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- After a virus devastates the global human population, survivors in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure and save the human race.
- Alex is a young addict who sells his body in Montreal (Canada). He's flanked by Bruno, Simon, Jeanne, Eric and Velma, all of them caught in the same spiral of compulsion. Hostage to society's market logic, they are the fallen angels of a dark and violent time.
- Red Fever is co-directed by Indigenous filmmaker Neil Diamond (Reel Injun) and Catherine Bainbridge (Reel Injun, RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World, which won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Masterful Storytelling). Red Fever follows Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond's journey to the four corners of North America and to Europe to uncover why the world is so fascinated with Native Americans and why the same images persist year after year until today. Through iconic and entertaining pop culture images, and a rocking Native American soundtrack, Red Fever looks at the roots of how and why Native American cultures have been revered, romanticized, appropriated -and in the process uncovers the truth about the profound impact of Indigenous peoples on western culture.
- Tara Emory, veteran sex-industry artist, confronts a family history of hoarding through art as she faces eviction from her studio Wonderland.
- -Following a traumatic event at her grandparents' home, 10-year-old Rose embarks on an obsessive quest to see and understand the forbidden world of adults for herself.
- No Ordinary Man is an in-depth look at the life of musician and trans culture icon Billy Tipton. Complicated, beautiful and historically unrivaled, this groundbreaking film shows what is possible when a community collaborates to honor the legacy of an unlikely hero.
- Seldom has Egypt's capital been so evocatively captured. A fly-on-the-wall doc exploring the mysterious and hard-knock reality of a typical Egyptian belly dancer clan in working-class Cairo. Unparalleled access to this hidden world leaves the viewer fascinated and surprised that at night they dance. - Such frankness among Arabic women is all too rare in film... - Variety
- Bébé is born into a dying world. He opens his eyes in a family whose own eyes are closed. He cries out in a house where people stay shushed and sequestered. Bébé brings chaos. He is not loved. Before she suffocates in this noxious atmosphere, young mother Hélène breaks away from the shredding family fabric, abandoning her parents, brother and child, all of whom smolder slowly in their respective silos. She leaves behind the gloomy indoor swimming pool to embrace the immensity of the river, searching for her child's father, a builder of better worlds. A one-night-stand narrated in reverse, masterfully twisted, the better to bring out the blind spots . . . in broad daylight.
- Hotel-Dieu Hospital in Montreal (Canada), one of the oldest in North America. In the emergency ward, patients await their diagnosis, foreshadowed by the most personal questions from doctors. Others don't have the luxury of worrying about such things. They suffer in pain, fight to live or simply want it all to end, despairing at the body's inability to do what it's supposed to. We cannot face disease, much less face those who suffer from it. But what's left of the human once laid out on the operating table, dreading bad news or anticipating the end? Something moving, feeling, loving. The heart that beats.
- -Violinist Jessica Moss and singer/guitarist Efrim Menuck are struggling to balance parenthood with making music in their internationally acclaimed Montreal-based band (in Canada) Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra.
- 30-year-old Caiti struggles to build a life worthy of the dreams of a childhood spent singing on Broadway. In today's dark times, how does one find hope through creation and music?
- Montreal, Canada's last affordable city, is at the genesis of an unprecedented housing crisis. Portrait of sociopolitical resistance, this documentary explores the human impact of real estate speculation on the cities of tomorrow.
- In the south of France, in the heart of the Camargue, an ancient and little-known tradition takes place. In the region's arenas, young men dressed in white confront bulls in a dangerous and impressive face-off. Much more than a traditional sport, this fight without killing the bull offers many young people from North African immigrant backgrounds the chance to take their place in the arena and in French society. Among them are Jawad and Belka, two bullfighters at a crossroads. Following a major injury, Jawad is questioning his future in the sport. Belka, on the other hand, is following in his father's footsteps. He sees his passion as an opportunity to escape an uncertain future and realize his dream of becoming French champion. The film plunges us into the intimacy of these characters. Through their discreet words, they recount their reality as young French people of North African origin. Outside the arena, it's a fight against racism they must wage.
- Johanne (working title) is a feature-length biography of Quebecois Black model/actor Johanne Harrelle (1930-1994). The film tells the unusual and surprising story of a little girl once abandoned at the gates of an orphanage, who grew up to be one of the first black model in North America, a muse to filmmaker Claude Jutra, an actress and the partner of renowned French sociologist Edgar Morin. Although she has isn't a household name, Johanne Harrelle is a landmark figure because of the many doors she was the first to open in the 1950s and 60s. The documentary depicts the complex journey of this multi-faceted woman who constantly resisted society's attempts to categorize her.
- The phone calls home. Adonor has been found. Dave's new lungs are on the way. He has two hours to get to the hospital. The story of a man waiting to be reborn or to die.
- Capturing the daily life of the Bakthiaris in the mountains of Western Iran, directors Ariane Lorrain and Shahab Mihandoust explore the disappearing cultural practice of natural yarn dyeing and carpet weaving. With respect and affection for these beautiful characters, the filmmakers focus on long quiet moments that often turn into lush visual poetry, as vibrant and mystical as the stunning colours that emerge from the dyeing vats. Far from idealizing the very tedious labour that is losing the battle to cheap manufactured wares, their steady voices reflect on the difficulties and the joys of the meditative and determined movements that brings these works of art to life.
- In search of the source of a mysterious hum, a sound man meets locals of an abandoned neighborhood devastated by decades of industrial rollout.
- This documentary immerses us in the personal experience of the filmmaker and his sister as they try to ensure their mother can end her days with dignity in the CHSLD system.
- In Port-au-Prince, a humanitarian aid organization's 4x4 vehicle has been hacked: its Haitian passengers now use it to talk about neocolonialism and to denounce the promises of the international community that were made and never kept.
- -Pascale, Raphael and Celeste are 15 and 16 years old. An adolescence like any other: the first flirtations, the first mourning, the fragile parental bonds. But they are literally - in the field. They are in high school in a special little school in the Eastern Townships, where they learn about farming: La Maison Familiale Rurale. Several times during the year, they each have to go on long stays with a local farmer. They learn to work alongside him and have to integrate into his family: a multi-champion of cow beauty contests, a lumberjack refusing big machines and swearing only by his horses - A real master-apprentice relationship develops between these workers of the earth and our young characters, both feet in the living. In the heart of the splendours of nature, with an attentive camera that knows how to make you forget yourself, "LE PLANCHER DES VACHES" follows the unique journey of three secret and endearing teenagers who will confront their limits, discover the meaning of the bond and learn to live at the rhythm of the earth and the animals.
- Between road movie and political essay, this documentary by Santiago Bertolino takes us along the Amazon River from Brazil to one of its sources in Ecuador, to meet those who are defending their territory.
- In January 2012, the largest student strike in the history of Québec is triggered. The documentary provides unprecedented access '' Le printemps érable '' view from inside.
- -On May 22, 2015, Mario shot himself in the head with a .22 caliber bullet. By committing one of the 1200 suicides that took place in Quebec that year, he plunged his friends and loved ones into a whirlwind of questions and deep sadness, the same one that assails anyone brutally left in mourning by a voluntary and irremediable departure. Mario was the best and oldest friend of the director of this film. In this documentary, the director describes and dissects what preceded Mario's ultimate gesture, as well as dismantling the mechanics of the disarray experienced by his tightly knit band of friends. By extension, it is the story of a disturbing experience that each of us has unfortunately lived or will live.
- "Those Who Come, Will Hear" proposes a unique meeting with the speakers of several indigenous languages of Quebec. The film starts with the discovery of these unsung tongues through listening to the daily life of those who still speak them today. Buttressed by an exploration and creation of archives, the film allows us to better understand the musicality of these languages and reveals the cultural and human importance of these venerable oral traditions by nourishing a collective reflection on the consequences of their disappearance.
- From the heart of the planet's slums and squats, individuals have taken over these marginalized worlds and erected cities in their own image.
- With passion, the three members of the Harting family make a living singing a cappella ballads in the Montreal metro. All three are blind and haunted by the tragic drowning death of the only seeing member of their family, Hassan. Enter Russian mystic and cult-like leader Grigori Petrovich Grabovoi, who promises to help his followers regenerate and resurrect the dead. For the Hartings, Hassan's resurrection is their only hope for completing their family once more. With intimate access and unflinching observations, the film chronicles the Hartings' attempts at dealing with their collective grief. What emerges is a highly unusual family portrait of three complex yet lovable characters.
- An anti-war polyphonic story, Seeing Through the Darkness follows the personal story of people who have lost their sight during armed conflicts.
- Un portrait saisissant de celui que l'on surnomme le député-poète. Une courtepointe cinématographique du Québec moderne, tissée par un amalgame d'archives d'exception. L'oeuvre et la vie de Gérald Godin auront été marquées par son engagement viscéral envers le Québec. Oubliée ou méconnue, la contribution de son héritage politique et littéraire au patrimoine culturel est inestimable. Figure marquante de la poésie québécoise toute sa vie durant, il aura aussi été un acteur de premier plan dans les grands bouleversements socio-politiques des cinquante dernières années. De Trois-Rivières à Montréal, des années 60 au Référendum de 1995, en passant par les prisons d'Octobre et les chansons de sa compagne Pauline Julien, le film GODIN allie archives et entrevues pour retracer le parcours unique d'un combattant.
- Border mechanisms that act on migrants are multiple. From shelter to shelter, boarding on trains, migrants aim up north across Mexico to reach the United States and Canada. During the U.S election, migrants are more than aware that it could be their last chance to cross the border. In complete immersion, Destierros draws a path of reclusion. A path where time is still the longest road between two places.
- They sell everything - cloth, food, curtains - in the streets of Istanbul, and some of them have been at it for more than 50 years. But their way of life is about to change.
- When her intellectually disabled sister enters the after school program at her school, a young tween struggles to keep her worlds apart.
- The night is falling and Montreal is under the snow. People line up at the lost and found office of the city's transit company. They all have lost something, which, upon reflection, becomes the symbol of a deeper loss.
- Near the tip of the Gaspé Peninsula in Canada, in the heart of the boreal forest, lives a French-speaking family from Belgium known for the culinary treasures they forage from the forest and for their exceptional way of life.
- -An intimate portrait of two Muslim women from Quebec (in Canada), this documentary explores the reality of veiled women in today's Quebec.
- With a hybrid style blending political essay and road movie, this documentary by Santiago Bertolino takes us into the heart of the Amazonian reality. Following Marie-Josée Béliveau, an ecologist and ethnogeographer, they journey together along the 4000 km from the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil to one of its sources in Ecuador where they meet with the guardians of the forest. As a result, we witness powerful and spontaneous testimonies from local communities who are doing everything to preserve what remains of their lands, which are disappearing due to the inexorable advance of Western modernity.
- Passage paints a poetic portrait of 18-year-olds Gabrielle and Yoan's summer, on the eve of their inevitable departure from remote area of Temiscamingue.
- After crossing 11 countries irregularly to seek asylum in Canada, Peggy, Simon and their three children are waiting for the hearing that will determine whether they get refugee status or not. Having fled political repression in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the family tries to rebuild a peaceful life in Montreal, in spite of the constant threat of deportation. Between ghosts from the past, hopes for the future and a complex legal maze, the film delves into the struggle of the Nkunga Mbala family to remain in Canada. Offering unprecedented access to their hearing before the Immigration and Refugee Board, the film unveils the opaque process of claiming asylum in Canada.
- A culturally diverse first-grade class who live in the most multi-ethnic district of Montreal overcome their numerous differences, inspiring genuine confidence in the future generation.
- After the passing of his beloved wife, an old man is left alone and feels that those around him seem to envision his imminent death.
- When Cassie makes the horrific discovery that her dangerously unstable mother is fabricating a haunting in their isolated home, she must learn to trust her own intuition in order to save herself and her sister.
- *Turtles do not die of old age* takes a look at a vanishing generation. This film invites us to share in the lives of three elderly men from northern Morocco. Hovering around 80 years old, each of the three men: Chehma, a former master fisherman; Radi, a solitary innkeeper; and Laroussi, a street musician, still works to earn a living. The film illustrates their desire to continue living, presents their outlook in the face of an approaching death, and reveals their courage to ceaselessly work... despite their age. Chehma, Radi and Laroussi's predicament reaches beyond Morroccan geographic boundaries. It ushers us through the universality of life, old age and death. This is a documentary anchored in the men's daily rituals, enveloped with a compassionate humanity.
- -A young immigrant living in Montreal (Canada), is madly in love with Sophie, a Franco-Manitoban. Almost two months have passed since they last saw each others. Vadim tempts fate to be reunited with Sophie. (Inspired by "The Gift", from Velvet Underground).
- Suicides, homicides, shootings and daily killings in North America, as much in the streets, in schools as in homes: the subject of firearms is controversial. And the presence of weapons in homes leaves no one indifferent.