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In The Waves
Jacquelyn Mills
In the Waves is an expressive documentary that depicts the life of 80 years old Joan Alma Mills in her aging coastal village. Following the death of her younger sister, Joan finds herself confronted by the fragility of life. As she tries to come to terms with her loss Joan searches for meaning in the natural world around her. Weaving intimate thoughts with lyrical imagery, In the Waves was crafted by Joan’s granddaughter Jacquelyn Mills. In essence, the film is an intergenerational love-letter, an ebb and flow between dream and reality, past and present, a glimpse of childhood and an encounter with the end-of-life.
La nuit du 4 au 5
Rachel Graton
A woman was assaulted. She screamed, waking up her neighbors and sending her attacker fleeing. Trying to reconstruct the chronology of events, she must navigate between elusive memories and momentary amnesia.
The Oka Legacy
Sonia Bonspille Boileau
The Oka Legacy is a CBCdocsPOV documentary that explores how the Oka Crisis has influenced Indigenous identity in Canada. In the summer of 1990, all eyes were on the small town of Oka, Quebec. Triggered by plans to expand a golf course on ancestral land, it was a standoff between the Mohawk people of Kanehsatake, the police and eventually the army. The Oka Crisis lasted 78 days and drew worldwide attention. The standoff had a profound impact on Indigenous peoples in Canada setting the tone for Indigenous resistance throughout the ‘90s.
Anastasie oh ma chérie
Paule Baillargeon
Our planet still survives and clings with a debilitating determination to its homosexual-male and misogynist god. In this degenerating patriarchy, all the men are medal-winning pimps and all the others are whores. Some women, pure and rigorous, locked up in their feminine mystery, silently scream. Anastasia, my beloved heroine, lost from another star, is one of them.
Derouin – Métis des Amériques
Julie Corbeil
A rare bird, the artist René Derouin flies over his universe that links Quebec to Mexico. He takes a nuanced look at it, imbued with distance. A true monument of the visual arts in Quebec, Derouin is guided by his love of nature and his desire to bring the public closer to contemporary art. With delicacy, director Julie Corbeil gives voice to this tireless and committed artist, driven by the urgency to create and nurture a dialogue.
Motel Paradis
Sophie Deraspe
Following a near-death experience, Jen Paradis is certain that her 14-year-old sister did not commit suicide. Determined to shed light on her disappearance, she brings back to her isolated village the investigator in charge of the case three years earlier, now retired. Together they will investigate.
Bête noire
Sophie Deraspe
Bête noire (scourge) presents the collateral effects of an unforgivable act committed by Jeremy, a 16-year-old teenager. With the help of the psychiatrist-coroner in charge of the investigation, Jeremy’s mother tries to understand how her son, a seemingly trouble-free boy, came to commit a heinous act. What triggered this nightmare? At what point did everything change? Together, the two women are on a mission to unravel the mystery of Jeremy.
Pour Toi Flora
Sonia Bonspille Boileau
For You Flora (Pour toi Flora) is the story of a brother and sister of Anishinabe descent who spend their youth in a residential school in the 1960s and who, years later, attempt to make peace with their painful past. From the heartbreaking moment when the Oblates take the two children away from their parents to the events that unite them more than five decades later, this six-episode, one-hour drama miniseries depicts different eras in their lives, unfolding together in each episode to tell the story of how a Quebec Aboriginal family splits apart and manages to repair itself. For You Flora (Pour toi Flora) brings to the screen for the first time the painful legacy of those religious settlements in Quebec that were intended to eradicate Aboriginal cultures. Although fictional, the story of Pour toi Flora is inspired by various testimonies and reflects the reality of several hundred families in the province. The series highlights the innate resilience of these uprooted girls and boys, and the brotherly love that survives, despite the most unimaginable moments of adversity.
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.