Online cinema
Never Again Forever
Danae Elon
This powerful film about the Jewish Defense League traces the militant group’s history from the streets of Brooklyn where it originated to the Occupied Territories where it flourishes today, painting a disturbing portrait of a cycle of hate born in the ashes of the Holocaust.
Another Road Home
Danae Elon
Shortly after the Six-Day War in 1967, Danae Elon’s highly educated parents, noted Israeli author Amos Elon, and former correspondent and literary agent Beth Elon, hired a Palestinian man named Musa, the father of eleven children, to take care of their six month old daughter on a daily basis. It was a job he would continue for the next twenty years until she was grown and he was able to save enough money to send all eight of his sons to America for education and career opportunities. The last time Danae saw Musa, in 1991, he proudly showed her the house he constructed in the Palestinian village of Battir. Then, against the mounting tensions of the Israeli occupation and the Palestinian Intifada, the two families lost track of each other. During that time Danae began to realize how much of an influence Musa had on her life and sought to reconnect with him. Her quest led her from her home in New York to Paterson, New Jersey, then to Battir in the occupied territories, and back to her…
Partly Private
Danae Elon
To circumcise or not to circumcise, that is the question pondered by filmmaker and future mother Danae Elon and her husband Philippe. The couple, who hope to discover the sex of their baby at birth, are on two sides of the issue. Philippe, who is himself circumcised and a Jew of Algerian decent, explains that it is a cultural tradition for him. For Danae, submitting a newborn to this ritual would be absurd and irrational. This documentary follows her humorous and instructive exploration of this practice. In her quest she will meet rabbis, imams, doctors, theologians and parents. She will discover that myths and rituals in many great cultures and religions surround these few centimeters of skin.
The Patriarch’s Room
Danae Elon
“Jaffa Gate Is Ours!” screamed the headlines in 2005. Greek Orthodox Patriarch Irineos was accused of selling church property to Jewish settlers. He denied all the accusations. But for the first time in the church’s 2000-year history, its leader was ousted. For 11 long years, Irineos was imprisoned in his chambers. In this first-person account, filmmaker Danae Elon unravels what really happened to the former Patriarch. With unprecedented access to the inner workings of the church, a riveting, mysterious, disturbing, and often humorous story is revealed about an unknown world within the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City.
P.S. Jerusalem
Danae Elon
Filmmaker Danae Elon began to film her three young sons the moment she and her partner Philip decided to leave New York and return to Jerusalem. The decision was prompted by the death of her father, leading Israeli intellectual and writer Amos Elon It was his dying wish that Danae not return, but her attachment to the place she always called home was stronger. On a journey back Danae’s camera captures her three young boys growing up, asking endless questions and confronting the reality around them The place she once saw as “home” challenges her relationship with her partner and the future of her kids It is through the prism of parenthood, children and a family that the story of this film exposes a deep, complex and painful portrait of Jerusalem today.
Primas
Laura Bari
Primas is a moving portrait of cousins Rocío and Aldana, two Argentinean teenagers who, after suffering violence that abruptly ended their childhood, free themselves from the spectre of their past. Traveling through Argentina and Montreal, the girls enter adulthood through eye-opening experiences such as learning dance, mime, theater, circus and visual arts. Their bodies become the expression of their imagination, their unique perspective and their unfailing resilience.
Une colonie
Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
Camille wanders through the countryside talking with frogs and chickens: she sails through life as a carefree soul. But for her older sister, the introverted Mylia, things are more complicated. Mylia is lost between the uncertainty in her family life, the superficial atmosphere at her new school and her first experiences at house parties. It is Camille who eventually introduces Mylia to Jimmy. The boy from the nearby Abenaki reserve is different and he encourages her to break free.
Bienvenue à F.L.
Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
Welcome to F.L. offers a candid portrait of the smart, passionate and reflective students at a typical Quebec high school as they reach the end of their teenage years and contemplate the lives that lie ahead for them. With the students of Fernand-Lefebvre high school.
La coupe
Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
When Fannie offers her father to cut his hair, he accepts. Alain knows that his daughter will do it carefully and thoroughly, as usual. But an outside incident change their plans and confront the precariousness of this shared moment. The cut tells the story of a father and a daughter, between proximity and detachment, for the moment of an haircut.
Janette et filles
Léa Clermont-Dion
What has Janette Bertrand accomplished, what has she contributed to change in a lasting way? She has been a journalist, an actress, a screenwriter, an author, a psychologist… Through her fight to make her place, she has given a voice to all those who were refused to be heard, to the point of becoming a model for several generations of women who, in turn, inspire the next ones. All of them, Janette’s daughters: Guylaine Tremblay, Martine Delvaux, Noémi Mercier, Kim Lizotte, Claudia Larochelle, Régine Bertheau, Chris Bergeron and Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay.
Antoine
Laura Bari
Antoine is five years old and he is blind. A sensitive and poetical portrait of the real and imaginary life of Antoine, a boy detective who runs, drives, hosts radio shows and adores simultaneous telephone conversations. Over the course of two years he uses a mini-boom microphone to discover and capture the sounds surrounding him. In this manner he co-created the sound track of this film. This child, who is of Vietnamese origin, was born one hundred days prematurely. He is integrated into the regular school system in Montreal, with unprecedented success.
Lignes de fuite
Myriam Bouchard
A dramatic comedy that invites us to the eventful reunion of three high school friends. After a festive and drunken start to the evening, the trio of thirty-somethings unravels: old tensions resurface, discussions escalate and revelations follow one another – all of which form an increasingly explosive cocktail that will test their friendship to the limit. Can yesterday’s best friends still be friends today?