Online cinema
Claire Lamarche, Lamarche vers l’essentiel
Geneviève Tremblay
Claire Lamarche naît en 1945 au sein d’une famille de six enfants. C’est à Radio-Québec, en 1982, qu’elle fait ses premières armes comme animatrice en tenant la barre de l’émission Droit de parole. C’est au moment où elle fait le saut à TVA qu’elle devient une vedette. Elle touche le public quotidiennement avec des sujets parfois tabous, controversés ou plus légers, qu’elle présente à son émission éponyme pendant 12 ans. En parallèle, elle met sur pied une émission de retrouvailles qui deviendra la plus marquante de sa carrière et qui changera la vie de milliers d’individus.
Sonia Benezra, le meilleur est à venir
Geneviève Tremblay
Connue comme la première VJ de la chaîne télévisée MusiquePlus, Sonia Benezra a vite conquis le coeur du public. À travers les années, celle que l’on surnomme la « Oprah Winfrey du Québec » estime avoir mené environ 10 000 entrevues avec autant d’artistes québécois que de grandes vedettes internationales.
Mother’s colours
Joyce Borenstein
Judith, an artist, moves into a senior’s residence, and she feels lonely and alienated. She is unable to sleep and discovers that she can escape into her painting. Her neighbour Greg, notices her diving into her landscape and follows after her. They embark on a magical voyage flying through Fauvist landscapes.
Five Billion Years
Joyce Borenstein
This superbly animated science film traces the evolution of North America from the Earth’s geophysical beginnings, through the genesis of the first living organisms, right up to the arrival of humans. Radiant colors and smooth-flowing animation evoke sizzling lava rivers, oceans bursting with life, and freezing ice ages. The film provides an excellent view of the time frame within which these remarkable events took place and highlights the fact that, relatively speaking, we are newcomers to Planet Earth.
One Divided by Two: Kids and Divorce
Joyce Borenstein
Danny’s parents’ divorce sparked nightmares of being abandoned by his mom. Adrianne was relieved because her parents stopped fighting. Lauren felt guilty, thinking she may have caused her parents’ separation. Jeffrey wished his parents could get back together. Annie was angry that her step-dad imposed so many household rules. One Divided By Two focuses on 13 young people (aged 8 to 18) whose parents have divorced. The video brings an original approach to the subject: animation takes over where live footage stops, moving beyond it – describing the heightened feelings, hopes and memories.
Colours of my Father: a Portrait of Sam Borenstein
Joyce Borenstein
With great singleness of purpose, Sam Borenstein painted for over 40 years. Despite his obvious talent it was only near the end of his life that his work began to be known. Twenty years after the artist’s death, animation filmmaker Joyce Borenstein brings her father’s work to a wider audience. Using various animation techniques in this documentary, she skillfully and harmoniously integrates archival material, filmed sequences, the painting themselves, and reminiscences of friends and family, to bring Sam Borenstein’s work to life.
La Plante
Joyce Borenstein
This short fiction has much to say about kindness, although without any dialogue. In a combination of live action and animation, we are introduced to a man who discovers a small plant hidden under the snow and takes it inside his house. The plant responds to his loving care with rather startling enthusiasm.
L’île
Alexandra Guité
The descendants of the inhabitants of Bonaventure Island, brutally expropriated in 1971, set on a quest to explore their origins. Stirring encounter with its last survivor, 91 year old Louis Brochet.
Les réfugiés du chemin Roxham
Hejer Charf
95 % des migrants qui entrent irrégulièrement au canada prennent le chemin Roxham, un petit chemin forestier entre l’État de New York et le Québec. Présenté à la Foire d’art contemporain, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, octobre 2019. L’oeuvre est représentée par la Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris 6.
La fille du cratère
Nadine Beaudet
A woman with a deep love of the land, Yolande Simard Perrault sees her life as having been shaped by a planetary upheaval in Charlevoix, Quebec, millions of years ago. As enduring as the Canadian Shield, she’s a woman of strength and spirit, a child of the crater left by the meteor’s impact. This documentary portrays a determined woman who’s the reflection of a land created on an immense scale. She was the creative and life partner of filmmaker Pierre Perrault, who gave up everything to be by her side.
Julia Julep
Alana Cymerman
Julia, 5 ans, s’habille pour aller enterrer sa mère. Elle regarde le cercueil s’enfoncer dans la terre avec son jeune oncle Jack, 25 ans, devenu son nouveau gardien. Ensemble et séparément, ils tenteront de faire leur deuil.
The Perfect Vacuum
Alana Cymerman
Mona left a glamorous life back home because of war. Now, she finds home in vacuum dancing.
Chef de meute
Chloé Robichaud
Clara’s overwhelming family can’t understand her solitary life, wishing she would find someone to grow old with. Following her aunt’s sudden death, Clara is put in charge of her pet. Little does she know that these are the first steps to an unlikely, but empowering, friendship.
Meel va Namad (Meels & Felt)
Leila Khalilzadeh
Akbar Pir Ahmadi is one of the few master craftsmen who make felt in Shiraz, Iran. He begins his routine working day early in the morning. Many people visit him during the day: A friend for help, two customers for buying felt, and his little girl who has her lunch with her father – In the evening, he goes to the Zurkhaneh (Iran traditional gymnasium) to practice Pahlevani rituals.
Mobilize
Caroline Monnet
Guided expertly by those who live on the land and driven by the pulse of the natural world, Caroline Monnet’s Mobilize takes us on an exhilarating journey from the far north to the urban south. Over every landscape, in all conditions, everyday life flows with strength, skill and extreme competence.
Lola & Claire
Elisabeth Desbiens
Lola & Claire raconte l’histoire d’un amour inconditionnel entre Claire, une jeune femme au corps complètement paralysé et Lola, sa petite soeur. L’une vit dans l’immobilité et l’autre dans la mobilité. Aujourd’hui, c’est l’anniversaire de Lola et elle réalise que les jours de Claire sont comptés. Elle fera alors ce qu’il faut pour la libérer.
TURBO KID
Anouk Whissell
In a post-apocalyptic future, The Kid, a young solitary scavenger obsessed with comic books, meets a mysterious girl named Apple. But when Zeus, the sadistic and self-proclaimed leader of the Wasteland kidnaps Apple, The Kid must embark on a life-threatening journey to rid the land of evil and save the girl of his dreams, armed with little more than blind faith and an ancient turbocharged weapon.
Summer of ’84
Anouk Whissell
Summer, 1984: The perfect time to be 15 years old and free. But when neighborhood conspiracy theorist Davey Armstrong (Graham Verchere) begins to suspect his police officer neighbor (Rich Sommer) might be the serial killer all over the local news, he and his three best friends begin an investigation that soon turns dangerous.
Incoming call
Sandra Coppola
Une soeur ouvre son coeur à son frère, à la radio. Comment celui-ci réagira-t-il?
Écriture(s) vivante(s)
Sandra Coppola
Au fil des ans, Eric Jean a développé une démarche artistique hors du commun pour la création de ses pièces de théâtre. En 2011, Eric récidive. Entrevues et improvisations avec les comédiens sont au rendez-vous pour créer une œuvre envoûtante.
Les voleurs d’identité
Christine Chevarie
Le journaliste du magazine L’actualité Marc-André Sabourin expose au grand jour le système de fraude à l’identité grâce aux témoignages exclusifs d’ex-fraudeurs qui révèlent leurs stratagèmes.
Lou Lou La Duchesse De Rière
Lysandre Leduc-Boudreau
Lou Lou la Duchesse de Rière is the first Canadian and first Indigenous woman to hold the title of Queen of Burlesque. She uses her art to break social constructs surrounding First Nations women’s sexuality and imposes news standards of beauty in the burlesque community. VICE followed Lou Lou at home, and backstage during the biggest burlesque ball in North America, which took place in Montreal.
Vivre avec l’écoanxiété
Lysandre Leduc-Boudreau
Quand on pense au réchauffement climatique, on ne fait pas forcément le lien avec la santé mentale. Pourtant, les chercheurs rapportent que les changements climatiques entraînent chez un nombre grandissant de personnes une profonde tristesse et un sentiment comparable au deuil. On donne la parole à ceux qui vivent avec cette anxiété face au sort de la planète, appelée écoanxiété.
La veille
Christine Chevarie
Marguerite Paquin lives in a seniors’ home where 18 nuns from her religious congregation have succumbed to COVID-19. The film takes us from the grandeur of the landscapes of Côte-Nord, Quebec, where Marguerite has worked for 47 years, into the room where she sits confined today, finding a sort of liberation through prayer and unshakable solidarity with her sisters who are suffering.