Other films on this theme
Calutron
Monica Emond
Calutron is an experimental short film about humanimality of nuclear guinea pigs in the US Army. Archival film. Music composed by Cœur Atomique.
Nos désastres
Monica Emond
Nos désastres is a video poem directed, written, and narrated by nixe – Monica Emond. With the collaboration of Nadia Koromyslova, Hugo Samson et Jean-Yves Thériault. Music composed by Cœur Atomique.
Failsafe
Monica Emond
Failsafe is a short film about the experimental aspects of the nuclear industry. Original footage and archive. Music composed by Cœur Atomique.
1er mai
Monica Emond
1er mai is an experimental short film about the “May Day” March on Kyiv (Ukraine) in 1986, while the nuclear catastrophe at the nearby Chernobyl power station is ongoing. Archive film. Music composed by Cœur Atomique.
Au nord d’Albany
Marianne Farley
Annie hastily leaves Montreal with her two children in the direction of the USA. An obvious tension exists between the mother and her young teenager, Sarah. Since the latter revealed that she had seriously injured the young girl who was harassing her, Annie makes the reckless decision to flee the possible repercussions. After their car breaks down near a tiny village in the Adirondacks, the little family is stuck there waiting for the repair to be done until the following week. Much to Annie’s chagrin, Paul, a single father and the only mechanic in town, has no intention of working over the weekend. But Annie’s stubbornness in wanting to leave at all costs will end up creating between her and Paul, a duality as corrosive as it is unexpected. Will this one drop the masks to eventually reveal to us the true intentions of these two fleeing souls?
Une manière de vivre
Micheline Lanctôt
Colette perd son mari dans des circonstances tragiques et se reproche de ne pas avoir été à ses côtés. Sa fille Gabrielle, boulimique, travaille comme escorte de luxe et mène une existence houleuse et sans objet. Joseph, spécialiste de Spinoza, enseigne la philosophie dans une université de Belgique et vient à Montréal participer à une rencontre de philosophes. Ces trois personnages vont entrer en collision et leurs vies en seront changées à jamais.
Gulîstan, terre de roses
Zaynê Akyol
This documentary travels deep into the mountains and deserts of Kurdistan, where armed female guerillas from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) defend Kurdish territory against ISIS. These women share their most intimate thoughts with filmmaker Zaynê Akyol, resulting in an immersive audience experience. By offering a window into this largely unknown world, the film exposes the hidden feminist face of a revolutionary group united by a common vision of freedom.
Charmante
Justine Prince
Living alone with her pet vacuum cleaner in a depressing elderly center, Lisette hopes to find love online, but ends up becoming friends with Jules, a young janitor.
La mort d’Elvis
Justine Prince
Having lost yet another Elvis Presley’s imitation contest, Steve and his father decide to steal the winner’s costume.
Reste
Ginger Le Pêcheur
On a summer morning, boredom meets the unwelcoming apartment where 6-year-old Chichou is playing by herself. In the remnants of violence, Reste brings to light what can be the daily life of a child with candor and bitterness.
Noeuds
Aïcha Morin-Baldé
Part of Being Black in Canada, Knots explores the complexities of black women’s relationship with their natural hair and the stigmas surrounding it.
De papier et de plomb
Sandrine Corbeil
De papier et de plomb (Paper and lead) recomposes the passion of a young boxing poet who leads a fight in poetry and the printed arts, one cartridge book at a time.
La ville d’un rêve
Annabel Loyola
Montreal was born from a dream, carried by those who believed in the possibility of creating a better world in New France. Who were these people? What ideal were they pursuing and why? The answers can be found in a 17th century manuscript, which undoubtedly contains the hidden memoirs of Jeanne Mance. With a unique and personal angle, the filmmaker revisits this story where the past resonates with an ever-present desire to create a world closer to humanistic values.
L’autre rive
Gaëlle Graton
Newly employed in an emergency shelter for people experiencing homelessness, Genevieve is shocked to meet again with Camille, a young woman whom she believed to have successfully reinserted while being her social worker. *Shot in a real emergency shelter for homeless people in Montreal, QC, Canada.
Plus jamais silencieuses
Caroline Pierret Pirson
Plus jamais silencieuses (Never Silent Again) is a documentary whose subject is centered on the liberation of speech and listening. This project was born thanks to social media Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and by the #metoo movement. Powerful weapons against the culture of silence, these media reveal voices that have remained mute or stifled for a long time, which express an impressive amount of anger and desires. In this wake, never again silent participates in the emancipation of the words and faces of 19 Montrealers aged 26 to 74, from 10 countries.
Emptying the Tank
Caroline Monnet
A striking portrait of Chippewa female mixed martial artist Ashley Nichols, and a celebration of the athlete’s inner strength, fortitude, and dedication to her physical and spiritual health.
Ikwé (Femme)
Caroline Monnet
An experimental film that weaves the intimate thoughts of one woman (Ikwé) with the teachings of her grandmother, the Moon, creating a surreal narrative experience that communicates the power of thought and personal reflection.
La déesse des mouches à feu
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
Le jour de ses 16 ans, Catherine reçoit un discman jaune, le livre Moi, Christiane F… et le droit d’aller au centre d’achats. C’est aussi le jour où son père fonce par exprès dans un mur avec le jeep de sa mère. Catherine traverse l’adolescence en même temps que ses parents amorcent un processus de divorce. Elle s’en fout. Elle est trop occupée à gérer Mélanie Belley qui la terrorise pour absolument rien. C’est en lui volant son chum Pascal que Catherine monte l’échelle sociale de la polyvalente. Catherine a hâte de tout connaitre. L’exploration ne sera pas douce ni romantique. De Pascal à Keven, d’une dérape à l’autre, elle vieillit dans le chaos violent et spectaculaire de l’adolescence grunge des années 90.
Passage
Sarah Baril Gaudet
Passage paints a poetic portrait of 18-year-olds Gabrielle and Yoan’s summer, on the eve of their inevitable departure from remote area of Témiscamingue.
Bootlegger
Caroline Monnet
Today. Northern Quebec at the beginning of winter. Mani, an ambitious lawyer in her 20s, returns to her remote Indigenous community and realizes that many outdated paternalistic laws are still in force. In hopes of emancipating her people, she proposes a radical referendum to end the prohibition of alcohol. This is catastrophic for Laura, a 45-year-old bootlegger who has been smuggling illegal alcohol onto the reserve for years. Mani’s and Laura’s opposing forces quickly divide the community into two clans who must come face to face to determine the best path to independence.
Istanbul Echoes
Giulia Frati
They sell everything – cloth, food, curtains – in the streets of Istanbul, and some of them have been at it for more than 50 years. But their way of life is about to change. With their city quickly gentrifying, the authorities want to create a “modern and clean” environment. In just five years, working-class neighbourhoods have been demolished, their residents displaced. For these street vendors their entire culture and traditions are threatened. Pacing her film with skilfully used urban ambient sounds, Giulia Frati has followed this evolving situation for nearly a decade.
Madeleine Parent, tisserande de solidarités
Sophie Bissonnette
Une biographie de Madeleine Parent qui retrace, avec elle, sa vie de militante, notamment à travers les luttes syndicales qu’elle a menées dans les années 1940 dans l’industrie du textile ainsi que sa confrontation légendaire avec le premier ministre du Québec, Maurice Duplessis. Figure historique marquante au Québec et au Canada, Madeleine Parent est une femme d’extraordinaires conviction et détermination, ainsi qu’une fine stratège, qui a mobilisé les ouvrières au bas de l’échelle sur plusieurs décennies. Acclamée par les uns, honnie par les autres, cette visionnaire syndicaliste et féministe a été à l’avant-garde de tous les combats tant pour soutenir les femmes autochtones et les femmes immigrées que pour dénoncer les injustices liées à la mondialisation.
Damascus Dreams
Émilie Serri
A reinvented initiatory story, Damascus Dreams recounts the quest of Émilie, a filmmaker in search of an inaccessible country of origin. By intertwining the memory of her father, that of Syrian refugees and her own imagination, Émilie composes a country that lies somewhere between myth and reality, dream and nightmare, past and present.
À l’ami lointain vieillissant
Sandrine Corbeil
All in pointillist touches, discussion between a grandfather who comes undone and a granddaughter who holds him back thanks to the microphone. How is memory constructed?