Online cinema
Voice of Sealand
Gynette Mercier
Poetic animated film about the environment. It’s a little star shining in Sealand with bioluminescence and réflexion of the stars in the sky. With my photography and drawings for the power point presentation and my voice in background with recordings of live poetry.
Cherry
Laurence Gagné-Frégeau
Portrait of Marie-Lise Chouinard, this radiant woman imbued with contagious liveliness. An intimate encounter with Marie-Lise through a wish list of activities of her own. Cherry is the epitome of resilience, friendship and hope.
Parvis
Laurence Gagné-Frégeau
A look within Laurie’s journey, throughout a night out with friends, to embrace her identity.
Pidikwe (Rumble)
Caroline Monnet
Featuring indigenous women of various generations, Pidikwe integrates traditional and contemporary dance in an audiovisual whirlwind that straddles the border between film and performance, somewhere between the past and the future.
The End Of Wonderland
Laurence Turcotte-Fraser
The End of Wonderland is a feature documentary on Tara Emory, a veteran artist who works on her own terms in the sex industry. Facing a changing world and eviction from her packed studio, Wonderland, Tara must confront her family history of hoarding, her art, and herself.
Ma cité évincée
Priscillia Piccoli
Laurence Turcotte-Fraser
Montreal, Canada. One of North America’s last remaining affordable cities is now in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis. As a result, the face of homelessness is visibly changing. “Renovictions” are on the rise while demand in homeless day centres explodes. In the Plateau Mont-Royal – a neighbourhood synonymous with gentrification – a 90-unit building named Manoir Lafontaine becomes the symbol of renoviction resistance in Quebec. An intimate portrait of a socio-political crisis, this multilayered film explores the human impact of real estate speculation on the cities of tomorrow.
Marée
Laurence Turcotte-Fraser
Two lovers always find and lose each other on the same spot: this lost beach in Berthier-sur-mer.
L’âme coincée entre deux morceaux de tôle
Laurence Turcotte-Fraser
A women alone in a bedroom, in front of her mirror and vanity. Trapped in her own world of images, she don’t hears the real person that was coming for her.
Le temps d’ériger un clocher
Laurence Turcotte-Fraser
The little Sainte-Cécile chapel in Calixa-Lavallée is the brainchild of Pierre Moussard, an enthusiast of religious antiquities and Quebec history. For many years, the Calixa resident had cherished the dream of building a processional chapel to house the many works of religious heritage that this specialist has collected over the decades, including crosses of all shapes, holy-water fonts, candlesticks, a 19th-century altar, paintings and more. The man paid over $50,000 out of his own pocket to build this chapel, which is dedicated to Saint Cecilia, patron saint of musicians, and was inaugurated in September 2011. However, the Municipality of Calixa-Lavallée alleges, among other things, that the construction does not comply with standards for agricultural land, while the owner asserts that it is in compliance with the law. The case was heard in Superior Court in Sorel-Tracy last April, when the judge ordered a site survey, adjourning the trial which is due to resume shortly. It should be noted that Pierre Moussard was nominated for the Prix Gérard-Morisset, the most prestigious distinction awarded by the Quebec government in the field of…
Domino
Laurence Turcotte-Fraser
After killing his partner Dominique, Mathieu tries to escape the consequences of his actions. He soon sinks into madness, the domino effect of his fate.
Partir pour mieux revenir
Priscillia Piccoli
Two Gaspesians return to their native land to find a life far from the noise of the city. They plunge us into their daily lives.