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Posthumains
Dominique Leclerc
Dominique Leclerc embarks on a thought-provoking journey into the cutting-edge world of cyborgs, biohackers and transhumanists—a collective pushing the boundaries of technology to defy illness, aging and even death. What happens when our physical and cognitive upgrades are shaped by the interests of tech giants? Led by Frannie Holder’s haunting original score, Posthumans offers a compelling meditation on the future of our species and the cost of progress.
Contre toute attente
Gabrielle Thouin
If we imagine “two people making love”, what image comes to mind? Many people who agree to verbalize their thoughts will describe a scene where a man and a woman practice a specific sexual activity: vaginal penetration by the penis. Gabrielle wonders: why do we give so much importance to penetration in sexual relations? Contre toute attente (Against all expectations) is a breach between the territories of codes of conduct and those where we give way to the sounds of our echoes.
Quel est mon superpouvoir?
Gabrielle Thouin
Nalvana lives with her mother in a small Inuit village. She wears a superheroine’s cape and dreams of finding her superpower. Every day, she discovers those of her friends: Davidee can run faster than a snowmobile, Maata can fly, Joanasie can carve any animal in the snow. It’s Nalvana who discovers these superpowers. And what if her superpower was to bring out the wonderful and unique in others? Audio version of the book Quel est mon superpouvoir? (What’s my super power?) published by Les Malins.
Les patins
Halima Ouardiri
Mina loves to skate. Today, her father, recently divorced from her mother, accompanies her to her first figure skating lesson. An ordinary day if something hadn’t happened to the skates.
Lavée
Jeanne Carrière
Recently separated and new to the city, a mother of two tries to break her isolation by calling classified ad numbers on a laundry room bulletin board.
Un trou dans la poitrine
Alexandra Myotte
In a run-down neighborhood, Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves. A young adolescent, Zoe is a ball of anger haunted by an intimate terror. Theo, still a child, flees reality into a fantastical world. During a scorching summer day, the two children will have to burst the abscess of their relationship so as not to lose each other.
L’heure de grande écoute – Je l’ai rencontrée au dépanneur (E16)
Gabrielle Thouin
Sara Ben-Saud
Convenience stores: those local spots where people go for much more than just milk. For this special Kino-radio episode, eight artists had 48 hours to immerse themselves in stories about convenience stores, where mutual aid, community, music, and resistance intersect.
9 – Le film
Micheline Lanctôt
They come in nines: nine situations, nine slices of life all depicted differently and sometimes intersecting, all about the modern ills of loneliness and isolation. Inspired by Stéphane E. Roy’s play, Neuf variations sur le vide, filmmakers Claude Brie (Banqueroute), Érik Canuel (Halte routière), Jean-Philippe Duval (Hystérie), Marc Labrèche (Le lecteur), Micheline Lanctôt (Je me souviens), Luc Picard (Subitement), Stéphane E. Roy (Abus), Éric Tessier (Eccéité) and Ricardo Trogi (Fuite) set out to make a satire that exposes what’s really bothering us. A tight sketch comedy built around characters attending a lecture by “Communic- Action” expert Marc Gélinas, who is forced to question his own teachings when he meets the love of his life.
La poursuite du bonheur
Micheline Lanctôt
Have we bought into the American formula for happiness at a discount? In our materialistic society, consumption has become a cultural norm. We are all carried along on an endless conveyor belt where, like chickens strung up in a row, we live and die in series.
Deux actrices
Micheline Lanctôt
A young woman with a quiet life receives an unexpected visit from a woman who claims to be her older sister. After some hesitation, she decides to take her in for a while, which turns her life with her husband upside down. The two sisters, who don’t know each other, must learn to get along and accept each other. At the same time, the two actresses who play the roles in this fictional story talk about the characters they portray, sharing their own stories and inventing troubling parallels between their real and fictional lives. A film alternating between video and 16 mm images. Two sisters who do not know each other learn to accept each other as adults. At the same time, the two actresses who play the roles in this fictional story in the film talk about the characters they portray, telling their own stories and inventing troubling parallels between their real and fictional lives.
La beauté même
Monique Fortier
“I have often wondered what constitutes beauty…” So says Monique Miller, who in this short documentary film personifies the universal woman, anxious to please since childhood, vulnerable, depending on the moment, to the gaze of others, to the torture of waiting, to the obsession with tomorrow’s wrinkles. This film, which attempts to define what beauty means to women, as presented to them by the advertising world as the ultimate goal, was made in the 1960s. It is one of the first films to have been made by a woman about women.
À l’heure de la décolonisation
Monique Fortier
This short documentary film, consisting of interviews and footage shot in Africa, takes us straight back to the 1960s, during the turbulent period following the Algerian War and the independence of several other African countries. What are the consequences of French colonization and what ties will remain between France and its former colonies? A valuable educational, social, and political document that encourages reflection on the cultural identity of all French-speaking countries around the world.
Between Stone And Sky Blue
Arianna Bardesono
Between Stone And Sky Blue is an 8-minute documentary short film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. How can we resist the call of violence? How can we bring the two peoples closer together across the 710 km of wall that encloses the Palestinian territories? Although the far right is undeniably growing, the peace movement remains active and shared on both sides of the wall. The words of hope spoken by Ann and Reefat, an Israeli and a Palestinian respectively, seem to echo the need to cultivate peace within oneself…
IA : l’angle mort
Arianna Bardesono
Myriam Berthelet
Artificial intelligence is no longer a promise for the future: it is already reshaping our lives, often without regulation or oversight. As Quebec opens the door to public administration and GAFAM reigns unopposed, unfair automated decisions threaten equality and social justice. AI: The Blind Spot (IA : l’angle mort) is the first French-language documentary to expose this invisible danger. It gives a voice to victims, questions those responsible, and asks the real question: who does AI serve, and at what cost to our rights and our democracy?
Où vont les âmes
Brigitte Poupart
Anna, 18, requests medical assistance in dying. The date she sets for herself leaves only fifteen days to fulfill her wish of seeing her half-sisters again before she passes away. Separated by events connected to their shared father, Ève and Éléonore are compelled to reconnect with Anna. Each sister’s strength is revealed throughout this epic journey, which forces them to confront their fears and limitations. By opening themselves to the complexity of one another’s lives, they discover sisterhood beyond their disagreements with their father, who has been convicted of rape.
Celles qui luttent
Sarah Baril Gaudet
Sisters of Wrestling is a feature-length documentary that explores the experiences of three women in the Quebec pro wrestling scene. As Loue finds balance between her wrestling career and her life as a new mom, Azaelle enjoys her last moments in the ring before taking an indefinite break. Meanwhile, LuFisto aims to reach new heights at the age of 42. The film paints an intimate portrait of these warriors for whom wrestling is both a passion and an escape from everyday life.
Out Standing
Mélanie Charbonneau
In 1995, after returning home from a peacekeeping mission in Croatia, Captain Sandra Perron—Canada’s first female infantry officer—stuns the military by resigning abruptly. When a disturbing photo surfaces of her tied to a tree in uniform, apparently unconscious, questions spiral. Pursued by journalists and a relentless military investigation, Sandra is thrust into a reluctant journey to confront buried traumas and the true cost of loyalty and sacrifice. Refusing to label herself a victim, she reveals a story of fierce courage and resilience, uncovering the battles fought within her own ranks. Based on a powerful true story of endurance against the odds.
We Can’t Make The Same Mistake Twice
Alanis Obomsawin
The rights of First Nations children take centre stage in this monumental documentary. Following a historic court case filed by the Assembly of First Nations and the Child and Family Caring Society of Canada against the federal government, Alanis Obomsawin exposes generations of injustices endured by First Nations children living on reserves and their families. Through passionate testimony and unwavering conviction, frontline childcare workers and experts including Cindy Blackstock take part in a decade-long court battle to ensure these children receive the same level of care as other Canadian children. Their case against Canada is a stark reminder of the disparities that persist in First Nations communities and the urgent need for justice to be served.
Marie s’en va-t-en ville
Marquise Lepage
Thirteen-year-old Marie was assaulted by her older brother Serge. Disturbed by the incident, she doesn’t dare tell her family about it. She decides to set off on an adventure to Montreal, where she doesn’t know anyone. Marie finds herself alone in the chaos of the big city, where she has the opportunity to help a stranger. The stranger is a prostitute named Sarah, who has something to hide.
L’écart silencieux
Flavie Payette-Renouf
Why do girls do better in school than boys? Member of Parliament, citizen, and mother Marwah Rizqy sets out to find answers. A nonpartisan initiative brings together elected officials, experts, and citizens to understand and take action together to address an issue that has been ignored for too long.
In the Shadow of Gold Mountain
Karen Cho
Filmmaker Karen Cho travels from Montreal to Vancouver to uncover stories from the last survivors of the Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act, a set of laws imposed to single out the Chinese as unwanted immigrants to Canada from 1885 to 1947. Through a combination of history, poetry and raw emotion, this documentary sheds light on an era that shaped the identity of generations.
Fanmi
Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers
Heart-broken following a break-up, Martine receives the unexpected visit of her mother, Monique. Too engrossed in her own sadness, Martine doesn’t notice right away that her mother is hiding something but, progressively, a bad feeling starts to take hold of her. During this short stay, these two very different women will have one last chance of getting closer to one another before they run out of time.
Fire Jo Ball
Audrey Nantel-Gagnon
Walking the line between fact and fiction, Fire-Jo Ball shines a light on Jo-Ann, a 57-year-old barmaid who dreams of being a singer and actress.
Le fantôme de l’opératrice
Caroline Martel
This wry and delightful found-footage film reveals a little-known chapter in labor history: the story of female telephone operators’ central place in the development of global communications. With an eye for the quirky and humorous, Caroline Martel assembles a dazzling array of clips – more than one hundred remarkable, rarely seen industrial, advertising and scientific management films produced in North America between 1903 and 1989 by Bell and Western Electric – and transforms them into a dreamlike montage documentary. As the first agents of globalization, this invisible army of women offered a way for companies to feminize and glamorize what was a highly stressful, underpaid and difficult job. Not merely “Voices with a Smile”, telephone operators were shooting stars in a universe of infinite progress, test pilots for new management systems, and the face of shrewd public relations campaigns. As the work of operators has been eclipsed by the advent of automated systems, this artful piece of labor history also offers an insightful comment on women’s work, industrialization and communications technology. Refreshing and hilarious, The Phantom Of The Operator provides…