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Hollywood Signals
Amandine Navarro
1975. Sur un tournage de film pornographique, des acteurs et figurants s’enivrent et profitent du moment entre deux prises. L’acteur principal du fameux film « Deep Throat » (Gorge profonde) nous parle du côté underground du milieu du film pornographique. Il prend le rôle du chanteur en faisant le playback.
Mr Hawk
Amandine Navarro
Le chanteur du groupe rentre chez lui après une grosse journée de travail. Il s’allume une cigarette et lance son application d’expérience virtuelle comme il le fait quotidiennement. Grâce à ses lunettes VR, il part à la rencontre de son animal totem, le faucon.
Leslie Love
Amandine Navarro
Leslie est une femme imbue d’elle-même, dotée d’un gros égo et d’une belle paire de bottes, tout lui est due. Se retrouvant dans un bar, elle bouscule le monde sur son passage, vole le verre d’un habitué, se sert du mascara d’une cliente… c’est une Queen, rien ne l’arrête.
Colours
Amandine Navarro
Surrounded by his group of dancers, Nick Saanto enters a strange museum. Welcomed by two drag queens, they discover a plurality of queer identities: a lesbian, a trans man, a drag child accompanied by drag queens, a gay man, a group of bisexuals. Locked in rooms and visible through windows, they represent specific moments of LGBTQ history. The Museum’s motto: “You can judge ok? But don’t express yourself!”. All kinds of visitors are present to look, discover and question themselves about these people… Through his voice/singing, Nick frees them from the museum and allows the community to celebrate their differences, beyond judgment.
Chill ou crève
Amandine Navarro
Après une soirée où l’alcool et la drogue est consommé à outrance, un groupe de jeunes se prépare à sortir mais l’un d’entre eux est malade. Les autres partent et le laissent seul dans la salle de bain… mais un étranger est entré dans la maison.
Femmes des casernes
Louise Leroux
FireWoman is an immersive, gender and genre bending documentary, which delves into the masculine world of firefighting… as lived by five charismatic firewomen. The film follows the work of these women as they devote themselves to a most untraditional pursuit, and showcase two stages in a firefighter’s trajectory: the challenges of newbies who try to get hired by the Montreal Fire Department and life on the force as full-time squad members. Less than thirty women are part of the Montreal Fire Department, compared to more than 2,300 men. In recent years however, things have started to change, thanks to the ” Les filles ont le feu sacré” program, an initiative intended to make young women aware of the attractions of the rewarding but very demanding job. During their studies, the hopefuls must redouble their efforts in order to be accepted in a field that doesn’t make it easy for them. We see this in the path full of pitfalls for young Justine and Karine, who would like to follow in the footsteps of Mélanie, a firefighter for 10 years at…
Et au pire on se mariera
Léa Pool
Comme l’enfer, l’amour est pavé de bonnes intentions. Et au pire, on se mariera, c’est l’histoire d’Aïcha, de ceux qui l’aiment, de cet amour qui dévore et qui détruit. Seule avec sa mère Isabelle, Aïcha ne pardonne pas à celle-ci d’avoir mis à la porte son beau-père algérien qu’elle adorait. Elle espère toujours qu’il reviendra la chercher. Lorsqu’elle rencontre Baz, un gars qui a le double de son âge, c’est le coup de foudre, le vrai, le fort, celui qui fait mal. Lui ne veut qu’aider cette jeune fille qui semble perdue mais elle désire bien plus de lui et elle est prête à tout pour l’obtenir. Suivre Aïcha, c’est entrer dans un labyrinthe pour s’y perdre autant qu’elle…
Avant la nuit
Nadine Gomez
In conversations with passionate sociologist and political thinker Jean Pichette, the filmmaker views the forced downtime stemming from the current crisis as an opportunity to rethink our modes of existence and our relationship to others, nature, science, the economy, art, politics—in short, everything that makes us human.
Still Feel You With Me
Béatriz Mediavilla
Dance short film recounting a collective dance experience during a workshop led by Béatriz Mediavilla at the Portland Dance Film Festival. Shot in October 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic with 8 dancers from around the world.
Comme une vague
Marie-Julie Dallaire
Big Giant Wave is an ode to music, the invisible abstract and fleeting sequence of sounds that creates in the brain the same reaction as chocolate, sex, or drugs. Conceived as a cinematographic wave, this documentary takes us from Canada to Italy via Sweden, Mexico and the American West Coast to meet fascinating scientists and artists who, from their various backgrounds, illustrate our essential connection with rhythm, music, our planet, the brain, daily lives and our collective humanity.
Habiter le mouvement, un récit en dix chapitres
Béatriz Mediavilla
In 2017, Thierry Thieû Niang, choreographer, toured in eastern Canada with Cinédanse to offer intergenerational workshops to non-dancers. According to movement is a cinematic journey where the thoughtful gesture merges into this great human choreography. Subdivided into 10 chapters, the feature film is a poetic and playful reflection on the beauty of the everyday gestures that define us as living beings. It also presents a portrait of Thierry Thieû Niang through is choreographies. An invitation to live according to movement.
Danse avec elles
Béatriz Mediavilla
At Rouyn-Noranda, north Québec, we find a dance school that has been run by the same person for 45 years. With her unique approach, choregrapher Lynn Vaillancourt teaches singing and different kinds of dancing. The PRELV school does not limit itself to dance teaching. It spreads values that are filled with humanity and dignity to girls aged between four and twenty. Over a one-year period, filmmaker integrated herself into the PRELV activities, and the documentary exposes the school’s distinctiveness and the ties that unite the young dancers together.