Online cinema
Femmes des bois
Julie Lambert
Femmes des bois offers an incursion into the unique world of forestry camps, where men and women from all over the world come together to work. Through the eyes of the women who have chosen to work there, we discover the micro-society that forms over the course of the forestry season.
L’audience
Émilie Beaulieu-Guérette
Peggy Nkunga Ndona
After crossing 11 countries irregularly to seek asylum in Canada, Peggy, Simon and their 3 children are waiting for the hearing that will determine whether they get refugee status or not. Having fled political repression in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the family tries to rebuild a peaceful life in Montreal, in spite of the constant threat of deportation. Between ghosts from the past, hopes for the future and a complex legal maze, the film delves into the struggle of the Nkunga Mbala family to get legal status. The film sheds light on the complex process of asylum seeking in Canada.
Après coups
Romane Garant Chartrand
Within the walls of a women’s shelter, a talking circle unmasks domestic violence to help women regain their dignity and power to act. In a powerfully empathetic cinematic gesture, Afterwards creates a space for sharing and sisterhood, like a choral ensemble breaking down the walls of silence.
LOVE ME
Romane Garant Chartrand
Nearly seventeen years old, Laetitia navigates between her attachment disorder and her blatant need for love. In a world where image control is absolute, LOVE ME tells the story of the quest for the love with a capital L, through the various forms of self-representation.
Ainsi va Manu – Saison 2
Josiane Blanc
Forced to leave her hometown temporarily, Manu finds it hard to adapt to her new surroundings. She has only one thing on her mind: moving back to Toronto. However, an unexpected encounter turns Manuela’s life upside down, calling into question everything she’s known and wanted up to now.
Les héritières
Julie Blackburn
A true collective legacy, the documentary The Inheritors (Les héritières) is one of the highlights of the 50th anniversary of the Council on the Status of Women (Conseil du statut de la femme) in Quebec, Canada. In The Inheritors (Les héritières), actress Marie Soleil Dion invites us to meet the pioneers and women who are blazing the trail, each in their own field. Through these encounters and testimonials, the intimate and collective stories of inspiring women are brought to light, and their contribution to the evolution of Quebec society today and tomorrow.
Les diplômés Mira – Les grands sportifs (S2,E1)
Julie Blackburn
After The Mira Academy, The Mira Graduates (Les diplômés Mira) series offers touching stories. We step out of the kennels to follow the dogs into the homes of their beneficiaries, and into their living, working and leisure environments.
2 chiffres
Julie Blackburn
Young elementary school students confide in the camera about their joys, fears, doubts and hopes as they turn 10. Double-digit self-portraits, 2020, Montreal.
2023 façon d’aimer
Julie Blackburn
What do you know about Tinder, polyamory, open couples and pansexuality? Can you keep up with today’s changing relationships? Listen in as journalist Marie-Hélène Proulx demystifies it all with young people, singles and typical and atypical couples, who offer stunning testimonials and demonstrate that there are indeed 2023 ways to love (2023 façons d’aimer).
Comme une spirale
Lamia Chraibi
Like a Spiral is a dialogue between Beirut and five women, migrant domestic workers, under the Kafala system. Expressing their belonging to a society in collapse, the women’s voices rise through the film’s grainy images to denounce their stolen freedom with an inalienable thirst to exist. Their memories dance in the rhythm of oppression. Caught within life’s spiral, they lift themselves up to not sink into oblivion.
Circo
Lamia Chraibi
In Rio de Janeiro, Richard dreams of dazzling audiences in the world’s biggest circus tents. But when the 20-year-old artist is kicked out of his home by his adoptive mother, his life is turned upside down. Through an intimate, direct cinema approach, Circo immerses us in the lives of residents of Brazil’s favelas as they seek to shape their own futures.
Ma signature
Gynette Mercier
Une poésie – graver en couleur, texture, rythme. C’est l’art nomade, une signature en mouvement – passion en pianissimo.