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Qu’un au revoir
Geneviève Poulette
In a letter, a grandfather confides in his grandson, recalling the Normandy landings in 1944.
Squat!
Ève Lamont
Summer 2001 in Montreal, in the midst of a housing crisis, homeless people, the under-housed, and young activists occupy a vacant building. In the name of the right to housing, a political squat takes shape with the support of the city. Squat! exposes the hypocrisy and illogicality of the municipal authorities who stole the squatters’ initiative and idealism, drawing them into a political game of which they were the victims. The film not only reveals the voracious eye and biased coverage of the media, but also denounces the strong tendency of our capitalist society to not consider housing as a fundamental right and to repress any action to regain it autonomously.
Lazyboy
Ayana O’Shun
Marie-Hélène, a neurotic and distinguished woman, goes to her first appointment with a renowned psychologist. Wanting to prove that she doesn’t really need a shrink, she ridicules everything in the doctor’s office, but unknowingly goes from a dazzling superiority to the flattest discomfiture. It’s obvious: she’ll need to be on the doctor’s lazyboy a lot!
Entre mer et mur
Catherine Veaux-Logeat
When Frank took to the sea in the sixties, he left behind a wall and a woman. The wall was the one that divided Berlin for 28 years. The woman was his first love, Elisabeth. A Wall Within reveals the truth behind the walls in Frank’s family. Why did Elisabeth break her promise and never meet Frank in the West? Why won’t Frank speak to his brother who still lives in the East? A Wall Within tells the story of one man’s incredible life and the walls that still divide a family today – 30 years after Berlin’s fell.
Partenaire invisible
Sylvie Rosenthal
Dans le but de donner enfin l’heure juste sur les aidants naturels, quatre aidants naturels, âgés de 34 à 61 ans, qui prennent soin de leur parent, enfant ou conjoint, nous laissent entrer dans leur intimité et nous montrent leur dur quotidien. Abnégation de soi, isolement, épuisement et appauvrissement : voilà leur destinée. Dans le vif de l’action, ils nous partagent leurs émotions, leurs frustrations et proposent des solutions pour bonifier leur condition.
Tout le monde y gagne
Sylvie Rosenthal
In a knowledge economy dominated by information technologies and written communication, 48% of Canadians and 53% of Quebecers aged 16 to 65 are functionally illiterate. They lack the adequate reading, writing, numeracy and text comprehension skills to function well in everyday life, and at work where the tasks are increasingly complex. This is an alarming national economic issue! This generates major negative socio-economic impacts for individuals, companies and society, and it hinders the enrichment of all. The documentary Everyone Wins analyzes the situation and proposes winning solutions at school, for people living in poverty, for businesses and society. What are we all waiting for to take action?
A few lost words
Jennifer Alleyn
Inspirée par les oeuvres du peintre Edmund Alleyn, la romancière canadienne Nancy Huston compose en 2011, un soliloque poétique sur le détachement. La cinéaste Jennifer Alleyn en tire A few lost words, une vidéo expérimentale qui met en dialogue les mots et les images de deux artistes ayant choisit l’exil linguistique pour trouver «l’image juste ».
H2Oil
Shannon Walsh
In Canada’s richest province, the war for water has already begun. It goes without saying that water – its depletion, exploitation, privatization and contamination – has become the most important issue to face humanity in this century. Water security will soon define the boundaries between people and countries. The war for oil is well underway across the globe. However, a struggle is increasingly being fought between water and oil not only over them. Alberta’s oil sands are at the tension center. The province is rushing towards large-scale oil extraction, which will have far reaching impacts on water, health, animals and the environment in the region. H2Oil weaves together a collection of disparate but intersecting characters as they respond, engage, defend and seek solutions to the wavering balance between the urgent need to protect and preserve fresh water resources and the mad clamoring to fill the demand for oil globally.
Roger Tabra (Les grands reportages personnalités)
Geneviève Tremblay
Auteur, interprète et parolier, Roger Tabra choisit de vivre au Québec, en 1992, et devient rapidement un parolier à succès. Il compose la plupart des chansons d’Éric Lapointe, une collaboration qui dure depuis plus de 20 ans. Il signe aussi des textes pour Marie-Chantale Toupin, Luce Dufault, Isabelle Boulay, France d’Amour et plusieurs autres.
Guy Fournier: les femmes d’abord (Les grands reportages personnalités)
Geneviève Tremblay
Guy Fournier est un auteur incontournable de la télévision québécoise. Il a signé de multiples séries et téléromans qui ont marqué l’univers télévisuel tels que Rue de l’Anse, Jamais deux sans toi, Peau de banane, L’or et le papier et L’ombre de l’épervier. Il s’est aussi fait connaître pour ses propos controversés et provocateurs qui lui ont souvent porté ombrage dans sa carrière. Grand amoureux des femmes, dissimulé sous un masque de macho, Guy Fournier se révèle un homme beaucoup plus rose et sensible qu’il ne le laisse paraître.
Edith Butler, Aimer la vie (Les grands reportages personnalités)
Geneviève Tremblay
La culture acadienne est indissociable de cette artiste qui l’a portée à bout de bras à travers sa voix et ses chansons: musicienne engagée, profonde et réservée malgré les apparences, Édith Butler a tracé le chemin des plus grandes scènes du monde pour la génération qui lui a succédé.
Culture choc – L’amour éternel
Geneviève Tremblay
A unique and fascinating story of the secret life of Carmelite nuns in Trois-Rivieres. During 5 days, the journalist Geneviève Tremblay shared the daily life and privacy of women who have chosen to live in seclusion to better share their love of God.