Online cinema
Never Again Forever
Danae Elon
This powerful film about the Jewish Defense League traces the militant group’s history from the streets of Brooklyn where it originated to the Occupied Territories where it flourishes today, painting a disturbing portrait of a cycle of hate born in the ashes of the Holocaust.
Les pieds dans le vide
Mariloup Wolfe
Three friends meet one summer at a skydiving center. Adventurous, they spend most of their time jumping – jumping for the thrill, jumping to forget, jumping to escape what haunts them. Rafael, 20 years old, dreams of becoming a pilot; Manu, 19 years old, has to take care of her mother who suffers from cancer; and Charles, 30 years old, owns the skydiving center. In his own way, he tries to keep order and prevent his daredevil friends from getting hurt, while becoming more and more attached to Manu, with whom he develops a romantic relationship. A newcomer joins the group, Ludo, a shy young stranger trying to discover who he really is. Quickly, several trials will upset the eventful life of each one, shaking the foundations of the solid trio formed by Rafaël, Manu and Charles.
Jouliks
Mariloup Wolfe
A couple died by drowning. A news item that will be reported in the newspapers. Refusing to let her parents be reduced to this drama, Yanna, their seven-year-old daughter, tells us their true story, one that is not a tragedy, but above all a love story. Through her luminous story, we learn the details of a life that was meant to be free of convention and preconceived ideas.
Le grand move
Mariloup Wolfe
This documentary series follows families from large urban centers who have chosen to settle in the regions in search of a better quality of life. Behind the camera and in the field, Mariloup Wolfe meets these families and reveals the thoughts, steps, paths and decisions of these neo-ruralists. Through a series of portraits, viewers discover the pros and cons of life outside the big city.
Arlette
Mariloup Wolfe
Approached by the Prime Minister of Quebec to rejuvenate the image of his government, Arlette Saint-Amour, director of a fashion magazine, becomes Minister of Culture overnight. She succeeded in creating a real buzz around Culture with her look and her audacity. Bold, she does not hesitate to confront the most powerful of them all: the Minister of Finance. Their files are battles to be fought, but their confrontation is a real war to be finished because, at the end of the day, this film revolves around a great theme: the power of the image. A comedy of appearances that takes us behind the scenes of the National Assembly, where the zany meets the serious, where comedy embraces drama.
Sortir de l’ombre
Gentille Assih Menguizani
Into the Light features the liberating life stories and powerful words of inspiring Quebec women of African origin who’ve regained control over their lives after suffering from domestic violence. The film transcends prejudice and breaks the silence, pulling back the curtain on a poorly understood, hidden world, while testifying to the tremendous power that comes from overcoming isolation and accepting one’s self. It’s a luminous dive into the quest for personal healing and universal humanity. This is Togo-born director Gentille M. Assih’s third documentary
Jouvencelles
Fanie Pelletier
Through moments in the lives of three groups of girls, images gleaned from the web and live streams of young women around the world, Bloom delves into the world of today’s teenage girls. We delicately observe a hyper-connected but lonely generation inhabited by great lucidity, an inner struggle with self-image obsession, and a need for self-affirmation in the face of a complex sense of alienation.
Photo jaunie
Fanie Pelletier
Faded photograph is a documentary in which the filmmaker traces the existence of her father, who died when she was 12, through a montage of his memoirs. From family films shot by her paternal grandfather and her father between 1954 and 1998, and the diaries he wrote during his life, the director tells the story of an ordinary man whose personal memory echoes a collective memory : one of a generation bursting out of Quebec’s great darkness in which freedom is also synonym of disorientation. Thus begins a dialogue marked by nostalgia, between joyful videos and tormented writings, which soon becomes universal.
Paparmane
Joëlle Desjardins Paquette
A depressed cat transforms the lives of a grieving parking attendant and an exuberant telegram singer. A cosmic encounter on a pastel background.
Falcon Lake
Charlotte Le Bon
Born in France to a Quebecois mother, Bastien, almost 14, spends his summer vacations in the Laurentians with his parents and his little brother. Louise, his mother’s best friend, welcomes them to her cottage on the shore of a lake. The day after his arrival, the young Frenchman visits the area with Louise’s 16-year-old daughter Chloé. According to her, the lake is haunted by the spirit of a drowned boy. With the teenager, Bastien experiences his first sexual and love feelings. But he feels threatened by the presence of the son of the new owner of the cottage, a 19-year-old English-speaking man who is always hanging around Chloé.
Judith Hôtel
Charlotte Le Bon
Have you ever dreamed of going to sleep and never wake up? Rémi has. Eight years of insomnia has made his life a living hell. By booking a room at Judith Hotel, a very popular establishment, he is giving himself the opportunity of a new start.
Le Mythe de la Femme noire
Ayana O’Shun
The Myth of the Black Woman is a feature-length documentary that investigates the image of black women in society, from the hypersexual Jezebel to the lovable Nanny to the sassy “Bitch.” Experts say the Black community is the minority most affected by images created centuries ago. Black women, acclaimed leaders in their fields, tell of the challenges these representations of them bring to their lives. Their compelling stories are supported by compelling, never-before-seen archival footage from centuries past to the present. This hard-hitting film was also a favorite for many of us. It is sad, however, to still see the need for a film that reports on a reality that should no longer exist. Relevant, dynamic and daring, this film gives voice, without compromise. Its classic and very effective form seduces by its asserted speech, the sensual beauty of the images, the intelligence of the testimonies and the delicacy of its musical framework. A powerful tool for popular education and mobilization.
Lazyboy
Ayana O’Shun
Marie-Hélène, a neurotic and distinguished woman, goes to her first appointment with a renowned psychologist. Wanting to prove that she doesn’t really need a shrink, she ridicules everything in the doctor’s office, but unknowingly goes from a dazzling superiority to the flattest discomfiture. It’s obvious: she’ll need to be on the doctor’s lazyboy a lot!
Médecins sans résidence
Ayana O’Shun
This short documentary highlights how discrimination prevents foreign-trained doctors from practising in Canada – even after they’ve received their Canadian qualifications. Interviews with medical professionals and human rights advocates illustrate how systemic racism plays a role.
Les salopes ou le sucre naturel de la peau
Renée Beaulieu
Marie-Claire (Brigitte Poupart), professor of dermatology, is undertaking a new scientific research project on skin cells and how they are affected by sexuality when a chain of events disrupts her career, family and above all, her intimate life. Les Salopes or the Naturally Wanton Pleasure of Skin proposes a different perspective by making a woman and her sexuality, the subject and no longer the object of the film…presenting a feminine sexuality that is self-assured, complex and subversive…
Inès
Renée Beaulieu
Caught up in a symbiotic relationship with her father, Inès (20 years old) embarks on a difficult path to try to escape from this imposing man in order to build her own identity and become an adult woman.
Chien Blanc
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
1968. The United States is on the verge of implosion: Martin Luther King is assassinated and racial hatreds put the country to fire and blood. Romain Gary, who lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the actress Jean Seberg, takes in a stray dog. The dog quickly finds his place in the house, with Diego, the couple’s only son. He is affectionate with everyone. Everyone, except the black people. This is because White Dog is a dog specially trained to chase away Black protesters. For Seberg, who is very active in the Black Panthers, it is unthinkable to keep the dog, but for Gary, it is unthinkable to shoot him. Gary is fixated on this animal: he cannot abandon it. He entrusts him to a kennel in the hope of curing the dog of this hatred that man has embedded in his body. And it’s Keys, a black healer, who takes charge of reforming the animal. Inhabited by his own tragedy, he will not do his job by halves.
Pour Toi Flora
Sonia Bonspille Boileau
For You Flora (Pour toi Flora) is the story of a brother and sister of Anishinabe descent who spend their youth in a residential school in the 1960s and who, years later, attempt to make peace with their painful past. From the heartbreaking moment when the Oblates take the two children away from their parents to the events that unite them more than five decades later, this six-episode, one-hour drama miniseries depicts different eras in their lives, unfolding together in each episode to tell the story of how a Quebec Aboriginal family splits apart and manages to repair itself. For You Flora (Pour toi Flora) brings to the screen for the first time the painful legacy of those religious settlements in Quebec that were intended to eradicate Aboriginal cultures. Although fictional, the story of Pour toi Flora is inspired by various testimonies and reflects the reality of several hundred families in the province. The series highlights the innate resilience of these uprooted girls and boys, and the brotherly love that survives, despite the most unimaginable moments of adversity.
Motel Paradis
Sophie Deraspe
Following a near-death experience, Jen Paradis is certain that her 14-year-old sister did not commit suicide. Determined to shed light on her disappearance, she brings back to her isolated village the investigator in charge of the case three years earlier, now retired. Together they will investigate.
Derouin – Métis des Amériques
Julie Corbeil
A rare bird, the artist René Derouin flies over his universe that links Quebec to Mexico. He takes a nuanced look at it, imbued with distance. A true monument of the visual arts in Quebec, Derouin is guided by his love of nature and his desire to bring the public closer to contemporary art. With delicacy, director Julie Corbeil gives voice to this tireless and committed artist, driven by the urgency to create and nurture a dialogue.
Rencontres avec le bout du monde
Julie Corbeil
After 17 years of living in refugee camps in Nepal, a Bhutanese community came to settle in Quebec, more precisely in St-Jérôme in the Laurentians.
Mexico – Cœur vibrant des Amériques
Julie Corbeil
With her artistic sensibility, Julie Corbeil shows us Mexico City in all its splendor. In her film, the filmmaker accompanies Quebec multidisciplinary artist René Derouin as he immerses himself in the richness of this megalopolis to produce a new work. Together, they travel through the different delegations of the city, transporting us into the colorful and warm universe of a young and dynamic urban population, looking towards the future. It is through its art, its gastronomy, its history and its architecture that Mexico City reveals all its beauty, under the gaze of Julie who lets the inhabitants speak in order to better understand all the subtleties of the vibrant heart of the Americas.
Guatemala – Tierra maya
Julie Corbeil
Guatemala is a Central American country located just south of Mexico. It is part of Latin America and has a population of 16 million, the majority of whom are of direct Mayan descent. If a few thousand years ago the Mayan civilization was one of the most powerful on the planet, natural disasters, European conquests and recent armed conflicts have given its people a hard time. Filmmakers Julie Corbeil and Ugo Monticone propose an encounter with Guatemala’s fascinating mix of cultures. A journey into a country where ancestral traditions are deeply rooted in the present.
Derrière les bulles de la BD québécoise
Julie Corbeil
The growth of interest in comics in Quebec is undeniable. Publishers are multiplying and, although the market share is not huge, it is one of the rare literary genres to have experienced a continuous growth in sales over the last ten years. Authors and designers with different profiles talk about a field that they have seen change for the better, without escaping the difficulties of the limited market that is Quebec.