Actualités
Tenebris
Official selection – Festival Cinéma de Knowlton – Canada (2019) The evil spirits of the world are no longer in a parallel universe but are now an integral part of our world. Anyone who catches a stare from them dies immediately. Only those who possess a lantern of life can still open eyes. Two young girls are trying to survive alone, but the Entities are watching them closely.
Vers des champs inconnus
Official selection – Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal – Canada (2019) Liliane decides to move to a nursing home to care for her husband, who is slowly losing his sense of self. A touching voyage into the unpredictable world of aging.
Errance sans retour
Ted Rogers Best Feature Length Documentary | Prix Écrans Canadiens | 2021Best Documentary – Gala Québec Cinéma (IRIS) – 2021People’s Choice Award, Feature Film – Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec – FCVQ, CanadaWinner, GLOBAL DOCS – DocsMX, MexiqueBest Documentary – Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie (FICFA) In the course of a few months in 2017, the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh became the most populated in the world. Out of sight, nearly 700,000 people from the Rohingya Muslim minority fled their country, Myanmar (formerly Burma), to escape genocide and seek asylum in this refugee camp. Wandering, a Rohingya Story plunges us into the merciless reality of life in this gigantic camp. A documentary that is both deeply captivating and poetic, where drama meets light, where poetry and words of Rohingya refugee Kala Miya (Kalam) guide and enlighten us on the intricacies of this place that appears to have been frozen in time. Source: IMDB
Les Libres
Prix Cineli Digital | Marché du Film – Festival de Cannes, France (2020)En compétition | Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal, Canada (2020)En compétition | Festival Vues sur mer, Canada (2021) The Free Ones is a full-length documentary feature which shows us how four detainees are dealing with the end of their prison sentence, in a sawmill. Can a factory job help them to make the necessary transformation and become free men? Hidden from society’s view and through meetings with their instructors, psychotherapists and other participants, we accompany Samuel, Pierrot, Fred and Steve talk about their hopes and fears during this six-month transition period.
Sous un même soleil
Despite the 1994 ceasefire, there is still no real peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which continue to fight fiercely over the mountainous Nagorny Karabakh region. More than 25 years after the war, nationalistic passions seem as strong as ever. The litany of resentment and accusations continue to be met with denial in an ongoing dialogue of the deaf. With the restraint that comes with our foreigner’s gaze, Under the Same Sun offers an attentive ear, in search of understanding in these young countries with old wounds.
Passage
Official Selection – Festival de cinéma de Rouyn-Noranda – 2020Official Selection – Compétition Nouveaux Regards – RIDM – 2020Official Selection – Media Library – Festival Visions du Réel – 2020Official Selection – Cinema On The Bayou Film Festival – 2021 Passage paints a poetic portrait of the summer spent by 18-year-old Gabrielle and Yoan on the eve of their unavoidable departure from the remote region of Témiscamingue.
Tant que j’ai du respir dans le corps
Every day, in a consultation room, the patients land; broken, sick and marked by life. In front of them, sits an invested person who tries, without false hope, to repair the bodies and the psyches. In this cramped room where the world and a suffering humanity parade, each one of them confides in a disarming authenticity. At night, when the doors of the resources are closed, street workers storm the city to extend their support to all those unfortunate people who elected the street as their home. The metropolis becomes a veritable open-air refuge where a series of unexpected encounters, places full of strangeness, scattered discussions, wandering souls and dormant bodies hidden from the eyes of passers-by as ghostly visions in the night.
La mer entre nous
Official Selection – Global Cinema Film Festival of Boston – 2020Officiel Selection – DOK. Fest München, Munich, Germany – 2020Official Selection – Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) – 2019 The film transports us into the lives of Hayat & Wafaa and to the city of Beirut in Lebanon, 25 years after the end of a bloody civil war. Through the intimate stories and memories of these two female protagonists of different backgrounds, we understand why the city’s neighbourhoods are still walled in by invisible boundaries and whether forgiveness and reconciliation are possible in a country still broken over religious and political ideology.