Challenging Power - Nov 19 to Nov 25
24 hours with a young Algerian activist. Karim Aïnouz captures the spirit of the Hirak Movement, driven by youth brimming with life and determined to build a better future.
NARDJES A.
- Karim Aïnouz
- 2020
- Algeria, France, Germany, Brazil
- s.t. English
- 82 min
Seeking Communities - Nov 12 to Nov 18
Personal life, family legacies and national history intertwine in this moving look at a Rwandan-Canadian journalist’s return to his father’s country.
NDAGUKUNDA DÉJÀ
- Sébastien Desrosiers, David Findlay
- 2020
- Canada (Quebec), Rwanda
- s.t. French or English
- 21 min
Surviving Violence - Nov 26 to Dec 2
In this powerful and brave film, a young Chilean filmmaker invents her own language to express the ongoing trauma of a rape she suffered eight years earlier.
NIGHT SHOT
- Carolina Moscoso
- 2019
- Chile
- s.t. English
- 80 min
Becoming Oneself - Nov 19 to Nov 25
A vibrant, creative film that does justice to Billy Tipton, a jazz musician who died in 1989 who has since become an emblematic figure of transmasculinity.
NO ORDINARY MAN (UN VRAI GENTLEMAN)
- Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt
- 2020
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French
- 84 min
8 x Wapikoni mobile
This contemplative film, brimming with stories, is presented as a follow-up to La conquête de l’Amérique II by Arthur Lamothe. Here, Marc-Antoine Ishpatao tells the story of the Nutashkuan
NUTASHKUANIU SHIPU
- Marc-Antoine Ishpatao
- 2019
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French
- 6 min