Other films on this theme
Mal’occhio – The Evil Eye
Agata De Santis
What happens when you realize that your family is part of a global superstition that is neither spoken about openly nor even referred to by name? Filmmaker Agata De Santis sets out on a quest to uncover the world of Mal’occhio – The Evil Eye where one can become physically ill by another’s envious glances, where the only remedy is a phone call to the old woman down the street, and prevention involves wearing strange-looking amulets. Agata travels to Italy, New York, and to her mother’s kitchen in Montreal to decide once and for all if the evil eye is real.
Vivre selon Marguerite
Mireille Couture
Dans la maison de son enfance, Simone procure soin et dignité à sa mère Marguerite. Alors que la mémoire de cette dernière s’étiole, Simone renoue avec son passé, dans un chassé-croisé où dansent les souvenirs et le quotidien. Ce documentaire démontre les beautés et les défis de prendre soin d’un proche en perte d’autonomie, avec justesse et tendresse.
Golden Tuna – Montreal Sessions
Jenny Cartwright
After leaving Berlin, French multidisciplinary artist Golden Tuna surfs Montreal’s cold and dark wave to find inspiration. Contains nudity.
Mes amis les poissons
Sylvie Laliberté
“I capture small, select moments. They are taken from the heart of the subject. The subject is me. And I speak casually. I catch moments floating on a beautiful volume of water. My work is special because it suits me. I can sing, waddle and say things. A woman sits anywhere, that’s something. It’s elegant often enough if you want to cross your legs. I cross them.”
Les gentilles
Anik Salas
A young doctor invites her mother to have lunch in the park to tell her important news. The animosity between them takes things to a whole new level that will change their relationship forever.
Adagio pour un gars de bicycle
Pascale Ferland
Cinéaste indépendant de la première heure, René Bail est une des figures les plus méconnues du cinéma québécois des années 50. En 1972, à l’âge de 40 ans, il est victime d’un terrible accident qui bouleverse son existence. Le film relate la vie exceptionnelle de cet homme qui, jusqu’à sa mort en 2007, aura continué de penser et de voir le cinéma, une passion qui ne l’aura jamais quitté.
Le Semeur
Julie Perron
“In the heart of the meanders of Kamouraska in Quebec, Patrice Fortier lives in La Société des Plantes where he meticulously preserves, like a medieval copyist, rare or forgotten plant seeds to make “old varieties of the future”. Patrice gardens while dreaming and transforms his crops into artistic projects. Over the seasons, through the patience of his gestures, he transmits his passion and his knowledge to us while building up his seed bank. These germs of life will grow in thousands of vegetable gardens across the planet. Ode to plant biodiversity and heritage carried by an original and genetically motivated seed company. Attention; the impossible is underway.”
Le plancher des vaches
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
Pascale, Raphaël and Céleste are 15 and 16 years old. They are normal teens: first crushes, first mourning, tense parental relations. But they are also in the middle of nowhere, attending a unique small high school in the Eastern Townships, La Maison familiale rurale, where they are taught the earthiest of skills. Set against a gorgeous natural backdrop, and shot with a camera soon forgotten by all present, Le plancher des vaches follows the lives of three private, endearing teens coping with their limits and learning to grasp the meaning of connection and how to live in tune with the land and
L’Absent
Céline Baril
Paul Kadar, architecte et musicien, de passage à Budapest, fut pris d’un grand vertige en contemplant le Danube et s’y jeta. Ce film est le journal d’un bonheur partagé entre Paul, sa femme Françoise et Roland, leur jeune fils adoptif. C’est aussi l’histoire de Roland, plusieurs années plus tard, parcourant le monde pour épuiser ses souvenirs et tenter de compléter une partition de Paul, à demi-effacée, retrouvée sur lui après sa mort.
Vie saisonnière
Sophie Guérin
Au coeur de la Montérégie, plusieurs milliers de travailleurs d’Amérique latine transforment chaque été le paysage rural du Québec. Le temps d’une saison, ils quittent leur famille et leur pays pour venir produire nos légumes. Vie saisonnière propose une immersion dans la réalité peu connue de ces hommes.
Vivre avec la Terre
Julie Perron
Vivre avec la terre, un court-métrage tourné entièrement en Grèce, sur le terrain de fouilles archéologique de Dikili Tash dans les Philippes. On y découvre le travail fascinant d’une archéobotaniste, Tania-Soultana Valamoti et de son équipe qui trouvent et analysent des restes végétaux datant de l’époque du Néolithique et de l’âge de Bronze.
Pas de pays sans paysans
Ève Lamont
In this documentary, crop and animal farmers in Quebec, the Canadian West, the US Northeast and France offer solutions to the social and environmental scourges of factory farming. Driven by the forces of globalization, rampant agribusiness is harming the environmemt and threatening the survival of farms. The proliferation of GMO crops is a further threat to biodiversity as well as to farmers’ autonomy. In Europe as well as North America, a current of resistance bringing together farmers and consumers insists that it is possible – indeed imperative – to grow food differently.
Marché Jean-Talon
Hélène Choquette
Six mois dans la vie d’agriculteurs, de marchands et de clients dans le plus grand marché à ciel ouvert au Canada.
Le peuple de la rivière Kattawapiskak
Alanis Obomsawin
Alanis Obomsawin’s documentary The People of the Kattawapiskak River exposes the housing crisis faced by 1,700 Cree in Northern Ontario, a situation that led Attawapiskat’s band chief, Theresa Spence, to ask the Canadian Red Cross for help. With the Idle No More movement making front page headlines, this film provides background and context for one aspect of the growing crisis.
Il n’est pas innocent que le bonheur soit heureux
Sylvie Laliberté
Happiness is a tautological state. Why are we happy? Because we are happy. It is very simple. And it smells good. Still happy that we can be happy. This video was made for the Manif d’art 2003 in Quebec City, about happiness and simulacra.
J’ai tout compris
Sylvie Laliberté
A very simple video clip: the singer jumps from one picture to another and does some quality lip-sync on a real love song full of love. The whole thing is perfectly synchronized. It’s a clip without beautiful girls and guys behind the singer.
In Search of a Lost Continent
Elza Kephart
The film is told from the point-of-view of a schizophrenic, or perhaps a mystic, walking through the city in search of a mythical “lost continent”.
L’outil n’est pas toujours un marteau
Sylvie Laliberté
I wanted to share the instrument of my happiness. It’s easy, it’s clear and it’s well done. I hope you will enjoy it. And then everyone has a star.