1990-1994
THOSE WHO WALK SOFTLY DIE WITHOUT A TRACE
50 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1
His name was Henri Turcotte. He has lived all his life in the Hochelaga Maisonneuve district. He walked through existence with such light footsteps that he almost disappeared without leaving a trace. He was a stranger, a loner, a former bowling planter who collected old wood from the alleys. He died in the street, he who walked incessantly. The police took him for a homeless man. They did not look for his family. Henri was almost buried in a mass grave. He was 76 years old.
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LA SARRASINE
105 min, Fiction, Canada, 5.1
À Montréal, en 1904, Giuseppe et Ninetta tiennent une pension de famille où ils accueillent leurs compatriotes siciliens. Un jour, Giuseppe se porte à la défense de l’un de ses pensionnaires et tue accidentellement Théo, le gendre de son meilleur ami canadien français. Ce drame exacerbe les tensions entre ethnies et transforme la destinée de plusieurs.
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L’INSTANT ET LA PATIENCE
52 min, Documentaire, Canada, 5.1
In the Résidence Maison-Neuve, the residents tell in turn their stories, their heartbreaks, their illness, their little joys and their expectation of this great, dark and last visitor that is death. L’instant et la patience demonstrate that as we age, we become not less, but more human. We touch the fragility and the beauty of the human condition. It is perhaps when life escapes us that we finally measure its value.
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MY LIFE
21 min, Fiction, Canada, 5.1
A gay writer looks back at his life and the different people he has been, a hippie, a disco bunny, a gay man living with AIDS…
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A VISION IN THE DARKNESS
90 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1
Lea Roback
Her life, Her work, Her activism
Through the eyes of a Quebec Jewish activist, Lea Roback, feminist, unionist, pacifist and communist, A VISION IN THE DARKNESS proposes a modernist vision of Quebec history, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the period knows as « La Grande Noirceur », the Great Darkness.
All profits from viewings are donated to the Lea Roback Foundation
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