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Biche & Louve
Sandrine Béchade
Bea and Zoe are lost in the forest when Zoe decides to go for help. She leaves Bea alone and hurt in this wood that does not inspire confidence. The girl will face a sneaky threat. Through the quest for power, Doe & She-Wolf tackles a taboo that is hard to imagine. And yet it exists.
Rustic Oracle
Sonia Bonspille Boileau
Rustic Oracle is the story of a missing teenage girl told through the eyes of her 8-year-old sister. The story unfolds as young Ivy accompanies her mother on a road trip with hopes of finding her eldest sibling Heather who has suddenly disappeared from their First Nation community. Although their journey to find answers is one no family should have to go through, their shared fear, pain and hope bring them closer together. RUSTIC ORACLE is much more than a story about loss. It is the story of a mother and daughter coming together and learning how to love and care for each other under painful circumstances.
Slaxx
Elza Kephart
SLAXX tells the story of a possessed pair of jeans brought to life to punish the unscrupulous practices of a trendy clothing company. Shipped to the company’s flagship store, SLAXX proceeds to wreak carnage on the staff, locked in overnight to set up the new collection. When the body count mounts, the panicked staff disbands and the struggle for survival begins. It is up to idealistic employee Libby to uncover the reason behind SLAXX’s blood thirst before its evil is released into the world.
Le lac des hommes
Marie-Geneviève Chabot
Hoping to reconnect, three brothers embark on a fishing trip with their father, whose absence from their childhood has left them with lasting scars. For Stéphane, Jean-Pierre, Jérôme and Laurent, this is a chance to find some answers, and maybe even to make their peace with the past. On the gently rocking boat, dreams and regrets slip in and tangle up with their fishing lines. The trip is a bittersweet quest to find a lost family ideal. It’s a foray into a masculine world struggling toward reconciliation, where sometimes the most courageous thing to do is break the silence.
Un printemps d’ailleurs
Xiaodan He
Li Fang, a 35-year-old Chinese immigrant who lives in Montreal with her husband. Their brutal rupture pushes her to a big depression. Li Fang leaves chaos behind to go back to Dazu, a small district in south China. She finds relief alongside the people around her, all the while witnessing their respective problems and quiet efforts.
La déesse des mouches à feu
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
Le jour de ses 16 ans, Catherine reçoit un discman jaune, le livre Moi, Christiane F… et le droit d’aller au centre d’achats. C’est aussi le jour où son père fonce par exprès dans un mur avec le jeep de sa mère. Catherine traverse l’adolescence en même temps que ses parents amorcent un processus de divorce. Elle s’en fout. Elle est trop occupée à gérer Mélanie Belley qui la terrorise pour absolument rien. C’est en lui volant son chum Pascal que Catherine monte l’échelle sociale de la polyvalente. Catherine a hâte de tout connaitre. L’exploration ne sera pas douce ni romantique. De Pascal à Keven, d’une dérape à l’autre, elle vieillit dans le chaos violent et spectaculaire de l’adolescence grunge des années 90.
Louise Warren poète – Fragments
Anne-Marie Tougas
Louise Warren – Fragments, une résonance entre l’écriture et la matière. Le court métrage plonge le spectateur dans « l’enveloppe invisible » de la poète, au coeur même de la matière par un entrelacement du geste intime de l’écriture, de la collection d’art de la poète et des éléments du sous-bois travaillé de ses mains. Autant de fragments reliés par la poésie.
Comme une vague
Marie-Julie Dallaire
Big Giant Wave is an ode to music, the invisible abstract and fleeting sequence of sounds that creates in the brain the same reaction as chocolate, sex, or drugs. Conceived as a cinematographic wave, this documentary takes us from Canada to Italy via Sweden, Mexico and the American West Coast to meet fascinating scientists and artists who, from their various backgrounds, illustrate our essential connection with rhythm, music, our planet, the brain, daily lives and our collective humanity.
Avant la nuit
Nadine Gomez
In conversations with passionate sociologist and political thinker Jean Pichette, the filmmaker views the forced downtime stemming from the current crisis as an opportunity to rethink our modes of existence and our relationship to others, nature, science, the economy, art, politics—in short, everything that makes us human.
Femmes des casernes
Louise Leroux
FireWoman is an immersive, gender and genre bending documentary, which delves into the masculine world of firefighting… as lived by five charismatic firewomen. The film follows the work of these women as they devote themselves to a most untraditional pursuit, and showcase two stages in a firefighter’s trajectory: the challenges of newbies who try to get hired by the Montreal Fire Department and life on the force as full-time squad members. Less than thirty women are part of the Montreal Fire Department, compared to more than 2,300 men. In recent years however, things have started to change, thanks to the ” Les filles ont le feu sacré” program, an initiative intended to make young women aware of the attractions of the rewarding but very demanding job. During their studies, the hopefuls must redouble their efforts in order to be accepted in a field that doesn’t make it easy for them. We see this in the path full of pitfalls for young Justine and Karine, who would like to follow in the footsteps of Mélanie, a firefighter for 10 years at…
Chill ou crève
Amandine Navarro
Après une soirée où l’alcool et la drogue est consommé à outrance, un groupe de jeunes se prépare à sortir mais l’un d’entre eux est malade. Les autres partent et le laissent seul dans la salle de bain… mais un étranger est entré dans la maison.
Where Have All the Flowers Gone
Hejer Charf
“Where Have All The Flowers Gone”, sang Marlene Dietrich. Jack Kerouac and the rebellious Beat Generation have long permeated California. From San Francisco to Los Angeles, a street writer, a former Alcatraz inmate, an American convert to Islam and bohemian artists express the disillusion, the decline and are clinging to their dreams.
Avant l’automne
Sarah Baril Gaudet
On the eve of an inevitable exile towards the urban centers, the youth of Temiscamingue is torn between the desire of a better future and the attachment to its territory.
Passage
Sarah Baril Gaudet
Passage paints a poetic portrait of 18-year-olds Gabrielle and Yoan’s summer, on the eve of their inevitable departure from remote area of Témiscamingue.
Là où je vis
Sarah Baril Gaudet
Living Here is a story made of solitude and wind, told with the poetry of Nunavik’s toundra and young Martha’s words.
Day before yesterday
Patricia Chica
A young woman is found in the middle of an empty Montreal street, lost and without any recollection of how she got there. She’s brought in by police who proceed to interview her – does she remember who she is? Can anyone else remember?
Morning After
Patricia Chica
Michael is faced with a dilemma, when a night of drinking with friends, turns into a sensual exploration of sexual identity.
Montre-moi ce que tu vois de l’autre que je ne vois pas – Alexandre Da Costa
Johane Bergeron
A series of newspaper articles from here and elsewhere serve as a starting point for an intimate conversation between Alexandre Da Costa (violinist), Tania Kontoyanni (actress), the late Jean-Guy Moreau (humorist), Maria Mourani ( criminologist) and Roger Sinha (choreographer), who lent their voices to the reading of certain extracts from these articles. From various origins and backgrounds, they thus achieve five different perspectives, five different ways of seeing and experiencing current cultural diversity.
Papa est là
Johane Bergeron
Thomas, a photographer, suddenly loses contact with his son following a parental abduction. To deal with his grief and attempt to understand what has befallen him, Thomas embarks on an artistic project to make portraits of Pierre, Ricardo and Tony, three fathers in the same situation as himself.
Montre-moi ce que tu vois de l’autre que je ne vois pas – Tania Kontoyanni
Johane Bergeron
A series of newspaper articles from here and elsewhere serve as a starting point for an intimate conversation between Alexandre Da Costa (violinist), Tania Kontoyanni (actress), the late Jean-Guy Moreau (humorist), Maria Mourani ( criminologist) and Roger Sinha (choreographer), who lent their voices to the reading of certain extracts from these articles. From various origins and backgrounds, they thus achieve five different perspectives, five different ways of seeing and experiencing current cultural diversity.
Montre-moi ce que tu vois de l’autre que je ne vois pas – Maria Mourani
Johane Bergeron
A series of newspaper articles from here and elsewhere serve as a starting point for an intimate conversation between Alexandre Da Costa (violinist), Tania Kontoyanni (actress), the late Jean-Guy Moreau (humorist), Maria Mourani (criminologist) and Roger Sinha (choreographer), who lent their voices to the reading of certain extracts from these articles. From various origins and backgrounds, they thus achieve five different perspectives, five different ways of seeing and experiencing current cultural diversity.
Montre-moi ce que tu vois de l’autre que je ne vois pas – Feu Jean-Guy Moreau
Johane Bergeron
A series of newspaper articles from here and elsewhere serve as a starting point for an intimate conversation between Alexandre Da Costa (violinist), Tania Kontoyanni (actress), the late Jean-Guy Moreau (humorist), Maria Mourani ( criminologist) and Roger Sinha (choreographer), who lent their voices to the reading of certain extracts from these articles. From various origins and backgrounds, they thus achieve five different perspectives, five different ways of seeing and experiencing current cultural diversity.
Montre-moi ce que tu vois de l’autre que je ne vois pas – Roger Sinha
Johane Bergeron
A series of newspaper articles from here and elsewhere serve as a starting point for an intimate conversation between Alexandre Da Costa (violinist), Tania Kontoyanni (actress), the late Jean-Guy Moreau (humorist), Maria Mourani ( criminologist) and Roger Sinha (choreographer), who lent their voices to the reading of certain extracts from these articles. From various origins and backgrounds, they thus achieve five different perspectives, five different ways of seeing and experiencing current cultural diversity.
Mokhtar
Halima Ouardiri
Based on a true story, Mokhtar recounts the tale of a young boy who lives with his family of goatherds in a remote, Moroccan village. One day, the boy finds a fallen owl and decides to keep it, despite the fact that the owl is considered a bad omen. Mokhtarʼs new pet becomes a symbol of rebellion against his family and an icon of his fledgling independence. Kinship, religion and spirituality are all confronted in this film that celebrates inner and outer strength.