Other films on this theme
Femmes des bois
Julie Lambert
Femmes des bois offers an incursion into the unique world of forestry camps, where men and women from all over the world come together to work. Through the eyes of the women who have chosen to work there, we discover the micro-society that forms over the course of the forestry season.
L’audience
Émilie Beaulieu-Guérette
Peggy Nkunga Ndona
After crossing 11 countries irregularly to seek asylum in Canada, Peggy, Simon and their 3 children are waiting for the hearing that will determine whether they get refugee status or not. Having fled political repression in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the family tries to rebuild a peaceful life in Montreal, in spite of the constant threat of deportation. Between ghosts from the past, hopes for the future and a complex legal maze, the film delves into the struggle of the Nkunga Mbala family to get legal status. The film sheds light on the complex process of asylum seeking in Canada.
Après coups
Romane Garant Chartrand
Within the walls of a women’s shelter, a talking circle unmasks domestic violence to help women regain their dignity and power to act. In a powerfully empathetic cinematic gesture, Afterwards creates a space for sharing and sisterhood, like a choral ensemble breaking down the walls of silence.
LOVE ME
Romane Garant Chartrand
Nearly seventeen years old, Laetitia navigates between her attachment disorder and her blatant need for love. In a world where image control is absolute, LOVE ME tells the story of the quest for the love with a capital L, through the various forms of self-representation.
Ainsi va Manu – Saison 2
Josiane Blanc
Forced to leave her hometown temporarily, Manu finds it hard to adapt to her new surroundings. She has only one thing on her mind: moving back to Toronto. However, an unexpected encounter turns Manuela’s life upside down, calling into question everything she’s known and wanted up to now.
Les héritières
Julie Blackburn
A true collective legacy, the documentary The Inheritors (Les héritières) is one of the highlights of the 50th anniversary of the Council on the Status of Women (Conseil du statut de la femme) in Quebec, Canada. In The Inheritors (Les héritières), actress Marie Soleil Dion invites us to meet the pioneers and women who are blazing the trail, each in their own field. Through these encounters and testimonials, the intimate and collective stories of inspiring women are brought to light, and their contribution to the evolution of Quebec society today and tomorrow.
Les diplômés Mira – Les grands sportifs (S2,E1)
Julie Blackburn
After The Mira Academy, The Mira Graduates (Les diplômés Mira) series offers touching stories. We step out of the kennels to follow the dogs into the homes of their beneficiaries, and into their living, working and leisure environments.
2 chiffres
Julie Blackburn
Young elementary school students confide in the camera about their joys, fears, doubts and hopes as they turn 10. Double-digit self-portraits, 2020, Montreal.
2023 façon d’aimer
Julie Blackburn
What do you know about Tinder, polyamory, open couples and pansexuality? Can you keep up with today’s changing relationships? Listen in as journalist Marie-Hélène Proulx demystifies it all with young people, singles and typical and atypical couples, who offer stunning testimonials and demonstrate that there are indeed 2023 ways to love (2023 façons d’aimer).
Comme une spirale
Lamia Chraibi
Like a Spiral is a dialogue between Beirut and five women, migrant domestic workers, under the Kafala system. Expressing their belonging to a society in collapse, the women’s voices rise through the film’s grainy images to denounce their stolen freedom with an inalienable thirst to exist. Their memories dance in the rhythm of oppression. Caught within life’s spiral, they lift themselves up to not sink into oblivion.
Circo
Lamia Chraibi
In Rio de Janeiro, Richard dreams of dazzling audiences in the world’s biggest circus tents. But when the 20-year-old artist is kicked out of his home by his adoptive mother, his life is turned upside down. Through an intimate, direct cinema approach, Circo immerses us in the lives of residents of Brazil’s favelas as they seek to shape their own futures.
Ma signature
Gynette Mercier
Une poésie – graver en couleur, texture, rythme. C’est l’art nomade, une signature en mouvement – passion en pianissimo.
Capteurs H20
Gynette Mercier
Water conservation, through an interview on Mayne Island with a lady who runs the Society of Water and its Preservation for gardens, car washes from cisterns and tubs installed on the island, and private collectors of roof water, because even if there’s a shortage of water, there’s plenty to water plants in private and community gardens.
L’échiquier
Gynette Mercier
La nuit le jour, l’hiver l’été, je contraste, je suis blanche et noire, je suis bilingue “Black and White” je joue ma vie sur un “échiquier – damier”. J’écris, je dessine, j’utilise les médias sociaux, le téléphone cellulaire pour mes vidéos mes enregistrements et photographies, et l’H2o est la goutte d’eau nécessaire à ma survie.
Le spectacle
Chloé Sirois
Not even death can prevent a group of rich old women from living their happy pill, instaglam-fueled lives.
Prends-moi
Chloé Sirois
Beyond the taboos and pornographic vision; an authentic exploration of the BDSM universe.
Pornomania
Chloé Sirois
Following a traumatic event at her grandparents’ house, 10-year-old Rose embarks on an obsessive quest to see and understand the forbidden world of adults by herself.
OK
Virginie Nolin
My body is mine. In my swimsuit, I revisit my childhood memories and ignore the prejudices. I dive. In this feminist essay on fatphobia, filming my body and accepting it is taking a stand. Against the backdrop of dirty pools, I say “OK” to those who would like to change me.
Claire Richmond
Virginie Nolin
In the Richmond’s ancestral mansion, two sisters investigate the mysterious disappearance of their mother.
Dormir Désir
Virginie Nolin
It’s my father’s funeral. I want steak and fries. I want to jump into the pool. I want to fuck. I want to sleep. I don’t want to sleep.
Été 2000
Virginie Nolin
Sarah, 9, finds her awakening to love and her sexual identity hindered by an assault. Summer 2000 is an intimate, delicate story that plays with mediums to reflect on gender performance and consent.
Where Motion Has Not Yet Ceased (Там, де рух ще не припинився)
Juliette Balthazard
Prague, 2022 – Having found refuge from the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, two women and their young daughters face the waiting and hope of an imminent return to Ukraine. Shelved in this city, these women tell the story of their past and give access to their daily life, their present, in which they try to learn how to live again. This documentary tries to give a voice to those who live war differently.
Goodbye Frederico
Patricia Vergeylen Tassinari
Eileen, a scriptwriter, has been writing letters to Federico Fellini who has become her friend, and means of escape. Various rejections lead her to lose her grip on reality and retreat into her own world with one last hope: join Federico in Cinecittà with the two men she loves.
Broken Promises – The High Arctic Relocation
Patricia Vergeylen Tassinari
In 1953 the Canadian Government fearing a USA occupation of the Canadian Artic relocated seven Inuit families from Northern Quebec to the High Arctic to stake out its territory. The families were dumped on barren land in the middle of winter with only tents, oil lamps and wooden crates to keep warm. Thirty years later, the federal government finally provided assistance to the exiles,enabling them to return to their ancestral home in Northern Quebec.