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Cancún
Isabelle A. Girard
A woman damaged by life writes her suicide letter in a motel room. Surprised by her husband, she hides pills and revolver. He enters and causes a tantrum. He tries to appease their unhappiness with promises of love and travel. But who will benefit from this vacation?
Van Horne & Waverly
Geneva Guérin
Van Horne & Waverly follows three artists as they forge, mix/illuminate and paint new works in one of Canada’s most densely populated artist communities. Meet Glen LeMesurier, Radwan Moumneh and Rouge Lefebvre.
Un homme de danse
Marie Brodeur
De Norman McLaren aux Grands Ballets Canadiens, en passant par Igor Stravinsky et le Metropolitan Opera de New York, Vincent Warren a dansé l’histoire. Habité par l’importance de la culture dans une société, il a travaillé toute sa vie durant comme «porteur de beauté». Son legs le plus marquant est la Bibliothèque de la danse Vincent-Warren, la plus importante bibliothèque du genre au Canada. Récipiendaire du Prix du Québec et de l’Ordre du Canada, Vincent Warren est un artiste témoin de nos grands moments socioculturels historiques. Un homme de danse est l’histoire de cette légende vivante.
Maman? Non merci!
Magenta Baribeau
This DIY documentary explores the reality of Western women who’ve decided not to have children. The filmmaker met with childfree women of various ages in order to understand their life choices and break clichés. The film also explores the insidious pronatalist social pressure that operates in Western society by giving a voice to a segment of the population that is rarely heard. This documentary addresses more than the issue of non-motherhood and examines the role of women in society in 2015.
Second Opinion
Caroline Labrèche
Ivy Fisher, une femme d’affaires souffrant de migraines intenses, commence à consulter un docteur spécialiste du nom de Mark Ryan. Sans qu’elle ne le sache, le docteur utilise sa position et son pouvoir pour la manipuler à ses propres fins.
Radius
Caroline Labrèche
Liam (Diego Klattenhoff) se réveille au fond d’un fossé après un accident d’auto. Amnésique, il se rend compte que tous ceux qui s’approchent de lui à un radius de 50 pieds meurent instantanément. Planqué à la maison, il reçoit la visite de Jane (Charlotte Sullivan), qui, elle aussi amnésique et sortant du même accident, ne meurt pas en sa présence. Ensemble, ils tenteront de découvrir ce qui leur est arrivé.
Jack and Ella
Brenda Keesal
A black man and a Jewish woman crash into each other. With the help of an eccentric decorator, they move into a suburban dream house where their personal dramas unfold. Not only are they confronted by their troubled pasts, they become the center of their new neighbors’ love-starved lives. Repressed hysteria, booze and an all-night party push every one of them to a climax of truth, hope and liberation. A jam-packed emotional-action film, Jack & Ella combines social, racial and historical issues with a tender love story and psycho-comic characters in a vivid, urban fable for all times.
Wanker
Brenda Keesal
An isolated, young man is thrown into the real world by his rich parents after being caught masturbating in the closet. A twisted Alice in Wonderland, Peter searches desperately for a cure for compulsive wanking, to get back into the bosom of his dysfunctional family. He thrusts himself into a frenzy of therapy, from psychiatry to sex, and can’t take a step without someone pushing him. Panicked, he hooks up with his family’s exhibitionist Jewish maid, the ethnic foil to their Waspy reserve, whose own sexual addiction helps push Peter over the edge and bring his story to an explosive climax.
Las Rutas en Febrero (Les routes en février)
Katherine Jerkovic
Driven by childhood memories and the hope of a reencounter, Sarah visits her paternal grandmother in her village in Uruguay. She takes long to understand the prevailing unease… But she is soon faced with the gap between her fantasy regarding the place of origin and that village of old people forgotten by Modernity where the heat is overwhelming and the days seem to last forever. Cultural shock, humor and sadness give shape to this bitter-sweet film.
Bleui (Middle Sky)
Katherine Jerkovic
A wall projection of two silent video channels mounted side by side, BLEUI (Middle Sky) revolves around the notion of film cut by exploring the formal, spatial and temporal resonances which determine the beauty, fluidity or rupture of a cut between two shots. Shot in Uruguay.
Bien chez soi
Katherine Jerkovic
Daily life & survival during the 2001 Argentinian financial crisis. (Or when your President announces on TV that the country is in bankruptcy)
