Other films on this theme
Ballad to Cornwallis
Diane Beaudry
This short documentary offers a satirical history of Halifax, written and sung in honour of the city’s founder by balladeer James Bennet. Clad in period costumes, Bennet travels through time against a background of old photographs and paintings, archival and contemporary film footage, until he ultimately finds himself in the midst of the city’s present-day building boom.
Demain, la cinquantaine
Hélène Roy
Michèle is experiencing the emotions and upheavals inherent in the changes taking place within her during menopause. With a fresh, inward-looking perspective, she tries to come to terms with this little-known period in a woman’s life. Through her experiences as a working mother-wife “in the process of retraining”, she aspires to take charge of her own well-being. Her appropriation of the present is a guarantee for the next 30 years…
Une chambre à soi, une maison bien à nous
Hélène Roy
Documentary on women’s self-managed community centers.
Une nef… Et ses sorcières
Hélène Roy
Une nef et ses sorcières: monologue de l’ouvrière et monologue de luce, comédienne. For a year, thirteen authors and actresses worked together to stage La nef des sorcières (The Witches’ Nave), performed at the Théâtre du Nouveau-Monde in 1976. In addition to excerpts from these six monologues on the situations and contradictions experienced by the women, the video features comments from the participants in this adventure.
Souris, tu m’inquiètes
Aimée Danis
Family happiness often hinges on an unsuspected tragedy: the loss of identity of a woman who now lives only in relation to her husband and children. Faced with this “nameless malaise”, Francine, a seemingly fulfilled young woman, is forced to leave her family for a while, in an attempt to find out who she is. The film, which consists of a dramatized part to which witness sequences add the density of lived experience, sheds light on everyday existence as seen by Quebec women.
Bandes-hommages 100 ans de cinéma
Hélène Girard
For the 100th anniversary of cinema, a tribute to its creators, artists and craftsmen with this evocation of over 300 extracts from Quebec films.
Fuir
Hélène Girard
Two approaches, one fictional, the other documentary, allow us to feel the moments of intense distress that precede suicide. The film tries to make us understand suicide as a cry for help.
La p’tite violence
Hélène Girard
Through encounters with workers from a wide range of trades and professions, this film goes beyond statistics and analyses of all kinds to take stock of the role and place of work in human fulfillment. Whether it’s an acquired right, a social necessity or a cause of alienation, how much choice do we really have when it comes to work.
Les filles c’est pas pareil
Hélène Girard
In this documentary, six teenage girls aged 14 to 16 agree to open up, to have their intimate world invaded by the camera. They are confronted with problems they intend to take on “all the way”: early experience of sexuality, belonging to a gang, relations with parents, social tolerance, friendship… They live tenderly and purely in their own way.
Nina
Halima Elkhatabi
At 16 years old, Nina is helpless with regards to her 4-month-old baby Jessie’s incessant crying. Without any escape from the cries and from this new presence is her life, she ventures out from her tiny apartment in a working-class neighbourhood of Montréal for a brief escapade.
La tête contre le mur
Halima Elkhatabi
Their names are Lucia, Sergio, Michaela, Yael or Tamar. They are Israelis. But they also share a common dream: to see an end to the occupation of Palestinian territories by Israeli forces. In front of Halima Elkhatabi’s camera, in the shadow of the West Bank separation wall, these dissident Israelis recount the real and symbolic violence they suffer every day. But they also reveal the collaboration between Israelis and Palestinians, and the determination that drives their unarmed struggle. Filled with hope, Head Against the Wall offers a unique perspective on the situation, far removed from the sensationalist images we are fed. Simply to believe that change is still possible.
Demain peut-être
Halima Elkhatabi
Musings in time and space as the life of a loved one slowly ebbs away. Mourning song for a deceased father. The filmmaker invents the softly inspired words and images of a mourning poem in search of serenity.
Cohabiter
Halima Elkhatabi
In a series of captivating encounters, several young people try to find the ideal roommate, that rare gem with whom they can share their space, and their values. A complex and engaging picture of a generation accustomed to playing all their identity cards, Living Together maps a mosaic of cultures and ideas, with explorations of community, individualism and the right to housing in constant interplay.
Beyond Ceilings – Women In Tech
Maïlis
Through a young girl’s journey, the film portrays the societal constraints that limit women’s ambitions and achievements, unlike men who are often told from an early age that the sky is the limit. “Beyond Ceilings” calls for confronting and challenging the glass ceiling, reminding us of the vast possibilities that await when these barriers are overcome.
Dounia: Le grand pays blanc
Marya Zarif
After Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo, the adventures of Dounia, a little starry-haired girl, continue in her adopted country: Canada. Surrounded by her grandparents and her friend Rosalie, she faces new challenges: the bitter cold of winter and a new, hitherto unknown culture. More than ever, Dounia is convinced that her heartbeat will guide her father’s return…
Born in the Maelstrom
Meryam Joobeur
Born in the Maelstrom is an impressionistic journey of a young biracial woman named Rebecca as she struggles to find her identity in a world shaped by her black mother’s painful past.
Gods, Weeds and Revolutions
Meryam Joobeur
A young woman returns to Tunisia and must come to terms with her grandfather’s illness and the country’s dark past under dictatorship.
Là d’où l’on vient (Me el Ain – ماء العين)
Meryam Joobeur
Aicha lives in the isolated north of Tunisia with her husband and youngest son. The family lives in anguish after the departure of the eldest sons Mehdi and Amine to the violent embrace of war. When Mehdi unexpectedly returns home with a mysterious pregnant wife, a darkness emerges, threatening to consume the entire village. Aicha is caught between her maternal love and her search for the truth.
Sur la terre comme au ciel
Nathalie Saint-Pierre
Two young sisters – Clara and Sarah Gagnon – have always lived in the countryside with their parents, in a Christian community cut off from the world. The day Sarah suddenly disappears, Clara falls apart. Convinced that she knows where her sister is hiding, Clara runs away too, in the hope of bringing her back to “the straight and narrow”. Clara arrives in Montreal at the home of her unknown Aunt Louise, only to discover to her horror that her sister is not there. When her aunt tells her that she’s about to leave on vacation, Clara realizes that she only has ten days to find her sister. As she searches the city, Clara discovers the world, doubt and the price of freedom.
Au milieu de nulle part ailleurs
Annick Blanc
Jade, Piero and their son Timothée go on vacation to Fermont (Québec). Once installed in the strange Electricity Motel, the child begins a series of runaways to the church, where he relishes the apparitions of a sensual Virgin. Things get complicated as the Fermont residents begin to idolize the child. Fearing their son’s madness, the parents decide to flee to Montreal, leaving the Virgin to run out of breath behind the car.
Turn Off Before Living
Annick Blanc
Paul, on a trip to Havana, is experiencing difficulty keeping a smile on his troubled face. He meets Agnela, a young local working girl, whose job it is to please with a practiced smile of her own. No matter, how close they get or how hard they try to soothe their broken souls, their attempts remains vain. They are too busy disconnecting themselves from hidden, unwanted emotions to achieve a true much needed human contact.
La couleur de tes lèvres
Annick Blanc
In an atmosphere grown suddenly impossible to breathe, a diver and a woman appear to be the only survivors. As their reserves of air run out, will they make love or war?
Jour de chasse
Annick Blanc
Nina, a young woman with an unpredictable temperament, is taken in by a band of hunters at a remote cabin. In the midst of this scathing yet endearing male micro-society, she finally feels part of a pack. This fragile balance is upset when a mysterious stranger joins the group. At once raw and dreamlike, Hunting Day offers a singular universe that interweaves mystery, tension, dark humor and a touch of horror.
1+1+1 L’amour, la vie, le chaos
Yanie Dupont-Hébert
Dive into the intimate world of Pat (she hates Patricia), a fiery writer on the brink of forty, plagued by an invasive and unreliable inner voice that constantly pushes her toward self-sabotage. Pat must face herself, forgive, and silence her insecurities if she wants to save her relationship with Jan—the musician she has just rekindled things with, who is struggling with an identity crisis—and repair her now fragile bond with her daughter Flavie, a teenager whose best friend is an imaginary emotional support dog named Jesus. A stay at Pat’s family cabin, in the heart of the harsh Québécois winter, unearths a childhood trauma that might just hold the key to her salvation… Blending drama, comedy, and a touch of magical realism, 1+1+1 Life, Love, Chaos follows characters standing at the threshold of who they were and who they are about to become. Identity, the complexities of family ties, love, and the existential questions Pat and her clan grapple with reflect universal themes that resonate with all.