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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)
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.
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