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Impossible
Vanya Rose
A passionate young painter, living a strict lifestyle, divides his time between long hours of work and a meager salary. Women don’t seem to interest him, until the day he notices the young woman who lives across the street. His life will soon be turned upside down, and his days will become excuses to watch her.
Woman In Car.
Vanya Rose
Woman in Car. is a 2021 Canadian psychological thriller film, written, produced, and directed by Vanya Rose.The film stars Hélène Joy as Anne, a former archer and the fiancée / trophy wife to be of wealthy businessman, David (Anthony Lemke), this to be her second marriage. Her first husband died under vague circumstances, an alleged hit-and-run. Anne feels threatened and lapses into obsession when her stepson Owen (Aidan Ritchie) brings home his new girlfriend Safiye (Liane Balaban) for the first time.
Éviction
mathilde capone
Since 2010, Parthenais has held within its walls the life of a whole queer community. They are gay, lesbian, trans, and they live together in Centre-Sud in the heart of Montreal, in a triplex that is falling apart. Between the parties that sometimes welcome more than two hundred people until the wee hours of the morning, the collective dinners, the great joys and the small despairs, this old flat has transformed the lives of its tenants. Twelve years later, the building is bought by a wealthy family who wants to live there, gentrification being the order of the day. This marks the end of a mythical space that has transformed Montreal’s queer scene for a decade. The boxes are too small to contain all the stories that have taken place within these walls. Eviction is the story of this turning page, as the distraught residents search for a new place to call home in the midst of a housing crisis and land speculation.
UWD – Until We Die
Brigitte Poupart
Myriam Verreault
A poetic crossover in a ruined world where everyone survives alone amid collective despair. Moving bodies, dance, and physical feats replace words and reveal wounded characters haunted by a past sweeter than this crumbling world. This short film is part of Brigitte Poupart’s transdisciplinary project Until We Die, produced by Transthéâtre.
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…
Billy
Lawrence Côté-Collins
Filmmaker Lawrence Côté-Collins finds her attacker in prison. She wants to understand, forgive, and support a suffering man. Billy is schizophrenic and his worst attack left two people dead. Their epistolary prison friendship sheds light on the truth about this mental illness which was neither diagnosed nor treated. Together, they tell their stories and reconstruct themselves through intimate correspondence and unpublished video archives.
Manufacturing The Threat
Amy Miller
Shining a light into the murky world of police infiltration, incitement, and agent provocateurs, Manufacturing The Threat shows how Canada’s policing and national security agencies, granted additional powers after 9/11, routinely break laws with little to no accountability or oversight. For the first time ever, a feature-length documentary is examining the issue of agent provocateurs and entrapment in Canada’s national security apparatus. Manufacturing the Threat is a thrilling and emotional film, which examines a deeply disturbing episode in Canadian history when an impoverished couple was coerced by undercover law enforcement agents into carrying out a terrorist bombing. Further, viewers learn that this case is far from unique in the context of Canadian intelligence.
Tous les jours, tous les jours, tous les jours
Nicole Giguère
Johanne Fournier
Every day, we have to deal with intimidation tactics and the most insidious and diverse forms of harassment. Every day, we have to grit our teeth and bear it… And they say it’s just nature! This fatal argument is beginning to lose ground, as more and more women are fighting back and putting a stop to this guerrilla warfare.
Bail bail
Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers
As they are signing their new lease, two longtime roommates realize that their new landlord is going to evict them illegally. They decide to fight to keep their apartment. Humor, violence, western, kung fu… In the middle of the holly season.
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.
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.
Pas d’chicane dans ma cabane
Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers
Justine, 12, firmly believes that she will be happier once her parents divorce. The only catch? They do not envisage this eventuality in any way. Tired of the chicanery and the climate that reigns at home since her mother’s miscarriage, Justine rallies her friends in order to create their own court. Her plan won’t go as planned and she’ll have to learn (even if it hurts) to communicate her pain for harmony to return.