Online cinema
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.
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.
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.
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.
Le Colis
Gaëlle D’Ynglemare
Michel travaille comme courrier à travers les rues de la ville de Montréal. L’homme est criblé de dettes. Jacques, de son côté, est un gestionnaire prolifique, richement marié, qui dépense tout l’argent qu’il gagne aux machines à sous. Le jour où Michel se voit obligé de kidnapper Jacques sur les ordres d’un scélérat tortionnaire et excentrique, les deux hommes sont tous deux contraints d’affronter leurs démons et apprennent progressivement à apprivoiser leurs différences.
Capacité 11 personnes
Gaëlle D’Ynglemare
Dans un ascenseur, onze personnes se croisent et s’entrecroisent… petits drames et autres historiettes du quotidien.
No-Vacancy
Gaëlle D’Ynglemare
Un couple en pleine crise décide de partir en week-end d’amoureux pour raviver la flamme. Malheureusement, la réservation de l’hôtel n’a pas été enregistrée et le couple se voit obligé d’errer dans des établissement affichant tous “complet”.
Pas de deux sur chanson triste
Gaëlle D’Ynglemare
Un jeune homme, incapable d’admettre la mort absurde de sa bien-aimée, la fait revivre pour une ultime journée par la force de son amour et grâce a un subterfuge.
Nelly
Anne Émond
A film inspired by the life and work of Nelly Arcan. The portrait of a fragmented woman, lost between irreconcilable identities: writer, lover, call girl and star. Several women in one, navigating between great exaltation and great disenchantment. A film mirror of a violent life and a radical work; a tribute to a dense writing, chilling and necessary.
Cancún
Isabelle A. Girard
A woman damaged by life writes her suicide letter in a motel room. Surprised by her husband, she hides pills and revolver. He enters and causes a tantrum. He tries to appease their unhappiness with promises of love and travel. But who will benefit from this vacation?
Un peu, beaucoup, à la folie…
Isabelle A. Girard
A woman falls prey to perverse and unexpected looks. Obsessed with her, a man follows her and tells her that he knows her secret. But the secret that is revealed hides many others.
Fantasme
Izabel Grondin
They have nothing in common but a peculiar fantasy. And tonight, they meet for the first time.
La table
Izabel Grondin
A man goes to a potential employer’s house one evening, only to find out that the job started as soon as he got in the house…
On verra ça en post-prod
Juliette Guerin
« On verra ça en post-prod! » est assurément l´une des phrases les plus populaires sur les plateaux de tournage. Mais que se passe-t-il une fois rendu en post-prod, alors qu´il n´y a plus moyen de pelleter le problème dans la cour de quelqu´un d´autre? Suivez le quotidien de l´équipe de SuperFX, une petite boîte de post-production du Mile-End qui, après avoir perdu un gros projet, tente de décrocher LE nouveau contrat qui les remettra à flot… La dream team n´est pas au bout de ses peines!
Dimanche, nous verrons…
Sophie B. Jacques
À l’âge vénérable de 77 ans, André Raemdonck habite un lieu insolite, presque surréaliste, et pratique un métier dont tous les enfants rêvent. Conservateur du Musée du Jouet de Bruxelles, il partage son quotidien avec une collection qu’il accumule depuis plus de quarante ans. À travers le bric-à-brac imprégnant son existence, le vieil homme réfléchi sur l’héritage qu’il laissera derrière lui.
Chaloupe
Sophie B. Jacques
On one side, an empty field appears seemingly endless. On the other, a black lake extends forever into the distance. And in between, just a small tent, a campfire and a car; the only way out. If only Francois knew how to drive
Privé
Sophie B. Jacques
After having been a nun for many years, a woman decides to find the man of her life.
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.
Platinium Farewell
Katherine Jerkovic
Long take of a ship leaving the harbour. (Or crossing from Montevideo to Buenos Aires for the twentieth time)
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.
The Year Dolly Parton was my mom
Tara Johns
It’s 1976 and Elizabeth is just your average suburban 11-year-old praying for adolescence to arrive, when she discovers her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, Elizabeth runs away in search of her true identity. Her adoptive mother, Marion is then forced to break out of the carefully constructed “truth” she’s been clinging to, and go after her daughter.
Pour l’amour du combat
Tara Johns
Jean Beaudin talks about his life and his love of cinema as he fights an invisible opponent in a boxing ring. In one corner, Marcel Sabourin, a loyal friend who has often acted in his films, proffers advice and reminds us of key moments in Beaudin’s career.
Capturing Captain Canada (a.k.a. Peter A. Herrndorf)
Tara Johns
In this fusion of fiction and documentary film, a Special Investigator catches a break when Peter A. Herrndorf volunteers to come in for questioning on an ongoing case. The Investigator quickly finds himself in a charming game of cat and mouse however, as he must determine whether this self-professed immigrant kid could really be the nation-building super hero he’s been pursuing all these years.