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- An intimate and unflinching look over 12 months at the hardscrabble lives of hustlers in downtown Montreal.
- A documentary on the history and present-day reality of big-business tax avoidance, which has seen multinationals depriving governments of trillions of dollars in tax revenues by harboring profits in offshore havens.
- A people's struggle to save the animal at the heart of their culture.
- A look at the history and cultural impact of Tarzan.
- Bombarded by thousands of images every day, are we still able to truly see them, especially those of conflict and its aftermath? We go on a quest for the meaning of images and discovers a vast palette of contrasts which shock and compel.
- PLANET YOGA tells the fascinating story of the encounter between the ancient eastern discipline of yoga and a western population hungry for spiritual and physical renewal.
- An overview of the career of actress and singer Marie Clotilde "Toto" Bissainthe, who fused jazz with voodoo poetry and rhythms from her native Haiti, and the singers of Haiti.
- UNLIKELY TREASURES is about people who collect unexpected things like clothespins, platform shoes and discarded tea-tags, taking you on a trip inside their homes, their minds and their drawers of stuff. There is method to their madness and this film will show you why.
- Bombarded by thousands of images every day, are we still able to truly see them, especially those of conflict and its aftermath?
- -Louis, 70, has been drummer with the band "les Sinners", successful record producer, private detective, family man, drug addict and alcoholic. Frédérique, 33, is a talented photographer who's not always picture-perfect. I'm a 40-year-old filmmaker, and I'm somewhere in between: half angel, half demon. What unites the three of us is our bipolar affective disorder. Hypersensitive, we've experienced the ecstasies of psychosis and the meanders of depression. We've stumbled, we've fallen hard, and then we've picked ourselves up again. Today, we're in full possession of our abilities, and we've decided to tell our stories to combat prejudice and give hope to all those who struggle with mental illness.
- Portrait of a home for women that are victims of domestic violence.
- Seeking Refuge is an intimate and poignant portrait of asylum seekers in Canada. From border crossings to church basements, the film follows newly-arrived claimants awaiting their hearings and captures the lives of those who have been denied asylum and face deportation.
- The Creole language and culture, as examined across four island territories in the Lesser Antilles.
- Year One tells the story of the challenges, doubts and rewards that await newly qualified teachers as they go through their first year in school. They discover a contrasting world where the problems of discipline are not always those they expect, and a profession that requires them to be educator, psychologist and entertainer all in one.
- The Seychelles: turbulent birth of one of the world's smallest republics and militant supporter of the Creole language.
- This documentary follows archaeologist Steve Bourget's race against the clock to explore and preserve what remains of a mysterious Precolumbian civilization in Peru. Mr. Bourget confronts the looters of ancient tombs, who often are just impoverished local peasants tempted by the offers of the middlemen working for international traffickers and collectors. A fascinating behind-the-scenes investigation of the international trade in archaeological relics, a business that ranks third worldwide after drugs and arms.
- Creator of multiple games, Tristan, inspired by the articles written by his friend Juliette, invents the Monopoly of love. This is an opportunity for research full of humor, in workshops preparing for life as a couple, the marriage and loneliness industry, flirting courses, the bachelor's lounge, dating agencies.
- A father whose son died in the attack on the World Trade Center decides to help the people of Afghanistan to end the cycle of violence.
- French-Canadian filmmaker Jean-Daniel Lafond goes into the life of wanted terrorist David Belfield, an African American convert to Islam who was born in the United States and allegedly murdered Ali Akbar Tabatabai, a former Iranian ambassador loyal to the deposed Shah of Iran and an outspoken critic of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1980. Belfield, now known as Hassan Abdulrahman, fled to Iran following the murder and has remained there ever since. In this film, Belfield tries to explain and justify his terrorist activity. Lafond also puts forward several conspiracy theories as to who ordered Belfield to kill the former diplomat.
- The Creole language, education and literacy are keys to Haiti's future.
- East End Kids, in 2003, set out to meet children in the Montreal neighborhood where the filmmaker grew up, whose name calls up images of poverty and social problems. In East End Forever they are turning 18: we meet each of them again, take the measure of what has happened in their lives since 2003 and follow them as they approach adulthood. How will they face their future? Will they still be full of dreams and resilience? Are their East End roots going to be a handicap or a source of strength?
- -A deeply human foray into the world of three young people - Simon, P.O. and Scoobey. On their way to adulthood, after years in youth centers, they struggle to escape from an environment that flirts with delinquency, in the hope of finding their place and flying on their own wings.
- Roger Pelerin, is a brilliant artist who left the city to establish himself on the Island of Nepawa, in the deepest corners of Abitibi, to live an atypical life and work on his craft without selling out. Over the course of four seasons, we see him labor his masterpiece: a magnificent book of prints illustrating the story of his island, its simple and honest residents, and its natural beauty - a source of profound inspiration. The result is a beautiful portrait of an uncompromising artist and his very human experiences of ups and downs, small setbacks and infinite joys.
- This shock documentary takes us secretly behind the lines in Burma, in the company of displaced populations fleeing the military dictatorship, and deep into the heart of the underground resistance in exile.
- Martin Stone chose freedom: in 1966, he took his young daughters, Deborah & Jacqueline and hit the road on a six-year adventure with America's wildest hippy community, the Hog Farm. Five decades later, Martin and his girls live very separate lives. Martin remained true to his counter-culture beliefs and today, lives "in community," sharing his rambling Montreal, Mile End apartment with young roommates who dig his alternative vibe. For Martin, being a hippy wasn't a phase, it's a way of life. His daughters, both now living in Philadelphia, decided on less eccentric existences. Martin and his girls give honest accounts of their lives together and why their paths and dreams ran so far apart. This is a film about choices and how they impact those we love.
- -"Vues de l'Est" meets children from the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve neighbourhood in Montreal (Canada), the neighbourhood where the director was born and which has become synonymous with poverty, violence and school dropout. The film gives voice to children who are said to have little chance of escaping their condition, children who are going through those crucial years when we build our self-image and project ourselves into the future. The children of "Vues de l'Est" are filmed where they live, we get attached to their neighbourhood, their families, their fears. They become reporters themselves and capture on film objects, places, people that are meaningful to them: a picture of a father we have never known, a place where we like to think, a homeless man with a tattered heart. Beyond fear and doubt, the film bears witness to the light that lives in the children of the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve neighbourhood, to the strength and beauty of these lives that resemble all the others. Lives full of dreams of tomorrow that sing.
- An investigative report about Southern Africa and the oil route.
- Portrait of Breton filmmaker René Vautier, who made the first anti-imperialist film, Afrique 50 (1950), and who, camera in hand, witnessed the Algerian uprising.
- The film covers Canada's development efforts in Africa, as seen through the eyes of Quebec humorist Yvon Deschamps.
- A couple "documentary-comedy" mini-series about relationships, love, and living together, with Denis Bouchard and Léa-Marie Cantin.
- When the military isn't enough, for some, there's 'The Mercenary Game'. An inside look at the world of for-hire soldiers and mercenaries.
- What lay behind the banning of Cameroonian author Mongo Beti's novel "Main Basse Sur Le Cameroun" (1971), or the little-known story of Cameroon's independence.
- The songs of Claude Marti tell of a culture destroyed, a language and history suppressed, and of a determination to rediscover Occitanie's roots. The film compares the Occitanie of every day life and the one of Marti's songs.
- The dreams and ideals of the Sarajevo youth takes us back to 1992, when Mahir was 17 years old, Jelena 19. They now live in Quebec. For the duration of a film, Jelena returns to the scene of a conflict that has transformed her forever. Opposing the weapons of culture and hope against barbarism, the filmmaker called on the photographer Louis Jammes, who in 1993 plastered the walls of Sarajevo with immense serigraphs of children. Crossed by these faces of innocence, Le rendez-vous de Sarajevo convinces us that war will never triumph over truth, art and love.
- South Sudan: one of the world's longest-lasting civil wars. A Canadian team travels inside Sudan with a group of Anyanya guerrillas.
- Chef Thémis, founder of Cooks Without Borders, returns to Madagascar, where he was born, with a goal: to help the very poor to earn a living, by teaching them to become professional cooks.
- An activist TV-show on the rights of citizens and consumers, presented in forty-one 30-minute weekly programs, and broadcast by Télé-Québec.
- Shot on location in Africa, the film follows a Québec filming crew looking for various aspects of life in Cameroon during the era of Cardinal Léger.
- Director Jean-Claude Burger uses children's drawings to denounce the merciless war between Bangladesh and Pakistan.
- The history of Haiti conveyed in a poetic narrative by the great Haitian poet, Anthony Phelps, and featuring Toto Bissainthe, the famous local singer and actress.