Actualités
Sortir de l’ombre
Into the Light features the liberating life stories and powerful words of inspiring Quebec women of African origin who’ve regained control over their lives after suffering from domestic violence. The film transcends prejudice and breaks the silence, pulling back the curtain on a poorly understood, hidden world, while testifying to the tremendous power that comes from overcoming isolation and accepting one’s self. It’s a luminous dive into the quest for personal healing and universal humanity. This is Togo-born director Gentille M. Assih’s third documentary.
Pisikotan | croire en chacun de ses pas
This documentary shines the spotlight on the Pisikotan project, an initiative aimed at strengthening the cultural identity of young Atikamekws. Through various sporting challenges experienced within the community, we are witnessing the affirmation of the self-esteem of ten teenagers in the community. Human stories, igniting consciousness, that tend to improve the world in which we, natives and non-natives, live together. In collaboration with the Lanaudière Native Friendship Center, Coop Les Affranchis, Point de Rue, Université de la Rue and Chasseurs Films.
Une femme, ma mère
Grand Prize for Best National Feature – Montreal International Documentary Festival (Canada) – 2019 A Woman, my Mother is the story of a woman who didn’t want to have children. This woman is the filmmaker’s mother. He sets out to find her in a poetic essay that blurs the line between documentary and fiction. Source : IMDB
Tant qu’il restera de la glace
Prix Film Cinéma du Monde de Sherbrooke – Course des régions pancanadienne – 2020 Ten years after the Vancouver Olympic Games, ex-professional figure skater Jessica Dubé plunges us into her daily routine and opens up to show us her love-and-hate relationship with her chosen sport.
Un pays qui se tient sage
Nominee Best Documentary Film – CÉSAR – 2021 When anger and discontent in the face of social injustice grow, many protests and protesters are subject to increasingly brutal repression.THE MONOPOLY OF VIOLENCE invites citizens to deepen, question, and debate their points of view on social order and the legitimacy of the use of violence by the state.
Au-delà des mots : paroles de proches aidants
WORLD PREMIERE Édith Fournier and Michel Carbonneau have been caregiversof their respective spouses forfourteen years each, providing care at home as wellas in a residential center. They experiencedthe same burden as more than 500,000 Canadian familiesseeing one of their own sufferingfrom a neurodegenerative illness. Echoing this implacablereality, alternately, in an often poeticlanguage, both tell their story. Two different pointof view come together, that of a woman andthat of a man. Supported by evocative images, thisintense, sometimes funny, always tenderstory naturally takes root in their daily lives.
Mad Dog & The Butcher – Les derniers vilains
Meilleur Premier Film – Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec (Canada) – 2019Coup de coeur du public – Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie (Canada) – 2019Meilleur Long métrage Documentaire – Cinema on the Bayou (Louisiane, États-Unis) – 2021 The Last Villains (Mad Dog & The Butcher) immerses us in filmmaker Thomas Rinfret’s journey to direct a documentary on the lives of the famed Vachon wrestling family. His protagonist is the last living member of the dynasty: Paul “The Butcher” Vachon. The film features two simultaneous levels of storytelling: the director’s creative illustration of the epic stories told by Paul in his books and the four-year adventure, during which Thomas, camera in hand, follows Paul’s nomadic wanderings across North America. FCM sur la route de Magog is presented by Hydro-Québec
First We Eat
Selection Best Documentary (Long List) – The Academy Awards (Oscars) – 2021Audience Choice Award Best Feature Documentary Film – Providence Children’s Film Festival – 2021Rogers Audience Award – Hot Docs – 2020Best Future Watch – The Doc Edge Film Festival – 2020 Putting food security to the test in the far North of Canada.Filmmaker Suzanne Crocker, living just 300 km from the Arctic Circle, removes absolutely all grocery store food from her house. For one year, she feeds her family of five, only food that can be hunted, fished gathered, grown or raised around Dawson City, Yukon.Add three skeptical teenagers, one reluctant husband, no salt, no caffeine, no sugar, and -40 temperatures.Ultimately the story becomes a celebration of community and the surprising bounty of food that even a tiny community in the far North can provide.
Paris Stalingrad
Sélection Officielle « TIFF Docs » – Festival International du Film de Toronto (Canada) – 2019 Sélection Officielle « Compétition Française » – Cinéma du Réel (France) – 2019 Summer 2016, Paris, refugees are camping in the Stalingrad district while waiting to regularize their situation. Hind Meddeb and Thim Naccache film the daily life and geography of Stalingrad district, a frontier-space in the heart of Paris. A physical labyrinth added to the bureaucratic labyrinth already in place–the city turns away. Controls, round-ups, police raids, fencing. How to make room, be collective? How can you live in a space that prevents you from existing? The film maps out the ordeal: water points, dark corners, isolated parks, ping-pong tables to cook on. Just next to the tennis courts, the refugees take a rest while the players continue training, and awake as nearby joggers exercise. Refugees try to survive in the street, a collective emerges and coexistence settles in. From out of the group, we hear the voice of Souleymane, a young refugee from Darfour whose poems mingle with the filmmaker’s voice-over. Souleymane walks around, wanders off, gets lost, re-appears and talks. As the film tracks the itineraries in Paris, another journey takes shape: fragmented stories evoke Libya, Vintimille, Calais. Echoes of a shared journey, whereas Paris repels and divides. From Stalingrad to La Chapelle, from the Eole garden to the city ring roads, bodies end up isolated on the city outskirts. Souleymane leaves the group, the camera follows him, a solitary escape. The collective breaks up, disappears […]
Nin E Tepueian – Mon cri
Official selection – Présence autochtone (Canada) – 2019 With Natasha Kanapé Fontaine This documentary tracks the journey of Innu poet, actress and activist Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, at a pivotal time in her career as a committed artist. To heal the wound of racism, Natasha has re-appropriated her Innu language and become a media spokesperson. Words have helped her rediscover her roots and empowered her. She gets the conversation going, and as it develops, she questions the need for self-determination for herself as well as for other Indigenous people both here and elsewhere. Presentation of the film by the director Watch the film Click on the Watch the film button below; A new page opens, containing a free code. Click on the Go button; All you have to do is take advantage of the free movie rental. Enjoy the movie! Watch also the interview with the director Santiago Bertolino, available below! Watch the film Watch the film PRESENTATION Discover the interview with the director, Santiago Bertolino, about his film. Discover the films distributed by Les Films du 3 Mars, some of which are available in Video on Demand at f3m.ca