Online cinema
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.
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.