Other films on this theme
Lola & Claire
Elisabeth Desbiens
Lola & Claire raconte l’histoire d’un amour inconditionnel entre Claire, une jeune femme au corps complètement paralysé et Lola, sa petite soeur. L’une vit dans l’immobilité et l’autre dans la mobilité. Aujourd’hui, c’est l’anniversaire de Lola et elle réalise que les jours de Claire sont comptés. Elle fera alors ce qu’il faut pour la libérer.
La mallette noire
Caroline Monnet
Une fillette de huit ans et son jeune cousin endurent une expérience traumatisante lors de leur séjour au pensionnat pour enfants autochtones au Canada. Une nuit dans l’infirmerie d’un pensionnat pour enfants autochtones. Une fillette, un bébé qui hurle. Et les visites menaçantes de l’infirmière de garde et du médecin. Entre réalisme et cauchemar, une expérience traumatisante lors de leur séjour en quarantaine.
War Child
Caroline Monnet
On a solitary portage between the barren wilderness and a desolate city, a young man reflects on his troubled past and hopeful future. Honest, thoughtful and personal narration illuminates a survivorâs state of mind that seeks serenity, while a background drumbeat accelerates the pace of this starkly resilient, black and white cinematic portrait.
CREATURA DADA
Caroline Monnet
Six puissantes femmes autochtones se réunissent pour célébrer un nouveau départ et la fin du monde tel que nous le connaissons. CREATURA DADA est une Carte Blanche (court métrage) réalisée par Caroline Monnet, dans le cadre du 45e Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal en 2016.
Mobilize
Caroline Monnet
Guided expertly by those who live on the land and driven by the pulse of the natural world, Caroline Monnet’s Mobilize takes us on an exhilarating journey from the far north to the urban south. Over every landscape, in all conditions, everyday life flows with strength, skill and extreme competence.
Summer of ’84
Anouk Whissell
Summer, 1984: The perfect time to be 15 years old and free. But when neighborhood conspiracy theorist Davey Armstrong (Graham Verchere) begins to suspect his police officer neighbor (Rich Sommer) might be the serial killer all over the local news, he and his three best friends begin an investigation that soon turns dangerous.
TURBO KID
Anouk Whissell
In a post-apocalyptic future, The Kid, a young solitary scavenger obsessed with comic books, meets a mysterious girl named Apple. But when Zeus, the sadistic and self-proclaimed leader of the Wasteland kidnaps Apple, The Kid must embark on a life-threatening journey to rid the land of evil and save the girl of his dreams, armed with little more than blind faith and an ancient turbocharged weapon.
L’inventaire des biens meubles de Monsieur Lambert
Lucie Lambert
Que fait-on des objets laissés par les gens qu’on aime après leur mort? C’est la question que je me suis posée, suite au décès de mon père. J’ai cherché la réponse en fouillant ses journaux, ses dessins, ses photos; en interrogeant des amis et en lisant des auteurs qui m’inspirent. Je n’ai pas trouvé de réponse définitive mais j’ai fait ce que je devais faire avec les objets de mon père : un film. C’est à une promenade ludique dans les lieux de mon père que je convie les spectateurs. L’envie de prolonger son geste en y ajoutant le mien est devenu en cours de route le motif principal de ce court métrage, mélangeant animation et tournage réel, légèreté et questions existentielles.
Papillon cerise
Sylvie Laliberté
In my bathtub, I ask myself questions about how bridges hold up, what love holds up… and then the characteristic of the man and the woman is not to know everything.
The Sea Hut – 海边的小屋
Jeanne Pope
The Sea Hut – 海边的小屋 is a hybrid documentary, a story within a story. A story of uprooted people, identity, love, loss, and memories. The story wavers between my mother’s childhood memories in Shanghai in 1935, with her beloved Chinese nanny, ‘Ama,’ the Sino-Japanese War, in China, and World War II in England, and a fishing village in contemporary China, where a small seaside hut becomes a catalyst and a “veil” between two worlds and two times: Europe and China, past and present. It is also my own journey, China being a link between me and my mother; Ama and my mother.
Baghe Hezar Dokhtaroon (The Garden of a Thousand Girls)
Leila Khalilzadeh
Grandma and her granddaughter live happily together in a small house. One day the little girl, bewitched by a blue light, goes down the well in their kitchen and gets lost. Grandma searches everywhere to find her. She even sends a crow after her. But there is no sign of her. Then a frog comes along. The frog non verbally conveys that they should go into the well to find the girl. So begins their journey to the land of black ghouls and white ones.
Yek Nafar Mibafad (Someone Is Weaving)
Leila Khalilzadeh
In the village of Nashalj in Iran, Gohar Andalib recounts her life: childhood, poverty, youth, love failure, marriage, and her husband’s death. She devoted her entire life to making Giveh (Iranian traditional shoes). She feels happy because she is weaving.
Meel va Namad (Meels & Felt)
Leila Khalilzadeh
Akbar Pir Ahmadi is one of the few master craftsmen who make felt in Shiraz, Iran. He begins his routine working day early in the morning. Many people visit him during the day: A friend for help, two customers for buying felt, and his little girl who has her lunch with her father – In the evening, he goes to the Zurkhaneh (Iran traditional gymnasium) to practice Pahlevani rituals.
Nazdik be Marg (Near to Death)
Leila Khalilzadeh
There are reports of people dying as a result of accidents, concussion, heart attack, etc. and coming back to life after a while. This phenomenon is called the Near Death Experience. This documentary reports the words of eight women and men who have undergone NDE and reflect their observations of a spiritual world by means of animation.
Mahiye sorkh shodeh (The Fried Fish)
Leila Khalilzadeh
Fish yearns to see the sea once again. He asks a cat, a mouse, a dog, and a crow for help, one after another. They each eat a part of his flesh and carry him some distance down the path to the sea. But after a while, one by one, they put him down and leave. In the end, some ants throw the fish’s skeleton into the sea. The fish happily swims away in the deep blue sea.
A Model Employee
Leila Khalilzadeh
To keep her day job at a local restaurant, an aspiring DJ has to wear a tracking wristband. As it tracks her life outside of work, she tries to fool the system, but a new device upgrade means trouble.
Chef de meute
Chloé Robichaud
Clara’s overwhelming family can’t understand her solitary life, wishing she would find someone to grow old with. Following her aunt’s sudden death, Clara is put in charge of her pet. Little does she know that these are the first steps to an unlikely, but empowering, friendship.
Still Untitled
Geneviève Sauvé
Lying down on her bed, she receives a text message from a man she likes.He asks for a picture of her. Dissatisfied with the clichés she took, she starts a game where she takes herself for the famous Cindy Sherman, in four photographs from her Untitled Film Stills serie.
Her
Geneviève Sauvé
After trying to figure out who her husband’s mistress is, Sophia falls in love with fer.
Jeune Juliette
Anne Émond
Fourteen-year old Juliette lives in the country with her father and her older brother. When Juliette was younger, her mother left the family to pursue her career in New York; from that moment, Juliette started to gain weight. Today, she’s not obese, but she’s clearly the heaviest girl at her high school. But that doesn’t stop her from being vivacious, funny and unrepentantly rebellious. Juliette has big dreams: she wants to throw the best parties, move to New York to live with her mother, and date the most gorgeous guy in her school, an older boy who is about to graduate. In short, she wants everything she can’t have—which sometimes makes her forget to appreciate those who really love her. We follow this brazen and endearing girl during her hectic last few weeks before summer vacation, and watch as she does some growing up—but not too much.
Apapacho – Une caresse pour l’âme
Marquise Lepage
Durant un voyage au Mexique, Karine et Estelle, dont leur sœur adorée vient de mourir, sont témoins des préparatifs de la Fête des morts dans un village où cet événement est célébré avec de réjouissantes activités. La beauté de la fête les inspire. Et la délicatesse et l’humour de leurs hôtes, devenus guides spirituels pour l’occasion, leur permettront d’observer la mort de leur sœur avec plus de légèreté.
Ziva Postec – La monteuse derrière le film Shoah
Catherine Hébert
A little-known name linked to a film that was to profoundly shake up our notion of history. Ziva Postec devoted nearly six years of her life to editing Shoah: the epic opus by Claude Lanzmann that would shed harrowing new light on the extermination of the Jews during the Second World War. Delving into her memories, the editing room virtuoso—a survivor in her own way—tells her story for the first time, going behind the scenes of the monumental undertaking to bring previously unseen footage to the screen. Performing her task with a devotion bordering on obsession, Postec reveals herself as a humble heroine, one whose unwavering commitment and luminous intelligence contrast sharply with some of humanity’s darkest hours.
Des lumières dans la grande noirceur
Sophie Bissonnette
Through the eyes of a Quebec Jewish activist, Lea Roback, feminist, unionist, pacifist and communist, A VISION IN THE DARKNESS proposes a modernist vision of Quebec history, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the period knows as « La Grande Noirceur », the Great Darkness.
L’Académie
Aude Leroux-Lévesque
In the remote and French-speaking former mining town of Thetford Mines, Quebec, a basketball academy is defying all odds by winning tournaments and producing NBA prospects. The academy, founded by Congolese coach Igor Rwigema, is made up of fifty boys ranging from 13 to 20 years old hailing from Montreal, France and French Guiana. While some dream of making it to the NBA like Chris Boucher, Montrealer and former academy member, all have to follow Igor’s strict routine, as he believes the academy’s mission is to teach life lessons before basketball skills.