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Cadavre exquis (ou la vraie nature de Cupidon)
Anne-Marie Ngô
What fate awaits Chloe, who seems to lose it all? A Princess, a Fairy, a Villain and a Knight collide in this urban fairy tale.
Quand tout est possible
Christine Chevarie
Un portrait sensible de Brianna Clark, une gymnaste de haut niveau de 13 ans, déjà considérée comme un espoir olympique. Une vie conduite par le rêve, la détermination et les épreuves.
Certains de mes amis
Catherine Martin
Seven portraits of people who reveal themselves at work and in daily life. Seven ways of being present in the world. People who are exceptional because they are like everyone else. Seven ways of participating in life.
À trois, Marie s’en va
Anne-Marie Ngô
Marie-Laurence se réfugie auprès de sa meilleure amie pour noyer ses torts. Simon réagit à cette intrusion qui vient troubler sa quiétude. Delphine s’accroche à son bonheur que rien ne saura ébranler. Trois points de vue sur fond d’été.
Soleils bleus
Chloé Leriche
A walk in the woods become a metaphoric journey in Chloé Leriche’s short film. As a solitary figure moves through the forest, the texture of stone, the movement of water, all the infinite pageantry of the natural world is captured in its richness and detail. With the help of an orchestrated soundscape and composed cinematography, Blue Suns catches the miracle and mystery of this world as it unfolds.
Avant les rues
Chloé Leriche
Shawnouk, a native teenager, kills a man during a robbery and flees into the forest. deciding to return to his atikamekw village in Québec (Canada), he tries to redeem himself using traditional cleansing rituals.
Jutra
Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre
This semi-animated documentary is a creative, colourful portrait of the great Quebec filmmaker Claude Jutra, director of Mon oncle Antoine and star and co-director, with Norman McLaren, of A Chairy Tale. The dimensions of Jutra’s life and work are explored through skillfully assembled archival footage and animated sequences.
L’immortalité en fin de compte
Pascale Ferland
En sillonnant les rangs des campagnes québécoises, on peut parfois repérer des architectures et des installations inhabituelles. Ces curieuses constructions sont l’oeuvre de gens sans éducation artistique, dominés par l’envie absolue de créer. Le film nous présente trois de ces créateurs. Confrontés aux jugements de leurs concitoyens, ils doivent vivre en marge d’une société qui cherche à tout prix à les isoler.
Le Garagiste
Renée Beaulieu
Adrien, who runs a garage in a small town on the St. Lawrence, has been waiting five years for a kidney transplant. While he waits, his life is on hold. He does all he can to keep his garage and his marriage going, despite his long hours of dialysis several times a week and ebbing energy. But when a young man from a remote village is hired to work at the garage, it sets off a chain of events that turn his life upside-down and reveal some unexpected and disturbing things about him.
Within Reach
Phyllis Katrapani
What do we bring with us from our homeland that remains in our possession? What do we discard? What do we pass on? Language, memories, objects that bear witness to past lives and often, to other cultures… What are the links between here and there, then and now, distance and proximity? An intimate journey in seven chapters, WITHIN REACH explores, through recollections, conversations and experiences, the questions of intimacy in art and the documentary filmmaker’s standpoint.
Home
Phyllis Katrapani
Does a true homeland – that golden land preceding separation, land of retained childhood, site of an era left behind – really exist? How does one regain the “home” belonging only to us? Fictional documentary, documented fiction, real or imagined homeland . . . Characters on a journey into memory encounter one another through words. Faces, individual voices tell a unique story, almost invented, about a single country with different names.
Ithaque
Phyllis Katrapani
Ithaque takes its inspiration from Cavafy’s poem Ithaca. The poem, voiced over in its original Greek language, evokes the return of Ulysses’ to the island where he was born. A man is on a long train journey. The landscape streams by as well as different moments of his life, with no chronology. Dream and reality are intermingled, Ulysses’ journey as well as his own physical and interior journey.