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Benninger
In presence of the director From his studio in Poona, Maharashtra, Indian American Christopher Benninger imagines geometric architecture that blends Western modernism with the tropical climate of the Deccan. The film explores eight of his most notable projects through the daily lives of their inhabitants. A deep dive into the world of an international award-winning...
Novembre
November is a peripatetic experience in search of the many souls who make up the city of Montreal, in that seasonal no man’s land between colorful autumn and pristine winter, well known for its bent toward grouchiness. It’s an excursion through the streets of the city with its constant movement, a peek into the alienation...
La Mère de tous les mensonges
Young Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir wants to know why she only has one photograph from her childhood, and why the girl in the picture isn’t even her. She decides to explore the past and its mysteries by creating a handmade replica of the Casablanca neighborhood where she grew up. There, she begins to interrogate the tales her mother, father and grandmother tell about their home and their country. Slowly, she starts to unravel the layers of deception and intentional forgetting that have shaped her life. The truth is hard to face, but in this sometimes surreal nonfiction film, El Moudir begins to draw what is real to the surface. Official Selection – Un Certain Regard / Festival de Cannes – 2023 Moroccan cinema is presented in collaboration with the Centre culturel marocain de Montréal.
Bye bye Tibériade
Leaving her village to follow her dream of becoming an actress, Hiam Abbass also left behind her mother, grandmother and seven sisters. Thirty years later, her filmmaker daughter Lina returns with her to journey through the vanished places among the scattered memories of four generations of daring Palestinian women. Official selection – Toronto International Film...
La Ola Sin Fronteras
QUEBEC PREMIERE The Gauchos del mar brothers explore the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), a 700 hundred islands archipelago, aiming to unite and construct bridges through surfing and the ocean. After the 1982 War, the islands have been a very delicate subject in the Southern Hemisphere. This project aims to bring peace and start building a...
Jacques
In the presence of the film’s director, Lysandre Leduc-Boudreau For over forty years, Jacques Duhoux, expedition pioneer in northern Quebec, has lived alone in the Uapishka (Groulx) Mountains. Now at 85 years old, he continues to live off the grid, despite the inevitable decline that comes with age. A tribute to a true monument of northern exploration, Jacques exposes the delicate balance between nature, aging and the search for freedom. Official Selection – Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma – 2023Official Selection – Les Percéides – 2023
Danser sur un volcan
On August 4th, 2020, the catastrophic explosion at the port of Beirut leaves a large part of the Lebanese capital in ruins. In the midst of the chaos, a troubled film crew face an overwhelming decision: to continue the production of their movie or abandon it? As they face the aftermath of the catastrophe, they are torn between their firm belief in the transformative power of cinema and a deep sense of cynicism about its ability to effect change in a nation plagued by economic turmoil and societal collapse. Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano chronicles their struggles and highlights the crew’s resilience as they strive to find meaning and purpose in their work amidst the devastation. Official selection – Karlovy Vary International Film Festival – 2023
Ourse Bleue
Blue Bear woman, half-virgin, half-sensual bear, symbolizes the two cultures that Virginia carries and explores. In writing, expressing the beauty of the world and its violence. And by the dazzling beauty of his paintings transcending tragic aspects of life, or bursting with joys of living. Surveying the duality that inhabits us all, Virginia, the little...
Malartic
Ten years after an enormous open-pit gold mine began operations in Malartic, the hoped-for economic miracle is nothing more than a mirage. Filmmaker Nicolas Paquet explores the glaring contrast between the town’s decline and the wealth of the mining company, along with the mechanisms of an opaque decision-making system in which ordinary people have little...
Le temps dérobé
A compelling call for justice, Stolen Time follows charismatic elder rights lawyer Melissa Miller as she takes on the corporate for-profit nursing-home industry-an industry notorious for its lack of transparency and accountability. As the legal battle unfolds, families, frontline caregivers and change-makers chronicle an urgent crisis with ramifications-and inspiration-for us all. Official Selection – Rendez-vous...