Filmed from ages ten to eighteen, young Gabin grows up searching for his own path in an intimate and deeply moving family portrait set in the heart of agricultural France.

A special screening designed for parents with babies and young children will take place at the Cinémathèque. In suitable conditions - soft lighting, reduced volume, a babysitting service, and creative workshops - the feature-length documentary Gabin will be presented, for a friendly, soothing, and carefree movie experience.

This intimate and brave feature film takes us on a personal and rigorous investigation of anxiety and its effects with a well-judged touch of humour.

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Come watch captivating clips from La parole aux enfants, a series of short films directed by André Melançon for the International Year of the Child in 1979. The filmmaker asked children about a wide range of topics: anger, joy, work, even aliens! Then, learn how to conduct your first documentary interview as a team. Clips from the interviews will be shown to participants afterward. The workshop is open to children aged 5 to 12.

Archival footage filmed in a university auditorium hauls us back into the horror of state violence, as the poetry of León de Greiff resonates.

This science-fiction documentary blends investigation and cinephilia through editing to make sense of the death of the filmmaker’s mother.

The figure of the vulture links two stories set in the same place, yet separated by three centuries, in a metaphorical work about the forces that are devouring the world.

Through layers of Super 8 footage, searching for sara creates a landscape of memories and explores the absent presence of Sara, the filmmaker’s great-grandmother.

Drawing on scientific imagery, post-apocalyptic cinema and diary film, this bold, experimental hybrid fiction explores the end of humanity.

Mohanad Yaqubi revives the remarkable work of Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab, whose perspective humanized populations experiencing conflict and exile.

Through voices and urban sounds, Simon Plouffe explores intimate and collective soundscapes that shape the act of listening through a visual representation of sound.

In Algiers, Hassen Ferhani joins his father, a writer, on a poetic stroll in which the city fosters a lyrical reflection on beauty, creation and cultural transmission.

With a creative mix of various visual archives, this rigorous and fascinating film revisits the incomplete solidarity project of OPEC and its member countries.

Dynamically crafted, this film bears witness to the director’s healing journey, supported by her dogs and by her experience learning the sport of mushing.

In collaboration with her family, the filmmaker examines the intergenerational impacts and legacy of the Vietnam War by recreating scenes from a book written by her father.

Moving between an endurance race and meticulously crafted recreations, this documentary paints a creative portrait of ultra runner Tibi U?eriu.

Handheld camerawork and subtle staging document Dr. Loran’s integration as he begins a new chapter of his life on the spectacular island of Tristan da Cunha.

Jiayi Chen blends Tlingit sounds with Alaska’s landscapes in a sensory immersion where lands freed from ice reveal a language also in need of protection.

In this experimental Nêhiyaw archive, an oral history remembered between a kokum and her daughter exposes the colonial violence and agency of six fierce generations.

A lyrical work rich in aesthetic explorations, Same Water uses archives and personal accounts to depict a resort that embodied segregation.

Through a multifaceted approach that combines a roaming camera with a strong narrative perspective, Visite guidée unfolds as a decolonial fable with ecological undertones.

A poetic essay by Chantal Partamian where the Haralez, spirit-dogs of Armenian mythology, roam Istanbul to awaken the dead buried beneath Gezi Park.

In Georgia’s Caucasus Mountains, shepherds, dogs and sheep follow ancient transhumance routes in a sensory portrait of a threatened tradition.

A kaleidoscopic film essay on the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear disaster, told through a hypnotic journey of fragmented vignettes.

Gaza journalist Osama undertakes the essential political act of documenting the genocide as it shapes his daily life of destruction, death and famine caused by the Israeli army.