Online cinema
Sur le dos de la Grande-Baleine
Diane Beaudry
Documentary on the debates surrounding the La Grande Rivière hydroelectric complex, twenty years after the signing of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement. While some celebrate the successes of Quebec engineering, others cry apocalypse and genocide. A highly publicized struggle for control of the Radissonie.
À qui appartient ce gage?
Clorinda Warny
Marthe Blackburn
À qui appartient ce gage? (Who owns this pledge?) is a cry for help for women and their children in the context of the much-discussed issue of state-run daycare. Unequivocally, women are saying they can’t take it anymore, and are calling for shared parenting. Parents from three different Montreal communities with popular daycare facilities contributed their stories to this film: working-class, underprivileged and young protesters.
Beans
Tracey Deer
Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and reckless adolescence; forced to grow up fast and become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Oka Crisis, the turbulent Indigenous uprising that tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990.
Mohawk Girls
Tracey Deer
The award-winning hit dramatic comedy series follows four young women figuring out how to be Mohawk in the 21st century. And, of course, trying to find love. But in a small world where you or your friends have dated everyone on the rez, or the hot new guy turns out to be your cousin, it ain’t that simple. Torn between family pressure, tradition, obligation and the intoxicating freedom of the “outside world,” this fabulous foursome is on a mission to find happiness… And to find themselves.
Ma cité évincée
Priscillia Piccoli
Laurence Turcotte-Fraser
Montreal, Canada. One of North America’s last remaining affordable cities is now in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis. As a result, the face of homelessness is visibly changing. “Renovictions” are on the rise while demand in homeless day centres explodes. In the Plateau Mont-Royal – a neighbourhood synonymous with gentrification – a 90-unit building named Manoir Lafontaine becomes the symbol of renoviction resistance in Quebec. An intimate portrait of a socio-political crisis, this multilayered film explores the human impact of real estate speculation on the cities of tomorrow.
Levanjil dlo a (L’évangile de l’eau)
Priscillia Piccoli
Documentary on the importance of a river that feeds a Haitian community in Haiti.
Tant qu’il restera de la glace
Priscillia Piccoli
Ten years after the Vancouver Olympics, former figure skater Jessica Dubé describes her daily life and opens up about her love and hatred for her sport.
Partir pour mieux revenir
Priscillia Piccoli
Two Gaspesians return to their native land to find a life far from the noise of the city. They plunge us into their daily lives.
The End Of Wonderland
Laurence Turcotte-Fraser
The End of Wonderland is a feature documentary on Tara Emory, a veteran artist who works on her own terms in the sex industry. Facing a changing world and eviction from her packed studio, Wonderland, Tara must confront her family history of hoarding, her art, and herself.
Domino
Laurence Turcotte-Fraser
After killing his partner Dominique, Mathieu tries to escape the consequences of his actions. He soon sinks into madness, the domino effect of his fate.
Le temps d’ériger un clocher
Laurence Turcotte-Fraser
The little Sainte-Cécile chapel in Calixa-Lavallée is the brainchild of Pierre Moussard, an enthusiast of religious antiquities and Quebec history. For many years, the Calixa resident had cherished the dream of building a processional chapel to house the many works of religious heritage that this specialist has collected over the decades, including crosses of all shapes, holy-water fonts, candlesticks, a 19th-century altar, paintings and more. The man paid over $50,000 out of his own pocket to build this chapel, which is dedicated to Saint Cecilia, patron saint of musicians, and was inaugurated in September 2011. However, the Municipality of Calixa-Lavallée alleges, among other things, that the construction does not comply with standards for agricultural land, while the owner asserts that it is in compliance with the law. The case was heard in Superior Court in Sorel-Tracy last April, when the judge ordered a site survey, adjourning the trial which is due to resume shortly. It should be noted that Pierre Moussard was nominated for the Prix Gérard-Morisset, the most prestigious distinction awarded by the Quebec government in the field of…
SDR
Alexa-Jeanne Dubé
BKS is a short fiction film using A.S.M.R. (Autonomous sensory meridian response) video codes to unfold.
Joutel
Alexa-Jeanne Dubé
An elderly couple is curiously affected by the discovery of a dead raccoon on their property. They decide to return to Joutel, a ghost town where they lived for years, to bury it.
Le hold up de ma liberté
Marie-Claude Fournier
While living in the same HLM, Jay, Jersey and Gerald committed a series of armed robberies that had a serious impact on their teenage life. Now young adults, they show willingness to avoid falling back into the vicious circle of crime. The Hold up of my freedom is the meeting of the three young men with a group of students from their old high school to discuss their history, the obstacles they encountered and share ideas for reflection on their respective experiences. With his sincere and touching testimonies, he draws a realistic and current portrait of youth crime.
Mes États*nordiques
Marie-Claude Fournier
Every morning for the past two years, Marie-Christine has welcomed her eleven Inuit pupils into her small classroom in Kangirsuk, Nunavik. Marie-Christine is a Qallunaat (or non-Inuit) who has come to teach in the Far North. This week, however, is different: she’s leaving the North for good. Like the majority of teachers who pass through this territory, she returns to the South after two years. Filmed at the dawn of massive exploitation of the territory’s natural resources, the webdocumentary Mes États*nordiques (My Nordic*States) takes us into this changing world through the eyes of the teacher and a few village Inuit.
La médiation culturelle – Créer ensemble
Marie-Claude Fournier
Four 30-minute programs document projects grouped around four themes: Art, education and citizenship; Art and health; Art and work; Art and sustainable change. These include initiatives by choreographer Pierre-Paul Savoie with elementary school children and photographer Caroline Hayeur at a Montreal chamber of commerce, the École nationale d’apprentissage de la marionnette in Saguenay to break the isolation of people with mental health problems, and the Musée de la civilisation in Quebec City for projects with seniors. Culture pour tous, the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canal Savoir and Télé-Québec have joined forces to produce this series of 4 television programs devoted to cultural mediation, an ideal field of action for building bridges between art, culture and society.
Fabuleuses
Mélanie Charbonneau
Laurie is a young journalist working to get established. She lives with her best friend, Élizabeth, a feminist. One day, Laurie meets Clara, an Instagram and YouTube star. The two quickly bond, to Élizabeth’s consternation: she fears her friend is going to change radically. The three young women’s ideals are put to a harsh test. How do you make your way in this topsy-turvy world without betraying your true self? In her first feature, Mélanie Charbonneau tackles that question through the prism of the world of influencers.
Lunar-Orbit Rendezvous
Mélanie Charbonneau
A woman-tampon joins a man-astronaut on a road trip to the moon. Daniel is on a mission to scatter his mother’s ashes and Claude is hoping for her period to make a miraculous return. A modern tale that captures the fever dream of a first voyage to the moon.
Je ne suis pas un robot
Mélanie Charbonneau
Marie-Chantal is a naive, childlike woman who works in a web moderation center called Soulshine. Day after day, she takes on the alienating and repetitive task of viewing violent content, nudity, death threats and conspiracy theories on social networks. After one particularly harrowing day, she meets an enigmatic new moderator who seems to have stepped straight out of a 2000s sci-fi movie. She leads her on a wild quest to track down a mysterious kitten killer with viral videos.
Seule
Mélanie Charbonneau
On a grey and windy January day, Annie tries to recover from a horrible break up by organizing her new apartment. She obsesses about restoring her own happiness at any cost.
Meute
Florence Lafond
That morning, as she gets ready for her dance audition, Alex is outraged when her mother forces her once again to babysit her disabled sister.
