Online cinema
La fête des pères
Ayana O’Shun
Following the success of her first feature film, The Myth of the Black Woman, Ayana O’Shun presents Father’s Day. This gripping documentary explores the phenomenon of absent fathers in Black communities, through the personal stories of the director and luminous, resilient women from Canada and Guadeloupe. Growing up in Quebec, Ayana was struck by the fact that half of all Black families in North America live without a father (compared to one-fifth of families on average). What are the reasons for this state of affairs? Does Black history in the Americas influence fathers’ defection? What are the consequences of this absence on their daughters, the women they become, and the community in general? This documentary is a call to break the silence. It highlights the weight of social and historical legacy, the consequences of life choices, the complexities of love and freedom, and the hopes of healing and renewal.
Gabor
Joannie Lafrenière
Gabor is a quirky, feel-good portrait of Gabor Szilasi, the 94-year-old giant of Canadian contemporary photography. It is an uplifting immigrant story and an inspiring lesson on how to grow old with elegance and dignity.
Nouveau-Québec
Sarah Fortin
As they make their way to Schefferville, an isolated village in Northern Quebec, to settle the sale of a cottage, Sophie and Mathieu unwittingly find themselves facing a grave and unexpected situation. While a police investigation struggles to get underway, plagued by limited local resources, the couple is forced to stay put longer than anticipated. They find themselves cut off from the rest of the world, grappling with the local indigenous reality for perhaps the very first time. The couple then sees its relationship put to the test, as they each take an opposite approach to their predicament, in this chamber drama of wide open spaces.
Du hockey propre, la petite histoire d’un film culte
Sarah Fortin
Le Québec entretient une fascination particulière pour le film Slap Shot, sorti en 1977. Du hockey propre: petite histoire d’un film culte remonte la filière québécoise de ce célèbre film de hockey.
À hauteur d’enfant
Mélanie Carrier
A couple of filmmakers who have become parents wonder how to describe life to their children. What wonders are left to discover? With their camera, they decide to dive into their world, where every little gesture is extraordinary, where everything remains to be told. Little Béatrice—who doesn’t want to grow up—opens the door to her imagination wide, while her older brother Émile, who is learning to read and write, wonders if atoms are alive. Filmed over nearly four years, both at school and at home, and blending a child’s-eye view of cinéma vérité, observational camerawork, and a poetic narrative style, this true cinematic journey invites us to reflect. What do we lose as we grow older? What stories do we most want to pass on?
La méthode scandinave
Anik Salas
Filmmaker Anik Salas travels to Scandinavian societies – world leaders in gender equality – to understand the key to their success. Part investigation, part manifesto, her documentary reveals one essential truth: change does not happen by magic, but through political will and concrete strategies. An urgent, fiercely committed film that refuses to postpone equality to another century.
Kaïros
Jennifer Alleyn
After a year of filming abroad, Manu, a once prominent actor, returns to his hometown. But getting back into the business isn’t as easy as he thought. After several unsuccessful auditions, he’s no longer sure of anything. Against all odds, he lands a job hosting a nighttime call-in radio show. His listeners are mainly newcomers, refugees and exiles with varied life experiences, working graveyard shifts. Manu gradually appropriates this space, this gathering of mixed voices, to launch philosophical questions into the night. His words are engaging. He becomes an anchor for many listeners. His life takes on new meaning.
Pour une histoire des Noirs au canada
Marilyn Cooke
Eva Kabuya
Pour une histoire des Noirs au Canada (For a History of Black Canadians) is a vibrant and exciting animated series that tells the extraordinary stories of Black people who have shaped Canadian history. Over the course of its 20 episodes, young viewers are immersed in unique stories that span different eras and fields, from politics to sports to the arts. In this series, we patrol the streets of Ontario with Peter Butler III, the province’s first Black police officer, and lace up our skates with Willie O’Ree, the NHL’s first Black player. We follow Yvette Bony, the first doctor to perform a bone marrow transplant on a child in Quebec, and we take the plunge from the highest peaks with Jennifer Abel, the first Black woman to win an Olympic medal in diving. Vibrant, accessible, and moving, Pour une histoire des Noirs au Canada explores, with great sensitivity, themes such as racism and slavery. We celebrate the achievements and legacy of these figures who, with great determination and courage in the face of adversity, have written an important part of…
Tough Old Broads
Stacey Tenenbaum
Kathrine Switzer, Siila Watt-Cloutier, and Sharon Farmer. They are the first woman to run the Boston Marathon officially, the first woman to connect climate change to human rights, and the first woman to serve as Chief White House Photographer. These trailblazing women broke barriers in their time and continue to pursue their passions to this day. They’re living proof that you can follow your dreams and maybe change the world in the process.
Mon amour c’est pour le restant de mes jours
André-Line Beauparlant
An intimate and unfiltered portrait of the legendary figure of Quebec cinema, Robert Morin, who has also been my partner for 25 years. Through my eyes, I sketch the contours of a singular man and a complex, uncompromising artist—much like his films. A documentary that interweaves excerpts from his films with previously unseen footage shot while he was on set, hunting, by the fire, by the river, in the woods at Montcerf, in Montreal, and in Rome. Reflections on creation, love, life, and death that he shares with me, his daughter Alix, colleagues, and friends. We see him as he is: a Robert Morin who doesn’t try to please, true to himself, without pretense or evasion.
Pipe Dreams
Stacey Tenenbaum
Pipe Dreams follows five young organists as they compete in Canada’s prestigious International Organ Competition (CIOC). Who will master the ‘king of instruments’ and come out victorious in Montreal? Pipe Dreams gives you an inside look into the wonderful world of competitive organ playing. From the quietest tinkling of a bell to the rumble of a locomotive… This is organ playing like you have never heard it before!
Bleu Tango
Marion Chuniaud-Lacau
Born mute, Azalia has made her body her language. Her desire to express herself has never been stifled by the limitations imposed by the world around her. Through her art, the young woman breaks free from the social, physical, and psychological constraints associated with the cerebral palsy she has.