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Salir
Clara Prieur
When a woman has been abused, how can she regain power over her body and mind? How can she resurface? Salir is an immersion into sensorial memories and an attempt at embodying resilience. Dance places the body at the center of a cathartic process, and becomes the driving force of an emotional journey to wash away violence. In this narrative, two performers embody different aspects of the same character, offering contrasting perspectives on her relationship with the world.
Nos cendres
Marie-Claude Béchard
When Ophélie visits her depressed mother, who lives isolated in the forest, she discovers that she is very ill because of her addiction to cigarettes. Disturbed by the thought of losing her, Ophélie decides to stay at home to help her quit. Little does she realize that cigarettes are not the only cause of her mother’s suffering.
Flots gris
Joëlle Desjardins Paquette
Adrift from a difficult break up, Livia is haunted by a peacock. An urban Western from the heartland of East Montreal.
Sans dehors ni dedans
Joëlle Desjardins Paquette
Under the omniscient gaze of an iguana, a 10-year-old boy takes care of his mother, a singer going adrift.
Memento Mori
Clara Prieur
On a Monday morning, a man rings at Mary’s door. Just before he disappeared, he delivers her a strange parcel: a magnificent fruit tray adorned with a ribbon inscribed with a date. What is this date? Why is an hourglass hidden between pomegranates and bunches of grapes? Dreading a sign announcing her death, Mary wonders if she is not living her last week. We dive into her mind for these seven capital days, looking for inner peace and this mysterious deliverer of forbidden fruits.
Habiter la maison
Renée Beaulieu
Simon, entrepreneur and family man, planned everything to take care of his family, including the construction of a magnificent house, but he didn’t foresee that his family would become like life itself: elusive and unpredictable.
Larry (iel)
Catherine Legault
A look at the intimate world of young non-binary trans photographer Laurence Philomène as they put together their first book, Puberty, a series of self-portraits documenting their transition during hormone therapy. Mirroring Philomène’s autobiographical approach, Larry (they/them) highlights the cinematic power of the artist’s vibrant, colour-saturated images and above all, their willingness to share their story with authenticity and vulnerability. Gender non-conforming identities, body diversity and the challenges of self-affirmation are also explored through an exclusive foray into Philomène’s family and community. Beyond the story of individual transformation, the film chronicles a society that is likewise transitioning, evolving as it grows. A celebration of those who refuse to conform, Larry (they/them) is a luminous and engaging portrait of the complex, often misunderstood multiplicity of trans and non-binary identities and experiences, bringing to the screen one of the most inspiring and original voices of their generation and an LGBTQ+ community icon.
Une femme animée
Gynette Mercier
Women walking in transparency in this enchanted forest with sound and reflexion of my mind because the beauty light color and sound alike a watercolor palette print the vibration of my feeling in the contact with this forest and sound move my sensibility and mind to express print the movement in color with poetry I let this memory turn you upside down and think of the future of this forest our world!
Nitrate
Yousra Benziane
When the fireworks inflame the memory of a war survival. A chemistry that links spectacle and war, nitrate is an element found in both fireworks and bombs. Nitrate examines what happens when a show rekindles a survivor’s memories of war, when the light present plunges him into a past darkness.
Fumigènes
Florence Lafond
The night is coming to an end : the air is saturated and heavy, their minds are feeling both dazed and unsteady. The party seems like it’ll never end. But during one bike ride, longtime friends Camille and Felix get closer and closer to each other – although this nocturnal desire should best be ignored.
Meute
Florence Lafond
That morning, as she gets ready for her dance audition, Alex is outraged when her mother forces her once again to babysit her disabled sister.
Jusqu’à ce que tu meures
Florence Lafond
Xavier comes home early in the morning to find his girlfriend Léa in bed. This was the first time he spent the night elsewhere since they decided to open up their relationship. While the idea was to strengthen their bond, it might actually have been their biggest mistake…
Fabuleuses
Mélanie Charbonneau
Laurie is a young journalist working to get established. She lives with her best friend, Élizabeth, a feminist. One day, Laurie meets Clara, an Instagram and YouTube star. The two quickly bond, to Élizabeth’s consternation: she fears her friend is going to change radically. The three young women’s ideals are put to a harsh test. How do you make your way in this topsy-turvy world without betraying your true self? In her first feature, Mélanie Charbonneau tackles that question through the prism of the world of influencers.
Seule
Mélanie Charbonneau
On a grey and windy January day, Annie tries to recover from a horrible break up by organizing her new apartment. She obsesses about restoring her own happiness at any cost.
Je ne suis pas un robot
Mélanie Charbonneau
Marie-Chantal is a naive, childlike woman who works in a web moderation center called Soulshine. Day after day, she takes on the alienating and repetitive task of viewing violent content, nudity, death threats and conspiracy theories on social networks. After one particularly harrowing day, she meets an enigmatic new moderator who seems to have stepped straight out of a 2000s sci-fi movie. She leads her on a wild quest to track down a mysterious kitten killer with viral videos.
Lunar-Orbit Rendezvous
Mélanie Charbonneau
A woman-tampon joins a man-astronaut on a road trip to the moon. Daniel is on a mission to scatter his mother’s ashes and Claude is hoping for her period to make a miraculous return. A modern tale that captures the fever dream of a first voyage to the moon.
La mer entre nous
Marlene Edoyan
The Sea Between Us transports us to the city of Beirut in Lebanon, 25 years after the end of a bloody civil war and into the lives of two strong and charismatic women, Hayat & Wafaa. With children of their own, they must now face the challenging task of passing on the civil war’s violent legacy onto a new generation. The film puts a human face on the impact of sectarian division, nationalism and intolerance and shows that hope for peaceful coexistence is cross cultural, universal and part of the human experience. Through the intimate stories and memories of these two protagonists of different backgrounds, we understand why Beirut’s neighbourhoods still feel walled in by invisible boundaries and why achieving forgiveness and reconciliation is so complex in a country that is still broken over religious and political ideology.
Figure d’Armen
Marlene Edoyan
Drawn to the idea of reconnecting with her ancestral homeland, the filmmaker, Marlene Edoyan embarks on a road trip across the countryside and villages of Armenia and the two Armenian-populated territories of neighbouring Republics of Georgia and Nagorno-Karabakh. These regions play a decisive role in the social, economic and political life of Armenia. Through songs, stories, poems and chance encounters with villagers, the author learns how Armenians living in the South Caucasus are coping with the advent of independence and “democracy”, two decades after the breakup of the USSR. The effects of a devastating earthquake in 1988, followed by a bloody war with Azerbaijan have made the country very fragile. Each story and experience is unique. As we move through the various territories the issues of border tensions, language, ethnicity and cultural heritage become prevalent. Each community has a battle to fight. The recurrent theme throughout the film however remains the same: the challenge of residing and making a living in one’s homeland. While some are hopeful and proud, others are discouraged and bleak about the prospects of a better…
Une eau la nuit
Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin
Bodies Of Water invites you to hold your breath and let yourself be transported and transformed by water in the company of curious individuals. As night falls, they invade a public swimming pool. These bodies of water, immersed in the watery mass, transgress the limits of their natural environment and metamorphose. They then engage in a contemporary dance that reveals them differently. The aquatic environment makes them supple and light, but also vulnerable and combative. This poetic mass, encompassing and suffocating, unites, separates and constitutes them.
À bras-le-corps
Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin
In a street pulsating with the echoes of protests, À bras-le-corps (Going on Strike) tells the story of the birth of an uprising. As chaos gradually takes hold, the mass of protesters generates a vibrant sense of solidarity, merging into a unified body and transforming into a space of emancipation. Through a choreographic score, the film explores the political nature of inhabiting our bodies and spaces, connecting our present struggles to those of the past and the future.
Mes États*nordiques
Marie-Claude Fournier
Every morning for the past two years, Marie-Christine has welcomed her eleven Inuit pupils into her small classroom in Kangirsuk, Nunavik. Marie-Christine is a Qallunaat (or non-Inuit) who has come to teach in the Far North. This week, however, is different: she’s leaving the North for good. Like the majority of teachers who pass through this territory, she returns to the South after two years. Filmed at the dawn of massive exploitation of the territory’s natural resources, the webdocumentary Mes États*nordiques (My Nordic*States) takes us into this changing world through the eyes of the teacher and a few village Inuit.
La médiation culturelle – Créer ensemble
Marie-Claude Fournier
Four 30-minute programs document projects grouped around four themes: Art, education and citizenship; Art and health; Art and work; Art and sustainable change. These include initiatives by choreographer Pierre-Paul Savoie with elementary school children and photographer Caroline Hayeur at a Montreal chamber of commerce, the École nationale d’apprentissage de la marionnette in Saguenay to break the isolation of people with mental health problems, and the Musée de la civilisation in Quebec City for projects with seniors. Culture pour tous, the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canal Savoir and Télé-Québec have joined forces to produce this series of 4 television programs devoted to cultural mediation, an ideal field of action for building bridges between art, culture and society.
La portera
Marie-Claude Fournier
“If I have to clean the stairs, I won’t come back. And that’s what happened… I clean the stairs but I’ve never been back to Monzon.” Palmira is one of Barcelona’s last Porteras. For the past 28 years, she has been plying her trade in a chic building in the Eixample district. In her life, of course, there’s routine, the same gestures, the same jokes, the passage of time, loneliness, but never bitterness. Soon she’ll be out of there like a hermit crab, leaving her old shell behind, with all its dust, to realize her dreams, however simple they may be.