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Des j’aimes pour maman
Facebook, 2018. Entre les mamans professionnelles qui font carrière de l’exposition de leur vie de famille et les mamans ordinaires actives sur les médias sociaux, se trouve une ribambelle d’enfants qui, trop jeunes pour être consultés, verront leur enfance exposée en ligne… ou ailleurs. Un film documentaire qui propose une réflexion sur la vie privée des enfants à l’ère des médias sociaux.
Quand les pouvoirs s’emmêlent
For the past 2 decades, in many regions of the world, religious and political powers got closer. In those same regions, women rights are weakened and affected. In Arabic countries, women have lost liberties acquired in the middle of the 20th century and under the appearance of liberty, the western countries are more and more influenced by the return of a very strong traditional wind. Entangled Powers is an initiatory road movie in the heart of those changes in Tunis, Paris, Washington, and Montreal. Graduated from the University of Montreal in Film Studies, Yvonne Defour has signed about 50 videos before joining the television market. In 2018, she directed a film for cinema called Entangled Powers… This feature-length documentary addresses the tricky link between politics and religion, a link that can, when too mixed up, contribute to pushing back the place of women in society. In 2017, she directed a documentary for television, Vieux, that depicts how elders are coping according to the country they’re living in 4 destinies from Senegal, China, Sri Lanka, and Sweden. In the last 20 years, Yvonne has worked on more than 20 documentary series for Canadian television as a director. These series, broadcasted in several American and European countries, have been rewarded with numerous nominations but moreover, they had a major impact on a wide audience. Yvonne’s natural empathy and curiosity towards everything that deals with human nature had led her to shoot widely on the five continents of the planet. Among her recent productions, one can find, among […]
Le vieil âge et l’espérance
When old age brings with it physical and sometimes mental decline, is there a way to keep a hopeful attitude towards life and its mysteries? That is the question this documentary aims to answer by calling not only on specialists such as geriatricians, gerontologists, psychologists and philosophers, but, first and foremost, on the experience of elderly people themselves.
La fille du cratère
A woman of the land, Yolande Simard-Perrault sees herself as a child of an earthshaking event in Charlevoix, Quebec, millions of years ago. Strong as the Canadian Shield, she is a daughter of the crater formed by that meteor impact, which explains her uncommon vitality. This documentary portrays a determined woman who is the reflection of a land that has always been bigger than life. She was the creative and life partner of filmmaker Pierre Perrault, who left everything behind to be by her side. The film charts the influence of this insatiable dreamer and her contributions to the building of a collective unconscious. In a stream of images and words, Simard-Perrault recounts the splendours of the landscape and the people who shaped it. Generous and boundless, her quest for identity nurtured and perpetuates the oeuvre of the man who breathed new life into Quebec cinema.
Point d’équilibre
Official Selection – Montreal International Documentary Festival 2018 Filmed from the point of view of its young subjects, A Delicate Balance takes an introspective look at the lives of four dancers on the cusp of adolescence—that critical time in one’s life when childhood fantasies begin to collide with the realities of being an adult. A tender and captivating documentary in which students of the École supérieure de ballet du Québec candidly tell their stories and share their hopes and dreams.