F3M’s UPCOMING TITLES

 

Les Films du 3 Mars (F3M) currently has a catalog with over 250 titles and essentially distributes Canadian produced films of all genres and lengths; primarily feature documentaries. 18 years in the making, F3M has had films selected and rewarded in Festivals such as Sundance, Berlinale, Cannes, Rotterdam as well as the Toronto International Film Festival and Hot Docs.

 

In a nutshell, F3M champions those tiny precious gems that deserve some love.

And with a bright light, we propel them into the world.

 

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Sylvain Lavigne / Director of Marketing / distribution@f3m.ca

Benjamin Hogue / Executive Director / direction@f3m.ca

Clotilde Vatrinet / Events Director / cvatrinet@f3m.ca

SHORT FILMS

PLATANERO by Juan Frank Hernandez

25 min | Fiction | 2025 | Spanish, Creole (Eng-subs)

 

Ti-Frè and Gran-Frè, two brothers of Haitian origin living in a Dominican Republic shantytown, struggle daily to survive. On a full moon night, desperation pushes them to steal from a plantation, where a mysterious beast prowls in the shadows of the banana trees.

 

Festivals :

Sundance Film Festival 2025 (USA)

TRAILER

THE PUNK OF NATASHQUAN by Nicolas Lachapelle

International Premiere

20 min | Documentary | 2025 | French (Eng-subs)


In 1981, a strange character arrives in Natashquan. It marks the beginning of an unlikely love story between this small Quebec village and the young man they call “The Punk.” But five years later, his sudden and unexplained disappearance leaves the community forever changed.

THE BINGO SISTERS by Andrew Przybytkowski

21 min | Fiction | 2024 | English

In a distant and surreal place, a secret society of ladies called “The Bingo Sisters” periodically elect their leader by playing bingo. Mrs. Geneva plans to hold on to power by exploiting the photographic memory of an autistic orphan in order to cheat, however things will not go as planned on that fateful evening as other forces intervene.

 

Festival :

TOHorror Fantastic Film Festival 2024 (Italy)

LIKE A SPIRAL by Lamia Chraibi
International Premiere

28 min | Documentary | 2024 | French, English, Arabic (Eng-subs)

Like a Spiral is a dialogue between Beirut and five women, migrant domestic workers, under the Kafala system. Expressing their belonging to a society in collapse, the women’s voices rise through the film’s grainy images to denounce their stolen freedom with an inalienable thirst for existence. Their memories dance in the rhythm of oppression. Caught within life’s spiral, they lift themselves up to not sink into oblivion.

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Festivals :
VIFF – Vancouver International Film festival 2024 (Canada)
Montreal International Documentary Festival 2024 (Canada)

HERE AND THERE by Chadi Bennani

19 min | Documentary | 2023 | French (Eng-subs)

At the beginning of summer, Adam, Ana, and Dahlia turn to their families and friends to question their cultural heritage. Through tender conversations, “Here and There” juxtaposes the different influences that steer the blossoming of the cultural identities of second and third-generation immigrants.

 

Festivals :

REGARD – Saguenay International Short Film Festival 2024 (Canada)

DOXA 2024 (Canada)

Off-Courts Trouville 2024 (France)

Youth Jury’s Choice Award – Festival Émergence de Montréal 2024 (Canada)

Montreal International Documentary Festival 2023 (Canada)

PORNOMANIA by Chloé Sirois

15 min | Fiction | 2024 | French (Eng-subs)

Following a traumatic event at her grandparents’ house, 10-year-old Rose embarks on an obsessive quest to see and understand the forbidden world of adults by herself.
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Festivals :
Off-Courts Trouville 2024 (France)
Festival du film Social (France)
Montreal Emerging Film Festival 2024 (Canada) Festival Bazar 2024 (Canada)
Courts d’un soir – Montreal International Short Film Festival 2024 (Canada)
TEASER

AUTRE CHOSE by Étienne Lacelle
International Premiere

26 min | Fiction | 2023 | No dialogue

Crippled by the motorcycle accident that took away his lover, a broken young man decides to rebuild the machine that caused him so much pain. On a last ride deep into the Canadian wilderness, an unexpected encounter pushes him to confront both his personal and cultural past. A hybrid story that flirts between fiction and documentary, Autre chose (Something Else) is a meditation of a lonesome man who confronts the weight of his story within a silent territory scarred in his own image.

 

Festivals :

Best Canadian Short Film – FICFA – Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie 2024 (Canada)

VIFF – Vancouver International Film festival 2023 (Canada)

FNC – Festival du Nouveau Cinéma 2023 (Canada)

Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival 2023 (Canada)

 

 

FEATURE FILMS

JARDIN D’ENFANTS by Jean-François Caissy

World Premiere

88 min | Documentary | 2025 | French (Eng-sub)

 

The caring yet bustling environment of a kindergarten serves as the anchor for this deep dive into early childhood. Structured to follow the gradual progression of ages on screen, the film takes us into the daily lives of various children from ages 1 to 5, at a stage where the world seems to revolve around them, and self-awareness slowly shifts from ‘I’ to ‘We’.

LARRY (THEY/THEM) by Catherine Legault

European Premiere

103 min | Documentary | 2024 | English


Young non-binary trans photographer Laurence Philomène has emerged as one of the most original and inspiring voices of their generation and an LGBTQ+ community icon. Exploring the artist’s intimate world and creative process, LARRY (they/them) paints a luminous and engaging portrait of the complex, often misunderstood multiplicity of trans and non-binary identities and experiences.

 

Festivals :

Slamdance Film Festival 2025 (USA)

Reelout Queer Film Festival 2025 (Canada)

Calgary International Film Festival 2024 (Canada)
Charlotte Film Festival 2024 (USA)
Montreal International Documentary Festival 2024 (Canada)

TRAILER

CHRONICLE OF A CITY by Nadine Gomez

World Premiere
76 min | Documentary | 2025 | English, Spanish, Japanese (Eng-subs)

 

Like a waking dream, Chronicle of a City explores the unique, intimate and mysterious relationship we have with our urbanized world through the place and meaning each of us tries to find in them.

SEEING THROUGH THE DARKNESS by Simon Plouffe

International Premiere
93 min | Documentary | 2024 | Ukrainian, Japanese, Serbo-Croatian, German, Spanish, Russian (Eng-subs)

 

Seeing Through the Darkness is an anti-war polyphonic tale exploring the unique and humane perspectives of five individuals blinded by global conflicts.

 

Festival :

Montreal International Documentary Festival 2024 (Canada)

THE INHERITORS by Serge-Olivier Rondeau

World Premiere

79 min | Documentary | 2025 | French (Eng-sub)

Alongside Canada’s largest landfill, a colony of ring-billed gulls settles in for the breeding season. The Inheritors follows these unwanted creatures, who flourish within a hostile ecosystem where peril comes in many forms—flesh, feathers and metal.

MON FILS NE REVINT QUE 7 JOURS by Yan Giroux

World Premiere
80 min | Fiction | 2025 | French


Mon fils ne revint que 7 jours is the eponymous adaptation of David Clerson’s novel. This impressionistic, ecological feature tells the story of Suzanne (70), whose life is turned upside down by the return of her son Mathias (47), whom she hasn’t seen in over 15 years. Day after day, he tells her about his wandering life and his hallucinated vision of reality as they walk towards a peat bog where they used to go when he was a child. The mother’s deep love cannot hold her son, who has returned only to disappear.

A FRENCH YOUTH by Jérémie Battaglia

84 min | Documentary | 2024 | French (Eng-sub)

In the south of France, Jawad and Belka, two young men from North African origin free themselves through their passion for Camargue races. Much more than a traditional fight, this confrontation in front of a bull allows them to take their place in the arena as well as in French society. But at what cost?
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Festivals: 
Hot Docs 2024 (Canada)
EBS International Documentary Festival 2024 (South Korea)
Cinémania (Canada)
TRAILER

AMONG MOUNTAINS AND STREAMS by Jean-François Lesage

98 min | Documentary | 2024 | Mandarin (Eng-subs)


In a mysterious forest, far from the borders of the China they’ve left behind, the painter Meng Huang and writer Ma Jian talk about exile, political opposition and artistic creation as a response to oppression and lies. Ma Jian lives in London. He is a dissident and a prominent writer translated into numerous languages. Since 2011, he has been unable to return to China, where all of his books are banned. Meng Huang lives in Berlin, where he is a renowned painter, living in exile by choice.

 

Festivals: 

Montreal International Documentary Festival 2024 (Canada)

Trento Film Festival 2025 (Trento, Italie)

CIRCO by Lamia Chraibi

International Premiere

88 min | Documentary | 2024 | Portuguese (Eng-sub)

In Rio de Janeiro, Richard dreams of dazzling audiences in the world’s biggest circus tents. But when the 20-year-old artist is kicked out of his home by his adoptive mother, his life is turned upside down. Through an intimate, direct cinema approach, Circo immerses us in the lives of residents of Brazil’s favelas as they seek to shape their own futures.
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Festivals: 
Montreal International Documentary Festival 2024 (Canada)
TRAILER

THESE WILD CATS by Steve Patry

77 min | Documentary | 2024 | French (Eng-subs)


Away from the world, in his DIY cabin deep in a forest, Martin is building a new existence in the company of his pack of cats. The disappearance of one of his felines disrupts his daily life and brings back memories of his past.

 

Festivals: 

ARICADOC. International Documentary Film Festival 2024 (Chile)
DokuBaku IDFF 2024 (Azerbaijan)

Montreal International Documentary Festival 2024 (Canada)