Online cinema
Impetus
Jennifer Alleyn
An engineer (Emmanuel Schwartz) abandoned by his lover, a filmmaker (Jennifer Alleyn) abandoned by her actor, an actress friend in self-reflection (Pascale Bussières), a musician-philosopher who put away his guitar (J. Reissner), they all hit a wall. Impetus follows, from Montreal to New York, four individuals colliding, each giving the other a new impulse, a liberating impetus. In a free form that gives way to the creative process, Impetus combines documentary and autofiction, in an ode to the possibilities offered by the intervals between real and imaginary.
LIKE IT
Jenny Cartwright
LIKE IT is a short film reminiscent of another era. It was written, shot and edited on an impulse – three days. Starring the French singer Douce angoisse, it is the melancholy journey from the suburbs to the city of a woman full of doubts. It rains.
Trajectoires
Jenny Cartwright
Trajectoires is a hybrid video installation project directly inspired by documentary filmmaking. It explores the different paths taken by seven residents of Parc-Extension, one of the country’s most diverse neighborhood. The work explores the trajectories that brought it’s subjects here, and the new ones they are describing orbiting through this rapidly changing part of the city. The work scrutinizes the neighborhood’s own trajectory as gentrification looms ahead. How will Université de Montreal’s new science campus affect the lives of local residents? Matching the size of 38 football fields, and set to attract 10 000 every day, the new site is sure to have important impacts on the urban enclave of Parc-Extension and it’s mostly immigrant population. Produced as part of the residency of the Catalyst of urban imaginations
கோயில் (The Temple)
Jenny Cartwright
At the northern tip of Sri Lanka stands Nallur Kandaswamy, one of the country’s most important Hindu temple. It has known many hardships throughout its long history, being destroyed during the Dutch colonial and more recently during the Sri Lanka Civil War. To this day the Temple remains a powerful example of the resilience of the Tamil community. Each year it hosts a religious festival which spans over 25 days and brings more than 300 000 people to the small Town of Nallur in the Jaffna District. Part ethnographic film and part experimental film, கோயில் is a hybrid piece of cinematography that questions the act of observing. The camera deploys itself not only as a character but also as a filter and developer which reveals the distance that separates the filmmaker from her subject.
Debouttes!
Jenny Cartwright
En 1971, les membres du Front de libération des femmes – le FLF – orchestrent un coup d’éclat pour dénoncer le système de justice sexiste et sa Loi des jurés qui stipule que seuls les hommes aisés peuvent faire partie d’un jury au Québec. Construit à partir des récits de Marjolaine Péloquin, alors membre du FLF, et de Lise Balcer, accusée d’appartenir au FLQ, d’archives et de chansons emblématiques de l’époque, Debouttes! fait vivre de l’intérieur la genèse de l’action des jurées, l’incarcération des militantes et la brève histoire du Front de libération des femmes (1969-1971) qui mènera plusieurs batailles importantes, notamment une campagne nationale en faveur de l’avortement libre et gratuit – des luttes qui résonnent encore aujourd’hui, et que les manuels d’histoire ont choisi de ne pas raconter.
Foyer
Sophie B. Jacques
Emilie comes back home after renting her house to complete strangers online. Too bad she will never know what really happened during her absence.
La petite maison
Catherine Veaux-Logeat
La réussite de 3 jeunes mamans arrivées en détresse à la Petite Maison de la Miséricorde où l’on accueille les femmes cheffes de famille mono parentales. Une institution fondée par Sœur Rosalie.
Animal
Pascale Paroissien
“… If you hurt the wisest heads And make people become beasts? Fable extract Jean de La Fontaine, The lion in love.
Exit
Pascale Paroissien
Through sounds and images, through the eye and the camera lens, a subtle cohesion emerges in this short film by Pascale Paroissien. Its impressionist path illuminates the landscape; its continual return to its starting point leads to an epiphany.
Mon père sans mon père
Pascale Paroissien
After several years of sporadic and unpredictable visits, a turning point reunites my father and I. Seeing him more often renews my sense of hope but disappointment will slowly set in and expectations will grow.
Aqua Incognita made in China
Nathalie Lasselin
Deep inside China, they dared explore beyond frontiers and could change the very way we look at the Earth. Aqua Incognita: a human adventure, a journey into the bowels of the Earth to reach something undiscovered in ourselves and others