Online cinema
Emptying the Tank
Caroline Monnet
A striking portrait of Chippewa female mixed martial artist Ashley Nichols, and a celebration of the athlete’s inner strength, fortitude, and dedication to her physical and spiritual health.
Ikwé (Femme)
Caroline Monnet
An experimental film that weaves the intimate thoughts of one woman (Ikwé) with the teachings of her grandmother, the Moon, creating a surreal narrative experience that communicates the power of thought and personal reflection.
La déesse des mouches à feu
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
Le jour de ses 16 ans, Catherine reçoit un discman jaune, le livre Moi, Christiane F… et le droit d’aller au centre d’achats. C’est aussi le jour où son père fonce par exprès dans un mur avec le jeep de sa mère. Catherine traverse l’adolescence en même temps que ses parents amorcent un processus de divorce. Elle s’en fout. Elle est trop occupée à gérer Mélanie Belley qui la terrorise pour absolument rien. C’est en lui volant son chum Pascal que Catherine monte l’échelle sociale de la polyvalente. Catherine a hâte de tout connaitre. L’exploration ne sera pas douce ni romantique. De Pascal à Keven, d’une dérape à l’autre, elle vieillit dans le chaos violent et spectaculaire de l’adolescence grunge des années 90.
Passage
Sarah Baril Gaudet
Passage paints a poetic portrait of 18-year-olds Gabrielle and Yoan’s summer, on the eve of their inevitable departure from remote area of Témiscamingue.
Bootlegger
Caroline Monnet
Today. Northern Quebec at the beginning of winter. Mani, an ambitious lawyer in her 20s, returns to her remote Indigenous community and realizes that many outdated paternalistic laws are still in force. In hopes of emancipating her people, she proposes a radical referendum to end the prohibition of alcohol. This is catastrophic for Laura, a 45-year-old bootlegger who has been smuggling illegal alcohol onto the reserve for years. Mani’s and Laura’s opposing forces quickly divide the community into two clans who must come face to face to determine the best path to independence.
Istanbul Echoes
Giulia Frati
They sell everything – cloth, food, curtains – in the streets of Istanbul, and some of them have been at it for more than 50 years. But their way of life is about to change. With their city quickly gentrifying, the authorities want to create a “modern and clean” environment. In just five years, working-class neighbourhoods have been demolished, their residents displaced. For these street vendors their entire culture and traditions are threatened. Pacing her film with skilfully used urban ambient sounds, Giulia Frati has followed this evolving situation for nearly a decade.
Madeleine Parent, tisserande de solidarités
Sophie Bissonnette
Une biographie de Madeleine Parent qui retrace, avec elle, sa vie de militante, notamment à travers les luttes syndicales qu’elle a menées dans les années 1940 dans l’industrie du textile ainsi que sa confrontation légendaire avec le premier ministre du Québec, Maurice Duplessis. Figure historique marquante au Québec et au Canada, Madeleine Parent est une femme d’extraordinaires conviction et détermination, ainsi qu’une fine stratège, qui a mobilisé les ouvrières au bas de l’échelle sur plusieurs décennies. Acclamée par les uns, honnie par les autres, cette visionnaire syndicaliste et féministe a été à l’avant-garde de tous les combats tant pour soutenir les femmes autochtones et les femmes immigrées que pour dénoncer les injustices liées à la mondialisation.
Damascus Dreams
Émilie Serri
A reinvented initiatory story, Damascus Dreams recounts the quest of Émilie, a filmmaker in search of an inaccessible country of origin. By intertwining the memory of her father, that of Syrian refugees and her own imagination, Émilie composes a country that lies somewhere between myth and reality, dream and nightmare, past and present.
À l’ami lointain vieillissant
Sandrine Corbeil
All in pointillist touches, discussion between a grandfather who comes undone and a granddaughter who holds him back thanks to the microphone. How is memory constructed?
Le vol des chenilles
Laetitia Demessence
With the start of the new school year approaching, Rosie decides to undergo a metamorphosis to hide the consequences of her illness. While her mother tries to take the situation in hand, the young teenager buries herself in the ground to be reborn transformed.