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The Oka Legacy
Sonia Bonspille Boileau
The Oka Legacy is a CBCdocsPOV documentary that explores how the Oka Crisis has influenced Indigenous identity in Canada. In the summer of 1990, all eyes were on the small town of Oka, Quebec. Triggered by plans to expand a golf course on ancestral land, it was a standoff between the Mohawk people of Kanehsatake, the police and eventually the army. The Oka Crisis lasted 78 days and drew worldwide attention. The standoff had a profound impact on Indigenous peoples in Canada setting the tone for Indigenous resistance throughout the ‘90s.
Anastasie oh ma chérie
Paule Baillargeon
Our planet still survives and clings with a debilitating determination to its homosexual-male and misogynist god. In this degenerating patriarchy, all the men are medal-winning pimps and all the others are whores. Some women, pure and rigorous, locked up in their feminine mystery, silently scream. Anastasia, my beloved heroine, lost from another star, is one of them.
Derouin – Métis des Amériques
Julie Corbeil
A rare bird, the artist René Derouin flies over his universe that links Quebec to Mexico. He takes a nuanced look at it, imbued with distance. A true monument of the visual arts in Quebec, Derouin is guided by his love of nature and his desire to bring the public closer to contemporary art. With delicacy, director Julie Corbeil gives voice to this tireless and committed artist, driven by the urgency to create and nurture a dialogue.
Motel Paradis
Sophie Deraspe
Following a near-death experience, Jen Paradis is certain that her 14-year-old sister did not commit suicide. Determined to shed light on her disappearance, she brings back to her isolated village the investigator in charge of the case three years earlier, now retired. Together they will investigate.
Bête noire
Sophie Deraspe
Bête noire (scourge) presents the collateral effects of an unforgivable act committed by Jeremy, a 16-year-old teenager. With the help of the psychiatrist-coroner in charge of the investigation, Jeremy’s mother tries to understand how her son, a seemingly trouble-free boy, came to commit a heinous act. What triggered this nightmare? At what point did everything change? Together, the two women are on a mission to unravel the mystery of Jeremy.
Pour Toi Flora
Sonia Bonspille Boileau
For You Flora (Pour toi Flora) is the story of a brother and sister of Anishinabe descent who spend their youth in a residential school in the 1960s and who, years later, attempt to make peace with their painful past. From the heartbreaking moment when the Oblates take the two children away from their parents to the events that unite them more than five decades later, this six-episode, one-hour drama miniseries depicts different eras in their lives, unfolding together in each episode to tell the story of how a Quebec Aboriginal family splits apart and manages to repair itself. For You Flora (Pour toi Flora) brings to the screen for the first time the painful legacy of those religious settlements in Quebec that were intended to eradicate Aboriginal cultures. Although fictional, the story of Pour toi Flora is inspired by various testimonies and reflects the reality of several hundred families in the province. The series highlights the innate resilience of these uprooted girls and boys, and the brotherly love that survives, despite the most unimaginable moments of adversity.
Chien Blanc
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
1968. The United States is on the verge of implosion: Martin Luther King is assassinated and racial hatreds put the country to fire and blood. Romain Gary, who lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the actress Jean Seberg, takes in a stray dog. The dog quickly finds his place in the house, with Diego, the couple’s only son. He is affectionate with everyone. Everyone, except the black people. This is because White Dog is a dog specially trained to chase away Black protesters. For Seberg, who is very active in the Black Panthers, it is unthinkable to keep the dog, but for Gary, it is unthinkable to shoot him. Gary is fixated on this animal: he cannot abandon it. He entrusts him to a kennel in the hope of curing the dog of this hatred that man has embedded in his body. And it’s Keys, a black healer, who takes charge of reforming the animal. Inhabited by his own tragedy, he will not do his job by halves.
Inès
Renée Beaulieu
Caught up in a symbiotic relationship with her father, Inès (20 years old) embarks on a difficult path to try to escape from this imposing man in order to build her own identity and become an adult woman.
Les salopes ou le sucre naturel de la peau
Renée Beaulieu
Marie-Claire (Brigitte Poupart), professor of dermatology, is undertaking a new scientific research project on skin cells and how they are affected by sexuality when a chain of events disrupts her career, family and above all, her intimate life. Les Salopes or the Naturally Wanton Pleasure of Skin proposes a different perspective by making a woman and her sexuality, the subject and no longer the object of the film…presenting a feminine sexuality that is self-assured, complex and subversive…
Derrière les bulles de la BD québécoise
Julie Corbeil
The growth of interest in comics in Quebec is undeniable. Publishers are multiplying and, although the market share is not huge, it is one of the rare literary genres to have experienced a continuous growth in sales over the last ten years. Authors and designers with different profiles talk about a field that they have seen change for the better, without escaping the difficulties of the limited market that is Quebec.
Copenhague – Capitale du bonheur
Julie Corbeil
Denmark is regularly cited in the media for the quality of its social initiatives, the innovation of its infrastructure and its inspiring lifestyle. The Danish people have been at the top of the list of the world’s happiest people for several decades. Yet this Scandinavian nation has long winters and low levels of sunshine. At first glance, this is not exactly fertile ground for happy citizens. So what is the secret of Danish happiness? It is with this question in mind that director Julie Corbeil moves to the country’s capital, Copenhagen, where she meets people who have themselves explored the question and who participate in this movement of daily well-being. She explores a fascinating city where design, architecture, Viking culture and the new Nordic cuisine are all mixed together.
Guatemala – Tierra maya
Julie Corbeil
Guatemala is a Central American country located just south of Mexico. It is part of Latin America and has a population of 16 million, the majority of whom are of direct Mayan descent. If a few thousand years ago the Mayan civilization was one of the most powerful on the planet, natural disasters, European conquests and recent armed conflicts have given its people a hard time. Filmmakers Julie Corbeil and Ugo Monticone propose an encounter with Guatemala’s fascinating mix of cultures. A journey into a country where ancestral traditions are deeply rooted in the present.
Rencontres avec le bout du monde
Julie Corbeil
After 17 years of living in refugee camps in Nepal, a Bhutanese community came to settle in Quebec, more precisely in St-Jérôme in the Laurentians.
Mexico – Cœur vibrant des Amériques
Julie Corbeil
With her artistic sensibility, Julie Corbeil shows us Mexico City in all its splendor. In her film, the filmmaker accompanies Quebec multidisciplinary artist René Derouin as he immerses himself in the richness of this megalopolis to produce a new work. Together, they travel through the different delegations of the city, transporting us into the colorful and warm universe of a young and dynamic urban population, looking towards the future. It is through its art, its gastronomy, its history and its architecture that Mexico City reveals all its beauty, under the gaze of Julie who lets the inhabitants speak in order to better understand all the subtleties of the vibrant heart of the Americas.
Years in Brackets 2020-2022
Hejer Charf
I spent the two years of the pandemic in Montreal. I filmed socio-political events. I asked people in Canada and elsewhere to send me videos, images, sounds, whatever they wanted. Several lives have come to me. I mixed them with news around the world: Black Lives Matter, indigenous protests in Canada and the death of Atikamekw Joyce Echaquan, the 10th anniversary of the Tunisian revolution, the interruption of Thawra in Lebanon and Hirak in Algeria.
Crazy Youth
Ayana O’Shun
Virgin Assassins
Ayana O’Shun
In a little rented room, Lee and Karen are preparing for a murder they’ve planned all their lives. Suddenly, the morning of the fateful day, one of them changes her mind. This decision will lead the two female characters to enter a dangerous mind game that only of them can win. Feel the thunder under their skin. See Lee and Karen engage in a race against death.
Échos
Ayana O’Shun
Andre keeps dreaming about his grandmother who’s losing her battle to Alzheimer. In the dream, she sings a mysterious song. Convinced that she is trying to communicate with him, Andre enters a quest into the unknown.
Médecins sans résidence
Ayana O’Shun
This short documentary highlights how discrimination prevents foreign-trained doctors from practising in Canada – even after they’ve received their Canadian qualifications. Interviews with medical professionals and human rights advocates illustrate how systemic racism plays a role.
Les Mains noires – Procès de l’esclave incendiaire
Ayana O’Shun
Les Mains Noires – Procès de l’Esclave Incendiaire investigates slavery in 18th century New France through the true story of Marie-Josèphe Angélique, accused of having set fire to Montreal in 1734. After an epic trial, this indomitable slave is condemned to be tortured and hanged. Was she really guilty or was she the victim of a conspiracy? Why the amnesia about this little-known facet of Quebec history? A fascinating 52-minute documentary skillfully blending historians’ accounts and drama filmed in the manner of Lars von Trier’s Dogville.
Judith Hôtel
Charlotte Le Bon
Have you ever dreamed of going to sleep and never wake up? Rémi has. Eight years of insomnia has made his life a living hell. By booking a room at Judith Hotel, a very popular establishment, he is giving himself the opportunity of a new start.
Falcon Lake
Charlotte Le Bon
Born in France to a Quebecois mother, Bastien, almost 14, spends his summer vacations in the Laurentians with his parents and his little brother. Louise, his mother’s best friend, welcomes them to her cottage on the shore of a lake. The day after his arrival, the young Frenchman visits the area with Louise’s 16-year-old daughter Chloé. According to her, the lake is haunted by the spirit of a drowned boy. With the teenager, Bastien experiences his first sexual and love feelings. But he feels threatened by the presence of the son of the new owner of the cottage, a 19-year-old English-speaking man who is always hanging around Chloé.
Paparmane
Joëlle Desjardins Paquette
A depressed cat transforms the lives of a grieving parking attendant and an exuberant telegram singer. A cosmic encounter on a pastel background.
Rodéo
Joëlle Desjardins Paquette
Caught in an arduous separation conflict, a father decides to leave with his own 9-year-old girl. He will slightly bring her with him on an adventure aboard his Kenworth W900 with the aim of reaching the legendary World’s Best Truck Rodeo, ultimate truck celebration held annually in the badlands in Alberta. Overflowing with truck poetry, bittersweet humor and vibrant humanity, this road movie transcends genre codes to touch a universal subject: filial love.