Other films on this theme
Ces filles-là (El-Banate Dol)
Tahani Rached
“El-Banate Dol” is a feature-length documentary that plunges us into the world of teenage girls living on the streets of Cairo, a world of violence and oppression, as well as freedom. These Girls astonish us with the strength they exude, the laughter that animates them, and the toughness with which they must cope with their daily lives. They are women, and therefore doubly marginalized. Their existence, their lives and the codes they adopt defy the social model. Their day is strewn with threats, from police raids to kidnapping by their street companions. Women-children, mothers-daughters, they necessarily live in the moment. Dance, laughter and acrobatics give a glimpse of childhood, as do the arguments that sometimes get out of hand.
Vous n’êtes pas seuls
Marie-Hélène Viens
Leo, a lonely, anxious pizza delivery guy, stumbles upon John, a mysterious taxi driver seeking lonesome souls. This unusual encounter throws the young man into a dizzying delirium, disrupting his blossoming romance with Rita. As the leaves start falling from the trees, days are getting shorter, and the cold is settling in… Luckily, the first flames of love warm Leo’s heart. But beware: if you play with fire, you might get burned.
Oraison
Laetitia Demessence
Leonor wants to unravel the mystery surrounding a mythical dance piece that her mother performed thirty years ago. Confronted by an unorthodox choreographer, she faces many challenges that she must overcome to achieve her initiation.
Ainsi va Manu – Saison 1
Josiane Blanc
The story follows the journey of a single-parent family, coping with Toronto’s increasing housing precariousness. When Manuela,16, and her family are threatened to be evicted from their apartment by a real estate developer, she decides to fight back, in hopes of remaining in her neighbourhood.
Date limite
Josiane Blanc
On the morning of their first anniversary, Julien and Camille must make the decision of their lifetimes: which one leave everything behind and follow the other to their home country?
Contes d’une grossophobie ordinaire
Josiane Blanc
What is fatphobia and what can be done to overcome it? With poetic illustrations and painful, compelling testimony, Tales of Ordinary Fatphobia offers multiple examples of the psychological effects of weight-based discrimination and bullying on adolescent girls.
Faux départ
Josiane Blanc
Young, career-minded, and ambitious, Roselyne and Adam have difficulty finding time for their relationship in their overloaded and always hectic schedule. When the two finally decide to spend time together, an unexpected visit complicates their plans.
Loud & Here
Josiane Blanc
With too many cases of sexual violence going unreported or unpunished, 23 teen girls decide to change policy affecting school boards across Quebec.
La grande chasse
Laetitia Demessence
In an isolated rural village, local militias are forcing a couple of horse breeders off their land. The couple must decide whether to leave, or stay and resist their oppressors.
Les mots d’amour
Laetitia Demessence
A woman is trapped in solitude. Alone in a world without human connections, she finds refuge in the mysterious companionship of her feathered neighbors. Her desperate longing for love transforms into an obsession, blurring the line between reality and illusion.
Magma
Marlène Gaudreau
Plunged into a world that oscillates between dream and nightmare, He must confront the red hold that pursues him.
Asbestos
Vanessa Gauvin-Brodeur
Once a prosperous community, the small town of Asbestos, Quebec, bears the physical and psychological scars of its past, heavily rooted in the asbestos mining industry. As the village prepares to change its name in an attempt to reframe its history, three former miners reflect on the rise and fall of their town.Through reminiscence and introspection, they pay homage to their heritage, make amends with the present, and anchor themselves in the optimism of a new future — both to heal and change the perceptions and stereotypes of their community.
Amato
Romy Boutin St-Pierre
Amato is about the diversity of polyamorous models in the Quebec landscape. Three unique and interrelated stories are staged through performing arts.
Votre appel est important pour nous
Romy Boutin St-Pierre
Five people call various Canadian government departments in the hope of getting answers to their bureaucratic problems. On the other end of the line, they are met with a rigid automatic voice, a long waiting music, workers guided by subconscious biases from an institution machine, built around systematic discriminations.
Like you
Romy Boutin St-Pierre
Once upon a time, there was a beloved princess… or a neglected child creating an imaginary world in her mind in an attempt to resemble her mother, who is both victim and aggressor in her tumultuous relationships.
Comme toi
Romy Boutin St-Pierre
Once upon a time, there was a beloved princess… Or a neglected child creating an imaginary world in her mind in an attempt to resemble her mother, who is both victim and aggressor in her tumultuous relationships.
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.
La fabrique du consentement: regards lesbo-queer
mathilde capone
What if lesbo-queer communities had something to share about the singularities of their sexualities? Through the complex topic of consent, sixteen protagonists from these communities speak up. Could there be blurred lines, a continuum between consent and aggression? How can we defeat rape culture and innovate in matters of consent? How has the notion of aggression been used historically to exclude trans women? In a deep introspection of their intimacies, these protagonists ask questions, get angry, laugh, create other possibilities. They suggest to look more closely at consent, from the experience of their marginalized communities, their subcultures and their explorations.
Dis-moi pourquoi ces choses sont si belles
Lyne Charlebois
Brother Marie-Victorin (Le Jardin Botanique, La Flore Laurentienne) was 46 when he met 23-year-old Marcelle Gauvreau. Both have been close to death and share the same love of God and Nature. He becomes her teacher, later she becomes his assistant. Their friendship evolves. Marie-Victorin offers Marcelle different readings on sexuality that she hastens to comment on from her own intimate experiences. In an epistolary exchange that will last until the death of Marie-Victorin, they explore human desires and “biology without a veil”. This great chaste love, the love of Quebec’s flora, pushes them to question their own relationship with love and Nature.
Les femmes de Raël
Érika Reyburn
Les femmes de Raël takes us inside the world of a sectarian group. Two women who have spent a large part of their lives in the Raelian movement have agreed to testify, not so much to denounce Rael as to show how normal, well-educated women can get caught up in such an entanglement, how one comes to follow a guru and how a guru becomes a guru.
Les météorites
Nadia Louis-Desmarchais
In the heart of the 2000s, Léna and Maëlle, two little black girls, live with a large, loving white foster family, whose upheavals we follow through their luminous eyes.
Young
Marlène Gaudreau
It’s early summer. In an empty cottage with closed curtains, Ludo is bored. At the same time, on the road, his friends are heading towards him. The latter join the former, allowing the light to shine at last. Together, they shine; the weather is good. Music video for Childhood Friend
Ennui Might Be The Most Sinister
Marlène Gaudreau
Three characters are at the cottage. They’re bored. As the film progresses, the boredom becomes increasingly oppressive, as does the pressure to escape it, driving the characters toward madness.
Opaline
Alix Galdin
The word opaline evokes a delicate, milky-white glass object, reflecting the theme of this experimental short film: the precious but fragile period of childhood. In this visual poem, the child trapped in the maelstrom of family becomes the living archive of unspeakable violence. The images were first captured with a camera, then filmed in Super 8 and hand painted. The colour streaming through the film restores movement to days frozen and steeped in anxiety.