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Figure d’Armen
Marlene Edoyan
Drawn to the idea of reconnecting with her ancestral homeland, the filmmaker, Marlene Edoyan embarks on a road trip across the countryside and villages of Armenia and the two Armenian-populated territories of neighbouring Republics of Georgia and Nagorno-Karabakh. These regions play a decisive role in the social, economic and political life of Armenia. Through songs, stories, poems and chance encounters with villagers, the author learns how Armenians living in the South Caucasus are coping with the advent of independence and “democracy”, two decades after the breakup of the USSR. The effects of a devastating earthquake in 1988, followed by a bloody war with Azerbaijan have made the country very fragile. Each story and experience is unique. As we move through the various territories the issues of border tensions, language, ethnicity and cultural heritage become prevalent. Each community has a battle to fight. The recurrent theme throughout the film however remains the same: the challenge of residing and making a living in one’s homeland. While some are hopeful and proud, others are discouraged and bleak about the prospects of a better…
La mer entre nous
Marlene Edoyan
The Sea Between Us transports us to the city of Beirut in Lebanon, 25 years after the end of a bloody civil war and into the lives of two strong and charismatic women, Hayat & Wafaa. With children of their own, they must now face the challenging task of passing on the civil war’s violent legacy onto a new generation. The film puts a human face on the impact of sectarian division, nationalism and intolerance and shows that hope for peaceful coexistence is cross cultural, universal and part of the human experience. Through the intimate stories and memories of these two protagonists of different backgrounds, we understand why Beirut’s neighbourhoods still feel walled in by invisible boundaries and why achieving forgiveness and reconciliation is so complex in a country that is still broken over religious and political ideology.
Lorraine Pintal: Pour que la lumière ne meure jamais
Ariane Louis-Seize
A tribute to Théâtre du Nouveau-Monde director Lorraine Pintal, the film brings together some of the most memorable characters and performers from her career. The film reveals the exceptional woman of theater, the director and the friend that this sentinel of Quebec theater represents for them all.
Comme une comète
Ariane Louis-Seize
On a family trip to observe the shooting stars, Chloé, a withdrawn teenager, discovers a dazzling attraction for her mother’s new boyfriend.
Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo
Marya Zarif
Dounia was six years old when she left Aleppo with her grandparents and a few nigella seeds in her pockets. With the help of the Princess of Aleppo, Dounia makes a landmark journey to a whole new world… The path is strewn with obstacles, but Dounia will find courage and optimism in the love of her family, her grandmother’s recipes and the princess’ winks!
Dounia
Marya Zarif
Forced to leave their country, Dounia & her grandparents set off in search of a new home. As she travels around the world in search of asylum, Dounia encounters many people. When she encounters an obstacle that seems insurmountable, the wisdom of the ancient world comes to her rescue in the form of the nigella seeds of her grandmother. Season 1 is divided into 6 episodes of 7 minutes each and a 28-minute TV special. Season 2 is divided into 7 episodes of 7 minutes each.
Balcons vivants
Stéphanie Lessard-Bérubé
Balcons vivants invites you to step into the experience of the Chasse-Balcon with Catherine Planet, who conceived the event, and Julina Castellas, a French-born teacher who has been living in Louisiana since 2011. Their discussions focus on the ability of different cultures to “stand on their balconies”, in other words, to assert themselves and contribute to community building.
L’Océan vu du coeur
Iolande Cadrin-Rossignol
Marie-Dominique Michaud
For a long time, the ocean seemed unalterable and limitless, but the impact of our actions on its biodiversity and temperature has become increasingly alarming. In Ocean Seen From the Heart, the sequel to Earth Seen from the Heart, Hubert Reeves, surrounded by passionate scientists and explorers, invites us to rediscover what threatens it and, above all, its phenomenal capacity for regeneration. A hymn to life at its richest, most precious and necessary to preserve if we are to survive, among other species, on our blue planet.
Agression armée
Gaëlle D’Ynglemare
After being assaulted by her superior officer, former soldier Stéphanie Raymond fought for 10 years to have charges pressed and her attacker punished for his crime. Through the story of this young woman, as well as many other testimonies, this documentary paints a striking portrait of the Canadian armed forces and the culture of sexual misconduct that reigns there.
Émergence
Clarissa Rebouças
Katiana emerges. She finally gets her head above water and speaks up for all Haitian women.
Cachez cette bedaine que je ne saurais voir
Karyne Lemieux
Being an artist, a woman, an actress, and… pregnant, is it good or bad news? A tricky question because the number of atypical workers is constantly growing these days. The answer to this question bears witness to a precarious reality that is brought to light in this film documentary. The actresses and artists are a starting point to talk about women’s place and maternity in today’s world.
Big Fight in Little Chinatown
Karen Cho
Big Fight in Little Chinatown is a story of community resistance and resilience. Set against the backdrop of the COVID pandemic and an unprecedented rise in anti-Asian racism, the documentary takes us into the lives of residents, businesses and community organizers whose neighbourhoods are facing active erasure. Coast to Coast the film follows Chinatown communities resisting the pressures around them. From the construction of the world’s largest vertical jail in New York, Montreal’s fight against developers swallowing up the most historic block of their Chinatown, big box chains and gentrification forces displacing Toronto’s community, to a Vancouver Chinatown business holding steadfast, the film reveals how Chinatown is both a stand-in for other communities who’ve been wiped off the city map, and the blueprint for inclusive and resilient neighbourhoods of the future.
L’audience
Émilie Beaulieu-Guérette
Peggy Nkunga Ndona
After crossing 11 countries irregularly to seek asylum in Canada, Peggy, Simon and their 3 children are waiting for the hearing that will determine whether they get refugee status or not. Having fled political repression in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the family tries to rebuild a peaceful life in Montreal, in spite of the constant threat of deportation. Between ghosts from the past, hopes for the future and a complex legal maze, the film delves into the struggle of the Nkunga Mbala family to get legal status. The film sheds light on the complex process of asylum seeking in Canada.
Manufacturing The Threat
Amy Miller
Shining a light into the murky world of police infiltration, incitement, and agent provocateurs, Manufacturing The Threat shows how Canada’s policing and national security agencies, granted additional powers after 9/11, routinely break laws with little to no accountability or oversight. For the first time ever, a feature-length documentary is examining the issue of agent provocateurs and entrapment in Canada’s national security apparatus. Manufacturing the Threat is a thrilling and emotional film, which examines a deeply disturbing episode in Canadian history when an impoverished couple was coerced by undercover law enforcement agents into carrying out a terrorist bombing. Further, viewers learn that this case is far from unique in the context of Canadian intelligence.
Après coups
Romane Garant Chartrand
Within the walls of a women’s shelter, a talking circle unmasks domestic violence to help women regain their dignity and power to act. In a powerfully empathetic cinematic gesture, Afterwards creates a space for sharing and sisterhood, like a choral ensemble breaking down the walls of silence.
Ma traversée
Diana Goudrouffe
A personal quest filmed over 20 years, the film recounts the racial issues linked to the notion of white privilege that have punctuated the director’s life in three French-speaking societies: Guadeloupe, France and Quebec. From her own story emerges a broader narrative of colonization, assimilation, integration and the social advantages linked to ethno-racial origin, and their impact to this day.
Les jours heureux
Chloé Robichaud
Emma is a young conductor and rising star on the Montreal scene. Happy Days chronicles her complex relationship with her father and agent Patrick, who has maintained a devious hold over her since childhood. The possibility of obtaining an important position within a prestigious orchestra only increases the stakes for Emma. She will have to give way to her true emotions and make choices, as much for her music as for herself, if she wants to successfully navigate her career and her romantic relationship with Naëlle, a newly separated cellist and mother of a boy.
L’affaire Chantale Daigle: le documentaire
Gaëlle D’Ynglemare
L’affaire Chantale Daigle immerses us back into the saga that captivated the country during the summer of 1989, meticulously retracing its events and twists alongside the feminist activists who supported and accompanied Chantale Daigle during these pivotal and fundamental months for abortion rights in Canada.
Soleils Atikamekw
Chloé Leriche
Manawan 1977. A vehicle falls into a river near a Native community. Two white Quebecers escape, but five Atikamekw lose their lives. While the police conclude that it was an accident, the families of the victims have unanswered questions. A choral film, historical narrative and poetic tale, Soleils Atikamekw is freely inspired by the dreams, impressions and memories of the victims’ relatives. Reality and fiction come together in a moving film about grief, injustice and memory.
Sur la terre comme au ciel
Nathalie Saint-Pierre
Two young sisters – Clara and Sarah Gagnon – have always lived in the countryside with their parents, in a Christian community cut off from the world. The day Sarah suddenly disappears, Clara falls apart. Convinced that she knows where her sister is hiding, Clara runs away too, in the hope of bringing her back to “the straight and narrow”. Clara arrives in Montreal at the home of her unknown Aunt Louise, only to discover to her horror that her sister is not there. When her aunt tells her that she’s about to leave on vacation, Clara realizes that she only has ten days to find her sister. As she searches the city, Clara discovers the world, doubt and the price of freedom.
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!
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.
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.
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.