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La mallette noire
Caroline Monnet
Une fillette de huit ans et son jeune cousin endurent une expérience traumatisante lors de leur séjour au pensionnat pour enfants autochtones au Canada. Une nuit dans l’infirmerie d’un pensionnat pour enfants autochtones. Une fillette, un bébé qui hurle. Et les visites menaçantes de l’infirmière de garde et du médecin. Entre réalisme et cauchemar, une expérience traumatisante lors de leur séjour en quarantaine.
Bootlegger
Caroline Monnet
Today. Northern Quebec at the beginning of winter. Mani, an ambitious lawyer in her 20s, returns to her remote Indigenous community and realizes that many outdated paternalistic laws are still in force. In hopes of emancipating her people, she proposes a radical referendum to end the prohibition of alcohol. This is catastrophic for Laura, a 45-year-old bootlegger who has been smuggling illegal alcohol onto the reserve for years. Mani’s and Laura’s opposing forces quickly divide the community into two clans who must come face to face to determine the best path to independence.
L’inventaire des biens meubles de Monsieur Lambert
Lucie Lambert
Que fait-on des objets laissés par les gens qu’on aime après leur mort? C’est la question que je me suis posée, suite au décès de mon père. J’ai cherché la réponse en fouillant ses journaux, ses dessins, ses photos; en interrogeant des amis et en lisant des auteurs qui m’inspirent. Je n’ai pas trouvé de réponse définitive mais j’ai fait ce que je devais faire avec les objets de mon père : un film. C’est à une promenade ludique dans les lieux de mon père que je convie les spectateurs. L’envie de prolonger son geste en y ajoutant le mien est devenu en cours de route le motif principal de ce court métrage, mélangeant animation et tournage réel, légèreté et questions existentielles.
Précis du quotidien
Lucie Lambert
A summer in the life of a mother and her two children. “Précis of the Everyday” is a tender look at the memory, passing time, imagination and poetry that make every day a unique experience. In her desire to “record every moment”, the mother is humbled by how much escapes her.
Le père de Gracile
Lucie Lambert
The journey of a little girl looking for her father in the North of Quebec.
Errance sans retour
Mélanie Carrier
Winner of several awards including the Canadian Screen Award for best documentary, this documentary film is an immersive and poetic look into the biggest refugee camp in the world. Within a few months, the Kutupalong refugee camp has become the largest in the world. A labyrinth of makeshift shelters, home to 700 000 Rohingya exiles. In this place out of space and time, is it still possible to exist?
Point d’équilibre
Christine Chevarie
Filmed from the point of view of its young subjects, A Delicate Balance takes an introspective look at the lives of four aspiring ballet dancers who candidly tell their stories and share their hopes and dreams.
Jacques
Lysandre Leduc-Boudreau
Jacques Duhoux, a pioneer of Quebec’s northern expeditions, lives independently at the foot of the Groulx Mountains. At 85, he persists in living on the fringes of the world, despite an inevitable decline.
Eva Cayer, une infirmière au front
Sophie Bissonnette
Un documentaire audio sur la vie d’Éva Cayer, infirmière militaire durant la Deuxième guerre mondiale. Rien ne préparait la jeune Éva Cayer, née en 1907 dans un village au Québec, à partir outremer pour travailler comme infirmière sur les fronts de Londres, d’Alger et de Sicile durant la Deuxième guerre mondiale, sinon une grande curiosité, une détermination hors du commun et un goût prononcé de l’aventure. Le témoignage inédit d’Éva Cayer, décédée en 1992, sur son parcours et son expérience de soignante dans des hôpitaux militaires offre un point de vue unique sur une femme qui s’est démarquée à son époque.
The Fall of Womenland (Terre des femmes)
Xiaodan He
A documentary on the unique sexual culture of the Mosuo people, a small minority situated in the South-West of China, and one of the last remaining matriarchal societies in the world. Without a formal marriage contract, the Mosuo traditionally build relationships based on free love and sexual satisfaction. But can the sexual liberty and power of the Mosuo women survive as modern Chinese society encroaches their ancestral land? We follow Bima, a young Mosuo woman, and learn of her reality and of the dangers that threaten her inherited way of life.
Les Fantômes des trois Madeleine
Guylaine Dionne
The Ghosts of the Three Madeleines tells the story of three women, three generations, three faces, a strange trio, neither quite tribe nor quite family, three very distinct personalities gathered around the same first name, Madeleine, and d same quest, the reconstruction of their fragmented common memory. During a trip that takes them from Montreal to Gaspésie, Mado, Marie-Madeleine and little Madeleine plunge into their memories and their dreams, in search of their own identity. Along the way, in bed and breakfasts, on the shores of the sea and through new encounters, they learn to tame the ghosts that haunt them.
Mary Shelly
Guylaine Dionne
In 1816, aged 19, she wrote Frankenstein, the first published fantasy novel, during a stay near Lake Léman in the company of romantic writers Lord Byron and Shelley. She died in 1851 without having realized that she had given birth to one of the most important myths in Western culture. Sunken into oblivion for more than a century, it still remains unknown to the general public today. However, the life full of twists and turns of this free and avant-garde woman is as exciting as her masterpiece. So much so that the life of Mary Shelley and her novel seem inseparable. Where does reality begin and where does fiction end? This partially dramatized documentary tries to answer this question and paints a surprising portrait of this woman of letters that we are rediscovering today.
Serveuses demandées
Guylaine Dionne
Once her studies completed, Priscilla (Janaina Suaudeau), a young Brazilian whose visa has expired, must find a job if she wants to stay in Montreal. She lands a job as an exotic dancer at Elixir, a downtown nightclub, and finds herself surrounded by about fifteen young women who, like her, reside illegally in Canada. Among the dancers there is a Quebecer, the pretty Milagro (Clara Furey), who dreams of deserting Quebec winters with her daughter Chloé, for a warmer climate. To succeed, she will have to leave her mother (Anne Dorval), guardian of her daughter, and negotiate with an enigmatic RCMP corporal (Colm Feore) in order to leave the country. Despite their differences, Priscilla and Milagro will experience a friendship that will transport them beyond the walls of the Elixir, a friendship that could turn into love if their universe were one that is forgiving.
Les diplômés Mira – Les personnes atteintes d’Alzheimer (S1,E2)
Sylvie Rosenthal
Après « L’académie Mira », la série « Les diplômés Mira » propose des histoires touchantes. Nous sortons du chenil afin de suivre les chiens chez les bénéficiaires et dans leurs environnements de vie, de travail et de loisirs. Dans cet épisode, nous suivons Braque, un chien Mira faisant partie de la toute première cohorte destinée aux personnes atteintes d’Alzheimer. Il fait maintenant parti du quotidien de Roger Lupien.
Les diplômés Mira – Les accidentés et la réadaptation (S1,E7)
Sylvie Rosenthal
Après « L’académie Mira », la série « Les diplômés Mira » propose des histoires touchantes. Nous sortons du chenil afin de suivre les chiens chez les bénéficiaires et dans leurs environnements de vie, de travail et de loisirs. Dans cet épisode, nous suivons Flynn, un chien d’assistance tout nouvellement diplômé, qui accompagnera Bruno Lachapelle, un habitué des chiens Mira. Nous suivons aussi Nylon, un chien Mira travaillant dans un hôpital de réadaptation auprès de différents patients.
Le long cri du train qui passe se glisse au coeur des spectres et tout explose en silence
Anne-Marie Bouchard
An experimental animated film built around a single sound recording that evokes travel, the need to communicate, solitude, fragility, the desire for freedom, the arrival of fall, and our ephemeral existence.
Montréal Dead End
Émilie Gauthier
Mara Joly
Priscillia Piccoli
Montréal, Québec, Canada. Quelle est cette fumée verdâtre s’insinuant dans les rues? Quel que soit le mal étrange infectant chaque quartier, aucune issue n’est possible. Le salut de Montréal repose-t-il sur les épaules de ce « gardien » nouvellement arrivé en ville? Montréal Dead End est un long métrage collaboratif composé de quinze segments. Un segment par quartier. Un quartier par cinéaste, livrant ainsi sa partie de l’histoire. Dix-huit réalisatrices et réalisateurs ont donc contribué à cette fresque horrifique, portée par l’interprétation de plus de 90 comédiens et comédiennes et le savoir-faire de plus de 200 artisans du cinéma. D’une ombre menaçante dans le centre-ville à une rencontre sensuelle, mais mortelle, dans le quartier gai en passant par un jeu du chat et de la souris sur le Mont Royal, la métropole québécoise sera, l’espace d’une journée, en proie à la terreur et à l’horreur. Bienvenue à Montréal. Aucune issue n’est possible.
Jukebox
Guylaine Maroist
Jukebox tells the story of rock’n’roll-loving men who laid the foundations of the Quebec record industry in the 1960s. A thrilling account of success, this documentary offers a profound reflection on the human soul, the desire for glory and Quebec society.
Expo 67 Mission Impossible
Guylaine Maroist
Relive the incredible adventure of the men behind Man and His World. Over time, tongues have loosened and the full story can now emerge, just like Notre-Dame Island out of the waters of the St. Lawrence. It’s a fascinating and inspiring history lesson for younger generations today and in the future. The story of Expo 67 makes just about anything seem possible. Constructed like a grand epic, Expo 67 Mission Impossible is a true thriller starring the characters who were the Mad Men of Montreal. The organizers had only 1,628 days to build an island, 128 pavilions, three bridges and trains capable of transporting tens of millions of visitors. A computer modelling team at the Stanford Research Institute predicted failure. The first organizing committee resigned. Speculators started getting edgy. The Federal and Provincial Governments were reluctant to cough up the cash for a one-time event that would cost more than all the bridges of Montreal.
Second Generation
Miryam Charles
A few days before her wedding, a young woman learns that her fiancé is accused of sexual assault. She goes to Haiti to confront the alleged victim.
Opération Survie
Erica Pomerance
Obstetrical fistula is a severe gynecological condition widespread among rural women in sub-Saharan Africa. Millions give birth far from a clinic. After undergoing excision and/or early marriage, they may suffer prolonged, obstructed labour and a stillborn child. Fistula renders thousands of women incontinent, social pariahs rejected by their partners and community. Dr. Danielle Perrault, general practitioner and globetrotter from Québec, travels to Mali to inquire.
Mon oncle Patof
Sandrine Béchade
PATOF the clown left his mark on a generation of young Quebecers in the 1970s, but his dazzling success is as enigmatic as the man who incarnated the character: Jacques Desrosiers. His nephew, Serge Desrosiers, retraces the career of the man who was not only his millionaire uncle, but above all the famous PATOF.
Lise Watier, une vie à entreprendre
Sandrine Béchade
In this biographical documentary, Lise Watier opens the doors to her private and professional life through her travels and her unusual daily life. This film paints an intimate portrait of the famous Quebec businesswoman, a pioneer in an industry where it’s not easy to make a name for herself: cosmetics. With her family, friends, and colleagues, the entrepreneur reveals her story and motivations, from her dizzying successes to the threat of bankruptcy. A young girl with a complex mind, she rose to fame by starting a career in television before jumping into the business world without a parachute. Although many didn’t believe it, she managed to break into the international market. At 71, she left an empire to “retire.” Yet, Lise Watier continues to pursue her dream: to prove to visionaries that they can dream big and conquer the world.