Online cinema
Éviction
mathilde capone
Since 2010, Parthenais has held within its walls the life of a whole queer community. They are gay, lesbian, trans, and they live together in Centre-Sud in the heart of Montreal, in a triplex that is falling apart. Between the parties that sometimes welcome more than two hundred people until the wee hours of the morning, the collective dinners, the great joys and the small despairs, this old flat has transformed the lives of its tenants. Twelve years later, the building is bought by a wealthy family who wants to live there, gentrification being the order of the day. This marks the end of a mythical space that has transformed Montreal’s queer scene for a decade. The boxes are too small to contain all the stories that have taken place within these walls. Eviction is the story of this turning page, as the distraught residents search for a new place to call home in the midst of a housing crisis and land speculation.
Amato
Romy Boutin St-Pierre
Amato is about the diversity of polyamorous models in the Quebec landscape. Three unique and interrelated stories are staged through performing arts.
La fabrique du consentement: regards lesbo-queer
mathilde capone
What if lesbo-queer communities had something to share about the singularities of their sexualities? Through the complex topic of consent, sixteen protagonists from these communities speak up. Could there be blurred lines, a continuum between consent and aggression? How can we defeat rape culture and innovate in matters of consent? How has the notion of aggression been used historically to exclude trans women? In a deep introspection of their intimacies, these protagonists ask questions, get angry, laugh, create other possibilities. They suggest to look more closely at consent, from the experience of their marginalized communities, their subcultures and their explorations.
Contes d’une grossophobie ordinaire
Josiane Blanc
What is fatphobia and what can be done to overcome it? With poetic illustrations and painful, compelling testimony, Tales of Ordinary Fatphobia offers multiple examples of the psychological effects of weight-based discrimination and bullying on adolescent girls.
Date limite
Josiane Blanc
On the morning of their first anniversary, Julien and Camille must make the decision of their lifetimes: which one leave everything behind and follow the other to their home country?
Ainsi va Manu – Saison 1
Josiane Blanc
The story follows the journey of a single-parent family, coping with Toronto’s increasing housing precariousness. When Manuela,16, and her family are threatened to be evicted from their apartment by a real estate developer, she decides to fight back, in hopes of remaining in her neighbourhood.
Ainsi va Manu – Saison 2
Josiane Blanc
Forced to leave her hometown temporarily, Manu finds it hard to adapt to her new surroundings. She has only one thing on her mind: moving back to Toronto. However, an unexpected encounter turns Manuela’s life upside down, calling into question everything she’s known and wanted up to now.
Vous n’êtes pas seuls
Marie-Hélène Viens
Leo, a lonely, anxious pizza delivery guy, stumbles upon John, a mysterious taxi driver seeking lonesome souls. This unusual encounter throws the young man into a dizzying delirium, disrupting his blossoming romance with Rita. As the leaves start falling from the trees, days are getting shorter, and the cold is settling in… Luckily, the first flames of love warm Leo’s heart. But beware: if you play with fire, you might get burned.
Janine Leroux Guillaume maître graveur
Maryse Dugas
This documentary documents the exceptional career of Master Printmaker Janine Leroux Guillaume, who has been pursuing her work for over sixty years. She welcomes us to her home/workshop in Montreal, where she still works. During these friendly encounters, between 2008 and 2012, Janine talks to us about her work as an artist, and her tools. She shows and explains some of her works, and tells us about her collaboration with her husband Pierre Guillaume, typographer and printer, responsible for printing many of her etchings.
Michel Cadieux et sa fabrique d’artéfacts amérindiens
Maryse Dugas
This video provides a simple and effective summary of the work of an artifact maker. It tells the story of an artifact maker’s practice in a particular situation, between the autonomous researcher and the experimental practitioner who must rediscover and practice traditional methods and ways of producing primitive tools (cutting stones to make arrowheads and other tools; producing terracotta vases, building longhouses).
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Capteurs H20
Gynette Mercier
Water conservation, through an interview on Mayne Island with a lady who runs the Society of Water and its Preservation for gardens, car washes from cisterns and tubs installed on the island, and private collectors of roof water, because even if there’s a shortage of water, there’s plenty to water plants in private and community gardens.
Les héritières
Julie Blackburn
A true collective legacy, the documentary The Inheritors (Les héritières) is one of the highlights of the 50th anniversary of the Council on the Status of Women (Conseil du statut de la femme) in Quebec, Canada. In The Inheritors (Les héritières), actress Marie Soleil Dion invites us to meet the pioneers and women who are blazing the trail, each in their own field. Through these encounters and testimonials, the intimate and collective stories of inspiring women are brought to light, and their contribution to the evolution of Quebec society today and tomorrow.
2023 façon d’aimer
Julie Blackburn
What do you know about Tinder, polyamory, open couples and pansexuality? Can you keep up with today’s changing relationships? Listen in as journalist Marie-Hélène Proulx demystifies it all with young people, singles and typical and atypical couples, who offer stunning testimonials and demonstrate that there are indeed 2023 ways to love (2023 façons d’aimer).
2 chiffres
Julie Blackburn
Young elementary school students confide in the camera about their joys, fears, doubts and hopes as they turn 10. Double-digit self-portraits, 2020, Montreal.
Les diplômés Mira – Les grands sportifs (S2,E1)
Julie Blackburn
After The Mira Academy, The Mira Graduates (Les diplômés Mira) series offers touching stories. We step out of the kennels to follow the dogs into the homes of their beneficiaries, and into their living, working and leisure environments.