Other films on this theme
Colours
Amandine Navarro
Surrounded by his group of dancers, Nick Saanto enters a strange museum. Welcomed by two drag queens, they discover a plurality of queer identities: a lesbian, a trans man, a drag child accompanied by drag queens, a gay man, a group of bisexuals. Locked in rooms and visible through windows, they represent specific moments of LGBTQ history. The Museum’s motto: “You can judge ok? But don’t express yourself!”. All kinds of visitors are present to look, discover and question themselves about these people… Through his voice/singing, Nick frees them from the museum and allows the community to celebrate their differences, beyond judgment.
Chill ou crève
Amandine Navarro
Après une soirée où l’alcool et la drogue est consommé à outrance, un groupe de jeunes se prépare à sortir mais l’un d’entre eux est malade. Les autres partent et le laissent seul dans la salle de bain… mais un étranger est entré dans la maison.
Femmes des casernes
Louise Leroux
FireWoman is an immersive, gender and genre bending documentary, which delves into the masculine world of firefighting… as lived by five charismatic firewomen. The film follows the work of these women as they devote themselves to a most untraditional pursuit, and showcase two stages in a firefighter’s trajectory: the challenges of newbies who try to get hired by the Montreal Fire Department and life on the force as full-time squad members. Less than thirty women are part of the Montreal Fire Department, compared to more than 2,300 men. In recent years however, things have started to change, thanks to the ” Les filles ont le feu sacré” program, an initiative intended to make young women aware of the attractions of the rewarding but very demanding job. During their studies, the hopefuls must redouble their efforts in order to be accepted in a field that doesn’t make it easy for them. We see this in the path full of pitfalls for young Justine and Karine, who would like to follow in the footsteps of Mélanie, a firefighter for 10 years at…
Et au pire on se mariera
Léa Pool
Comme l’enfer, l’amour est pavé de bonnes intentions. Et au pire, on se mariera, c’est l’histoire d’Aïcha, de ceux qui l’aiment, de cet amour qui dévore et qui détruit. Seule avec sa mère Isabelle, Aïcha ne pardonne pas à celle-ci d’avoir mis à la porte son beau-père algérien qu’elle adorait. Elle espère toujours qu’il reviendra la chercher. Lorsqu’elle rencontre Baz, un gars qui a le double de son âge, c’est le coup de foudre, le vrai, le fort, celui qui fait mal. Lui ne veut qu’aider cette jeune fille qui semble perdue mais elle désire bien plus de lui et elle est prête à tout pour l’obtenir. Suivre Aïcha, c’est entrer dans un labyrinthe pour s’y perdre autant qu’elle…
Avant la nuit
Nadine Gomez
In conversations with passionate sociologist and political thinker Jean Pichette, the filmmaker views the forced downtime stemming from the current crisis as an opportunity to rethink our modes of existence and our relationship to others, nature, science, the economy, art, politics—in short, everything that makes us human.
Still Feel You With Me
Béatriz Mediavilla
Dance short film recounting a collective dance experience during a workshop led by Béatriz Mediavilla at the Portland Dance Film Festival. Shot in October 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic with 8 dancers from around the world.
Comme une vague
Marie-Julie Dallaire
Big Giant Wave is an ode to music, the invisible abstract and fleeting sequence of sounds that creates in the brain the same reaction as chocolate, sex, or drugs. Conceived as a cinematographic wave, this documentary takes us from Canada to Italy via Sweden, Mexico and the American West Coast to meet fascinating scientists and artists who, from their various backgrounds, illustrate our essential connection with rhythm, music, our planet, the brain, daily lives and our collective humanity.
Habiter le mouvement, un récit en dix chapitres
Béatriz Mediavilla
In 2017, Thierry Thieû Niang, choreographer, toured in eastern Canada with Cinédanse to offer intergenerational workshops to non-dancers. According to movement is a cinematic journey where the thoughtful gesture merges into this great human choreography. Subdivided into 10 chapters, the feature film is a poetic and playful reflection on the beauty of the everyday gestures that define us as living beings. It also presents a portrait of Thierry Thieû Niang through is choreographies. An invitation to live according to movement.
Danse avec elles
Béatriz Mediavilla
At Rouyn-Noranda, north Québec, we find a dance school that has been run by the same person for 45 years. With her unique approach, choregrapher Lynn Vaillancourt teaches singing and different kinds of dancing. The PRELV school does not limit itself to dance teaching. It spreads values that are filled with humanity and dignity to girls aged between four and twenty. Over a one-year period, filmmaker integrated herself into the PRELV activities, and the documentary exposes the school’s distinctiveness and the ties that unite the young dancers together.
Louise Warren poète – Fragments
Anne-Marie Tougas
Louise Warren – Fragments, une résonance entre l’écriture et la matière. Le court métrage plonge le spectateur dans « l’enveloppe invisible » de la poète, au coeur même de la matière par un entrelacement du geste intime de l’écriture, de la collection d’art de la poète et des éléments du sous-bois travaillé de ses mains. Autant de fragments reliés par la poésie.
Entre mon nom et ton film – Hommage à Michel Brault
Geneviève Albert
Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois présentent une série de courts métrages conçus spécialement en hommage à l’un des pères fondateurs du cinéma québécois et du cinéma direct, Michel Brault. Hommage à ses films Les ordres 1974, 109 min, et Entre la mer et l’eau douce 1967, 85 min.
Un printemps d’ailleurs
Xiaodan He
Li Fang, a 35-year-old Chinese immigrant who lives in Montreal with her husband. Their brutal rupture pushes her to a big depression. Li Fang leaves chaos behind to go back to Dazu, a small district in south China. She finds relief alongside the people around her, all the while witnessing their respective problems and quiet efforts.
Le lac des hommes
Marie-Geneviève Chabot
Hoping to reconnect, three brothers embark on a fishing trip with their father, whose absence from their childhood has left them with lasting scars. For Stéphane, Jean-Pierre, Jérôme and Laurent, this is a chance to find some answers, and maybe even to make their peace with the past. On the gently rocking boat, dreams and regrets slip in and tangle up with their fishing lines. The trip is a bittersweet quest to find a lost family ideal. It’s a foray into a masculine world struggling toward reconciliation, where sometimes the most courageous thing to do is break the silence.
Slaxx
Elza Kephart
SLAXX tells the story of a possessed pair of jeans brought to life to punish the unscrupulous practices of a trendy clothing company. Shipped to the company’s flagship store, SLAXX proceeds to wreak carnage on the staff, locked in overnight to set up the new collection. When the body count mounts, the panicked staff disbands and the struggle for survival begins. It is up to idealistic employee Libby to uncover the reason behind SLAXX’s blood thirst before its evil is released into the world.
La face cachée du baklava
Maryanne Zéhil
The uneventful middle-class life of Lebanese sisters Houwayda and Joëlle spirals into turmoil after Houwayda announces that she is accompanying Pierre, her Québecker husband, on a sabbatical year in France. Joëlle will stop at nothing to keep her sister in Montréal, even if it means exploring the sticky side of baklava. With its humorous treatment of the culture clash of immigration, The Sticky Side of Baklava is a heartwarming film that seeks to bring people together by embracing our differences.
En tête de ligne
Joëlle Arseneau
Garance Chagnon-Grégoire
With 40 years of telecommunications in Quebec as its backdrop, Leading The Wave presents André Chagnon’s exciting, groundbreaking journey to becoming the founder of Videotron.
Je me souviens
Naomie Décarie-Daigneault
Exercice inspiré des Je me souviens de Georges Perec. Ou quand ma grand-mère m’échappe et que je tente de la retenir.
Le temps retrouvé – Hommage à Michel Brault
Naomie Décarie-Daigneault
Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois présentent une série de courts métrages conçus spécialement en hommage à l’un des pères fondateurs du cinéma québécois et du cinéma direct, Michel Brault. Hommage à son film Le temps perdu, 1964, 27 min.
Je vous regarde de ma fenêtre
Naomie Décarie-Daigneault
Le récit de la rencontre entre papa et maman. Cartierville, théâtre des premiers amours.
Souterrains
Naomie Décarie-Daigneault
Une exploration de l’univers de Diane Obomsawin, à la fois cinéaste d’animation, illustratrice, auteure de bandes dessinées… et rêveuse en eaux profondes.
Opération Survie
Erica Pomerance
Obstetrical fistula is a severe gynecological condition widespread among rural women in sub-Saharan Africa. Millions give birth far from a clinic. After undergoing excision and/or early marriage, they may suffer prolonged, obstructed labour and a stillborn child. Fistula renders thousands of women incontinent, social pariahs rejected by their partners and community. Dr. Danielle Perrault, general practitioner and globetrotter from Québec, travels to Mali to inquire.
Sous la peur
Lise Bonenfant
Qu’est-ce qui se cache sous la peur des hommes qui ont développé des comportements violents? Voilà la question que Lise Bonenfant s’est posée tout au long de la réalisation de ce documentaire. Sous la peur répond à cette question. D’abord par les personnes porteuses qui témoignent dans ce documentaire et puis, bien malgré elle, par sa parole. En effet, à son insu, une voix s’est imposée. Persistante. Cette voix, c’est la sienne. Elle y résiste, elle ne veut pas se dévoiler, elle ne veut pas montrer sa souffrance, et finalement elle prend la parole. Un guide d’animation accompagne la vidéo.
Mon oncle Patof
Sandrine Béchade
PATOF the clown left his mark on a generation of young Quebecers in the 1970s, but his dazzling success is as enigmatic as the man who incarnated the character: Jacques Desrosiers. His nephew, Serge Desrosiers, retraces the career of the man who was not only his millionaire uncle, but above all the famous PATOF.