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Manicouagan
Nadine Beaudet
A driven but intimate work, this film recounts the history of Manicouagan (North Shore, Quebec) a legendary territory shaped by the impact of an asteroid 215 million years ago. From the St. Lawrence River to north of the 51st parallel, the legendary Route 389 brings us to the heart of this meteor crater to meet some extraordinary individuals (astrophysicists, geologists, truck-stop manager, hikers). Digging deep into their memories, the Innu of Pessamit tell of the dispossession of their ancestral lands, which were flooded by the construction of the big hydro dams, leading to the disorientation of the young people from their community. After choosing to live in the boreal forest at the feet of the Uapishka Mountains, a guide and a pioneer of northern expeditions reveal their powerful connection with nature. In this non-linear narrative with many faces, the land speaks out and questions the traces we humans leave behind us.
Tous Toqués!
Manon Briand
In a remote village somewhere on the border between Quebec and the United States, the unyielding customs officer Sonia confiscates the contents of the car belonging to Victor, a French chef living in New York and in need of recognition. She soon regrets it when her daughter, Lili-Beth, decides to take part in a Petits Chefs competition, in which she seems to have little chance of winning. The intractable Sonia then decides to try everything in her power to enlist the help of the charming but exasperating Victor. This more-than-improbable encounter will bring the whole village together to get past their differences and get a taste of what’s essential.
Deux femmes en or
Chloé Robichaud
Violette and Florence no longer understand what’s happening to them. Respectively on maternity leave and on sick leave, one is on edge, the other feels nothing. Both neighbors feel like failures: despite their careers and families, they’re not happy. Florence’s first infidelity is a revelation. What if happiness meant rebelling against our rigid performance society? In a context where having fun is far down on the list of priorities, sleeping with a delivery boy could be downright revolutionary. For Violette and Florence, it’s the breath of fresh air they’ve been hoping for.
La coop de ma mère
Ève Lamont
Ma mère Rachel et ses 40 voisins sont partie prenante d’une communauté hétéroclite et tentent de vivre la coopération malgré les défis de la gestion collective. Tous ces gens forment un bouillon interculturel et intergénérationnel, une micro-société qui appelle à un meilleur vivre-ensemble.
La dissolution du paysage
Anne-Marie Bouchard
Through visual metaphors, the film offers an incursion into an inner landscape, a dive into subconscious, a mix of childhood memories and recurrent dreams, between surrealism and automatism. A film of chemical manipulation and direct intervention on film, set to original improvised music by Lyne Goulet, Martien Bélanger and Fred Lebrasseur. The improvisations on film fed the music, which in turn fed the editing and new animations.
Les perdants
Jenny Cartwright
A Losing Game follows three people who ran for office in Quebec’s October 2022 provincial election. The one thing they had in common? They were all sure to lose. Through their individual campaigns, the film peels back the curtain on our electoral system and the many ways in which it is dysfunctional: the additional barriers faced by women and radicalized people, deficiencies in the voting process, unfair campaign financing rules and the undue weight given to media and polls. In this documentary, Jenny Cartwright casts a critical eye on a political system that doesn’t offer everyone the same opportunities. For most, the race is over before it even begins. But, thanks to the way the electoral system is set up, the big losers are the rest of us.
The Relay: Beyond the Last Name
Kimberley Ann Surin
25 years ago, in front of 85,000 stunned spectators, four Canadian sprinters achieved what was described as impossible: winning the Olympic gold medal in the 4×100 relay event defeating the American team and world leaders on their home soil. On August 3rd, 1996, four Black men from three different Caribbean Islands ran together and marked a monumental event by becoming the face of the sport of sprinting in Canada forever. As a previous professional athlete and the daughter of sprinter Bruny Surin, Kimberley Surin embarks on a personal journey to understand that historic race on its 25th medal anniversary by uncovering the tensions and barriers that almost prevented it from ever happening. The Relay: Beyond the Last Name documentary is her quest for answers.
The Relay: Revisiting History
Kimberley Ann Surin
Absolutely Canadian is a national one-hour series showcasing documentaries and performance programs that tell unique stories from communities across Canada. All programs are produced locally. S21E32 – The Relay – Revisiting History: On August 3rd, 1996, 4 Canadian sprinters made Canadian history by bringing home the Olympic gold in the 4×100 relay event in front of 85,000 Atlanta spectators.
The Relay: Behind the Medal
Kimberley Ann Surin
Resilience, suffering, hard work, success… CBC Sports presents the athlete from the inside, with his strengths, his doubts, his achievements and his humanity. The Relay: Behind the Medal: Atlanta, 1996. 25 years ago, in front of a stunned crowd of 85,000 spectators, four Canadian sprinters achieved what seemed impossible: winning gold in the 4 x 100 m relay at the Olympic Games ahead of the world leaders, the Americans, on home soil.
Envers et contre tout
Kimberley Ann Surin
Against All Odds – a battle against society’s deep-rooted mentality, against all expectations, and against being opposed to the majority. Against All Odds represents struggles, roadblocks, racism and all the difficulties that come with being a minority. Although success is always very uncertain, one athlete has overcome these challenges on the ice against all odds. Films made by Montreal filmmakers as part of the Fabienne Colas Foundation’s Being Black in Canada program.
Nourrir les rêves
Aïcha Morin-Baldé
Kimberley Ann Surin
Hot Docs presents Citizen Minutes, a short doc collection highlighting ordinary Canadians doing extraordinary things to make their communities better places. Meet bold and unlikely changemakers who inspire us to jump in and get involved in civic issues close to our homes and hearts. S1E2 – Feeding Dreams: Meeting with Paul Evra, the young director general of the Center Lasallien Saint-Michel, whose mission is to help feed many families in need in the Saint-Michel district of Montreal.
Basket
Eva Kabuya
Jemima and Jacob, at opposite ends of the spectrum on almost every subject, are nevertheless close-knit and united by their passion for basketball. In their early teens, they have to deal with numerous bodily changes and heightened emotions, without losing sight of their ambitions.
Amours d’occasion
Eva Kabuya
As a blistering heatwave descends on Montreal, plunging the city into a general torpor, the residents of the Saint-Henri neighborhood are plagued by events that reason cannot explain.
Black Life: Untold Stories – Migrations S1E4
Nadia Louis-Desmarchais
Black Life: Untold Stories is an eight-part documentary series that reframes the rich and complex histories of Black experiences in Canada, dispelling commonly accepted myths and celebrating the many, and often unrecognized, contributions of Black Canadians who helped to shape the country. Spanning more than 400 years fraught with violence, racism, perseverance, and triumph, the series unveils a nuanced and unvarnished view of the lives of Black Canadians. The horrors of slavery and segregation are explored alongside illustrations of resistance, as well as the wonders and rewards of community, creativity, and resilience. Black Life: Untold Stories employs intimate verité, expert testimonies, evocative recreations, rarely seen archival materials, and visually inspired storytelling to contextualize histories of Black Canadians for contemporary audiences, enabling an appreciation of the complexities of Canada’s past. S1E4 – Migrations: Black migrants share intimate and personal stories of trying to create a home in Canada. Told through a series of powerful cinematic verité, vignettes, expert analysis, and engrossing archival footage, Migrations paints an intimate and poignant portrait of Black migration to Canada. This episode examines the arrival of…
Rated X
Nadia Louis-Desmarchais
Rated X is a short documentary about the pornographic industry. Giving a voice to the women who work there as actresses, Rated X offers a positive, feminist incursion into this little-known milieu.
Raconte-moi mon corps
Nadia Louis-Desmarchais
This is a short documentary on Naila Rabel and her relationship with her body. She grew up having to navigate the stigma that fat people experience in our society.
Le monde est à elles
Nadia Louis-Desmarchais
At a time when one in two young people suffer from symptoms of anxiety and depression, Le Monde est à elles is a film that gives six young Montreal teenagers the opportunity to leave their urban environment, for the first time, to take part in a wilderness canoe-camping expedition. By presenting their difficulties and small victories, the film embraces their vulnerability in a poetic and luminous way, underlining the power of female sisterhood and therapeutic intervention through nature.
Hôtel Beyrouth
Josiane Blanc
In the late 80s, after fleeing the war in Lebanon, Zeina and Fady’s family settled in Ottawa. The family home soon became the place to be for exiled Lebanese seeking temporary refuge. Zeina, 14, and Fady, 9, moved to Canada with their parents in 1989, having fled the war that had raged in Lebanon for over a decade. As the family struggles to adapt to their new home, their residence quickly becomes a place of transition for Lebanese immigrants. Fady, overjoyed to finally have his own room, is forced to leave it every time a new guest shows up, which doesn’t sit well with the young boy, and even less with his older sister, who is trying to fit in at school, one lie at a time. Zeina and Fady not only find their home invaded by all these newcomers, but also have to juggle culture shock, adaptation and a new school environment, as well as the psychological trauma that the war will have caused them. Hotel Beirut tells the story of the Haddad family with humor: a story of…
780 Pieds carrés
Audreyanne Fauchon
Following a break-up, Nicolas and Rosalie empty their apartment. As they decide who gets the furniture, they recall the beginnings of their relationship and the evolution of their love, right up to the evening when everything turned upside down.
Okurimono
Laurence Lévesque
Noriko Oi, a Japanese-Canadian woman who has been living in Montreal for more than 20 years, is about to return to Nagasaki, her hometown. She has to go back to help her brothers and sisters clear out their childhood home, which will soon be sold. Within the walls of this old house lie the fragments of the Oi family’s history. What remains of memories when families’ secrets are locked away and end up casting a shadow over the collective recollections? Noriko decides to reconstruct the past of her mother Mitsuko, a survivor of the atomic bomb, in the hope of passing down her cultural heritage to her children and healing the dark reminiscences of the tragic past. But her quest promises to be arduous. Mitsuko, who passed away 30 years ago, has never shared her story. Through her findings, Noriko meets various allies who will help her uncover her mother’s past and unveil unknown details about this era of her native Japan.
Port d’attache
Laurence Lévesque
Samuel has been fishing on Clement’s boat for about ten years now. Samuel’s dream is to become a captain; Clement is more than ready to retire. The two fishermen agree on the terms of the boat’s sale. And yet, the road to the handover is a tortuous one.
Drap contour
Laurence Lévesque
Thomas crashes her daughter Clara’s dinner party. As the evening ends, Thomas and Clara find themselves alone, forced to deal with their complex relationship.
Perséides
Laurence Lévesque
Julie knows that she will lose her sight. She doesn’t know when it will happen, but it is imminent. Supported by her great friend Marina, she confronts the destabilizing journey towards darkness.
CTMA – Histoire d’un succès coopératif
Céline Lafrance
Thanks to archival documents and touching testimonials from some 30 people, this documentary directed by Sylvio Bénard and Céline Lafrance will plunge you into the fascinating history of these builders who saw great things for the Islands. From yesterday to today, discover the passion and passion of the people behind the cooperative’s growth over the years. A film that will take you on a voyage through a marine and human universe!