2020-2024
THE HEARING
93 min., Documentary, Québec, Canada, 2023
Having fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Peggy, Simon and their children seek political asylum in Canada after a dangerous migration route. The film delves in the daily life of the family over one year, as they go through the complex legal maze of claiming asylum.
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CAITI BLUES
84 min., Documentary, Québec, Canada/France, 2023
Caiti Lord has a beautiful voice that she plans to use to do more than sell cherry cocktails. As madness surges in the United States, in a most disturbing absurd manner, Caiti is overtaken by a growing sense of suffocation. So Caiti sings. The blues.
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MÁ SÀI GÒN (MOTHER SAIGON)
98 min., Documentary, Québec, Canada, 2023
Má Sài Gòn is a love letter – a bittersweet ode to a comforting yet disturbing mother, to a city that is as liberating as it is oppressive.
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I LOST MY MOM
75 min., documentary, Québec, Canada, 2022
In the form of a filmed journal, filmmaker Denys Desjardins documents the extraordinary sequence of events that drove him to place his mother in a CSHLD (long-term care home).
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NICOLE
23 min, Documentary, Canada, 2023
In this touching documentary, filmmaker Chadi Bennani accompanies his mother, Dominique, as she sets out to empty Nicole’s apartment, her mother who passed two years prior. Through their discoveries, Dominique and Chadi share their memories of Nicole, as well as their apprehensions of a future without her.
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DESVÍO DE NOCHE (NIGHT DETOUR)
96 min., fiction, Québec, Canada, 2022
A journalist reminisces about her latest investigation; a sensory enigma made of tropical heat and melting ice on the Mexican West coast.
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ZUG ISLAND
22 min, documentary, Canada, 2022
In search of the source of a mysterious hum, a sound man meets locals of an abandoned neighborhood devastated by decades of industrial rollout.
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THE FAMILY OF THE FOREST
85 min, Documentaire, Québec, 2022
Gérard and Catherine sacrificed family, friends and their homeland of Belgium for a life of self-sufficiency deep in the boreal forest of Gaspé Peninsula, Québec. Now 15 years later, as their three sons become young adults, what will happen to this remarkable life they’ve given everything to create?
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MARGOT’S SISTER
17 min., fiction, Quebec, Canada, 2021
When her intellectually disabled sister enters the after school program at her school, a young teen struggles to keep her worlds appart.
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FAR BEYOND THE PASTURELANDS
84 min, documentary, Canada, 2021
In a remote himalayan region, the villagers of Maikot are preparing for the harvest of a mysterious aphrodisiac caterpillar-mushroom worth more than gold.
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THE END OF WONDERLAND
85 min, documentary, Canada, 2021
Tara Emory, veteran sex-industry artist, confronts a family history of hoarding through art as she faces eviction from her studio Wonderland.
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RESOURCES
99 min, documentary, Canada, 2021
An observational film about the meat industry in Quebec, where asylum seekers, mainly from Latin America, process a vast herd of livestock into meat. What is life like at various points along this chain ? – IDFA
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HOSPITAL(ITY) CHRONICLES
49 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2021
Through family archives, drawings, animations and performances that draw on her long experience with illness, Brigitte Lacasse takes an incisive, critical look at the Quebec health care system.
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PLANTED IN 2020
18 min, documentary, Canada, 2020
Despite a workforce in quarantine, Canada planted almost 700 million trees in 2020 – the most ever. With future forests under threat, a young woman journies into the Canadian bush to endure a grueling and unconventional season of tree planting during a pandemic.
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WHAT REMAINS AFTER WE’RE GONE
72 min., Documentary, Canada, 2020
The harsh winter of a community of squatters in one of the great lost city of America.
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IN BROAD DAYLIGHT
110 min, fiction, Québec, Canada, 2022
A one-night stand plunges a family into chaos. After giving birth in the living room of an opulent suburban home, a young woman decides to head off in search of her child’s father. But can she prevent the family fabric from shredding and the walls from crumbling?
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THE SOUTHERN WIND
16 min., Documentary, Québec, Canada, 2021
A Franco-Ontarian village, victim of a rural exodus, is surprised by a wind of change.
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