Online cinema
The Sea Hut – 海边的小屋
Jeanne Pope
The Sea Hut – 海边的小屋 is a hybrid documentary, a story within a story. A story of uprooted people, identity, love, loss, and memories. The story wavers between my mother’s childhood memories in Shanghai in 1935, with her beloved Chinese nanny, ‘Ama,’ the Sino-Japanese War, in China, and World War II in England, and a fishing village in contemporary China, where a small seaside hut becomes a catalyst and a “veil” between two worlds and two times: Europe and China, past and present. It is also my own journey, China being a link between me and my mother; Ama and my mother.
Baghe Hezar Dokhtaroon (The Garden of a Thousand Girls)
Leila Khalilzadeh
Grandma and her granddaughter live happily together in a small house. One day the little girl, bewitched by a blue light, goes down the well in their kitchen and gets lost. Grandma searches everywhere to find her. She even sends a crow after her. But there is no sign of her. Then a frog comes along. The frog non verbally conveys that they should go into the well to find the girl. So begins their journey to the land of black ghouls and white ones.
Yek Nafar Mibafad (Someone Is Weaving)
Leila Khalilzadeh
In the village of Nashalj in Iran, Gohar Andalib recounts her life: childhood, poverty, youth, love failure, marriage, and her husband’s death. She devoted her entire life to making Giveh (Iranian traditional shoes). She feels happy because she is weaving.
Meel va Namad (Meels & Felt)
Leila Khalilzadeh
Akbar Pir Ahmadi is one of the few master craftsmen who make felt in Shiraz, Iran. He begins his routine working day early in the morning. Many people visit him during the day: A friend for help, two customers for buying felt, and his little girl who has her lunch with her father – In the evening, he goes to the Zurkhaneh (Iran traditional gymnasium) to practice Pahlevani rituals.
Nazdik be Marg (Near to Death)
Leila Khalilzadeh
There are reports of people dying as a result of accidents, concussion, heart attack, etc. and coming back to life after a while. This phenomenon is called the Near Death Experience. This documentary reports the words of eight women and men who have undergone NDE and reflect their observations of a spiritual world by means of animation.
Mahiye sorkh shodeh (The Fried Fish)
Leila Khalilzadeh
Fish yearns to see the sea once again. He asks a cat, a mouse, a dog, and a crow for help, one after another. They each eat a part of his flesh and carry him some distance down the path to the sea. But after a while, one by one, they put him down and leave. In the end, some ants throw the fish’s skeleton into the sea. The fish happily swims away in the deep blue sea.
A Model Employee
Leila Khalilzadeh
To keep her day job at a local restaurant, an aspiring DJ has to wear a tracking wristband. As it tracks her life outside of work, she tries to fool the system, but a new device upgrade means trouble.
Chef de meute
Chloé Robichaud
Clara’s overwhelming family can’t understand her solitary life, wishing she would find someone to grow old with. Following her aunt’s sudden death, Clara is put in charge of her pet. Little does she know that these are the first steps to an unlikely, but empowering, friendship.
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Geneviève Sauvé
Lying down on her bed, she receives a text message from a man she likes.He asks for a picture of her. Dissatisfied with the clichés she took, she starts a game where she takes herself for the famous Cindy Sherman, in four photographs from her Untitled Film Stills serie.
Her
Geneviève Sauvé
After trying to figure out who her husband’s mistress is, Sophia falls in love with fer.
Jeune Juliette
Anne Émond
Fourteen-year old Juliette lives in the country with her father and her older brother. When Juliette was younger, her mother left the family to pursue her career in New York; from that moment, Juliette started to gain weight. Today, she’s not obese, but she’s clearly the heaviest girl at her high school. But that doesn’t stop her from being vivacious, funny and unrepentantly rebellious. Juliette has big dreams: she wants to throw the best parties, move to New York to live with her mother, and date the most gorgeous guy in her school, an older boy who is about to graduate. In short, she wants everything she can’t have—which sometimes makes her forget to appreciate those who really love her. We follow this brazen and endearing girl during her hectic last few weeks before summer vacation, and watch as she does some growing up—but not too much.
Apapacho – Une caresse pour l’âme
Marquise Lepage
Durant un voyage au Mexique, Karine et Estelle, dont leur sœur adorée vient de mourir, sont témoins des préparatifs de la Fête des morts dans un village où cet événement est célébré avec de réjouissantes activités. La beauté de la fête les inspire. Et la délicatesse et l’humour de leurs hôtes, devenus guides spirituels pour l’occasion, leur permettront d’observer la mort de leur sœur avec plus de légèreté.