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Culture Choc – Musique du monde
Nathalie Ducharme
Une des manières les plus originales et les plus stimulantes de découvrir la diversité culturelle du Canada en accompagnant des jeunes vidéo-reporters et journalistes bilingues à l’affut de sujets à la fois révélateurs et surprenants. Ceux-ci rapportent leurs découvertes sur des modes de vie et des valeurs constituant le vrai sens de la diversité culturelle au Canada.
Culture Choc – Les furries
Nathalie Ducharme
Une des manières les plus originales et les plus stimulantes de découvrir la diversité culturelle du Canada en accompagnant des jeunes vidéo-reporters et journalistes bilingues à l’affut de sujets à la fois révélateurs et surprenants. Ceux-ci rapportent leurs découvertes sur des modes de vie et des valeurs constituant le vrai sens de la diversité culturelle au Canada.
Culture Choc – Le Bhangra à Surrey
Nathalie Ducharme
Une des manières les plus originales et les plus stimulantes de découvrir la diversité culturelle du Canada en accompagnant des jeunes vidéo-reporters et journalistes bilingues à l’affut de sujets à la fois révélateurs et surprenants. Ceux-ci rapportent leurs découvertes sur des modes de vie et des valeurs constituant le vrai sens de la diversité culturelle au Canada.
Culture Choc – Tendance bio
Nathalie Ducharme
Une des manières les plus originales et les plus stimulantes de découvrir la diversité culturelle du Canada en accompagnant des jeunes vidéo-reporters et journalistes bilingues à l’affut de sujets à la fois révélateurs et surprenants. Ceux-ci rapportent leurs découvertes sur des modes de vie et des valeurs constituant le vrai sens de la diversité culturelle au Canada.
Les Aventuriers
Michka Saäl
A journey in and around Montreal that takes us from the detail of an icon painter to the massive feather dress of a Queen of the Night to the alleys at dawn in search of precious throwaways. Where we invent our lives..
New Memories
Michka Saäl
An intimate portrait of Anne J. Gibson, a marginalized woman in her sixties living in Toronto, Canada who makes a living by walking dogs. Her discovery of street photography has allowed her to overcome a legacy of addiction and trauma and see the world through a new lens. As Anne says, “first and foremost, taking pictures is an act of mental health.” The other character in the film is Kensington Market, a bohemian neighbourhood in Toronto. Through her photos, Anne wants to preserve the market’s anarchy before gentrification takes over, and to give thanks to the people who have helped bring her back into the world.
Rien de mon errance – poèmes de Nadine Ltaif
Hejer Charf
Exile through literary figures. The exile, the one who is banished from his hometown, Ovid (Rome), Dante (Florence), Gibran (Lebanon) … We imagine him begging in another city, confiding in his notebooks his lament. An unfinished manuscript, found in the bushes of downtown Montreal. The author dreamed, imagined this poetic tale by making the voice of the narrator interact with the found writings of the beggar.
Les réfugiés du chemin Roxham
Hejer Charf
95 % des migrants qui entrent irrégulièrement au canada prennent le chemin Roxham, un petit chemin forestier entre l’État de New York et le Québec. Présenté à la Foire d’art contemporain, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, octobre 2019. L’oeuvre est représentée par la Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris 6.
Anna Karina au Québec
Hejer Charf
Anna Karina se raconte et chante… à Montréal et à Québec, accompagnée de Philippe Katerine et de Philippe Eveno, lors de leurs concerts en hiver 2004.
Écologie Sonore
Alexandra Guité
Web Documentary on the fascinating world of sound, noise and silence as seen by captivating people in intimate portraits. Rich interactive visual and audio experience of four soundscapes : the city, the countryside, the suburbs and the silence of monastic spaces. From the journey of the blind Nathalie who guides herself mostly with the help of sounds to the mysteries of silence chambers and the racket of snowmobiles, passionate and touching people guide us throughout the complex world of sound.
Les Arts de la Résistance
Alexandra Guité
Argentina’s troubled history, culminating in the major crisis of 2001, has seen the rise of a wave of original artistic and cultural expression. The documentary The Art of Resistance introduces us to several creators and artist collectives who use artistic expression as a means to deliver powerful social statements, explore unbridled creativity, and participate actively in constructing a new reality. The Art of Resistance is an inventive treatment of these artists’ responses to the critical situations they are living. Born in a climate of urgency, their creativity knows no boundaries.
L’île
Alexandra Guité
The descendants of the inhabitants of Bonaventure Island, brutally expropriated in 1971, set on a quest to explore their origins. Stirring encounter with its last survivor, 91 year old Louis Brochet.
Five Billion Years
Joyce Borenstein
This superbly animated science film traces the evolution of North America from the Earth’s geophysical beginnings, through the genesis of the first living organisms, right up to the arrival of humans. Radiant colors and smooth-flowing animation evoke sizzling lava rivers, oceans bursting with life, and freezing ice ages. The film provides an excellent view of the time frame within which these remarkable events took place and highlights the fact that, relatively speaking, we are newcomers to Planet Earth.
Lida Moser Photographer: Odyssey in Black and White
Joyce Borenstein
Lida Moser (1920-2014) the hero of this animated documentary, was a New York photographer who travelled throughout Quebec during the summer of 1950, on assignment to Vogue and Look Magazines. Filmmaker Joyce Borenstein recorded Moser remembering her journey sixty years later. Moser took over one thousand photos of a society and place that was on the cusp of modernization. Lida Moser’s artistic vision inspired Borenstein to create this auteur documentary which interweaves animation and time lapse shooting with the photos.
Mother’s colours
Joyce Borenstein
Judith, an artist, moves into a senior’s residence, and she feels lonely and alienated. She is unable to sleep and discovers that she can escape into her painting. Her neighbour Greg, notices her diving into her landscape and follows after her. They embark on a magical voyage flying through Fauvist landscapes.
One Divided by Two: Kids and Divorce
Joyce Borenstein
Danny’s parents’ divorce sparked nightmares of being abandoned by his mom. Adrianne was relieved because her parents stopped fighting. Lauren felt guilty, thinking she may have caused her parents’ separation. Jeffrey wished his parents could get back together. Annie was angry that her step-dad imposed so many household rules. One Divided By Two focuses on 13 young people (aged 8 to 18) whose parents have divorced. The video brings an original approach to the subject: animation takes over where live footage stops, moving beyond it – describing the heightened feelings, hopes and memories.
Colours of my Father: a Portrait of Sam Borenstein
Joyce Borenstein
With great singleness of purpose, Sam Borenstein painted for over 40 years. Despite his obvious talent it was only near the end of his life that his work began to be known. Twenty years after the artist’s death, animation filmmaker Joyce Borenstein brings her father’s work to a wider audience. Using various animation techniques in this documentary, she skillfully and harmoniously integrates archival material, filmed sequences, the painting themselves, and reminiscences of friends and family, to bring Sam Borenstein’s work to life.
La Plante
Joyce Borenstein
This short fiction has much to say about kindness, although without any dialogue. In a combination of live action and animation, we are introduced to a man who discovers a small plant hidden under the snow and takes it inside his house. The plant responds to his loving care with rather startling enthusiasm.
Le camp des 4 “sans”
Isabelle Hayeur
Ève Lamont
Des membres du FRAPRU (Le Front d’action populaire en réaménagement urbain) montent un camp sous la pluie, à Québec, où ils resteront durant trois jours, pour tenter de rencontrer Jean Charest et faire entendre leurs revendications.
Le viol d’Iman Al-Obeidi
Hejer Charf
Iman Al-Obeidi a été violée par 15 hommes de Kadhafi. Elle a eu le courage de dénoncer le tyran et ses milices qui utilisent le viol des femmes comme arme de guerre.
Je suis le futur de votre mémoire
Hejer Charf
«De mémoire de rose, il n’y a qu’un jardinier au monde.» (Bernard de Fontenelle) Nos identités plongent dans le passé, s’abreuvent du présent et forment notre futur.
Wonderful World
Hejer Charf
Des portraits à travers plusieurs pays disent le monde dans sa solitude, ses rêves, sa liberté, sa confusion.
Nos vies transitoires
Hejer Charf
«Le temps, ce grand sculpteur» a écrit Marguerite Yourcenar. Le temps use nos corps, nos cœurs et le monde.