Online cinema
Médecins sans résidence
Ayana O’Shun
This short documentary highlights how discrimination prevents foreign-trained doctors from practising in Canada – even after they’ve received their Canadian qualifications. Interviews with medical professionals and human rights advocates illustrate how systemic racism plays a role.
Les Mains noires – Procès de l’esclave incendiaire
Ayana O’Shun
Les Mains Noires – Procès de l’Esclave Incendiaire investigates slavery in 18th century New France through the true story of Marie-Josèphe Angélique, accused of having set fire to Montreal in 1734. After an epic trial, this indomitable slave is condemned to be tortured and hanged. Was she really guilty or was she the victim of a conspiracy? Why the amnesia about this little-known facet of Quebec history? A fascinating 52-minute documentary skillfully blending historians’ accounts and drama filmed in the manner of Lars von Trier’s Dogville.
Judith Hôtel
Charlotte Le Bon
Have you ever dreamed of going to sleep and never wake up? Rémi has. Eight years of insomnia has made his life a living hell. By booking a room at Judith Hotel, a very popular establishment, he is giving himself the opportunity of a new start.
Falcon Lake
Charlotte Le Bon
Born in France to a Quebecois mother, Bastien, almost 14, spends his summer vacations in the Laurentians with his parents and his little brother. Louise, his mother’s best friend, welcomes them to her cottage on the shore of a lake. The day after his arrival, the young Frenchman visits the area with Louise’s 16-year-old daughter Chloé. According to her, the lake is haunted by the spirit of a drowned boy. With the teenager, Bastien experiences his first sexual and love feelings. But he feels threatened by the presence of the son of the new owner of the cottage, a 19-year-old English-speaking man who is always hanging around Chloé.
Paparmane
Joëlle Desjardins Paquette
A depressed cat transforms the lives of a grieving parking attendant and an exuberant telegram singer. A cosmic encounter on a pastel background.
Rodéo
Joëlle Desjardins Paquette
Caught in an arduous separation conflict, a father decides to leave with his own 9-year-old girl. He will slightly bring her with him on an adventure aboard his Kenworth W900 with the aim of reaching the legendary World’s Best Truck Rodeo, ultimate truck celebration held annually in the badlands in Alberta. Overflowing with truck poetry, bittersweet humor and vibrant humanity, this road movie transcends genre codes to touch a universal subject: filial love.
Photo jaunie
Fanie Pelletier
Faded photograph is a documentary in which the filmmaker traces the existence of her father, who died when she was 12, through a montage of his memoirs. From family films shot by her paternal grandfather and her father between 1954 and 1998, and the diaries he wrote during his life, the director tells the story of an ordinary man whose personal memory echoes a collective memory : one of a generation bursting out of Quebec’s great darkness in which freedom is also synonym of disorientation. Thus begins a dialogue marked by nostalgia, between joyful videos and tormented writings, which soon becomes universal.
Jouvencelles
Fanie Pelletier
Through moments in the lives of three groups of girls, images gleaned from the web and live streams of young women around the world, Bloom delves into the world of today’s teenage girls. We delicately observe a hyper-connected but lonely generation inhabited by great lucidity, an inner struggle with self-image obsession, and a need for self-affirmation in the face of a complex sense of alienation.
Walk Away
Charlotte Le Bon
Mottron wakes up in his luminous nightmarish world with a hungry baroque Mother Queen at its heart. Walk Away by Mottron, taken from debut album Giants.
Bidenam, l’espoir d’un village
Gentille Assih Menguizani
Returning home after studying abroad, Bidenam is incensed by the corruption and injustice she finds in her village. She takes action through innovation and leads the way for her community to stand up to exploitative government officials.
Sortir de l’ombre
Gentille Assih Menguizani
Into the Light features the liberating life stories and powerful words of inspiring Quebec women of African origin who’ve regained control over their lives after suffering from domestic violence. The film transcends prejudice and breaks the silence, pulling back the curtain on a poorly understood, hidden world, while testifying to the tremendous power that comes from overcoming isolation and accepting one’s self. It’s a luminous dive into the quest for personal healing and universal humanity. This is Togo-born director Gentille M. Assih’s third documentary
Itchombi
Gentille Assih Menguizani
In a village in the Keran region of Togo, the Itchombi, a circumcision ritual that brings together the entire Solla ethnic group, takes place. Itchombi refers to the knives, the young men and the ritual. Déou and his family prepare for this ceremony by scrupulously respecting the traditions. However, this year they want sanitary measures to be taken to avoid possible STD or HIV contamination. This debate is running through the entire community as they prepare for the celebration.