Other films on this theme
Salin
Anne-Marie Bouchard
Formed by visual and sound loops, this work explores organic textures related to images shot in Gaspésie in 1966. My grandfather’s nervous camera, combined with his fascination for certain innocuous movements, resonates with my artistic practice. An organic algae-based film creation workshop gave me the pretext to play with these images, allowing me to work with the film in an organic and ecological way, but also playful. The workshop offered by TAIS – Toronto Animated Image Society gave me the excuse and the impetus to create this short experiment. Vladimir Konic imagined during a period of confinement, a method to create and digitize a film made from algae. The textures and colors created with these organic inks and films grabbed me. Their combination with recently digitized family archive images came about naturally. What could be more natural than combining images of Gaspésie with textures of algae? The process combines analog and digital technologies, 8mm film and organic film. The soundtrack comes from unused scraps from other projects.
L’Océan vu du coeur
Iolande Cadrin-Rossignol
Marie-Dominique Michaud
For a long time, the ocean seemed unalterable and limitless, but the impact of our actions on its biodiversity and temperature has become increasingly alarming. In Ocean Seen From the Heart, the sequel to Earth Seen from the Heart, Hubert Reeves, surrounded by passionate scientists and explorers, invites us to rediscover what threatens it and, above all, its phenomenal capacity for regeneration. A hymn to life at its richest, most precious and necessary to preserve if we are to survive, among other species, on our blue planet.
Oasis
Justine Martin
At the dawn of their teenage years, Raphaël and Rémi are twins who see their fusional attachment crumble while one of them, suffering from an increasingly marked disability, remains a prisoner of childhood. During one last summer surrounded by nature, time seems to want to stand still.
Balcons vivants
Stéphanie Lessard-Bérubé
Balcons vivants invites you to step into the experience of the Chasse-Balcon with Catherine Planet, who conceived the event, and Julina Castellas, a French-born teacher who has been living in Louisiana since 2011. Their discussions focus on the ability of different cultures to “stand on their balconies”, in other words, to assert themselves and contribute to community building.
Simplement soi ensemble
Stéphanie Lessard-Bérubé
After a year of pandemic, I had a spontaneous idea: to recount the movement of my body and mind as they remember the interrupted jam sessions of traditional Québécois music and invest themselves in hope. This is an impressionistic self-representation of the invisible. This is my reinvented documentary about my pandemic.
Dounia
Marya Zarif
Forced to leave their country, Dounia & her grandparents set off in search of a new home. As she travels around the world in search of asylum, Dounia encounters many people. When she encounters an obstacle that seems insurmountable, the wisdom of the ancient world comes to her rescue in the form of the nigella seeds of her grandmother. Season 1 is divided into 6 episodes of 7 minutes each and a 28-minute TV special. Season 2 is divided into 7 episodes of 7 minutes each.
Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo
Marya Zarif
Dounia was six years old when she left Aleppo with her grandparents and a few nigella seeds in her pockets. With the help of the Princess of Aleppo, Dounia makes a landmark journey to a whole new world… The path is strewn with obstacles, but Dounia will find courage and optimism in the love of her family, her grandmother’s recipes and the princess’ winks!
Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant
Ariane Louis-Seize
Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she’s too humanistic to bite! When her exasperated parents decide to cut her off, her survival is threatened. Luckily for her, Sasha meets Paul, a lonely teenager with suicidal tendencies, who agrees to offer her his life. What was supposed to be an exchange of courtesies turns into a nocturnal epic in which the two new friends seek to fulfill Paul’s last wishes before sunrise.
Comme une comète
Ariane Louis-Seize
On a family trip to observe the shooting stars, Chloé, a withdrawn teenager, discovers a dazzling attraction for her mother’s new boyfriend.
Les Profondeurs
Ariane Louis-Seize
In search of peace, Justine goes to her recently deceased mother’s cottage. Finding an old wetsuit, she sets out to explore the depths of the lake.
Lorraine Pintal: Pour que la lumière ne meure jamais
Ariane Louis-Seize
A tribute to Théâtre du Nouveau-Monde director Lorraine Pintal, the film brings together some of the most memorable characters and performers from her career. The film reveals the exceptional woman of theater, the director and the friend that this sentinel of Quebec theater represents for them all.
ROJEK
Zaynê Akyol
ROJEK meets incarcerated members of the Islamic State, and their wives detained in prison camps, from all over the world and sharing a common ideal: to establish a caliphate. Confronted with the fundamentalist beliefs of the jihadists, the film attempts to trace the beginning, the rise and the fall of the Islamic State (IS) through their personal stories. These conversations constitute the common thread of the documentary through which various sequences describing post-war Syrian Kurdistan intertwine. ROJEK offers an intimate look at an unknown reality, bearing witness to pivotal moments experienced by the actors of this conflict. The film discusses how this ideological war is only the beginning of a new threat.
November
Iphigénie Marcoux-Fortier
November is a peripatetic experience in search of the many souls who make up the city of Montreal, in that seasonal no man’s land between colorful autumn and pristine winter, well known for its bent toward melancholy. It’s an excursion through the streets of the city with its constant movement and a peek into the alienation of the modern urban world: between work and home, between obligations and dreams. November is the story of those people we meet daily without seeing them, the story of mixed Montreal identities in search of meaning and light.
Émilienne and the Passage of Time
Coralie Lemieux-Sabourin
Émilienne, 76, a former flight attendant, lives on a small farm in the Centre-du-Québec region of Québec. Through the seasons, this keeper of forgotten knowledge introduces us to her symbiotic way of life with both the living and time.
Trouble and Kids
Catherine Pallascio
Two kids find a friendly creature in their backyard and befriend it. They keep it out of harm’s way by teaching the creature about common dangers in and around the house.
Les écoles alternatives d’hier à demain
Catherine Pallascio
On the occasion of the reunion of Les petits castors alternative elementary school, which celebrated its 30th anniversary on June 9, 2007, several former students, teachers and parents talk about their experience and involvement with the alternative school. The aim of this video is to raise awareness of alternative pedagogical schools and the long-term effects they can bring, while demystifying a number of preconceived ideas, of the type encountered by promoters of new alternative schools. The target audience is parents interested in this type of school, regular schools called upon to cohabit with alternative schools, school board commissioners and managers called upon to give their opinion on new school projects of this type, as well as student teachers.
Philosopher sur les mathématiques
Catherine Pallascio
This video illustrates an application of the “Philosophy for Children” approach as adapted to mathematics. We follow two groups of pupils “philosophizing about mathematics”: a 5th grade class from a school in Laval district, and a group of pupils in the 5th and 6th grade from an alternative school in Longueuil, the latter group being in contact via Internet with other groups. Begun in the 1970s in the US by philosophers Matthew Lipman and Ann Margaret Sharp, the “Philosophy for Children” approach was adapted to mathematics by a team of researchers from CIRADE, consisting of a specialist in Philosophy of Education (Marie-France Daniel of Université de Montréal), specialists in the teaching of mathematics (Louise Lafortune of UQTR and Richard Pallascio of UQÀM), and a ressource person in philosophy (Pierre Sykes). The video allows us to follow the pupils during the various stages of this philosophical approach: reading, questioning, selection of a philosophical question, reflection before and following the community of inquiry, mathematical/philosophical activities, review of the abilities used to think, as well as their exchanges via Internet.
About memory and loss
Amélie Hardy
Capture, document, record, share, restart. We are making ourselves more memorable than ever by archiving every bit of our daily lives. What if we lost something along the way?
Happy Life
Amélie Hardy
In this time of anxiety and turmoil, this film explores the unusual outlets where the torments of the body and mind are soothed. In a meditative journey to the heart of these analgesic places, this documentary essay paints a portrait of a society in search of meaning and comfort.
Train Hopper
Amélie Hardy
A young man travels across America hopping from one freight train to another.
Mazzarello
Carmen Rachiteanu
The inspiring portrait of a female boxer from Argentina, determined to exorcise the demons of past violence in the boxing ring, and her touching relationship with her coach.
Jo
Carmen Rachiteanu
Jo is a janitor at a school in the evening. Woman of convictions, she assumes her “bugs” of the past for the two most important women of her life : her daughter Karine and…Diane Dufresne.
Unfortunately It Was Paradise
Ralitsa Doncheva
Unfortunately It Was Paradise utilizes found footage taken from 1970s Ukrainian documentaries and communist propaganda films. Working with formal, collage-like approaches, the film strips the images away from their political context and meanings. Focusing on daily rituals and repetitive gestures, the project creates a hypnotic and meditative experience. A slow architecture constantly shifting between stasis and motion.
Baba Dana Talks to The Wolves
Ralitsa Doncheva
Baba Dana Talks To The Wolves is an impressionistic portrait of Baba Dana, an 85 year-old Bulgarian woman who has chosen to spend her life on a mountain, away from people and cities, in Zelenikovsky Monastery in Bulgaria.