Online cinema
À l’état sauvage
Sophie Goyette
Un jeune garçon nous amène dans son univers surréel lui permettant de fuir sa réalité violente et désolante. Par le biais d’une visite éclair au Planétarium, Mathias retrouvera l’apaisement nécessaire qui lui permettra de quitter momentanément son univers pour toucher à plus grand que lui.
Manèges
Sophie Goyette
Au volant de son auto et au cœur de la nuit, Nadège cherche un exutoire et le trouve au sein d’un endroit qu’elle connait déjà: un karting 24h, où elle restera jusqu’au petit matin. Face à une décision qu’elle ne souhaite prendre, cette jeune femme trouvera le calme et le recul nécessaires à sa réflexion dans ce sanctuaire atypique, au milieu des crissements de pneus et du va-et-vient circulaire du circuit.
La ronde
Sophie Goyette
Come nightfall, Ariane bids farewell to her father’s bungalow, twin brother, hometown and landmarks, driven by a longing to wake up elsewhere – anywhere but here. Her final scooter ride through the streets, fields, and woods is a solemn journey filled with evocative encounters. In La ronde, Sophie Goyette offers a moving pilgrimage through the troubled waters of suburban slumber. From one unusual tableau to the next emerges a singular meditation on leaving, loss, and night’s power of abstraction.
La Lune viendra d’elle-même
Marie-Jan Seille
Atteinte du Sida, Aimée sort d’un nouveau séjour à l’hôpital. Son amie Francine la conduit à la Maison Bleue pour sa convalescence. Toutefois, l’état de santé d’Aimée ne s’améliore pas : elle tombe dans la confusion mentale et devra rester à la Maison Bleue jusqu’à sa mort. La lente agonie d’Aimée révèle ou réveille les petites et grandes douleurs, plus ou moins enfouies. Confrontée de toutes parts, Francine se débat entre la colère, le déni et la peine. Jusqu’à l’apprivoisement de la souffrance et l’acceptation tranquille de l’impermanence des êtres et des choses.
Le temps des chenilles (saison 1)
Catherine White
Alix has been living in the same town forever. Her life drastically changes after her 21st birthday, when her parents return home from vacations earlier than expected. Under the pretext of a messy house they kick her out. Luckily Alix’s friend Bibi is back from Montreal to work at the summer camp. Good news for Alix, that means she will be allowed to put up her tent in Bibi’s backyard. Otherwise, all the people around Alix seem to be hiding. And without her wallet or her clothes, things kind of get complicated… scorchingly hot, and a caterpillar invasion is about to swarm over the region.
Le futur proche
Sophie Goyette
While at work, Robin, a French immigrant pilot, receives a phone call that sends shock waves through his soul. Unseen by others, turmoil seeps into his inner world and echoes in his daily life. He will have to let this pain in, but not now. An impressionistic depiction of an all-but-ordinary day, “The near future” takes us to the poetic boundary between droning engines and complete silence, aerial and terrestrial, pastoral and urban, man and machine, life and death.
Mes nuits feront écho
Sophie Goyette
In Quebec, Mexico and Asia, three sensitive souls heed the call of the images and melodies that haunt their days and nights. Moved at once by loss, yearning and longing, Eliane (Eliane Préfontaine), Romes (Gerardo Trejoluna) and his father Pablo (Felipe Casanova) decide to take action before it is too late. Whatever the risks, they must let their dreams take flight.
Mila
Kristina Wagenbauer
Mila, a 10 year old girl, is recording the sounds of her everyday life. At school, with her family, outside, she captures her surroundings on a small tape recorder she carries around everywhere. From the unceasing arguments of her parents to the laughter of the schoolmates, everything is caught on tape. As the birthday of her grandfather Luiggi approches, Mila is planning something. To put her plan to work, she devises a ploy to skip school for an entire week. Day and night, she now works on a very special gift featuring her unknowing family.
Ailleurs Exactement
Kristina Wagenbauer
Maxime forgets how to put on her pants and she decides to keep her problem to herself. Gradually, her memory loss forces her to confront more and more difficult situations.
Sashinka
Kristina Wagenbauer
Sasha’s mother arrives on her doorstep like a hurricane without warning. The young musician is unable to hide her trepidation as her mother asks to sleep on her couch. As Sasha prepares for the most important concert of her career, the pitiful reasons for her mother’s visit come to light. Sasha must find a way to survive the remaining 24 hours before her big show, confronting both the volatile woman and the past that Sasha had worked so hard to leave behind her.
Manic
Kalina Bertin
Manic chronicles filmmaker Kalina Bertin’s struggle to make sense of the legacy of mental illness wreaking havoc over her siblings’ lives. Convinced that her father holds a key piece of the puzzle, she sets out to find the truth about him, and discovers a man known alternately as a cult leader, a scam artist, a prophet, and a father of fifteen. Manic invites the viewer on a compelling and intimate journey through time and through the mind, where past and present collide.
Beyond the pearly gates of ill-repute
Elza Kephart
An innocent young girl rents a room in a shady boarding house only to discover she is being help prisoner in a brothel !! When her cash runs out, the callous Madame forces her to pay her rent by catering to the needs of her insalubrious clientele. The pious girl tries to defend her purity by exploiting the religious eccentricities of her customers… but will Jesus forgive her ultimate sin?