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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.
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.
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…
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.
Copenhague – Capitale du bonheur
Julie Corbeil
Denmark is regularly cited in the media for the quality of its social initiatives, the innovation of its infrastructure and its inspiring lifestyle. The Danish people have been at the top of the list of the world’s happiest people for several decades. Yet this Scandinavian nation has long winters and low levels of sunshine. At first glance, this is not exactly fertile ground for happy citizens. So what is the secret of Danish happiness? It is with this question in mind that director Julie Corbeil moves to the country’s capital, Copenhagen, where she meets people who have themselves explored the question and who participate in this movement of daily well-being. She explores a fascinating city where design, architecture, Viking culture and the new Nordic cuisine are all mixed together.
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.
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.
Years in Brackets 2020-2022
Hejer Charf
I spent the two years of the pandemic in Montreal. I filmed socio-political events. I asked people in Canada and elsewhere to send me videos, images, sounds, whatever they wanted. Several lives have come to me. I mixed them with news around the world: Black Lives Matter, indigenous protests in Canada and the death of Atikamekw Joyce Echaquan, the 10th anniversary of the Tunisian revolution, the interruption of Thawra in Lebanon and Hirak in Algeria.
Crazy Youth
Ayana O’Shun
Virgin Assassins
Ayana O’Shun
In a little rented room, Lee and Karen are preparing for a murder they’ve planned all their lives. Suddenly, the morning of the fateful day, one of them changes her mind. This decision will lead the two female characters to enter a dangerous mind game that only of them can win. Feel the thunder under their skin. See Lee and Karen engage in a race against death.
Échos
Ayana O’Shun
Andre keeps dreaming about his grandmother who’s losing her battle to Alzheimer. In the dream, she sings a mysterious song. Convinced that she is trying to communicate with him, Andre enters a quest into the unknown.