Online cinema
Where Motion Has Not Yet Ceased (Там, де рух ще не припинився)
Juliette Balthazard
Prague, 2022 – Having found refuge from the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, two women and their young daughters face the waiting and hope of an imminent return to Ukraine. Shelved in this city, these women tell the story of their past and give access to their daily life, their present, in which they try to learn how to live again. This documentary tries to give a voice to those who live war differently.
Goodbye Frederico
Patricia Vergeylen Tassinari
Eileen, a scriptwriter, has been writing letters to Federico Fellini who has become her friend, and means of escape. Various rejections lead her to lose her grip on reality and retreat into her own world with one last hope: join Federico in Cinecittà with the two men she loves.
Broken Promises – The High Arctic Relocation
Patricia Vergeylen Tassinari
In 1953 the Canadian Government fearing a USA occupation of the Canadian Artic relocated seven Inuit families from Northern Quebec to the High Arctic to stake out its territory. The families were dumped on barren land in the middle of winter with only tents, oil lamps and wooden crates to keep warm. Thirty years later, the federal government finally provided assistance to the exiles,enabling them to return to their ancestral home in Northern Quebec.
Paul and Christina
Patricia Vergeylen Tassinari
A drama about the psychological and physical ravages of Alzheimer. A woman forced to passively witness her father’s slow disintegration fears that the same fate awaits her. She decides to view and experience the world with a new intensity.
Le complexe Québec Canada
Patricia Vergeylen Tassinari
Therapy for a couple: Louise (Quebec) and James (Canada) suffer from the Quebec-Canada Complex, a mental condition that prevents them from recognizing each other’s identity. A Jungian psychoanalyst, a Freudian and psychologists analyze our national problem.
Unbuckling my Bible Belt
Patricia Vergeylen Tassinari
An intimate portrayal of the South as It captures the beauty and starkness of the landscape as well as the complex relationship these Southerners have with their God. At a time when religion offers a powerful and personal look at the changing face of life in the USA.
My Blueness
Patricia Vergeylen Tassinari
A neurological tale. Unmindful of the beauty and history of Florence, a woman disappears into a vortex of blues which reveals a suppressed loss and fear.
Le voleur de papillons
Patricia Vergeylen Tassinari
A gentle yet violent allegory of colonialism, it tells the story of the last day of Mr. Léo and his collection of butterflies from the Belgian Congo. A final visit to the museum displaying his beloved butterflies plunges him back into Congo’s violent history.
The Botanist – Ботаник
Maude Plante-Husaruk
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Tajikistan, a former Soviet Socialist Republic, plunged into a devastating civil war. A famine struck the mountainous region of the Pamir where Raïmberdi, a passionate and ingenious botanist, built his own hydroelectric station to help his family survive through the crisis.
Au-delà des hautes vallées
Maude Plante-Husaruk
In a remote himalayan region, the villagers of Maikot are preparing for the harvest of a mysterious aphrodisiac caterpillar-mushroom worth more than gold. Lalita, a young mother, had to let go of her dreams after getting married because of the social pressures of her community. As the whole village departs to the mountains, she joins the journey to the high-altitude pasturelands in hope of providing a better life for her family through the hazardous harvest of the rare mushroom. Set against the backdrop of stunning mountainous landscapes, the film presents an intimate and humane portrait of characters that put everything on the line for a chance to ascend to greener pastures. Will the harvest be good this year?
Bergers
Sophie Deraspe
As an aspiring writer, Mathyas swaps his Montreal life as a young advertising executive for that of a shepherd in Provence. But the road to his longed-for pastoral tranquility is littered with hard work. A visit from Élise, a civil servant who has cavalierly quit her job, gives Mathyas’ quest a new direction. Together, they embark on a transhumance. Through the trials and tribulations of the mountains, and with a herd to support, they forge a new life for themselves.
La peur au ventre
Léa Clermont-Dion
In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which had legalized abortion in the U.S. since 1973. This legal setback reinforced the convictions of the leaders of pro-life organizations and their hundreds of thousands of supporters, many of them very young. Highly funded, well-structured and skilled communicators, these groups represent a growing threat to American women’s right to control their own bodies. To get a better idea of the scale of the situation, the director set out to meet them in the USA and Canada.