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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.
Retour à Reims
Nominee – Documentary Award – Cannes Film Festival – 2021 Freely adapted from the eponymous novel by Didier Eribon, Retourning to Reims tells in archives an intimate and political story of the French working class from the beginning of the 1950s to today.
305 Bellechasse
Official selection – Festival international du film sur l’art – 2022 The 305 Bellechasse documentary is a gateway to the richness of the creative life of artists who have established their studio in this ancient pasta factory. Located at the confluence of the neighborhoods of Petite-Patrie, Mile End and Little Italy, this building has become, over time, a lair of artists of talent and renown and one of the hidden treasure of contemporary painting in Montreal. Last October, the Schiff family who had owned the building for the last 70 years sold the building to Mondev Real Estate. Now the artist’s presence in the 305 is in jeopardy. Hope this documentary will rise the question of the importance of keeping creative space in our cities.
Marcher sur l’eau
Official selection – Cannes Festival – 2021Golden Stallion Feature Documentary – Fespaco – 2021Best Documentary – Cinemambiente Environmental Film Festival – 2021 In northern Niger, the village of Tatiste, a victim of global warming, is fighting for access to water. Every day, fourteen-year-old Houlaye, like other young people, walks for miles to fetch water, which is essential to the life of the village. This daily task prevents them, among other things, from attending school. The lack of water also forces adults to leave their families each year to go beyond the borders to find the resources necessary for their survival. However, this region has an aquifer lake of several thousand square kilometers in its basement. All it would take is one borehole to bring the coveted water to the center of the village and give everyone a better life.
nîpawistamâsowin : Nous nous lèverons
Winner – Meilleur long métrage documentaire Ted Rogers – Prix Écrans canadiens 2020Audience Choice Award – Feature Film / Sun Jury Award – imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival – 2019Discovery Award – Tasha Hubbard – Directors Guild of Canada – 2019Best Canadian Feature – Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival – 2019Colin Low Award for Canadian Documentary – DOXA Documentary Film Festival – 2019Magnus-Isacsson Award / Student’s Award / Women Inmate’s Award – RIDM Montreal International Documentary Festival – 2019 On a summer day in 2016, a young Indigenous man named Colten Boushie died from a gunshot to the head after entering Gerald Stanley’s rural property with his friends. The emotionally charged trial and acquittal of Stanley caused shock and outrage across Canada, capturing international attention and raising questions about prejudice within the judicial system, and anti-Indigenous racism in the nation. Award-winning filmmaker Tasha Hubbard follows the journey of Colten’s family as they search for justice, taking their fight to the highest echelons of power and, ultimately, to the United Nations. Hubbard deftly illustrates how the long history of violence against Indigenous people continues to define life in parts of Canada, and the impact of systems that have been the instruments of colonial domination for centuries. At once urgent and intimate, nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up is a profound portrait of a family standing up for a more just and fair society for future generations.
La Rockeuse du désert
The Desert Rocker i s an intimate, witty and profound portrait of the extraordinary Hasna El Becharia, a pioneer Gnawa artist. The first musician to break through the social barrier of this culture, she empowers and inspires women of all ages by reclaiming a musical tradition reserved for men for centuries . A singularly talented artist, she leads women to redefine their roles and challenge cultural norms , one musical performance at a time.
Seuls
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?
Qu’ils partent tous!
The Algerian Canadian filmmaker Sara Nacer returns to Algeria to capture through her camera the popular historical movement called “hirak”. She invites us on her journey to discover how the young generation leads this “smile revolution” with a strong political, cultural and social consciousness, building Algeria 2.0.
Vers des champs inconnus
Official selection – Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal – Canada (2019) Liliane decides to move to a nursing home to care for her husband, who is slowly losing his sense of self. A touching voyage into the unpredictable world of aging.
Acasa, My Home
QUÉBEC PREMIERE Winner – World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography – Sundance Festival – 2020 In the wilderness of the Bucharest Delta, an abandoned water reservoir just outside the bustling metropolis, the Enache family lived in perfect harmony with nature for two decades, sleeping in a hut on the lakeshore, catching fish barehanded, and following the rhythm of the seasons. When this area is transformed into a public national park, they are forced to leave behind their unconventional life and move to the city, where fishing rods are replaced by smartphones and idle afternoons are now spent in classrooms. As the family struggles to conform to modern civilization and maintain their connection to each other and themselves, they each begin to question their place in the world and what their future might be. With their roots in the wilderness, the nine children and their parents struggle to find a way to keep their family united in the concrete jungle. With an empathetic and cinematic eye, filmmaker Radu Ciorniciuc offers viewers, in his feature debut, a compelling tale of an impoverished family living on the fringes of society in Romania, fighting for acceptance and their own version of freedom.