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La maison des Syriens
Nadine Beaudet
In the region of Portneuf, an encounter is slowly unveiled between the here and there, and comes to life through the long wait and small gestures of love of the Saint-Ubalde Sponsoring Committee, who works tirelessly towards the ultimate dream of welcoming a family of Syrian refugees.
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.
Isla Blanca
Jeanne Leblanc
Mathilde (24 ans), qui est en fugue depuis 8 ans, revient dans la ville de son enfance après des années d’absence inexpliquée. Le retour n’est jamais facile, surtout qu’elle sait que sa mère est gravement malade et sur le point de mourir. Mais pour pouvoir dire adieu, il faut d’abord recoller les pots cassés. Le temps d’une journée, Mathilde sera confrontée à ses décisions d’adolescentes et aux conséquences qu’elle a eues sur sa famille.
Les Nôtres
Jeanne Leblanc
The tight-knit community of Sainte-Adeline has always stuck together through thick and thin. But a shocking incident forces its citizens to face themselves. At the epicentre of the scandal is 13-year-old Magalie, Manuel, the charismatic mayor’s adopted son, and their protective mothers, Isabelle and Chantale, who are relegated to mere spectators in a drama beyond their control. In Sainte-Adeline, things are not what they seem; the carefully maintained social veneer cracks, threatening to reveal the true nature of this quaint little town.
L’islam de mon enfance
Nadia Zouaoui
I grew up in a Muslim country where religion and culture have blended together for centuries. Tolerance was then a wise mediator between culture, religion and individual freedoms. However, the more I grew, the more I felt a change that disturbed this established order. Everything had started in school. The religious took more and more place in the schools and dictated their programs. The men of God have also monopolized mosques to dictate to people how to live and how to think.
Il pleuvait des oiseaux
Louise Archambault
Three elderly hermits live in the woods, cut off from the rest of the world. While wildfires threaten the region, their quiet life is about to be shaken by the arrival of two women… A luminous octogenarian unjustly institutionalized her whole life, and a young photographer charged with interviewing survivors of the region’s deadliest forest fire. After the death of the eldest hermit, the two women make an astonishing discovery: hundreds of painting echoing his tragic experience related to that devastating fire. A story of intertwined destinies, where love can happen at any age.
Merci pour tout
Louise Archambault
Sisters Marianne and Christine Cyr have been estranged for a year when they learn of the death of their father, who wasn’t exactly an angel. Both a comedy and a road movie, Merci pour tout (Thanks for Everything) tells of their trip to the Magdalen Islands to spread his ashes and escape their personal problems, without realizing that they carry both, literally and figuratively, with them.
Antigone
Sophie Deraspe
By helping her brother escape from prison, Antigone confronts the authorities: the police, the judicial and penal system as well as the father of her friend Haemon. The brilliant teenage girl, on a spotless path so far, feels the noose tighten on her. But to man’s law, she substitutes her own sense of justice, dictated by love and solidarity.
Raymond Klibansky – De la philosophie à la vie
Anne-Marie Tougas
The film light on the exceptional life of Raymond Klibansky, his uncommon destiny and his path to humanity. As a German Jewish philosopher of action, he lived in times of upheaval, war and hate. Young man, he moved in the circles of Karl Jaspers, Erwin Panofsky, Marianne Weber, and Albert Einstein. He made his mark as a historian of ideas and a philosopher, his work was known around the world. Then came the Nazi lie, which he condemned and fought.He was Chief Intelligence Officer in the Secret Service during World War Two. He move to Montreal in 1946 to promote tolerance and fight for freedom.
L’espace que j’ai vu… Un portrait de l’architecte Pierre Thibault
Anne-Marie Tougas
A film about the ideas and the work of Pierre Thibault. This poetic portrait reveals the authenticity of his research, philosophy and creative process, while capturing his artistic vision and approach to architecture through an exploration of various key projects that reflect his multiform body of work.
La Terre vue du coeur
Iolande Cadrin-Rossignol
Scientists, writers and artists join Hubert Reeves and Frédéric Lenoir to sound a warning: biodiversity is under threat. While some humans are responsible for this crisis, others, in growing numbers, are tackling it head on and forging solutions. In this film dedicated to future generations, they remind us that life in all its forms is a fascinating and touching mystery … and that it is up to us to preserve it!
Le dernier Nataq
Lisette Marcotte
As a writer and director from Rouyn-Noranda, in this very personal documentary I seek to understand the spirit of the place that gave birth to Richard Desjardins’ poetry. The creation of a mural in his honour in the summer of 2018 becomes a pretext to meet the Rouyn poet and return to the sources of his creation. He went back over his films, telling us, among other things, how difficult it was for him to deal with the backlash from the release of L’Erreur Boréale. Twenty years after this hard-hitting film, he shares his thoughts on major environmental issues.
Vivre avec l’art… Un art de vivre
Anne-Marie Tougas
Bernard Landriault, un collectionneur d’art, filmé de l’intérieur à travers ses actions, ses réflexions, sa relation avec les œuvres et les artistes de sa collection. Il est un homme sensible, ouvert et passionné. Chez lui, chez le galeriste, au musée ou à l’atelier de l’artiste, Bernard Landriault se dévoile par petites touches, et expose sa relation vivante à l’art, sa philosophie et ses motivations. Ses choix sont guidés par l’émotion, l’intuition et la réflexion. Le collectionneur est en lien profond avec les œuvres et les artistes qu’il continue de suivre et d’appuyer. Vivre avec l’art… un art de vivre, une rencontre avec l’Art, avec ceux qui l’aiment et le font, et en filigrane, une réflexion sur le pouvoir de transformation de l’être humain par l’Art.
24 Davids
Céline Baril
Céline Baril’s latest film takes us across three continents on a quest driven by a simple yet original idea: to shine a spotlight on the inimitable Davids of this world. The 24 Davids in this film are of varying ages and professions, ranging from cosmologist to recycler; together, they construct a playful “ecosystem” of ideas that touches on every sphere of knowledge and carries within it the power to radically transform. 24 Davids offers a melting pot of heady thoughts and politics in a refreshingly freewheeling cinematic format, probing the mysteries of the universe and the challenges of living together.
A Place of Tide and Time
Aude Leroux-Lévesque
At the eastern edge of Canada, small fishing communities fight to survive. While teenagers see exile as their only option, the older generation refuses to accept the fate of the region. A Place of Tide and Time is a conversation between young and old about identity, opportunity and happiness.
L’Académie
Aude Leroux-Lévesque
In the remote and French-speaking former mining town of Thetford Mines, Quebec, a basketball academy is defying all odds by winning tournaments and producing NBA prospects. The academy, founded by Congolese coach Igor Rwigema, is made up of fifty boys ranging from 13 to 20 years old hailing from Montreal, France and French Guiana. While some dream of making it to the NBA like Chris Boucher, Montrealer and former academy member, all have to follow Igor’s strict routine, as he believes the academy’s mission is to teach life lessons before basketball skills.
Des lumières dans la grande noirceur
Sophie Bissonnette
Through the eyes of a Quebec Jewish activist, Lea Roback, feminist, unionist, pacifist and communist, A VISION IN THE DARKNESS proposes a modernist vision of Quebec history, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the period knows as « La Grande Noirceur », the Great Darkness.
Ziva Postec – La monteuse derrière le film Shoah
Catherine Hébert
A little-known name linked to a film that was to profoundly shake up our notion of history. Ziva Postec devoted nearly six years of her life to editing Shoah: the epic opus by Claude Lanzmann that would shed harrowing new light on the extermination of the Jews during the Second World War. Delving into her memories, the editing room virtuoso—a survivor in her own way—tells her story for the first time, going behind the scenes of the monumental undertaking to bring previously unseen footage to the screen. Performing her task with a devotion bordering on obsession, Postec reveals herself as a humble heroine, one whose unwavering commitment and luminous intelligence contrast sharply with some of humanity’s darkest hours.
Apapacho – Une caresse pour l’âme
Marquise Lepage
Durant un voyage au Mexique, Karine et Estelle, dont leur sœur adorée vient de mourir, sont témoins des préparatifs de la Fête des morts dans un village où cet événement est célébré avec de réjouissantes activités. La beauté de la fête les inspire. Et la délicatesse et l’humour de leurs hôtes, devenus guides spirituels pour l’occasion, leur permettront d’observer la mort de leur sœur avec plus de légèreté.
Les réalisatrices contemporaines: L’état des choses
Guylaine Dionne
Concerned with recent debates on the discrimination of women in the film industry, this documentary raises questions, while offering a voice to women and their cinema. The film features conversations with well-known women directors, including Catherine Breillat, Claire Denis, Mira Nair, Margarethe Von Trotta, Ulrike Ottinger, Micheline Lanctot, Rakshnan Bani-Etemad and María Novaro, as well as the stories of women directors who are less visible to the general public. Joining the filmmakers are the voices and comments of producers, film specialists and archivists through whom our images are meticulously preserved.
Jeune Juliette
Anne Émond
Fourteen-year old Juliette lives in the country with her father and her older brother. When Juliette was younger, her mother left the family to pursue her career in New York; from that moment, Juliette started to gain weight. Today, she’s not obese, but she’s clearly the heaviest girl at her high school. But that doesn’t stop her from being vivacious, funny and unrepentantly rebellious. Juliette has big dreams: she wants to throw the best parties, move to New York to live with her mother, and date the most gorgeous guy in her school, an older boy who is about to graduate. In short, she wants everything she can’t have—which sometimes makes her forget to appreciate those who really love her. We follow this brazen and endearing girl during her hectic last few weeks before summer vacation, and watch as she does some growing up—but not too much.
Steampunk Connection
Annie Deniel
Exploring at once both the past and the future, Clara, Daniel and François have chosen a different kind of creative connection to the world. For three years, the filmmaker followed these members of the Steampunk community (4M people through the world), an extraordinary artistic movement inspired by science fiction and the Industrial Revolution. Behind their inventive costumes and their surprising creations, these steamers invite us to examine our own feelings about living and consuming in the digital era. Identity, community, technology are the 3 topics explored in this documentary.
Mahiye sorkh shodeh (The Fried Fish)
Leila Khalilzadeh
Fish yearns to see the sea once again. He asks a cat, a mouse, a dog, and a crow for help, one after another. They each eat a part of his flesh and carry him some distance down the path to the sea. But after a while, one by one, they put him down and leave. In the end, some ants throw the fish’s skeleton into the sea. The fish happily swims away in the deep blue sea.
CREATURA DADA
Caroline Monnet
Six puissantes femmes autochtones se réunissent pour célébrer un nouveau départ et la fin du monde tel que nous le connaissons. CREATURA DADA est une Carte Blanche (court métrage) réalisée par Caroline Monnet, dans le cadre du 45e Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal en 2016.