At Makarenko elementary school, we learn to express ourselves, assert ourselves, engage in dialogue, control our emotions, and, ultimately, live together.

This short, animated documentary revisits the tragic events of the Rwandan genocide through the testimonies of Valentine and Jean-Claude, the filmmaker's parents.

Under the watchful eye of his filmmaker friend, a young violinist wanders the streets of Algiers, torn between a deep attachment to his roots and a burning desire to explore the unknown.

In an immigration office in Abidjan, those who dream of a life elsewhere come up against complex and uncertain procedures. But really, why leave?

Back in Nagasaki, Noriko Oi is confronted with her deceased mother’s painful past and decides to break the silence surrounding the intergenerational trauma caused by the nuclear attack.

In this animated short, Kim Arseneault rebuilds herself and finds the courage to face her anxiety, the monster inside of her.

A sophisticated, artistic look at the páramo, this work explores the social and environmental realities of this unique region, where the future carries its memories as a legacy.

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This discussion with filmmakers taking part in Focus Mexico will look at the reality of contemporary documentary filmmaking in that country.

Panelists : Xun Sero (Mamá), Sofia Peypoch (Earth Altars), Mariana Flores Villalba (The Invisible Frontier), Carlos F. Rossini (Ciudad), Inti Cordera (DocsMX)
Moderation : Nadine Gomez

This activity is free, will be held in English and is presented as part of the Focus Mexico: Light Between the Shadows.

Alessandra Celesia’s The Flats delves into Belfast’s New Lodge community, where the lingering scars of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland continue to shape residents haunted by both past violence and present struggles.

Meant as an allegory, this film unfolds in a kind of symbolic huis-clos where a woman perceives and interprets different artistic representations of war.

Spurred by childhood memories, this poetic work questions the promises of progress in industrial mining, with its various economic and social repercussions.

detours while speaking of monsters explores the mystical Lake Van in Turkey, intertwining Armenian and Kurdish folklore with the filmmaker’s personal journey to reveal the hidden wounds of history and family.

Taking as its starting point the explosion of a pipeline caused by Haifa workers in 1936, A Stone's Throw tells the story of Palestinian resistance and relocation.

In lush Angola, the all-powerful Portuguese colonizer emerges like a parasite, ravaging the fauna, flora, and local populations.

Ciudad is an immersion into the neighborhoods of Mexico City, offering a diversity of viewpoints, which, when put together, skillfully combine to make the city.

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For the past few years, the CCA has been interested in using film as a curatorial tool to approach an object of study and its environment, to discover the complexities that condition its being and becoming, to take the pulse of reality and the multiple perspectives that shape it and to develop a point of view towards it.

We discovered that film documents as much as it evokes, records as much as it questions. We invite you to join us for a presentation of the CCA's most recent documentary, À travers l'île, followed by a conversation on the idea of film as a curatorial tool.

On this panel :
-Giovanna Borasi, Directrice du CCA
-Irene Chin, Assistante Curatoriale au CCA
-Francesco Garrutti, Directeur des Programmes, CCA et commissaire de l'exposition À travers l'île
-Roxanne Labrèche, modératrice de la conversation.

Alongside a couple’s final weeks before one of them receives medical assistance in dying, this tender film is a lucid reflection on death, but above all, on life.

The last resident of a mesmerizingly beautiful village nestled in a Cabo Verde valley, 76-year-old Quirino is forced to leave the only place he has ever known.

The youngest of a close-knit clan of five sisters, the filmmaker takes an incisive yet tender look at their mother to capture this figure of contrasting conservative values.

Calling the Ekuanitshiu Shipu River her sister and source of healing, Uapukun Mestokosho McKenzie makes a poetic film about and with water.

Playing with the codes of documentary, Tout sur Margo is an intimate autofiction exploring a sincere but disappointed young performer’s quest for meaning.

Based on evidence from the “Foca Rape Camps” trial, this research-creation condemns the trivialization of wartime rape by giving a voice to Bosnian survivors.

Carried by the codes of the road movie and autofiction, L.A. Tea Time tackles the filmmaker’s quest for identity with witty, whimsical authenticity as she wanders between Montreal and Los Angeles, hoping to meet Miranda July.

A sparkling film that follows the metamorphosis of young Sara, who is torn between the friends of her working-class neighbourhood and the new world that opens to her when she discovers the theatre.

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Less Toches is the musical collision of five explosive personalities, an unexpected and refreshing big bang of cumbia in Montreal. The eternal magic of the peasant troubadours of the south takes on a poetic, passionate and amusing air: witness the birth of continental cumbia from Montreal!

This activity is free and is presented as part of the Focus Mexico: Light Between the Shadows.