Online cinema
Dis-moi pourquoi ces choses sont si belles
Lyne Charlebois
Brother Marie-Victorin (Le Jardin Botanique, La Flore Laurentienne) was 46 when he met 23-year-old Marcelle Gauvreau. Both have been close to death and share the same love of God and Nature. He becomes her teacher, later she becomes his assistant. Their friendship evolves. Marie-Victorin offers Marcelle different readings on sexuality that she hastens to comment on from her own intimate experiences. In an epistolary exchange that will last until the death of Marie-Victorin, they explore human desires and “biology without a veil”. This great chaste love, the love of Quebec’s flora, pushes them to question their own relationship with love and Nature.
Les femmes de Raël
Érika Reyburn
Les femmes de Raël takes us inside the world of a sectarian group. Two women who have spent a large part of their lives in the Raelian movement have agreed to testify, not so much to denounce Rael as to show how normal, well-educated women can get caught up in such an entanglement, how one comes to follow a guru and how a guru becomes a guru.
Les météorites
Nadia Louis-Desmarchais
In the heart of the 2000s, Léna and Maëlle, two little black girls, live with a large, loving white foster family, whose upheavals we follow through their luminous eyes.
Young
Marlène Gaudreau
It’s early summer. In an empty cottage with closed curtains, Ludo is bored. At the same time, on the road, his friends are heading towards him. The latter join the former, allowing the light to shine at last. Together, they shine; the weather is good. Music video for Childhood Friend
Ennui Might Be The Most Sinister
Marlène Gaudreau
Three characters are at the cottage. They’re bored. As the film progresses, the boredom becomes increasingly oppressive, as does the pressure to escape it, driving the characters toward madness.
Opaline
Alix Galdin
The word opaline evokes a delicate, milky-white glass object, reflecting the theme of this experimental short film: the precious but fragile period of childhood. In this visual poem, the child trapped in the maelstrom of family becomes the living archive of unspeakable violence. The images were first captured with a camera, then filmed in Super 8 and hand painted. The colour streaming through the film restores movement to days frozen and steeped in anxiety.
Reliquat
Alix Galdin
This film is made up of two photographic series that dialogue around a reflection on the body and death. They call and answer each other. The veils of the emulsion echo and dance together. The images are accompanied by a poetic text that immerses us in personal and intimate memories.
Sainte-Croix
Alix Galdin
This short film brings you inside Quebec artist Pierre Potvin’s universe; lutherie, kinetic art and music. This eclectic creator tells us about his long creative journey, from the creation to the fabrication of music boxes. As a self-taught artist, he designs the media that will bring his compositions to live.
Axiomata
Béatriz Mediavilla
Universal Newton’s law of motion as an opportunity to build unity between humans, regardless of the age, the body look or race. Newton’s law of motion are universal. We all are bodies in motion responding to the same universal laws. With an intergenerational and inter-ethnical group of non dancers, Beatriz Mediavilla uses the 3 laws to build in situ choreographies that presents those topics.
Innover durablement
Vanessa Boisset
Innovation! What about our environmental and social impact? Today, Quebec benefits from an abundance of sustainable innovations created by local researchers and companies that contribute to the development of a circular economy. Whether in the brewing, construction, fashion and textile, health care, fuel or fishing industries, host Lili Boisvert goes to meet them.
La vie continue
Vanessa Boisset
Cancer is a disease that affects us all. From near or far. An aunt, a friend, a father, a colleague, or yourself… In Quebec, on average, someone is diagnosed with cancer every 8 minutes. As a woman, mother and cancer survivor, Vanessa Boisset takes you on a journey to discover the most recent and promising advances in screening, treatment and patient well-being for six of the most deadly cancers. All hope is possible!
Éloge de l’ombre
Catherine Martin
Junichiro Tanizaki’s literary essay In Praise of Shadows, light and dark, and the origins of photography and cinema are among the strands interwoven in this “cinematic meditation” in three chapters. Fleeting shadows ebb and flow in a glistening half-light, an enchanted dreamlike state that reflects on our place in the world, the passage of time, and the very essence of life and its fragility.