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Au milieu de nulle part ailleurs
Annick Blanc
Jade, Piero and their son Timothée go on vacation to Fermont (Québec). Once installed in the strange Electricity Motel, the child begins a series of runaways to the church, where he relishes the apparitions of a sensual Virgin. Things get complicated as the Fermont residents begin to idolize the child. Fearing their son’s madness, the parents decide to flee to Montreal, leaving the Virgin to run out of breath behind the car.
Turn Off Before Living
Annick Blanc
Paul, on a trip to Havana, is experiencing difficulty keeping a smile on his troubled face. He meets Agnela, a young local working girl, whose job it is to please with a practiced smile of her own. No matter, how close they get or how hard they try to soothe their broken souls, their attempts remains vain. They are too busy disconnecting themselves from hidden, unwanted emotions to achieve a true much needed human contact.
La couleur de tes lèvres
Annick Blanc
In an atmosphere grown suddenly impossible to breathe, a diver and a woman appear to be the only survivors. As their reserves of air run out, will they make love or war?
Jour de chasse
Annick Blanc
Nina, a young woman with an unpredictable temperament, is taken in by a band of hunters at a remote cabin. In the midst of this scathing yet endearing male micro-society, she finally feels part of a pack. This fragile balance is upset when a mysterious stranger joins the group. At once raw and dreamlike, Hunting Day offers a singular universe that interweaves mystery, tension, dark humor and a touch of horror.
1+1+1 L’amour, la vie, le chaos
Yanie Dupont-Hébert
Dive into the intimate world of Pat (she hates Patricia), a fiery writer on the brink of forty, plagued by an invasive and unreliable inner voice that constantly pushes her toward self-sabotage. Pat must face herself, forgive, and silence her insecurities if she wants to save her relationship with Jan—the musician she has just rekindled things with, who is struggling with an identity crisis—and repair her now fragile bond with her daughter Flavie, a teenager whose best friend is an imaginary emotional support dog named Jesus. A stay at Pat’s family cabin, in the heart of the harsh Québécois winter, unearths a childhood trauma that might just hold the key to her salvation… Blending drama, comedy, and a touch of magical realism, 1+1+1 Life, Love, Chaos follows characters standing at the threshold of who they were and who they are about to become. Identity, the complexities of family ties, love, and the existential questions Pat and her clan grapple with reflect universal themes that resonate with all.
Manicouagan
Nadine Beaudet
A driven but intimate work, this film recounts the history of Manicouagan (North Shore, Quebec) a legendary territory shaped by the impact of an asteroid 215 million years ago. From the St. Lawrence River to north of the 51st parallel, the legendary Route 389 brings us to the heart of this meteor crater to meet some extraordinary individuals (astrophysicists, geologists, truck-stop manager, hikers). Digging deep into their memories, the Innu of Pessamit tell of the dispossession of their ancestral lands, which were flooded by the construction of the big hydro dams, leading to the disorientation of the young people from their community. After choosing to live in the boreal forest at the feet of the Uapishka Mountains, a guide and a pioneer of northern expeditions reveal their powerful connection with nature. In this non-linear narrative with many faces, the land speaks out and questions the traces we humans leave behind us.
Deux femmes en or
Chloé Robichaud
Violette and Florence no longer understand what’s happening to them. Respectively on maternity leave and on sick leave, one is on edge, the other feels nothing. Both neighbors feel like failures: despite their careers and families, they’re not happy. Florence’s first infidelity is a revelation. What if happiness meant rebelling against our rigid performance society? In a context where having fun is far down on the list of priorities, sleeping with a delivery boy could be downright revolutionary. For Violette and Florence, it’s the breath of fresh air they’ve been hoping for.
La coop de ma mère
Ève Lamont
Ma mère Rachel et ses 40 voisins sont partie prenante d’une communauté hétéroclite et tentent de vivre la coopération malgré les défis de la gestion collective. Tous ces gens forment un bouillon interculturel et intergénérationnel, une micro-société qui appelle à un meilleur vivre-ensemble.
La dissolution du paysage
Anne-Marie Bouchard
Through visual metaphors, the film offers an incursion into an inner landscape, a dive into subconscious, a mix of childhood memories and recurrent dreams, between surrealism and automatism. A film of chemical manipulation and direct intervention on film, set to original improvised music by Lyne Goulet, Martien Bélanger and Fred Lebrasseur. The improvisations on film fed the music, which in turn fed the editing and new animations.
The Relay: Beyond the Last Name
Kimberley Ann Surin
25 years ago, in front of 85,000 stunned spectators, four Canadian sprinters achieved what was described as impossible: winning the Olympic gold medal in the 4×100 relay event defeating the American team and world leaders on their home soil. On August 3rd, 1996, four Black men from three different Caribbean Islands ran together and marked a monumental event by becoming the face of the sport of sprinting in Canada forever. As a previous professional athlete and the daughter of sprinter Bruny Surin, Kimberley Surin embarks on a personal journey to understand that historic race on its 25th medal anniversary by uncovering the tensions and barriers that almost prevented it from ever happening. The Relay: Beyond the Last Name documentary is her quest for answers.
The Relay: Revisiting History
Kimberley Ann Surin
Absolutely Canadian is a national one-hour series showcasing documentaries and performance programs that tell unique stories from communities across Canada. All programs are produced locally. S21E32 – The Relay – Revisiting History: On August 3rd, 1996, 4 Canadian sprinters made Canadian history by bringing home the Olympic gold in the 4×100 relay event in front of 85,000 Atlanta spectators.
The Relay: Behind the Medal
Kimberley Ann Surin
Resilience, suffering, hard work, success… CBC Sports presents the athlete from the inside, with his strengths, his doubts, his achievements and his humanity. The Relay: Behind the Medal: Atlanta, 1996. 25 years ago, in front of a stunned crowd of 85,000 spectators, four Canadian sprinters achieved what seemed impossible: winning gold in the 4 x 100 m relay at the Olympic Games ahead of the world leaders, the Americans, on home soil.