Online cinema
Between Stone And Sky Blue
Arianna Bardesono
Between Stone And Sky Blue is an 8-minute documentary short film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. How can we resist the call of violence? How can we bring the two peoples closer together across the 710 km of wall that encloses the Palestinian territories? Although the far right is undeniably growing, the peace movement remains active and shared on both sides of the wall. The words of hope spoken by Ann and Reefat, an Israeli and a Palestinian respectively, seem to echo the need to cultivate peace within oneself…
Fanny ne sort jamais sans son bat
Charlotte Clerk
Fanny loves baseball, Ayoub loves Fanny and Michel steals wallets to find relief from boredom. Together they form an unlikely trio for one absurd afternoon.
À l’heure de la décolonisation
Monique Fortier
This short documentary film, consisting of interviews and footage shot in Africa, takes us straight back to the 1960s, during the turbulent period following the Algerian War and the independence of several other African countries. What are the consequences of French colonization and what ties will remain between France and its former colonies? A valuable educational, social, and political document that encourages reflection on the cultural identity of all French-speaking countries around the world.
La beauté même
Monique Fortier
“I have often wondered what constitutes beauty…” So says Monique Miller, who in this short documentary film personifies the universal woman, anxious to please since childhood, vulnerable, depending on the moment, to the gaze of others, to the torture of waiting, to the obsession with tomorrow’s wrinkles. This film, which attempts to define what beauty means to women, as presented to them by the advertising world as the ultimate goal, was made in the 1960s. It is one of the first films to have been made by a woman about women.
Deux actrices
Micheline Lanctôt
A young woman with a quiet life receives an unexpected visit from a woman who claims to be her older sister. After some hesitation, she decides to take her in for a while, which turns her life with her husband upside down. The two sisters, who don’t know each other, must learn to get along and accept each other. At the same time, the two actresses who play the roles in this fictional story talk about the characters they portray, sharing their own stories and inventing troubling parallels between their real and fictional lives. A film alternating between video and 16 mm images. Two sisters who do not know each other learn to accept each other as adults. At the same time, the two actresses who play the roles in this fictional story in the film talk about the characters they portray, telling their own stories and inventing troubling parallels between their real and fictional lives.
Onzième spéciale
Micheline Lanctôt
Esther (Sylvie Catherine Beaudoin), thirty-five years old, married and a mother, is a hyperactive woman. She dreams of a career as a painter. Today, she feels the time has come to have her talent recognized. But the road to success is fraught with obstacles. Her painter friends and former schoolmates, whom she meets again eighteen years later, are only interested in themselves and their own career plans. Esther comes up against a wall of indifference, and her determination to succeed at all costs creates conflict with her husband. This broad portrait depicts an idealistic young woman eager to “make it” and, more fiercely, a social group locked into its own success.
La poursuite du bonheur
Micheline Lanctôt
Have we bought into the American formula for happiness at a discount? In our materialistic society, consumption has become a cultural norm. We are all carried along on an endless conveyor belt where, like chickens strung up in a row, we live and die in series.
Le mythe de la bonne mère
Micheline Lanctôt
In most cultures, the mother is expected to be the embodiment of goodness, compassion, sacrifice, selflessness, self-giving, gentleness, and morality. The documentary Le mythe de la bonne mère (The Myth of the Good Mother) offers a reflection on the role of the mother today and how it has evolved over time. The role of the mother, like her image, has changed over the last century. Influenced by major wars and multiple cultural revolutions, motherhood has gradually become sacred. Does the concept of the good mother exist? What if motherhood were simply an instinct, present in mothers to varying degrees?
9 – Le film
Micheline Lanctôt
They come in nines: nine situations, nine slices of life all depicted differently and sometimes intersecting, all about the modern ills of loneliness and isolation. Inspired by Stéphane E. Roy’s play, Neuf variations sur le vide, filmmakers Claude Brie (Banqueroute), Érik Canuel (Halte routière), Jean-Philippe Duval (Hystérie), Marc Labrèche (Le lecteur), Micheline Lanctôt (Je me souviens), Luc Picard (Subitement), Stéphane E. Roy (Abus), Éric Tessier (Eccéité) and Ricardo Trogi (Fuite) set out to make a satire that exposes what’s really bothering us. A tight sketch comedy built around characters attending a lecture by “Communic- Action” expert Marc Gélinas, who is forced to question his own teachings when he meets the love of his life.
L’heure de grande écoute – Je l’ai rencontrée au dépanneur (E16)
Gabrielle Thouin
Sara Ben-Saud
Convenience stores: those local spots where people go for much more than just milk. For this special Kino-radio episode, eight artists had 48 hours to immerse themselves in stories about convenience stores, where mutual aid, community, music, and resistance intersect.
Peau à peau
Chloé Cinq-Mars
Following a harrowing hold-up, a new mother neglects her baby and pursues an affair with an ex-lover, stirring up traumatic memories as sleeplessness weakens her grip on reality.
Ce qu’on laisse derrière
Alexandra Myotte
Dan has a gaping hole in his neck that won’t heal. Why? He can’t remember, nor talk about it. Back in the sinister arena of his childhood, he must find the part of himself he once left behind that prevents him, now an adult, from being whole.