Arts & Culture

Les Films du 3 Mars (F3M) invites you to discover thematic cinema about Arts and Culture. From fiction to documentaries, long and short, enjoy the best of Québécois and Canadian filmmaking !

ITILLI GATHERING

76 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

Every summer, three generations of Inuit gather in Itilli, their ancestral land in Nunavut. In the long Arctic summer light, a different sense of time emerges: children play across the vast tundra and learn to carry the teachings of their Elders and the land.

WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED

85 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

Weaving together the stories of three writers and a publisher, all forced into exile by repression in their home countries, We Will Not Be Silenced explores the lasting consequences of displacement. Through the experiences of Aslı, Liao, Tutul and Mona, the documentary reveals how violence and forced exile can profoundly alter one’s relationship to language, writing and identity.

NOWHERE, EVERYWHERE

91 min, Documentary, Canada, Atmos

A cross between a journalistic investigation, a sci-fi thriller, an activist documentary and a portrait of an artist in the throes of creation, this playful, biting and rigorous hybrid film exposes the reality of tax havens and their consequences.

CHRONICLE OF A CITY

76 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

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.

AMONG MOUNTAINS AND STREAMS

98 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

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 is a renowned painter who lives in Berlin.

SIMPLY JOHANNE

75 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

A contemporary tribute to trailblazer Johanne Harrelle: artist, actress and one of North America’s first Black models.