Other films on this theme
Bleui (Middle Sky)
Katherine Jerkovic
A wall projection of two silent video channels mounted side by side, BLEUI (Middle Sky) revolves around the notion of film cut by exploring the formal, spatial and temporal resonances which determine the beauty, fluidity or rupture of a cut between two shots. Shot in Uruguay.
Bien chez soi
Katherine Jerkovic
Daily life & survival during the 2001 Argentinian financial crisis. (Or when your President announces on TV that the country is in bankruptcy)
Platinium Farewell
Katherine Jerkovic
Long take of a ship leaving the harbour. (Or crossing from Montevideo to Buenos Aires for the twentieth time)
A time to dwell
Katherine Jerkovic
An audiovisual essay that meditates on migration and the coastal landscape. Shot along the Saint Lawrence’s Côte Nord.
Le gardien d’hiver
Katherine Jerkovic
Edgar, a lonely and socially awkward immigrant takes care of an apartment for a friend away on vacation. As he visits, he becomes familiar with the absent woman’s intimate space. He begins to desire her and anticipate her return. The months go by, the mail piles up and eventually, reality sinks in.
Les mots gelés
Isabelle D’Amours
Frozen Words is a moment in the life of Charles, a young man in his late twenties, who’s haunted by mental illness who assails his mother. Through his best friend Paul, his awkward father and his ambiguous friendship to an imaginary “Weatherwoman”, Charles desperately tries to find a certain balance but falls in a frozen state. Trying, as best he can, to push away this spectrum increasingly pervasive, Charles refuses to become like her.
Venus
Eisha Marjara
Genders, generations and cultures collide in this comedy about the modern family unit. A South Asian transgender woman sees her life flipped on its head when she meets a “white” teenaged son she didn’t know she had. Montrealer Eisha Marjara gives a fresh take in her directing style, delivering a resounding plea for casting off gender stereotypes.
House for Sale
Eisha Marjara
A stranger shows up posing as a home buyer at a suburban house that is up for sale. ‘What the hell am I doing here?’ She asks herself. As the owner’s wife gives a tour of the place, the stranger recalls a memorable night when a fatal promise was made. House For Sale exposes the bonds that are built in public and behind closed doors and unravels the complicated negotiations of desire and commitment.
The Tourist
Eisha Marjara
Ron, a Canadian tourist with a camera, is on a never-ending holiday recovering from a heartbreak after his wife left him for another man. When he winds up in Munich, he falls for a woman who is engaged to be married.
Desperately Seeking Helen
Eisha Marjara
Director Eisha Marjara’s story takes us first to her childhood in snowbound small-town Quebec and then to Bombay India where she desperately tries to track down Helen, a famous movie star in the worlds largest dream factory. Helen becomes a passage into Marjara’s real world—her unsettling youth, life threatening anorexia and the devastating 1985 Air India bombing which took the lives of her sister and mother. This film revisits the 70’s pop culture of Marjara’s youth and enters the fascinating world of the Bombay movie industry—“Bollywood.”
L’héritier
Edith Jorisch
The Heir follows Canadian director Édith Jorisch as she discovers the incredible hidden story of her grandfather, Georges Jorisch. Born into the Jewish intellectual community in Vienna, Austria, Georges grew up among a family of great art collectors whose vast collection included the works of Gustav Klimt. In 1938, the paintings were stolen by German troops and the family taken into the Nazi internment camps. Georges Jorisch survived the war and immigrated to Montreal. 70 years later, seeking justice for his family and children, he sets out to recover the Klimt paintings that were taken from t
Le secret de Cyndia
Denyse Benoit
Ils sont trois enfants, dont CYNDIA qui a 12 ans, qui habitent dans un petit village. Héritier d’une maison familiale, un voisin, antiquaire, vient se réinstaller dans le village de son enfance. Les enfants, curieux, vont se laisser approcher par ce gentil voisin. CYNDIA se laisse photographier par le beau séducteur. Tout en écoutant ses belles histoires, elle est entraînée dans un jeu de séduction.
Two Thieves
Denyse Benoit
Liliana est une femme sculpteure du métal et Denyse, réalisatrice, lui raconte l’histoire du scénario qu’elle est en train d’écrire. Elle voudra s’inspirer de l’oeuvre de Liliana pour son personnage de Gaby, aussi femme sculpteure.
Le dernier havre
Denyse Benoit
Un vieux pêcheur manigance dans le dos de sa famille le plan de partir en mer pour une dernière fois.
La belle apparence
Denyse Benoit
Une visiteuse de prison va accompagner un ex-détenu et l’aider à s’installer dans un appartement. Un flirt avec ce jeune homme l’entraîne sur une pente qui contrariera la famille de la visiteuse.
La crue
Denyse Benoit
Pendant que la rivière des Milles Iles déborde au printemps, une jeune fille de 13 ans voit un ami de la famille tuer une jeune femme.
Un instant près d’elle
Denyse Benoit
Une jeune femme qui s’installe à la campagne va rencontrer ses voisines. Une est fermière et sa belle-mère perd la mémoire.
Soif
Michèle Cournoyer
A woman plays out her existence on the screen of her life. Alcohol is the essence of her being. She imbibes her youth and becomes completely absorbed by the desire to satisfy her thirst. Moving from parties to binge drinking, pleasure to distress, joy to delirium, she lets herself be lulled by the undulating waves of bottles. She floats in the intoxicating liquid, sees her childhood re-emerge, and feels as if she is a tiny fish lost in an ocean of madness. Her craving for alcohol engenders a burning passion. Drinking becomes a fatal embrace..
Robe de guerre
Michèle Cournoyer
This animated short is a lyrical exploration of the impact of war on women, their bodies and their families. Bringing a feminist sensibility to a contemporary issue, it looks at what happens when war insinuates itself inside the very being of a woman—she who once gave life.
De ma fenêtre, sans maison…
Maryanne Zéhil
Because she suffocates under rigid traditions and social constraints, Sana (Louise Portal) decides to leave her daughter and her country, Lebanon. She immigrates to Canada where she wants to forget her roots and her past. Yet, 15 years later, when her daughter ( Renée Thomas) finds her, this reunion releases repressed feelings: guilt, suffering, bitterness and an unexpected nostalgia.
La basse cour
Michèle Cournoyer
In this animated short, a woman, taking on her lover’s fantasies, adorns herself in her finest feathers and assumes a seductive but demeaning role. Caught up in his own game, the man plays on to the bitter end–a cruel game in which love is stripped of its golden glow, leaving only the naked reality of dependency and desperation.
Le chapeau
Michèle Cournoyer
A young woman works as an exotic dancer in a bar. She recalls an incident from her childhood in which she was physically abused by a male visitor. This inner journey brings back painful memories, including the obsessive image of a hat. Black-ink drawings, spare and rapidly executed, flow together in a succession of troubling and striking metamorphoses. The Hat is a tough, visceral experience. With naked honesty, animator Michèle Cournoyer invites the audience to share in the pain of a woman whose body is on display and whose soul is forever soiled. A film without words.
La vallée des larmes
Maryanne Zéhil
Marie (Nathalie COUPAL), a Montreal publisher specializing in memoirs by war survivors, receives an anonymous document, the condensed story of Ali, a young Palestinian who grew up in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Intrigued, Marie begins a search for the author’s identity. Torn apart by her difficult mission, Marie starts a journey into the past. In a small Lebanese village, in the heart of a bloodstained culture whose unspoken issues are infinitely enigmatic, Marie will eventually find the key to every mystery.