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.
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FEATURE FILMS
IN PRAISE OF SHADOWS by Catherine Martin
International Premiere
86 min, Documentary, 2023, French / Japanese (Eng-sub)
Junichiro Tanizaki’s literary essay In Praise of Shadows, light and dark, and the origins of photography and cinema are among the strands interwoven in this “cinematic meditation” in three chapters. Fleeting shadows ebb and flow in a glistening half-light, an enchanted dreamlike state that reflects on our place in the world, the passage of time, and the very essence of life and its fragility.
Festivals :
Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM) 2023
LARRY (THEY/THEM) by Catherine Legault
World Premiere
90 min, Documentary, 2024, English / French (Eng-sub)
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.
AMAZONIA, AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE GUARDIANS OF THE RAINFOREST by Santiago Bertolino
International Premiere
97 min / 52 min, Documentary, 2024, French / Portuguese (Eng-sub)
A FRENCH YOUTH by Jérémie Battaglia
International Premiere
84 min / 52 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?
Festivals :
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2024
URBAN CHRONICLES by Nadine Gomez
World Premiere
85 min, Documentary, 2024, French / English / Spanish / Japenese (Eng-sub)
The stage for millions of disparate existences, cities carry within them our dreams and anxieties. We inhabit the city as much as it inhabits us. Urban Chronicles explores this unique, intimate and mysterious relationship we have with our urban environments, and the place and meaning each of us tries to find in them. Taking the form of a wander through a gentle purgatory where existentiality traces the path towards the other, Urban Chronicles gives voice to the little-heard and sometimes ghostly voices of our metropolises. A thread of woven encounters that reveals a sensation of strange familiarity and invites us to revisit cities with our senses, and our hearts.
CIRCO by Lamia Chraibi
World Premiere
80 min, Documentary, 2024, Portugese (Eng-sub)
Filmed over 5 years, Circo portrays the search for the unconditional love of a family. Richard, a young circus artist sees his stability shattered the day he is kicked out from his foster mother’s house. This rupture brings him back to his past as an orphan in a society that abandons him. He whirls and clings from the hardships of the favelas to the desires of fame, from the solidarity of friendships to the hopes of drag queens and spirits. Confronted with his contradictions and childhood traumas, his only way out is to become one with the theater of his dreams.
JOHANNE by Nadine Valcin
World Premiere
75 min, Documentary, 2024, French (Eng-sub)
The film tells the unusual and surprising story of a little girl once abandoned at the gates of an orphanage in Montreal, who grew up to be the first black model in North America.
AMONG MOUNTAINS AND STREAMS by Jean-François Lesage
World Premiere
98 min, Documentary, 2024, Mandarin (Eng-sub)
Two travellers explore a mysterious forest at dusk. They’re far from the borders of the China that they’ve left behind, but the landscape they wander awakens in them painful memories and existential reflections. The Tiananmen Square massacre has upended their world view, and it’s in their creation that the writer Ma Jian and painter Meng Huang find an answer to oppression and lies.
RED FEVER by Neil Diamond and Catherine Bainbridge
International Premiere
100 min / 60 min, Documentary, 2024, English / Cree
Red Fever is a witty and entertaining feature documentary about the profound, yet hidden, Indigenous influence on Western culture and identity. The film follows Cree co-director Neil Diamond as he asks, “Why do they love us so much?!” and sets out on a journey to find out why the world is so fascinated with the stereotypical imagery of Native people that is all over pop culture. Why have Indigenous cultures been revered, romanticized, and appropriated for so long, and to this day? Red Fever uncovers the surprising truth behind the imagery — so buried in history that even most Native people don`t know about them.
Festivals :
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival 2024
Doxa Documentary Film Festival 2024
SEEING THROUGH DARKNESS by Simon Plouffe
World Premiere
90 min, Documentary, 2024, Ukrainian / German / Serbo-Croatian / Japanese / Spanish (Eng-sub)
Carried by an immersive sound environment that plunges us in the reality and the perceptions of these resilient and inspiring people, this film questions our own blindness face to violence and suffering of our time — despite the overabundance of images that reach us — and highlights the urgency of lending an ear to hear these stories.
SHORT FILMS
LIKE A SPIRAL by Lamia Chraibi
World Premiere
28 min, Documentary, 2024, French / English / Arabic (Eng-sub)
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 to exist. Their memories dance in the rhythm of oppression. Caught within life’s spiral, they lift themselves up to not sink into oblivion.
HERE AND THERE by Chadi Bennani
International Premiere
19 min, Documentary, 2023, French (Eng-sub)
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 :
Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM) 2023
DOXA International Film Festival 2024 (Confidential info)
REGARD – the Saguenay International Short Film Festival 2024
26 min, Fiction, 2023, No dialog
Festivals :
Vancouver International Film Festival 2023
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma 2023