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Faces de jam
Stéphanie Lessard-Bérubé
The dreamlike view of a traditional Quebec music session makes Faces de jam an experience for all the senses. From the outside, the jam circle is a whole. From the inside, it is a creator of interactions between memory, learning and interpretation. Like an experimental painting, this film quietly harmonises in colour and nuance a sum of individuals, instruments and pieces.
King Lajoie
Joannie Lafrenière
August 16, 1977, the life of a young 18-year-old trifluvian collapses: his idol, whom he considers his spiritual brother has just been found dead in his mansion in Memphis. The rest is part of history, but what about the young man grown up through the glitter of his idol? In this unusal and colorful biopic, King Lajoie offers a kitsch dive into the world of Elvis Lajoie, a man who shares much more than a name with his idol. A short documentary film produced by Colonelle Films with the collaboration of CBC DOCS
Xalko
Hind Benchekroun
Xalko, un village kurde en Anatolie subsiste encore grâce aux femmes qui gardent le fort tandis que leurs hommes sont tous ou presque exilés en Europe. Ce documentaire observe la vie qui se poursuit à Xalko et questionne l’avenir de ce village menacé par l’exode. Ultimement, Xalko porte un regard insolite sur la migration du point de vue de ceux qui restent.
Bienvenue aux dames
Jenny Cartwright
June 1971. It hasn’t been two years since mankind walked on the Moon. Yet in the Canadian province of Quebec, women cannot set foot – by Law – in a tavern. A group of thirsty activists determined to put an end to this anachronism invite themselves at Taverne Tremblay and order a round of beers.
Là où je suis
Myriam Magassouba
During a brutal Quebec winter, a teenage girl mourns her best friend killed in a car accident.
Hortense
Jenny Cartwright
Hortense est une transposition sonore de la nouvelle La roseraie d’Esther Rochon. Elle raconte un voyage en mer, des mondes parallèles, des têtes tranchées. C’est de la science-fiction. C’est surtout le récit de l’émancipation d’une femme.
Prisons sans barreaux
Nicole Giguère
Isabelle Hayeur
Our environment is saturated with chemicals and electromagnetic frequencies. The adverse effects of these massive exposures affect a growing number of individuals. Among them are Isabelle, Kathya, Jean-François, Sylvain et Jayden. A glimpse into the little-known world of environmental illness
Bien sûr
Sylvie Laliberté
Small demonstration of “what a mountain is for” with some small objects, words and a song.
Une femme est une femme et moi aussi
Sylvie Laliberté
Here is an interior woman who knows how to receive and who speaks very decorative and so feminine. The result of a very special attention, the image and the sound are one, that is to say that they go at the same speed; at the speed of a woman who seeks to know, in a very simple and practical way. Or when being a woman is almost child’s play.
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!