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Les furies
Mélanie Charbonneau
With its intense and imperfect heroines, Les furies (The Furies) is Quebec’s first female-led sports comedy. Waterloo will now have its own semi-pro men’s hockey team, effectively kicking the amateur women’s leagues out of the arena. To avenge their lost ice time, an impulsive hockey player and a ruthless octogenarian – a former derby champion – have a plan: recruit the city’s misfits and start an underground roller derby team. With the help of the Cercle de fermières (Circle of Women Farmers), they will prove that women’s sports can also thrill crowds and that sisterhood is the ultimate act of resistance.
IA : l’angle mort
Arianna Bardesono
Artificial intelligence is no longer a promise for the future: it is already reshaping our lives, often without regulation or oversight. As Quebec opens the door to public administration and GAFAM reigns unopposed, unfair automated decisions threaten equality and social justice. AI: The Blind Spot (IA : l’angle mort) is the first French-language documentary to expose this invisible danger. It gives a voice to victims, questions those responsible, and asks the real question: who does AI serve, and at what cost to our rights and our democracy?
Au-delà du regard
Arianna Bardesono
Beyond the Gaze (Au-delà du regard) tells the story of Carlos, a blind young man who refuses to be shackled by social constraints. Endowed with an indomitable spirit and a passion for the arts, Carlos finds his place in a world that was not created in his image.
Silvana
Arianna Bardesono
After their father’s death, three sisters try everything they can to restore their mother’s zest for life. This short film is based on personal archives and those of the National Film Board of Canada.
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?