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Au-delà du papier
At a critical moment in the history of the written word, as humanity’s archives migrate to the cloud, one filmmaker goes on a journey around the globe to better understand how she can preserve her own Romanian and Armenian heritage, as well as our collective memory. Blending the intellectual with the poetic, she embarks on...
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The meat industry is booming in Quebec, Canada, where huge factories use standardized production methods to convert vast herds of livestock into meat. They hire asylum seekers, mainly from Latin America, so they can continue to produce at competitive rates. This observational film splits its focus between the workers and the animals; between the parallel...
L’automne où le bonheur sombra
Sylvie Morange is a young octogenarian living alone at home. She’s living a simple life, seizing every moments giving to her. But on day, a stupid domestic accident shatters her happiness. Fortunately, members of her family will be there to help her. But against all odds, instead of getting better her health won’t improve and...
Mourir en vie
Free screening. With Marcel Sabourin, Benoit Brière, Élise Guibault and Dorothée Berryman After the screening, the director and actor Benoit Brière, and Dr. Jean-François Chicoine, writer and producer of the film, will discuss with the audience. Hosted by Dr Mélissa Généreux. Montreal, a multigenerational house loaded with books, paintings and knick-knacks, so many memories revived on the evening of one last Christmas Eve. Luc, a retired pediatrician and teacher in his eighties, lives with his son François, a pediatrician like his father, and François’ wife Esther. Suffering and physically diminished, the old man has now decided to end his life. In a corrosive and sensitive verbal joust, he asks his son to end his days in privacy. The son then takes him on an existential and circus-like journey through the streets of Montreal where the father is supposed to go to his final destination, a hospital where he will be confronted with his ultimate wish: the choice between the finality of medical aid to die or a return to square one, the small pleasures of what remains of his life, alive.
Les harmonies invisibles
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Prix Ushuaïa TV / Écrans de l’aventure – Festival Les Écrans de l’Aventure – France – 2021 The Arctic tales of our childhood have fixed in our visual memory the image of the narwhal, that unicorn of the seas, with its long-twisted tooth, emerging on the surface of the water. Going to the Arctic in search of this image is an opportunity for Laurent and Vincent to confront their childhood dreams with the reality of a rapidly changing world. « At the heart of Inuit mythology, the narwhal embodies the hyper-boreal universe », says the Inuit artist Andrew Qappik. But we must not lose sight of the fact that this animal, hunted for its meat, its teeth and its skin, has become rare. It embodies the fragility of the Inuit world. Indeed, if we are not careful, the cultural heritage of these men of the Great North is doomed to disappear. Their world is disappearing as the ice pack melts. For the Marie brothers, the loss of the Inuit’s ancestral landmarks would also lead to the disappearance of the vital power of the tales that nourished their childhood. The Invisible Harmonies look for an open window on the world animated by the magic of cinema. The film thus offers an account of the invisible links between man and animal, the imagination and the real, but also the link between two brothers in their understanding of the world. Discover also our special program gathering the works of Vincent Marie: Bartolí, le dessin pour […]
La Lumière de Léonie
Nomination – Great Lake Christian Film Festival – 2021Official selection – Rendez-Vous Québec Cinéma – 2021Official selection – Faith Fest – 2021 The Little Sisters Of The Holy Family are separating themselves from the relic of their foundress, Blessed Marie-Léonie Paradis, to share her with the surrounding community. Sisters Rachel, Denise, Marie-Paule and Grace testify their unflinching faith which grants them the strength to surrender to the flow of life.
Le bruit des moteurs
Official selection – San Sebastian International Film Festival – 2021Official selection – Bogota International Film Festival – 2021Festival International du Film de La Roche-sur-Yon – 2021 With Robert Naylor, Tanja Björk, Marie-Thérèse Fortin, Naïla Rabel, Alexandrine Agostini, Marc Beaupré, Maxime Genois Alexandre, an instructor at the Canadian customs college, will finds himself under surveillance by police investigators trying to get to the bottom of the sexually explicit drawings that have been troubling the town.
Dialogues pour un homme seul
Official selection – The International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA) – 2021 In a magnificent, strangely empty theater, Edgar Bori embodies the quest of an author-in-residence working on the final draft of his next creation. Poetic lyrics, timeless melodies, the actor sings and speaks words that merge with those of Quebec poet and playwright Michel Garneau, whose powerful voice charged with meaning can be heard from time to time. We are carried away in the bewitching and luxuriant universe of a dramatic musical where imagination takes over through the dialogues of a lonely man. Alone, but not quite, for around him appear and disappear Jean-François Groulx, his accomplice musician, and Josianne Paradis, his idealized muse. This feature film stages the story of a romantic author’s last flight, as he risks himself into recapturing an unforgettable flame of his youth.Directed by Jean-Pierre Gariépy, this is a film adaptation of the play “Garneau/Bori” created in 2017 by Edgar Bori and directed by Michel Bruzat (Théâtre de la Passerelle, France).
La coop de ma mère
Filmed over two years, My Mom’s Co-op reveals a place where, despite the challenges of collective management, 40 families successfully resist the pull of the individual. This intercultural, intergenerational melting pot is the new face of the co-operative movement where everyone, no matter their hardships, can find peace, security and most importantly a home.
Nouveau-Québec
Best Screenplay – Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal – 2021Best Screenplay – Whistler Film Festival – 2021EDA Award for Best Female Directed Feature – 2021 With Christine Beaulieu, Jean-Sébastien Courchesne, Jean-Luc Kanapé Accompanied by her lover, Sophie (Christine Beaulieu) travels to the Côte-Nord to honour her late father’s last wishes: namely, to have his ashes scattered in Schefferville, the place where he’d spent much of his life before the mine closed. When tragedy strikes, the couple find themselves trapped in a near-ghost town whose past secrets begin to bubble back up to the surface. A spine-tingling thriller set way, way out of the city, Fortin’s splendidly crafted first feature, anchored in the Innu community of Matimekush, ventures into an isolated region to set the stage for an authentic encounter between the quintessential city slicker and nature.