Documentary

SOME OF MY FRIENDS

115 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

Seven portraits and seven ways of being present to the world.

DESTIERROS

92 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

Destierros is an immersive experience that puts on screen the confusion and vertigo of the migration route leading to the United-States.

IN THE WAVES

60 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

In the Waves is an expressive documentary that depicts the life of 80 years old Joan Alma Mills in her aging coastal village. Following the death of her younger sister, Joan finds herself confronted by the fragility of life. As she tries to come to terms with her loss Joan searches for meaning in the natural world around her.
Weaving intimate thoughts with lyrical imagery, In the Waves was crafted by Joan’s granddaughter Jacquelyn Mills. In essence, the film is an intergenerational love-letter, an ebb and flow between dream and reality, past and present, a glimpse of childhood and an encounter with the end-of-life.

20-22 OMEGA

111 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

A purely cinematic nonverbal film transcending the human language to reveal the posthuman world in this unprecedented Earth epoch known as the Anthropocene: the age of the New Humans.

THE MAN AND HIS ISLE

71 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

A goose-hunting guide since his teens, Gilles Gagné lives on l’Isle-aux-Oyes and L’Isle-aux-Grues, in the middle of the St. Lawrence River. For years, he guided Jean Paul Riopelle on hunting trips, and their adventures led to the painter’s masterpiece L’hommage à Rosa Luxemburg. Today, Gagné leads the explorations of contemporary artist Marc Séguin (the subject of Bruno Boulianne’s previous film, Bull’s eye, un peintre à l’affût). Gagné is the wise keeper of a place and a time, of memory and nature. The perfect guide for passing down knowledge and discovering eternal beauty.

YESTERDAY IN NYASSAN

26 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

Filmed in Nyassan, Burkina Faso, this documentary observes with scrutiny the daily tasks of rice growing during the span of a day, and questions the future of the farmers.