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- 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.
- After a virus devastates the global human population, survivors in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure and save the human race.
- -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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- -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.
- 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
- 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.
- Suffering from an illness causing paralysis in his body, Kais is awakened every morning by a different member of his family. Stuck in a frozen body, he dreams at night that he is the hero of his favorite manga, along with his brothers, Fehd the bodybuilder and Zaïd the ninja.
- Tara Emory, veteran sex-industry artist, confronts a family history of hoarding through art as she faces eviction from her studio Wonderland.
- 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.
- 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.
- In search of the source of a mysterious hum, a sound man meets locals of an abandoned neighborhood devastated by decades of industrial rollout.
- 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.
- An anti-war polyphonic story, Seeing Through the Darkness follows the personal story of people who have lost their sight during armed conflicts.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Rio de Janeiro, August 2016. The Summer Olympics are in full swing. A few steps away from the Maracanã stadium, but far from the international attention, a hundred pauperized families live together in an abandoned building. Despite the misery, gang violence and militarization of the neighborhood, the residents survive with ingenuity and resilience. Ignored by the sensationalist reports, their dignified and generous words reveal a universe of concrete and light, where the reality of today fades behind the aspirations for tomorrow.
- 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.
- A documentary that highlights the music new wave movement in Quebec (Canada).
- 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.
- 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.
- "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.
- A man re-establishes contact with his own past by spending a day with the son of his sister. Confronted by memories that stir up strange and painful emotions, he's forced to choose between escape and resignation in order to protect himself.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- When her intellectually disabled sister enters the after school program at her school, a young tween struggles to keep her worlds apart.
- Between the end of adolescence and the beginning of adulthood, Lou and Laylou go through the summer of their 17th birthday. A poetic, singular and strong look at a pivotal moment in adolescence.
- 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.
- -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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A group of angel-like creatures lives in perfect symbiosis with their environment. When a man and a woman break into their boring and regulated world, their lives are shattered forever.
- Exploration of the life and works of André Montpetit known as Arthur, illustrator who was part of the Montréal counter culture scene in the 1960s.