Documentary

LA LOI DE L’EAU

52 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

After black gold, there is now blue gold. Quebec, where water is abundant and not protected by any law, is particularly attractive. Water abstraction or misuse of pesticides and agricultural fertilizers show how over-commercialization can pose a danger to this resource. At a time when the laws of international trade threaten to neutralize our own environmental rules, La loi de l’eau is a film about the necessary awareness of the dangers hanging over a resource that many believe to be inexhaustible.

SPIRA COLLECTION

A collaboration between Spira and Les Films du 3 Mars. Five documentaries are now available on our digital platform, individually or as a bundle, as a rental or as a subscriber’s feature!

THIS LAND IS THEIR LAND

49 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

To explore the theme of tolerance, the director chose, as an example, the conflit between Jews and Arabs in Israel and relate his own experience with Inuits in Nothern lands. ” I have always had a fascination for Israel (…) I could not move on from the idea that the situation between Jews and Palestinians related to us. We are a conquered people but compared to the natives, we are a people of conquerors”. (Bernard Émond)

ROGER TOUPIN, ÉPICIER VARIÉTÉ

97 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

At the heart of the Plateau Mont-Royal, Roger Toupin owns a corner grocer of a decidedly anachronistic décor that has become an impromptu social club frequented by people who belong to a way of life that is fast disappearing. Director Benoit Pilon captures the touching and revealing last moments of this unique place.

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.

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