Online cinema
La belle apparence
Denyse Benoit
Une visiteuse de prison va accompagner un ex-détenu et l’aider à s’installer dans un appartement. Un flirt avec ce jeune homme l’entraîne sur une pente qui contrariera la famille de la visiteuse.
La crue
Denyse Benoit
Pendant que la rivière des Milles Iles déborde au printemps, une jeune fille de 13 ans voit un ami de la famille tuer une jeune femme.
Un instant près d’elle
Denyse Benoit
Une jeune femme qui s’installe à la campagne va rencontrer ses voisines. Une est fermière et sa belle-mère perd la mémoire.
Soif
Michèle Cournoyer
A woman plays out her existence on the screen of her life. Alcohol is the essence of her being. She imbibes her youth and becomes completely absorbed by the desire to satisfy her thirst. Moving from parties to binge drinking, pleasure to distress, joy to delirium, she lets herself be lulled by the undulating waves of bottles. She floats in the intoxicating liquid, sees her childhood re-emerge, and feels as if she is a tiny fish lost in an ocean of madness. Her craving for alcohol engenders a burning passion. Drinking becomes a fatal embrace..
Robe de guerre
Michèle Cournoyer
This animated short is a lyrical exploration of the impact of war on women, their bodies and their families. Bringing a feminist sensibility to a contemporary issue, it looks at what happens when war insinuates itself inside the very being of a woman—she who once gave life.
De ma fenêtre, sans maison…
Maryanne Zéhil
Because she suffocates under rigid traditions and social constraints, Sana (Louise Portal) decides to leave her daughter and her country, Lebanon. She immigrates to Canada where she wants to forget her roots and her past. Yet, 15 years later, when her daughter ( Renée Thomas) finds her, this reunion releases repressed feelings: guilt, suffering, bitterness and an unexpected nostalgia.
La basse cour
Michèle Cournoyer
In this animated short, a woman, taking on her lover’s fantasies, adorns herself in her finest feathers and assumes a seductive but demeaning role. Caught up in his own game, the man plays on to the bitter end–a cruel game in which love is stripped of its golden glow, leaving only the naked reality of dependency and desperation.
Le chapeau
Michèle Cournoyer
A young woman works as an exotic dancer in a bar. She recalls an incident from her childhood in which she was physically abused by a male visitor. This inner journey brings back painful memories, including the obsessive image of a hat. Black-ink drawings, spare and rapidly executed, flow together in a succession of troubling and striking metamorphoses. The Hat is a tough, visceral experience. With naked honesty, animator Michèle Cournoyer invites the audience to share in the pain of a woman whose body is on display and whose soul is forever soiled. A film without words.
La vallée des larmes
Maryanne Zéhil
Marie (Nathalie COUPAL), a Montreal publisher specializing in memoirs by war survivors, receives an anonymous document, the condensed story of Ali, a young Palestinian who grew up in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Intrigued, Marie begins a search for the author’s identity. Torn apart by her difficult mission, Marie starts a journey into the past. In a small Lebanese village, in the heart of a bloodstained culture whose unspoken issues are infinitely enigmatic, Marie will eventually find the key to every mystery.
Une artiste
Michèle Cournoyer
In this short animation, a girl is so carried away by her love of music that she forgets about her household chores. Her father tells her to finish the dishes. Instead of washing them, she turns them into musical instruments, and he finally recognizes her talent. Based on Article 29 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, this film illustrates children’s right to develop their talents and abilities to their fullest potential.
L’autre côté de novembre
Maryanne Zéhil
“Léa/Leyla are two women who, having worked hard all their lives, are confronted with the choices that shaped their existence and question themselves about what trace they will leave behind. Léa is a single neurosurgeon resident in Quebec. Leyla is a seamstress and mother who lives in a remote village in Lebanon. Memory disorders force them to question themselves. They are both attracted by the past, returning to those choices of life that mark us forever. What if one of these women had not left her country of origin to immigrate to Canada? What if Lea and Leyla were one and the same person?”
Accordéon
Michèle Cournoyer
This animated short explores the connections between sex, love and technology. A woman connects to the Internet. She not only embraces technology but surrenders to it entirely as she sends her entire body and soul to her electronic lover. In this world of Pandora’s boxes, sexual desire and dehumanizing machine intertwine till they’re finally and brutally disconnected.