of a woman, a filmmaker, a mother, a feminist, an artist. Of an actress, too, who delivers a powerful narrative that is both soothing and unsettling. These potent images, her images—filmed, painted, photographed, drawn, animated—merge into the portrait of a life that has been wild, rebellious and gentle. The tableaux are not so much autobiography as an authentic tale, as unpredictable and unique as any life.
La respiration de l’abeille
Sandra Coppola
Violette (60 years old) has a hoarding disorder. Barbara is a social worker. She visits Violette to help her. But what if the one who needs help isn’t the one we think of?
Écartée
Lawrence Côté-Collins
Anick, a documentary filmmaker trying to make a documentary on social reintegration, moves into the isolated house that Scott, an ex-convict in his fifties, shares with Jessie, his young companion. But very quickly, the objectivity of the documentarian gives way to the subjectivity of her desires, and Anick falls in love with Jessie, risking everything.
Un exemple de succès
Lawrence Côté-Collins
Portrait of Daniel Campeau, a professional actor who chose urban exodus to earn a living like a winner.
Score
Lawrence Côté-Collins
Audrey and David wash their dirty linen in public while debating the question: “How much is too much?”
Fuck That
Lawrence Côté-Collins
The director and her father discuss life while children play in the rain.
Pas de pain pas de gain
Lawrence Côté-Collins
Denis Manzanno no longer has any contact with money. He survives by bartering. Portrait of a man on the margins.
Les êtres chers
Anne Émond
The story begins in 1978 in a small village on the Lower St. Lawrence, as the Leblanc family is rocked by the tragic death of Guy. Husband to Aline and father to five children, Guy is found dead in the basement of the family home. For many years, the real cause of his death is hidden from certain members of the family, his son David among them. In turn, David starts his own family with his wife Marie. He lovingly raises his children, Laurence and Frédéric, but deep down he still carries with him a kind of unhappiness.
Interférences
Nadia Fortin
Nous parlons tous la même langue, mais… Souvent, nos préjugés viennent brouiller notre message même si on parle tous un beau français.
Jade & Matteo
Myriam Guimond
Jade et Mattéo s’aiment. Leur quotidien est ébranlé par les comportements étranges de Mattéo et le conformisme de Jade qui garde les yeux fermés. L’amour qui les unit sera mis à l’épreuve dans ce huis clos. Que faire devant un être cher qui perd pied ?
Le gardien d’hiver
Katherine Jerkovic
Edgar, a lonely and socially awkward immigrant takes care of an apartment for a friend away on vacation. As he visits, he becomes familiar with the absent woman’s intimate space. He begins to desire her and anticipate her return. The months go by, the mail piles up and eventually, reality sinks in.
Iqqaumavara – Je m’en souviens
Évangéline De Pas
Marquise Lepage
In the early 1950s, a dozen Inuit families from Inukjuak were deported to Grise Fjord and Resolute Bay by the Canadian government. They were put aboard the C.D. Howe ship with the promise of a better life, abundant game and fish and the possibility of coming back. But instead, hunger, cold and the glacial winter night awaited them in the Arctic. Abandoned and left to survive under the harshest climate on the planet, they were cut off from their loved ones for decades. IQQAUMAVARA-I remember – is an essential website about the history and memory of families touched by the relocation.
In Search of a Lost Continent
Elza Kephart
The film is told from the point-of-view of a schizophrenic, or perhaps a mystic, walking through the city in search of a mythical “lost continent”.
Suzie
Micheline Lanctôt
Suzie, 58 ans, a perdu sa fille il y a plus de vingt ans lorsque celle-ci a été enlevée par son père marocain. Depuis, elle vit en recluse et travaille comme chauffeur de taxi la nuit. Un soir d’Halloween, une jeune femme abandonne un enfant de dix ans dans son taxi, avec une adresse et un billet de cinquante dollars.
L’homme à tout faire
Micheline Lanctôt
Le film, qui sera primé à San Sebastian, raconte l’histoire d’un homme dont la naïveté et la galanterie d’un autre âge sont à l’origine de nombreux déboires sentimentaux, tout particulièrement lorsqu’il s’amourache d’une belle bourgeoise dont il est l’homme à tout faire.
La vie d’un héros
Micheline Lanctôt
The Second World War has just ended. There are still prisoners of war captured by the Allies in Canada. In the Eastern Townships, Agathe and Bertin Chevalier, who need help on the farm, call on the services of a German prisoner from the nearby military base. This is how Hanibal Walburg enters their lives. Initially wary, the Chevalier family is seduced by the newcomer. He becomes particularly close to Agathe, who has been somewhat neglected since her husband entered politics. A troubled relationship develops between Agathe and Hanibal, who soon returns to Europe. Over time, the young German transforms into a true legend in the eyes of the family. Agathe continues to write to him and even visits him ten years after his departure. Then silence falls until, nearly half a century after the war, Hanibal returns to Canada. The reunion ends in a confrontation that seriously shakes the myth.
Sashinka
Kristina Wagenbauer
Sasha’s mother arrives on her doorstep like a hurricane without warning. The young musician is unable to hide her trepidation as her mother asks to sleep on her couch. As Sasha prepares for the most important concert of her career, the pitiful reasons for her mother’s visit come to light. Sasha must find a way to survive the remaining 24 hours before her big show, confronting both the volatile woman and the past that Sasha had worked so hard to leave behind her.
Amen
Marie-Hélène Viens
Adam, 11, is a messenger sent by God to spread the Final News. He’ll heal you from your sins and prepare you for the Last Day. Will you be ready when they come? You don’t have a lot of time, they’re here : the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Amen.