Online cinema
Le jardin de Pupa
Giulia Frati
Pupa’s Garden is an intimate and touching portrait of Ida Emma Lonati Frati, known to all as Nonna Pupa. In the early 1980s, Nonna Pupa cleaned up an illegal dump and transformed it into a beautiful botanical garden for her community of Cernobbio, on Lake Como, Italy. Juggling the daily care of her daughter, who suffered from multiple sclerosis, with the creation of this splendid garden, Nonna Pupa was a pioneer in environmental awareness and therapeutic gardening. Her resilience, creativity, and charm inspire us all to continue her work. The garden is now called Il Giardino della Valle (The Garden of the Valley).
Les faux sapins
Justine Martin
Florence, 8, accompanies her sister Simone, 6, to meet Santa Claus at the local market. The magic is at its peak, but moments later, a traumatic incident occurs: Santa Claus is seized by violent jolts and falls dead. Shocked, Florence will do anything to protect her little sister’s imagination.
Dabla! Excision – Cessez l’excision
Erica Pomerance
Female genital mutilation is still practiced in 26 African countries, where two million girls are subjected to excision or infibulation each year. However, this tragedy is not confined to Africa. Many mutilated women seek political asylum in the West to protect their own daughters from the same fate. Filmed primarily in West Africa and Quebec, Dabla! Excision – Stop Excision tells the story of a few African and Quebec women who are leading a courageous fight to abolish these practices, the ultimate goal of which is the control of female sexuality.
Le temps qu’il faut
Abeille Tard
Ben is fifty, William is seventeen. Together, for a moment, they let go and allow themselves to be carried away by the music, liberating, healing.
Le pain perdu
Abeille Tard
A voiceover describes the artifacts left behind by a family member who died of wounds during the First World War. His diary, a slice of bread still wrapped in paper…
Le rire et la liberté d’expression sont parmi les plus belles conquêtes de l’humanité
Abeille Tard
A short animated film about freedom of expression in the style of a contemporary western.
Pippa et Léo
Abeille Tard
Pippa is a young mother with adaptation difficulties. One night, despite the curfew imposed on her, she leaves the shelter with her baby.
Synthèse III: Le cas Catherine Daviau
Maude Petel-Légaré
On Thursday, December 11, 2008, Catherine Daviau was raped and murdered in her home in Montreal’s quiet Rosemont neighborhood in Montreal. Before fleeing, the murderer attempted to burn her body. Neighbors were alerted by the fire raging in the ground-floor apartment. Thirteen years later, her murderer is still at large. Episode 1 | The Case of Catherine Daviau Episode 2 | The Rosemont Neighborhood Episode 3 | Who is Catherine? Episode 4 | The Aggressor Episode 5 | Composite Portrait and Forgotten History Episode 6 | Catherine Daviau: All Women
Le patenteux
Maude Petel-Légaré
Henri Painchaud is a proud Madelinot from Havre-Aubert (Magdalen Islands, Canada), a lover of history and encyclopedias who promised himself since childhood that one day he would build a trebuchet, a medieval weapon of war. Le patenteux (The Tinkerer) is an immersion in the routine of a man who never dreamed of greatness, yet who nevertheless achieves great things.
Les enfants nés du viol
Maude Petel-Légaré
How do you love your child born of sexual assault? How do you protect them from their violent parent? How do you live with the fact that you were born of rape? This five-part audio documentary is the fragmented story of five women. You will hear the testimonies of mothers who struggle daily to protect their children from their attacker. You will also hear the stories of women—children and mothers—who fought to be heard by a justice system that never received a hearing. In 2023, the Ministry of Justice estimated that 170 children were born of rape each year in Quebec. This audio documentary, without narration, aims to give voice to the children and mothers affected, with a view to regaining their power.
Au pays des cratères
Élise Ekker-Lambert
Gaël Poirier, an expatriate from Témiscamingue, is concerned about the mining boom linked to the energy transition plan, one of Quebec’s largest industrial projects. In Abitibi-Témiscamingue, as in several other regions of the province, open-pit mines will soon exploit critical and strategic minerals, essential resources for the battery industry. What will the impacts be on the territory and its residents? Is this the best plan for the transition? Episode 1 | Return to the Source Episode 2 | Anishnabe-aki Episode 3 | The Crack Episode 4 | Transition Episode 5 | What If There Is No Moon