Online cinema
Democracy
Martine Asselin
A rant about the way the Charest government receives the messages expressed by citizens.
Matrimoine
Ariel St-Louis Lamoureux
Sept jeunes femmes et leurs grand-mères discutent de la condition des femmes à travers les époques. Entre l’anecdotique et l’historique, entre le personnel et le social, les luttes et les choix d’une génération guident les prochaines.
24H
Marie-Lou Béland
Tomorrow, Samuel leaves for a long journey. His brother Nicolas wants to prevent him from leaving and “kidnaps” him for the night to make up for lost time. What will he do without his big brother?
Santé!
Marie-Lou Béland
He tries to restore her memory, to have access, for at least one last time, to the woman he loved so much. It was when he made her listen to the song of their first dance that she found a moment of lucidity. He was waiting for this moment. The couple toasts when they remember their promise of marriage. “Cheers!”. The sound of the cups banging against each other resonates like a shot, they swallow the last sip. The man invites his wife to get up for this last dance.
ROJEK
Zaynê Akyol
ROJEK meets incarcerated members of the Islamic State, and their wives detained in prison camps, from all over the world and sharing a common ideal: to establish a caliphate. Confronted with the fundamentalist beliefs of the jihadists, the film attempts to trace the beginning, the rise and the fall of the Islamic State (IS) through their personal stories. These conversations constitute the common thread of the documentary through which various sequences describing post-war Syrian Kurdistan intertwine. ROJEK offers an intimate look at an unknown reality, bearing witness to pivotal moments experienced by the actors of this conflict. The film discusses how this ideological war is only the beginning of a new threat.
Gulîstan, terre de roses
Zaynê Akyol
This documentary travels deep into the mountains and deserts of Kurdistan, where armed female guerillas from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) defend Kurdish territory against ISIS. These women share their most intimate thoughts with filmmaker Zaynê Akyol, resulting in an immersive audience experience. By offering a window into this largely unknown world, the film exposes the hidden feminist face of a revolutionary group united by a common vision of freedom.
Mardi matin, quelque part
Hélène Bélanger-Martin
It’s a Tuesday morning, somewhere… a route traveled a thousand times. Carefree passages. Schoolchildren, workers, a mother and her child, a pregnant woman, life beating…. the everyday in its splendor… every vulnerable moment.
La dames des eaux
Laetitia Demessence
A woman struggles to get rid of the curse that keeps her trapped in the waters of a lake.
Le vol des chenilles
Laetitia Demessence
With the start of the new school year approaching, Rosie decides to undergo a metamorphosis to hide the consequences of her illness. While her mother tries to take the situation in hand, the young teenager buries herself in the ground to be reborn transformed.
Ikwé (Femme)
Caroline Monnet
An experimental film that weaves the intimate thoughts of one woman (Ikwé) with the teachings of her grandmother, the Moon, creating a surreal narrative experience that communicates the power of thought and personal reflection.
Emptying the Tank
Caroline Monnet
A striking portrait of Chippewa female mixed martial artist Ashley Nichols, and a celebration of the athlete’s inner strength, fortitude, and dedication to her physical and spiritual health.
Gephyrophobia
Caroline Monnet
The Gatineau-Ottawa region is marked by the daily struggles between these two neighbouring communities, whose cultural, political and linguistic traditions differ. The film Gephyrophobia, an English word for the phobia of bridges, is a film about movement, landscape, and the tension between two distinct identities whose common border is the Ottawa River.
Tshieutin
Caroline Monnet
Take a ride through Northern Quebec and Labrador on Canada’s first First Nations-owned railway. The Tshiuetin train line extends 132.5 miles from Emeril, Labrador to Schefferville, Quebec. The majority of passengers on the train travel regularly for work and family engagements, using the railroad because road and air transport isn’t possible in the region– a unique reality that highlights the challenges faced by so many northern communities today. The Tshiuetin line is a testament to the viability of a business run by First Nations; one that combines local economic benefits with respect for the cultural and linguistic heritage of those who routinely use this service.
Nourrir les rêves
Aïcha Morin-Baldé
Kimberley Ann Surin
Hot Docs presents Citizen Minutes, a short doc collection highlighting ordinary Canadians doing extraordinary things to make their communities better places. Meet bold and unlikely changemakers who inspire us to jump in and get involved in civic issues close to our homes and hearts. S1E2 – Feeding Dreams: Meeting with Paul Evra, the young director general of the Center Lasallien Saint-Michel, whose mission is to help feed many families in need in the Saint-Michel district of Montreal.
1er mai
Monica Emond
1er mai is an experimental short film about the “May Day” March on Kyiv (Ukraine) in 1986, while the nuclear catastrophe at the nearby Chernobyl power station is ongoing. Archive film. Music composed by Cœur Atomique.
Failsafe
Monica Emond
Failsafe is a short film about the experimental aspects of the nuclear industry. Original footage and archive. Music composed by Cœur Atomique.
Nos désastres
Monica Emond
Nos désastres is a video poem directed, written, and narrated by nixe – Monica Emond. With the collaboration of Nadia Koromyslova, Hugo Samson et Jean-Yves Thériault. Music composed by Cœur Atomique.
Calutron
Monica Emond
Calutron is an experimental short film about humanimality of nuclear guinea pigs in the US Army. Archival film. Music composed by Cœur Atomique.
The Waste
Monica Emond
The Waste is an experimental short film about nuclear waste production worldwide. This day, in 2015, 438 nuclear power plants are functioning in 30 countries worldwide. 67 more are currently under construction. The total amount of spent fuel, the most hazardous radioactive byproduct, is evaluated to 270 000 tons. And this is only a small fraction of all types of nuclear waste that we cannot get rid of… in any way. A portion of that radioactive waste will continue to contaminate over hundreds of thousands of years ahead. Music composed by Cœur Atomique.
Castle Bravo
Monica Emond
Castle Bravo is an experimental short film about nuclear colonialism through the infamous 1954 US thermonuclear test on the inhabited atoll of Bikini in the Marshall Islands. Castle Bravo is the first piece from Landscape of Emergency, an independent project conducted by Monica Emond and Jean-Yves Thériault. Castle Bravo is a horrifying representation of modern colonialism and imperialism: this is a commended meeting between science and military covered up by state secrecy. The destructive enterprise of permanent contamination from nuclear testing counts innumerable victims including many who ignore they are one of them. Archival film. Music composed by Cœur Atomique.
Nid d’oiseau
Nadia Louis-Desmarchais
Lena, a 7-year-old black girl receives a drawing mocking her hair. With the help of her big sister, they will spend the evening trying to make her beautiful like her classmates.
L’école en 10 questions
Vanessa Boisset
Philosopher Normand Baillargeon and his guests attempt to answer ten fundamental questions in education based on the thoughts of ten important philosophers in the field. The questions addressed, more current than ever, are aimed at teachers and parents alike. The video episodes are also available as audio documentaries.
Le cheval oublié
Louise Leroux
Le cheval oublié tells the story of Richard Blackburn and his horses’ extraordinary European trek as they retrace, one hundred years later, the path taken by Canadian soldiers and horses during the First World War. This documentary unearths a little-known story and pays a well-deserved tribute to our Canadian war horses.
Linda Rabin – Everything is Moving
Christine Chevarie
For Linda Rabin, all is movement. That has been the guiding principle for this pioneer of modern dance in Quebec, who has been a dancer, teacher, choreographer, somatic educator and the cofounder with Candace Loubert of l’École de danse contemporaine de Montréal in 1981. In Linda’s view, dancers’ gestures are not merely technically well executed movements, but expressions of life itself. Spirituality, openness to the world and the fluidity of bodies are here conveyed with subtlety.