Documentary

RESOURCES

99 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

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 ? (Credit: IDFA)

HOSPITAL(ITY) CHRONICLES

49 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

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.

PLANTED IN 2020

18 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

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.

WHAT REMAINS AFTER WE’RE GONE

72 min., Documentary, Canada, 5.1

The harsh winter of a community of squatters in one of the great lost city of America.

THE SOUTHERN WIND

16 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

A Franco-Ontarian village, victim of a rural exodus, is surprised by a wind of change.

PERDRE MARIO

84 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

On May 22, 2015, Mario shot a bullet in his head. Committing one of 1200 suicides in Quebec that year, he left his family and friends with many questions and deep sadness, the very same one that assails anyone brutally left grieving by a volontary and irremediable departure. Mario was the best and longest friend of the filmmaker of this film. In this documentary, the latter describe and dissect what preceded Mario’s ultimate move, as well as demonstrate the dismay of his close group of friends. By extension, this is the narrative of a troubling experience that everyone of us has unfortunately been through or will go through.