Actualités
La Lumière de Léonie
Nomination – Great Lake Christian Film Festival – 2021Official selection – Rendez-Vous Québec Cinéma – 2021Official selection – Faith Fest – 2021 The Little Sisters Of The Holy Family are separating themselves from the relic of their foundress, Blessed Marie-Léonie Paradis, to share her with the surrounding community. Sisters Rachel, Denise, Marie-Paule and Grace testify their unflinching faith which grants them the strength to surrender to the flow of life.
Apparaître
QUEBEC PREMIERE Users of alternative community mental health resources express their relationship to art and life. The intimate experience of art, of the studio, of associating with artists and of seeing oneself as an artist changes their lives. Exchanges between professional artists and artists from different resources across Quebec on the relationship between art and madness. A participatory drawing system journey through the experiences related.
L’acte de la beauté
Nestled at the heart of the Bic mountains, in this territory called Lower St. Lawrence, hides a community of wise people, audacious people taking root. The collective farm Sageterre is the work of Jean Bédard, writer, philosopher but most importantly, a peasant. His writing calls for action. His work on the land cultivates ideas. Jean Bédard fights to see a new, more humane world, rise.
Zo Reken
Best Canadian Documentary Award – Hot Docs – 2021Grand Prize of the National Feature Film Competition – Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal – 2021Student Jury Prize – Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal – 2021Special Mention – Magnus Prize – Isacsson – Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal – 2021 In Port-au-Prince, a humanitarian aid organization’s 4×4 vehicle has been hacked: its Haitian passengers now use it to talk about neocolonialism and to denounce the promises of the international community that were made and never kept. Outside, barricades are erected, and the people cry out in anger. General Rating Languages: French, Haitian Creole
La coop de ma mère
Filmed over two years, My Mom’s Co-op reveals a place where, despite the challenges of collective management, 40 families successfully resist the pull of the individual. This intercultural, intergenerational melting pot is the new face of the co-operative movement where everyone, no matter their hardships, can find peace, security and most importantly a home.
Futura
Official Selection – Quinzaine des Réalisateurs | Festival de Cannes – 2021Official Selection – New York Film Festival – 2021Official Selection ACI Giovani – Annecy Cinéma Italien – 2021Official Selection International Feature Film Competition – Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival – 2021Official Selection – Bogotà International Film Festival – 2021 Futura is a collective reportage by Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi and Alice Rohrwacher. It explores what boys and girls aged 15 to 20 think about the future through a series of interviews filmed during a long journey across Italy. A portrait of this country as seen through the eyes of a group of teen-agers who speak of the places they live in, of their dreams, expectations, desires and fears.
Fuir
WORLD PREMIERE WITH CAROLE LAGANIÈRE, THE FILM DIRECTOR Fuir est tourné dans une maison pour femmes victimes de violence conjugale. C’est un film qui témoigne du courage de femmes qui pour la plupart témoignent à visage découvert. C’est une chronique avec ses hauts et ses bas, ses moments dramatiques et heureux, et au centre de laquelle se trouvent résidentes et intervenantes. L’action de Fuir se déroule sur plus de trois mois et nomme les blessures immenses des femmes violentées et la grande générosité de celles qui tentent de les réparer.
Damascus Dreams
Rotterdam International Film Festival – 2021International Critics’ Award – Festival du nouveau cinéma 2021Best Canadian Documentary Film (Jury Mention) – Vancouver International Film Festival – 2021Middle East Now! – 2021 How does one remember a homeland they are so deeply connected to and disconnected from? When Canadian born filmmaker Emilie travels to Syria for the first time in ten years, she feels alienated. A year later, when her grandmother dies and the war begins, she tries to piece back together an image of this elusive country she desperately wants to call her own. Gathering evidence from the past, stories from refugees and bringing along her father for the ride, Emilie embarks on a lucid dream journey hoping to resurrect a fading connexion with her homeland and her father.
Chère Audrey
IN PRESENCE OF THE DIRECTOR (SATURDAY AND MONDAY)AND MARTIN DUCKWORTH (SATURDAY) People’s Choice Award – RIDM (Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal) 2021 In Dear Audrey, filmmaker Jeremiah Hayes is a witness to the most important work of Martin Duckworth’s life – caring for his wife Audrey after her Alzheimer’s diagnosis, and helping his 45-year old daughter, Jacqueline, who has autism, maintain a relationship with her mom. Jacqueline has cut herself off from Audrey, unable to watch her own mother slowly inch towards death. Remembering their life through the lens of his second love of filmmaking, Martin’s commitment and grace in the face of Audrey’s illness is almost palpable. A celebrated filmmaker with 100 documentary films to his credit, as a cinematographer and director, Martin’s cinematic signature is beauty in the ordinary and the extraordinary. In Dear Audrey, Jeremiah will mirror this tradition in the poetry and pain of a life well lived.
Little Palestine, journal d’un siège
Official Selection – Vancouver International Film Festival – 2021 Official Selection – RIDM – 2021 Official Selection – ACID Cannes – 2021 Interreligious Award – Visions du Réel – 2021 The district of Yarmouk (Damascus, Syria) sheltered the biggest Palestinian refugee camp in the world from 1957 to 2018. When the Syrian revolution broke out, the regime of Bashar Al-Assad saw Yarmouk a refuge of rebels and resistance, and set up a siege from 2013 on. Gradually deprived of food, medicine and electricity, Yarmouk was cut of the rest of the world. Abdallah Al-Khatib was born in Yarmouk and lived there until his expulsion by Daesh in 2015. Between 2011 and 2015, he and his friends documented the daily life of the besieged inhabitants, who decided to face bombing, displacement and hunger with rallying, study, music, love and joy. Hundreds of lives that were irremediably transformed by war and siege, from Abdallah’s mother who turned into a nurse taking care of the elders of the camp, to the fiercest activists whose passion for Palestine got gradually undermined by hunger…