Online cinema
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.
Clebs
Halima Ouardiri
In a stray-dog refuge in Morocco, time seems to stand still for the 750 animals waiting to be adopted, their lives following a precise, monotonous routine.
Nitrate
Yousra Benziane
When the fireworks inflame the memory of a war survival. A chemistry that links spectacle and war, nitrate is an element found in both fireworks and bombs. Nitrate examines what happens when a show rekindles a survivor’s memories of war, when the light present plunges him into a past darkness.
Brotherhood (Ikhwène – إخوان)
Meryam Joobeur
Mohamed is deeply shaken and suspicious when his estranged eldest son Malek returns home from Syria to rural Tunisia with a mysterious young wife in tow. The emotional complexities of a family reunion and past wounds lead to tragic consequences.
Les mètres carrés oubliés
Marie-Geneviève Chabot
Une usine désaffectée de Montréal, l’ancienne Brasserie Dow, se raconte à travers les visites de quelques explorateurs urbains.
Crimson Dance
Patricia Chica
A primal and sensual dance is performed by a burlesque artist on stage to the delight of a blood thirsty audience, who watch in awe as she makes a splash to cure her ills.
Création de richesse / Labour of Love
Jenny Cartwright
Création de richesse/Labour of Love est une œuvre sonore adaptée librement du livre d’artiste du même nom d’Emmanuelle Jacques. Fruit d’une démarche relationnelle basée sur le vécu d’une quarantaine d’artistes, elle réunit des réflexions croisées sur l’art, le travail, l’économie et la maternité.
Oùrs – La porte sera débarrée
Anna Lupien
Les retrouvailles de la réalisatrice avec des ami·es d’Ivujivik connus vingt-cinq ans plus tôt sont à l’origine d’un film tourné à Ivujivik, village le plus septentrional du Nunavik. Les récits des Ivujivimmiut se juxtaposent aux images de leur territoire pour former des diptyques vidéo évocateurs des bouleversements majeurs des dernières décennies, témoignages des collisions entre les peuples. Le projet se décline en plusieurs volets : un film, un livre, une exposition, un site web. www.ours.land
Portraits d’artistes – MAC Collection
Anna Lupien
La série MAC Collection propose des rencontres privilégiées avec des artistes dont les oeuvres figurent dans la collection du Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Liste des épisodes: Angela Grauerholz, posséder les images Jean-Pierre Aubé, paysagiste de l’invisible Emmanuelle Léonard, entrer dans les ordres Nicolas Lachance, la routine analogique Serge Tousignant, les lieux habités
Dans les ateliers
Anna Lupien
Il existe des ateliers lumineux, des ateliers dépouillés, des ateliers minuscules ordonnés de manière cartésienne, des ateliers en jachère où s’empoussièrent des œuvres inachevées, des ateliers-maisons, des ateliers-salons. La série propose une incursion privilégiée dans le milieu artistique montréalais à travers une myriade de rencontres. Par des moments partagés à l’atelier et aux alentours, les artistes nous font découvrir leurs univers créatifs. L’atelier devient alors une fenêtre sur le monde, où la pratique artistique résonne avec la vie urbaine et les grands enjeux de notre époque.
Techniques de gravure et démarches d’artistes
Nicole Deschamps
Douze artistes de l’Atelier de l’île de Val-David (centre d’artistes autogéré en arts imprimés), témoignent de leur techniques de gravure et démarche artistique lors de la création de leur oeuvre en vue de l’exposition évolutive MÉTAPHORE-MÉTAMORPHOSE. Commissaire Louise Bloom. Avec la collaboration des artistes de l’Atelier de l’Île de Val-David – Laurentides, Québec, Canada.
Un printemps incertain
Carole Laganière
Francis, mid-forties, is terminally ill with cancer in the palliative care unit of a hospital in Montreal. His 14 years old niece, Lea, visits him every day coming home from school. She also sends him regularly, with her cell, some images of the outside hesitant spring. And other images, just as hesitant, of the person who turns her teenage heart. Accomplices exchanges of a young girl and her uncle, made of cares and games. A life is extinguished, another is being born for love
Kuessipan
Myriam Verreault
Two girls grow up as best friends in an Innu community. While Mikuan has a loving family, Shaniss is picking up the pieces of her shattered childhood. As children, they promised each other to stick together no matter what. But as they’re about to turn 17, their friendship is shaken when Mikuan falls for a white boy, and starts dreaming of leaving the reserve that’s now too small for her dreams.
La main de fatma
Hejer Charf
Court métrage tourné en 2008 suite aux audiences publiques tenues par la Commission Bouchard-Taylor sur les accommodements raisonnables au Québec.
Jordan River Anderson – The Messenger
Alanis Obomsawin
Alanis Obomsawin’s 52nd film tells the story of how the life of Jordan River Anderson initiated a battle for the right of First Nations and Inuit children to receive the same standard of social, health and educational services as the rest of the Canadian population.
Our People Will Be Healed
Alanis Obomsawin
Our People Will Be Healed, Alanis Obomsawin’s 50th film, reveals how a Cree community in Manitoba has been enriched through the power of education. The Helen Betty Osborne Ininiw Education Resource Centre in Norway House, north of Winnipeg, receives a level of funding that few other Indigenous institutions enjoy. Its teachers help their students to develop their abilities and their sense of pride.
Marguerite
Marianne Farley
An aging woman and her nurse develop a friendship that inspires her to unearth unacknowledged longing and thus help her make peace with her past.