20 Nov. - 01 Dec. 2024
Tedesso Lachapelle, Isaak Lachapelle-Gill | 2024 | French | S.T English
Giving voice to the women in their family, two cousins paint a surprising portrait of their grandmother, an activist who left her mark on the Odanak community.
See full detailsAnnie St-Pierre | 2024 | French, English, Japanese | S.T English
By immersing us in the intimate world of those who hope to become a better version of themselves, this film essay skilfully paints a portrait of a society in search of meaning.
See full detailsRichard, a young Brazilian circus artist, is thrown out by his adoptive mother and must confront his childhood traumas through a rich and healing quest for identity.
See full detailsIn a revealing documentary approach, this story, told with the protagonists playing themselves, reconstructs their uprooting in the face of the insensitivity of climate change.
See full detailsAnonymous faces stroll furtively through the city, looking for a night of ephemeral pleasure. An amusement park becomes the playground for unbridled freedom.
Warning: explicit sexual content
In war-torn Haiti, a group of artists are busy preparing for a theatre festival. Between rehearsals and work meetings, heart-rending questions emerge.
See full detailsA relay between two artists, this experimental film shows the return of a species of cicada that only emerges every 17 years in an America that also may be starting a new cycle.
See full detailsBetween magic realism and documentary, this labyrinthine film inspired by the literature of Jorge Luis Borges shapes a space-time continuum that follows its own poetic logic.
See full detailsNoa Blanche Beschorner | 2024 | German | S.T English
Divided into four language exercises, this meditative work of surprising narrative originality creates fleeting urban poetry exposing the details of a presence in motion.
See full detailsMalen Otaño | 2024 | Spanish | S.T English
Troubled by the death of her grandmother Miren, filmmaker Malen Otaño examines her family archives in the form of a photographic essay to reveal their hidden meanings.
See full detailsLamia Chraibi | 2024 | English, Arabic, French | S.T English
The intimate, hard-hitting testimonies of migrant domestic workers, in the swirling city of Beirut, question notions of identity, home and justice.
See full detailsMatilde-Luna Perotti | 2024 | Spanish | S.T English
By staging herself and using home movies, the filmmaker breaks her silence about her sexual assault for the purposes of healing and empowerment.
See full detailsSamy Benammar, Mohamad Awaad | 2024 | Arabic | S.T English
An inspiring co-production, this experimental short poetically and directly questions how and why one tells a traumatic story.
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Taxi Girls is a high-energy rock trio hailing from Montreal. Comprised of three talented and fierce ladies - Jamie, Vera and Lynn - this band is quickly making a name for themselves with their unique brand of punk rock that blends the classic sound of the Ramones with the fiery spirit of the Muffs and a dash of Veruca Salt.
CRABE has been involved in present punk for over 17 years, driven by a desire to exist through their music and to communicate through the radical expression of ideas, words concepts and so on. Might as well do something real while you exist!
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As part of the retrospective “Iva Radivojevic: Imaginary Landscapes of Dislocation,” the filmmaker will discuss her conception of cinema in a conversation with Jason Fox, publisher and founder of World Records.
This activity is free, will be held in English and is presented as part of the Retrospective Iva Radivojevic: Imaginary Landscapes of Dislocation.
Through a variety of processes and techniques creating an eclectic collage effect, Alexandra Guela tells us the story of her family and her people, the Aromanians.
See full detailsIn a blend of fact and fiction, Melrick visits his grandmother in French Guiana, rediscovering with fascination a country that lives within him and walking the path of difficult forgiveness.
See full detailsRawane Nassif | 2024 | Arabic | S.T English
After 20 years, Rawane Nassif returned to the Msaytbeh district of Lebanon. She touchingly shares her impressions and relationship with the place where she grew up.
See full detailsZazie Ray-Trapido | 2024 | English | S.T English
Filmed in 16mm, this short film astutely and delicately explores the paradoxes of the American dream via a deep friendship between two neighbours living in the same cul-de-sac.
See full detailsNorika Sefa | 2024 | Albanian | S.T English
The shadow of a war at its boiling point haunts the filmmaker's family home and the people who live there.
See full detailsEmanuel Licha | 2024 | Spanish | S.T English
As people organize themselves to find their missing relatives in Mexico, we hear their voices against a black backdrop amid brief images of excavations and searches.
See full detailsAlexis Kyle Mitchell uses a poetic approach to explore the experience of living with a genetic disorder while questioning family heritage and mortality.
See full detailsIn conjunction with the release of the documentary Simon & Marianne at the Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM), this in-depth and intimate discussion at the crossroads of cinema and literature will explore the reality of medical assistance in dying as an element of artistic creation. With author Marianne Marquis-Gravel and filmmakers Pier-Luc Latulippe and Martin Fournier.
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