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- Montreal. Ti-Red, freshly out of prison, roams the neighborhood looking for his girlfriend. Then together, they beg. Marco and Rob get high and prostitute themselves for a few dollars. Daguy, artist and homeless, philosopher in the tent that serves as his home and visits a friend who is barely better off. The filmmakers accompany them for a long time in their urban wanderings or in their trips - which sometimes amounts to the same thing. Day and night, the camera, as close as possible to the faces, follows these characters in perpetual motion in a very physical hand-to-hand combat. Working on each chapter with nervous, highly articulated editing, the film restores all the vitality and wild energy of this "marginal" world. Between cinema-verité and staging, this film made of dialogues and wanderings is part of the collective web-cinema project epopee.me, involving people in difficulty. Who here burst the screen with their presence and their humanity. A raw and dazzling response to all exclusions.
- William is constantly shooting video journals of his life to have as souvenirs for himself. Feeling the end of his relationship with Médéric, his young lover, William spends two days camping with him, taking advantage of the situation by filming the trip and their time spent with another young gay couple. The camera never stops shooting, even when Médéric decides to get it on with another guy in a tent. As Canada's first Dogme95 film, the story is shot on location, with natural lighting and live sound, the camera is hand-held and all superficial elements are forbidden. Yet somehow, in spite of these harsh restrictions during the filmmaking process, the result is warm and beautiful.
- Autism spectrum disorder (DSA)- It is not what they have, but what they are, who they are. But above all, they are Felix, Anthony, Marc and Brigitte. They are different.
- Ce film a été tourné le lundi 20 septembre 2004 de 8h à 20h au Café Esperanza, situé au coin de la rue Saint-Viateur et du boulevard Saint-Laurent à Montréal. Il a été totalement improvisé par une équipe de 39 comédiens et comédiennes et filmé par 6 caméras. «Le lieu, une ancienne pharmacie reconvertie en café-bistrot par une gang d'artistes anglophones, est devenu un point de rencontres hétéroclites, un centre de création et d'exploration artistique. Le nom du café m'est vite apparu comme le titre du film : La Pharmacie de l'espoir. Le réalisateur a exploré les possibilités de mettre sur pied une structure d'improvisation afin de réaliser en douze heures un film où les comédiens improviseraient leurs jeux et leurs textes. Ils ont ensemble tissé la toile et le fil conducteur du contenu de ce film.
- While his parents are away from home, Julien, a seemingly normal teenager, decides to self-destruct. With a small DV camera, an intimate friend records fragments of this process before he lets himself sink with him.
- The fixations and the consequences of our pursuit of instant communication and popular culture are exposed as a plotless panorama of our daily obsessions, desires and identities captures a sense of things slowly slipping out of control.
- Art imitates life as dancer Eliza struggles to retain her sense of self while haunted by a toxic, all-consuming romance. The passionate melodies of Clara Furey set a pitch perfect tone for this heartrending story.
- Two people must come together in a city. The city is deserted. During the trip, Allie saw the last moments on earth.
- Emily begins perceiving the world as it was made from painted film stock shortly after being injured in an accident.
- Argentina's troubled history, culminating in the major crisis of 2001, has seen the rise of a wave of original artistic and cultural expression. The documentary The Art of Resistance introduces us to several creators and artist collectives who use artistic expression as a means to deliver powerful social statements, explore unbridled creativity, and participate actively in constructing a new reality. The Art of Resistance is an inventive treatment of these artists' responses to the critical situations they are living. Born in a climate of urgency, their creativity is without boundaries, their strategies constantly renewed. The 85-year-old visual artist Leon Ferrari launches a vigorous national debate by denouncing the Catholic Church's dark underside, factories open their doors to artists who conceive performances among the workers, patients at a psychiatric asylum join together to form an artistic front and charismatic actor Julio Arrieta makes a movie about the extraterrestrial invasion of his shantytown. The Art of Resistance is a penetrating portrait of the artistic and political methods of cultural resistance in Argentina. The film follows these inspiring and revolutionary characters as they struggle to meet the challenges of economic and cultural disintegration and critically examine proposed solutions to the problems of the day. It illustrates humanity's profound capacity for creativity and resilience in the face of adversity. The spectator is invited to witness inspiring examples of this potential as they unfurl against the backdrop of Argentina's ongoing crisis.
- -An experimental film exploring gender identities excluded from the binary system. By constructing a theatrical space including fabricated sets and props, invented radio interviews, vignettes of archival footage, as well as overlays, the film explores the relationship between body and self. In this in-between space, uncertainty can finally have free rein.
- A long overdue documentary film on the work, the influence, the life and the mysterious death of legendary experimental filmmaker Paul Sharits. The film uses never before seen archives of all types and out takes, rare interviews with people in the Avant-Garde scene and experimental cinema historians.
- The location defines me, it deconstructs me.
- By the end of the summer of 2013 it began to emerge that the Parti Quebecois, the political party in control of a minority government at the time, was about to propose a discriminatory bill that would have banned people of ethnic backgrounds from adorning religious garb or symbols if they work in an environment that receives public funding, under the guise of a "secular" charter, in what was considered to be a strategic maneuver by the political party to gain a majority government in the next election by creating wedge politics and using a right wing approach to promote Quebec identity on unilateral nationalistic grounds at the expense of pluralism and multiculturalism. La charte des distractions is a documentary that critically examines the reasons behind the proposed bills and its failings.
- An experimental documentary about aging and decaying memory at the turn of the new millennium, featuring the filmmaker's grandmother.
- An abandoned brewery is presented from the inside by Richard, who dwells in it. An uncommon journey, through which we discover another way to inhabit the city, to live off its leftovers. It is about what is there that we don't notice.
- The Visit is an observation documentary focusing on the phenomenon of tourism in World War II prison camp ruins. Although you'd expect those ruins-turned-to-museums to be peaceful and silent, they happen to be some of most popular tourist attraction in Poland.
- An elderly man is trapped in a nightmarish labyrinth full of monster, and goes on a quest to find his wife.
- Small terrorism details tips and tricks used by everyday people to get back at the ones that get on your nerves, Paul in particular.
- A look at the life and works of Quebec painter and performance artist, Serge Lemoyne (1941-1998). The mosaic is composed of 8mm and16mm film, personal videos of the artist that serve as a kind of diary, televisual archives, as well as interviews with the artist's peers, including Claude Péloquin, Marcel Saint-Pierre and Claude Jasmin. With his installations, performances and Land Art, Lemoyne shook the Quebec art scene beginning in 1963 with multidisciplinary events combining poetry, music, painting and dance. He also introduced Quebec to the spirit and practice of Pop Art. For Lemoyne, the boundary between art and life was blurred. For ten years he went through his "red, white and blue" period, the colours of the Montreal Canadiens hockey team and its stars Jean Béliveau, Guy Lafleur and Ken Dryden. From the early eighties until his death, he worked at transforming his native house of Acton Vale-destroyed by arson two years after his death-into a work of art, questioning in the process the nature of art and its role in society.
- A group of men and women suffering from mental health problems gathers for a workshop to develop a fiction film. Through the characters they create and play, they reveal their own fears and obsessions, inviting viewers to share their ups and downs and enter a world that blurs the frontiers between reality and fiction, normality and madness.
- Written by Pagans incarcerated in federal prisons in Quebec with their chaplain, in XII (2018), non-incarcerated actors reenact and voice stories of contact with the divine behind bars.
- Sophie takes a trip to the suburbs of Montreal to get away and hopefully find a boyfriend. This film is a humorous and quirky tale about what to do when you are depressed, have no money and desperately need to make a change.
- Over the course of a weekend, deep in a wild but inviting nature, a divorced father and his son reconnect and share the intensity and immensity of tender passing moments. When these days of tenderness and sustained happiness come to an end, the cruel emptiness of separation and the other's absence appears, taking them unawares in the form of a dramatic and unexpected event. The love that joins them is once again confronted with the painful incidents of contemporary life.
- A dancer is looking for inspiration for his new choregraphy. Living in a loft with a couple without any future, the situation so pathetic inspires him and his creation. The victim may become the master of the game.
- Recently Jacques and his sister have been taking care of their young cousin Michel. They try their best to live happily despite the gloomy atmosphere that surrounds them.
- Back to the New World follows the initiation of a group of French tourists into Amerindian life. They come to Quebec to live "like real Indians" for an exotic weekend. They are guided by Armand, alias Scalpe d'argent ("Silver Scalp"), a retired civil servant and the sole inhabitant of Innusit village. He introduces his guests to the pleasures and pastimes of the First Nations. With a knowing wink and a hint at the "white man's burden". Back to America considers the general amnesia afflicting whites in relation to the Aboriginal question.
- 'Un sur mille' est un essai documentaire explorant la démarche artistique et intellectuelle de René-Daniel Dubois, comédien, dramaturge, metteur en scène et pamphlétaire. Au tournant de la quarantaine, Dubois entreprend une investigation personnelle de l'histoire et de la culture québécoise qui l'amène à reformuler de façon audacieuse et personnelle son propre rapport au monde. Itinéraire d'un artiste qui, tant par ses créations que par ses prises de position publiques, interroge le Québec contemporain et l'interpelle à contre-courant des discours dominants, tel un incessant appel à la libre pensée et à sa légitime expression.
- A bruised and bloodied man runs across a snowy field. He screams incomprehensibly but he knows where he wants to go: to the little farm in the distance.
- A poetical essay that very briefly explores fragments of a long distance relationship, when two lovers meet, when they are caught in transit
- A look at depictions of women in Jafar Panahi films
- On Quebec's National Holiday, two men leave the big city for the remote countryside. While there, one of them happens upon an enigmatic and silent boy with whom he spends the night. An experience of the ephemeral that makes him feel both the time passing by and the pain of loneliness.
- Cloé grieves her mother and she must go to live with her father in countryside. A father that she does not know.
- -"À l'insu du plein gré" is a documentary about Quebec cinema (in canada). It aims to put into perspective the different issues of production, distribution, and especially creation in the face of the various funding, broadcasting and promotional bodies. This documentary attempts to identify controversies that are not well known to the general public and tries to make viewers aware of the difficulties faced by Quebec directors who want to distance themselves from the script conventions imposed by Hollywood or by our national television network. "À l'insu du plein gré" gives the floor to distinguished personalities of Quebec cinema: Germain Houde, André Turpin, Louis Saïa, Denis Villeneuve, Michel Brault, Robert Morin, Juliette Ruer, Alexis Martin, Michel Coulombe, Micheline Lanctôt, Denis Chouinard... Questions are also put to representatives of the two main institutions of the film industry in Quebec, Telefilm Canada and SODEC.
- Richard Vermette, en haut d'un poteau pendant un mois, réfléchit sur la vie et la mort. Elzéar Duquette a fait le tour du monde en traînant son cercueil. Un homme parvient à envoyer un jet d'urine par-dessus un autobus. Un autre doit se faire insulter pour parvenir à croquer puis à avaler son verre de bière. 'Il a gagné ses épaulettes' est un road movie dans un monde d'exhibitionnistes ignorés des médias officiels.