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Damascus Dreams
Rotterdam International Film Festival – 2021International Critics’ Award – Festival du nouveau cinéma 2021Best Canadian Documentary Film (Jury Mention) – Vancouver International Film Festival – 2021Middle East Now! – 2021 How does one remember a homeland they are so deeply connected to and disconnected from? When Canadian born filmmaker Emilie travels to Syria for the first time in ten years, she feels alienated. A year later, when her grandmother dies and the war begins, she tries to piece back together an image of this elusive country she desperately wants to call her own. Gathering evidence from the past, stories from refugees and bringing along her father for the ride, Emilie embarks on a lucid dream journey hoping to resurrect a fading connexion with her homeland and her father.
Chère Audrey
IN PRESENCE OF THE DIRECTOR (SATURDAY AND MONDAY)AND MARTIN DUCKWORTH (SATURDAY) People’s Choice Award – RIDM (Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal) 2021 In Dear Audrey, filmmaker Jeremiah Hayes is a witness to the most important work of Martin Duckworth’s life – caring for his wife Audrey after her Alzheimer’s diagnosis, and helping his 45-year old daughter, Jacqueline, who has autism, maintain a relationship with her mom. Jacqueline has cut herself off from Audrey, unable to watch her own mother slowly inch towards death. Remembering their life through the lens of his second love of filmmaking, Martin’s commitment and grace in the face of Audrey’s illness is almost palpable. A celebrated filmmaker with 100 documentary films to his credit, as a cinematographer and director, Martin’s cinematic signature is beauty in the ordinary and the extraordinary. In Dear Audrey, Jeremiah will mirror this tradition in the poetry and pain of a life well lived.
Nos ombres d’Algérie
English synopsis is not available.Please see the French version of the film’s page for more information.
Bartolí, le dessin pour mémoire
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Seuls
Official Selection – Calgary International Film Festival – 2021Opening Film – Festival international du film francophone en Acadie – 2021Official Selection- Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal – 2021Closing Film – Toronto Black Film Festival – 2022Official Selection – Halifax Black Film Festival – 2022 Scared for their lives, Afshin, Alain and Patricia left their home countries, alone. As unaccompanied minors, they had to start over in Canada, in hopes to live a better life. Mixing real-life footage and animated sequences, Alone is a tribute to hope: how can a child manage to reinvent himself in a new country, after having left everything behind, even his parents? 10 years and older.
Courts Métrages – Sélection autochtone
Native Shorts Films from the National Film Board of Canada. WITH SUZIE O’BOMSAWIN, ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER OF THE CONSEIL DES ABÉNAKIS D’ONANAK In the program:Mary Two-Axe Early : Je suis redevenue indienne, by Courtney Montour (2021, 33 min)*L’Avenir entre nos mains, by Carol Geddes , Ginny Stikeman and Yolande Garant (1986, 29 min)Les enfants des Nomades, by Evelyne Papatie (2018, 2 min)Délia d e 9 à 5, by Délia Gunn (2018, 3 min)Des histoires ancrées en nous, by Janine Windolph (2019, 11 min) * Featured image.
Apatrides
Best Feature Documentary Award – BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia – 2020Special Jury Prize – Canadian Feature – Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival – 2020Best Feature Film Audience Award – Boston Latino International Film Festiva – 2020Official Selection (World Premiere) – Tribeca Film Festival – 2020Official Selection – Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal (RIDM) – 2020 In 1937, tens of thousands of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent were exterminated by the Dominican army, based on anti-black hatred fomented by the Dominican government. Fast-forward to 2013, the Dominican Republic’s Supreme Court stripped the citizenship of anyone with Haitian parents, retroactive to 1929. The ruling rendered more than 200,000 people stateless, without nationality, identity or a homeland. In this dangerous climate, a young attorney named Rosa Iris mounts a grassroots campaign, challenging electoral corruption and advocating for social justice. Director Michèle Stephenson’s new documentary Stateless traces the complex tributaries of history and present-day politics, as state-sanctioned racism seeps into mundane offices, living room meetings, and street protests. Filmed with a chiaroscuro effect and richly imbued with elements of magical realism, Stateless combines gritty hidden-camera footage with the legend of a young woman fleeing brutal violence to flip the narrative axis, revealing the depths of institutionalized oppression.
Teorema
Best Actress | Mostra de Venise | 1968 Terence Stamp stars as the mysterious stranger—perhaps an angel, perhaps a devil—who, one by one, seduces the members of a wealthy Milanese family, precipitating an existential crisis in each of their lives. Unfolding nearly wordlessly in a procession of sacred and profane images, this tantalizing metaphysical riddle—blocked from exhibition by the Catholic Church for degeneracy—is at once a blistering Marxist treatise on sex, religion, and art and a primal scream into the void.
Ils dansent avec leurs têtes
Official Selection – Festival international du film d’animation d’Annecy – 2021Special Mention : Animation Painting Competition – Animaphix International Animated Film Festival – 2021Best International Dance Film – Choreoscope, Barcelona Dance Film Festival – 2021 The severed head of a choreographer is held captive by an eagle on a desert island. With a dazzling mastery of drawing and painting, this animated short unexpectedly takes us into the sensitive world of an artist madly in love with dance.
Rien ne se perd
In the Slovenian Alps, a young man patiently continues the tradition of his village. In the repetition and rigor of the work and in the daily transformation of nature, he draws astonishing inspiration. Shot in the midst of a global pandemic, None but the Clouds is a documentary essay on the powerful dynamism of life.