Documentary
AT THE END OF NOTHING AT ALL
90 min, Documentary, Canada, 2024
Every morning, Marcel confides his lyrical thoughts into his tape recorder. Based on his reflections on life, this film takes us on a journey through his story. This portrait-essay is both an intimate and social look at a man with a free spirit and eloquent digressions.
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IN PRAISE OF SHADOWS
86 min., documentary, Québec, Canada, 2023
A meditative state of wonder where the fleeting beauty of shadows evokes our place in the world, the passage of time, and the very essence of life and its fragility.
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EVICTED CITY
80 min., Documentary, Québec, Canada, 2023
Montreal — one of the few remaining affordable cities in North America — is now in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis. An intimate portrait of socio-political resistance, this multilayered film explores the human impact of real estate speculation on the cities of tomorrow.
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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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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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THE ISSUE WITH TISSUE – A BOREAL LOVE STORY
6 x 52 minutes, Documentary series, Canada, 2022
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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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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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