Actualités
Errance sans retour
Ted Rogers Best Feature Length Documentary | Prix Écrans Canadiens | 2021Best Documentary – Gala Québec Cinéma (IRIS) – 2021People’s Choice Award, Feature Film – Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec – FCVQ, CanadaWinner, GLOBAL DOCS – DocsMX, MexiqueBest Documentary – Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie (FICFA) In the course of a few months in 2017, the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh became the most populated in the world. Out of sight, nearly 700,000 people from the Rohingya Muslim minority fled their country, Myanmar (formerly Burma), to escape genocide and seek asylum in this refugee camp. Wandering, a Rohingya Story plunges us into the merciless reality of life in this gigantic camp. A documentary that is both deeply captivating and poetic, where drama meets light, where poetry and words of Rohingya refugee Kala Miya (Kalam) guide and enlighten us on the intricacies of this place that appears to have been frozen in time. Source: IMDB
Les Libres
Prix Cineli Digital | Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes, France (2020)En compétition | Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal, Canada (2020)En compétition | Festival Vues sur mer, Canada (2021) The Free Ones is a full-length documentary feature which shows us how four detainees are dealing with the end of their prison sentence, in a sawmill. Can a factory job help them to make the necessary transformation and become free men? Hidden from society’s view and through meetings with their instructors, psychotherapists and other participants, we accompany Samuel, Pierrot, Fred and Steve talk about their hopes and fears during this six-month transition period.
Sous un même soleil
Despite the 1994 ceasefire, there is still no real peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which continue to fight fiercely over the mountainous Nagorny Karabakh region. More than 25 years after the war, nationalistic passions seem as strong as ever. The litany of resentment and accusations continue to be met with denial in an ongoing dialogue of the deaf. With the restraint that comes with our foreigner’s gaze, Under the Same Sun offers an attentive ear, in search of understanding in these young countries with old wounds.
Passage
Official Selection – Festival de cinéma de Rouyn-Noranda – 2020Official Selection – Compétition Nouveaux Regards – RIDM – 2020Official Selection – Media Library – Festival Visions du Réel – 2020Official Selection – Cinema On The Bayou Film Festival – 2021 Passage paints a poetic portrait of the summer spent by 18-year-old Gabrielle and Yoan on the eve of their unavoidable departure from the remote region of Témiscamingue.
Tant que j’ai du respir dans le corps
Every day, in a consultation room, the patients land; broken, sick and marked by life. In front of them, sits an invested person who tries, without false hope, to repair the bodies and the psyches. In this cramped room where the world and a suffering humanity parade, each one of them confides in a disarming authenticity. At night, when the doors of the resources are closed, street workers storm the city to extend their support to all those unfortunate people who elected the street as their home. The metropolis becomes a veritable open-air refuge where a series of unexpected encounters, places full of strangeness, scattered discussions, wandering souls and dormant bodies hidden from the eyes of passers-by as ghostly visions in the night.
La mer entre nous
Official Selection – Global Cinema Film Festival of Boston – 2020Officiel Selection – DOK. Fest München, Munich, Germany – 2020Official Selection – Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) – 2019 The film transports us into the lives of Hayat & Wafaa and to the city of Beirut in Lebanon, 25 years after the end of a bloody civil war. Through the intimate stories and memories of these two female protagonists of different backgrounds, we understand why the city’s neighbourhoods are still walled in by invisible boundaries and whether forgiveness and reconciliation are possible in a country still broken over religious and political ideology.
I am Greta
Selection – Festival international du film de Venise – 2020Selection – TIFF – 2020 The story of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is told through compelling, never-before-seen footage in this intimate documentary from Swedish director Nathan Grossman. Starting with her one-person school strike for climate action outside the Swedish Parliament, Grossman follows Greta — a shy student with Asperger’s — in her rise to prominence and her galvanizing global impact as she sparks school strikes around the world. The film culminates with her extraordinary wind-powered voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to speak at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York City.
Jongué, Carnet nomade
Canadian feature competition – Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM) – 2019 A film about Serge Emmanuel Jongué, photographer-writer. Emigrated to Quebec to escape the family’s shadows, wounds and silences he spent his brief life exploring his multiple origins. Jongué’s life is told with his own texts, images and talismans from his birth in Aix-en-Provence until his untimely death in Montreal.
Comme une vague
Official Competition – Festival International du Film sur l’Art (FIFA) Big Giant Wave is an ode to music, the invisible abstract and fleeting sequence of sounds that creates in the brain the same reaction as chocolate, sex, or drugs. Conceived as a cinematographic wave, this documentary takes us from Canada to Italy via Sweden, Mexico and the American West Coast to meet fascinating scientists and artists who, from their various backgrounds, illustrate our essential connection with rhythm, music, our planet, the brain, daily lives and our collective humanity.
Prière pour une mitaine perdue
Best Canadian Feature Documentary – Hot Docs – 2020Special mention in the Best Canadian Documentary award competition – Vancouver International FFPrix spécial du Jury dans la compétition nationale Longs métrages – RIDM – 2020Best Documentary Feature Award Winner – CUFF.Docs Documentary Film Festival – 2020 The night is falling and Montreal is under the snow. People line up at the lost and found office of the city’s transit company. They all have lost something, which, upon reflection, becomes the symbol of a deeper loss. Prayer for a Lost Mitten is a creative documentary by turns melancholic and festive, yet ever compassionate. A film that helps us get through the winter.