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Platinium Farewell
Katherine Jerkovic
Long take of a ship leaving the harbour. (Or crossing from Montevideo to Buenos Aires for the twentieth time)
A time to dwell
Katherine Jerkovic
An audiovisual essay that meditates on migration and the coastal landscape. Shot along the Saint Lawrence’s Côte Nord.
Le gardien d’hiver
Katherine Jerkovic
Edgar, a lonely and socially awkward immigrant takes care of an apartment for a friend away on vacation. As he visits, he becomes familiar with the absent woman’s intimate space. He begins to desire her and anticipate her return. The months go by, the mail piles up and eventually, reality sinks in.
Les mots gelés
Isabelle D’Amours
Frozen Words is a moment in the life of Charles, a young man in his late twenties, who’s haunted by mental illness who assails his mother. Through his best friend Paul, his awkward father and his ambiguous friendship to an imaginary “Weatherwoman”, Charles desperately tries to find a certain balance but falls in a frozen state. Trying, as best he can, to push away this spectrum increasingly pervasive, Charles refuses to become like her.
Venus
Eisha Marjara
Genders, generations and cultures collide in this comedy about the modern family unit. A South Asian transgender woman sees her life flipped on its head when she meets a “white” teenaged son she didn’t know she had. Montrealer Eisha Marjara gives a fresh take in her directing style, delivering a resounding plea for casting off gender stereotypes.
House for Sale
Eisha Marjara
A stranger shows up posing as a home buyer at a suburban house that is up for sale. ‘What the hell am I doing here?’ She asks herself. As the owner’s wife gives a tour of the place, the stranger recalls a memorable night when a fatal promise was made. House For Sale exposes the bonds that are built in public and behind closed doors and unravels the complicated negotiations of desire and commitment.
The Tourist
Eisha Marjara
Ron, a Canadian tourist with a camera, is on a never-ending holiday recovering from a heartbreak after his wife left him for another man. When he winds up in Munich, he falls for a woman who is engaged to be married.
Desperately Seeking Helen
Eisha Marjara
Director Eisha Marjara’s story takes us first to her childhood in snowbound small-town Quebec and then to Bombay India where she desperately tries to track down Helen, a famous movie star in the worlds largest dream factory. Helen becomes a passage into Marjara’s real world—her unsettling youth, life threatening anorexia and the devastating 1985 Air India bombing which took the lives of her sister and mother. This film revisits the 70’s pop culture of Marjara’s youth and enters the fascinating world of the Bombay movie industry—“Bollywood.”
L’héritier
Edith Jorisch
The Heir follows Canadian director Édith Jorisch as she discovers the incredible hidden story of her grandfather, Georges Jorisch. Born into the Jewish intellectual community in Vienna, Austria, Georges grew up among a family of great art collectors whose vast collection included the works of Gustav Klimt. In 1938, the paintings were stolen by German troops and the family taken into the Nazi internment camps. Georges Jorisch survived the war and immigrated to Montreal. 70 years later, seeking justice for his family and children, he sets out to recover the Klimt paintings that were taken from t
Le secret de Cyndia
Denyse Benoit
Ils sont trois enfants, dont CYNDIA qui a 12 ans, qui habitent dans un petit village. Héritier d’une maison familiale, un voisin, antiquaire, vient se réinstaller dans le village de son enfance. Les enfants, curieux, vont se laisser approcher par ce gentil voisin. CYNDIA se laisse photographier par le beau séducteur. Tout en écoutant ses belles histoires, elle est entraînée dans un jeu de séduction.
Two Thieves
Denyse Benoit
Liliana est une femme sculpteure du métal et Denyse, réalisatrice, lui raconte l’histoire du scénario qu’elle est en train d’écrire. Elle voudra s’inspirer de l’oeuvre de Liliana pour son personnage de Gaby, aussi femme sculpteure.
Le dernier havre
Denyse Benoit
Un vieux pêcheur manigance dans le dos de sa famille le plan de partir en mer pour une dernière fois.