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Kímmapiiyipitssini : la voie de l’empathie
Rogers Audience Award for Canadian Feature Documentary – Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Toronto (2021)Colin Low Award for Best Canadian Director – DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver (2021)Audience Choice Award – Canadian Documentary Feature – CIFF Calgary International Film Festival, Calgary (2021) Kímmapiiyipitssini (Blackfoot)GEE-maa-bee-bit-sin — giving kindness to each other. Elle–Máijá Tailfeathers’ film witnesses radical and profound change in her community. Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy is an intimate portrait of survival, love and the collective work of healing in the Kainai First Nation in Southern Alberta, a Blackfoot community facing the impacts of substance use and a drug-poisoning epidemic. Community members active in addiction and recovery, first responders and medical professionals implement harm reduction to save lives. This work is contextualized within the historical and contemporary impacts of settler colonialism; Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy draws a connecting line between the effects of colonial violence on Blackfoot land and people and the ongoing substance-use crisis. Held in love and hope for the future, Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy asks the audience to be a part of this remarkable change with the community.
Kongo
CANADIAN PREMIERE Official Selection – ACID Cannes – 2019Documentary Competition – Torino Film Festival – 2019Documentary Competition – El Gouna Film Festival, Egypt – 2019 In Brazzaville, an invisible world governs the visible world. The apostle Medard struggles to heal the sick victims of bad spells. But his life changes when he is publicly accused of practicing black magic
Une personne comme moi
Rogers Audience Award for Canadian Feature Documentary – Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Toronto (2021) Grand Prize Alternative Spirit Award / Documentary – Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, U.S.A. (2021) Official Selection – LGBT Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland (2021) In Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams’ feature doc Someone Like Me, Drake, a young gay man from Uganda, leaves behind everything he knows to attain the universal freedoms everyone deserves: to be who he is and love whomever he chooses without fear of discrimination, persecution, or violence. A group of queer strangers unite to resettle Drake in Vancouver, but they are tasked with a year-long commitment to someone they’ve never met, and struggle with the challenging conditions of this support. Together, Drake and his sponsors embark on an emotional journey in search of personal freedom, revealing how in a world where one must constantly fight for the right to exist, survival itself becomes a victory.
Nos ombres d’Algérie
English synopsis is not available.Please see the French version of the film’s page for more information.
Bartolí, le dessin pour mémoire
English synopsis is not available.Please see the French version of the film’s page for more information.
Seuls
Official Selection – Calgary International Film Festival – 2021Opening Film – Festival international du film francophone en Acadie – 2021Official Selection- Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal – 2021Closing Film – Toronto Black Film Festival – 2022Official Selection – Halifax Black Film Festival – 2022 Scared for their lives, Afshin, Alain and Patricia left their home countries, alone. As unaccompanied minors, they had to start over in Canada, in hopes to live a better life. Mixing real-life footage and animated sequences, Alone is a tribute to hope: how can a child manage to reinvent himself in a new country, after having left everything behind, even his parents? 10 years and older.
Courts Métrages – Sélection autochtone
Native Shorts Films from the National Film Board of Canada. WITH SUZIE O’BOMSAWIN, ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER OF THE CONSEIL DES ABÉNAKIS D’ONANAK In the program:Mary Two-Axe Early : Je suis redevenue indienne, by Courtney Montour (2021, 33 min)*L’Avenir entre nos mains, by Carol Geddes , Ginny Stikeman and Yolande Garant (1986, 29 min)Les enfants des Nomades, by Evelyne Papatie (2018, 2 min)Délia d e 9 à 5, by Délia Gunn (2018, 3 min)Des histoires ancrées en nous, by Janine Windolph (2019, 11 min) * Featured image.
Apatrides
Best Feature Documentary Award – BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia – 2020Special Jury Prize – Canadian Feature – Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival – 2020Best Feature Film Audience Award – Boston Latino International Film Festiva – 2020Official Selection (World Premiere) – Tribeca Film Festival – 2020Official Selection – Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal (RIDM) – 2020 In 1937, tens of thousands of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent were exterminated by the Dominican army, based on anti-black hatred fomented by the Dominican government. Fast-forward to 2013, the Dominican Republic’s Supreme Court stripped the citizenship of anyone with Haitian parents, retroactive to 1929. The ruling rendered more than 200,000 people stateless, without nationality, identity or a homeland. In this dangerous climate, a young attorney named Rosa Iris mounts a grassroots campaign, challenging electoral corruption and advocating for social justice. Director Michèle Stephenson’s new documentary Stateless traces the complex tributaries of history and present-day politics, as state-sanctioned racism seeps into mundane offices, living room meetings, and street protests. Filmed with a chiaroscuro effect and richly imbued with elements of magical realism, Stateless combines gritty hidden-camera footage with the legend of a young woman fleeing brutal violence to flip the narrative axis, revealing the depths of institutionalized oppression.
Sons of Mezcal
CANADIAN PREMIERE Ingrained in the culture of Oaxaca, Mezcal is more than an intoxicating spirit. It is the sacred link that binds modern day Mezcaleros to their ancestors. The documentary Sons of Mezcal transports you into this living history, as it follows four families passing their traditions on to the next generation. Shot entirely cinéma vérité, Sons of Mezcal explores the profound personal and cultural significance of mezcal for those families whose life is dedicated to making this sacred spirit.
Pour être moins seule
Official Selection – Cinema on the Bayou – États-Unis – 2022 English synopsis is not available.Please see the French version of the film’s page for more information.