Arts & Culture

LIVING VOCALITIES – SPIRA

80 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

While filming his native land, David B. Ricard is entrusted with the task of documenting the creating process of a show of poetry and music across the Canadian Francophonie. This project gives him the opportunity to question the relationship to rooting (land, language), adaptation (poetry, territory) and the process of relationship with the other (team, subject). In this documentary essay, the filmmaker questions his own point of view as a Quebec documentarist. He explores these themes formally inspired by the poem Le Vivant by Carl Lacharité, driving force of the project.

PRIMAS

95 min, Documentary, Argentina, Canada, 5.1

Two cousins come of age together, overcoming the heinous acts of violence that disrupted their childhood.

ISTANBUL ECHOES

100min, Documentary, Canada / France

Istanbul's street vendors adapt to fast paced urban changes when their 
neighborhoods are destroyed and residents are evicted over the course of 5 years. 
As old buildings and traditions disappear, a strong awareness develops in the younger 
generations and a new voice emerges through a socially engaged hip hop group.

SOME OF MY FRIENDS

115 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

Seven portraits and seven ways of being present to the world.

THE MAN AND HIS ISLE

71 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

A goose-hunting guide since his teens, Gilles Gagné lives on l’Isle-aux-Oyes and L’Isle-aux-Grues, in the middle of the St. Lawrence River. For years, he guided Jean Paul Riopelle on hunting trips, and their adventures led to the painter’s masterpiece L’hommage à Rosa Luxemburg. Today, Gagné leads the explorations of contemporary artist Marc Séguin (the subject of Bruno Boulianne’s previous film, Bull’s eye, un peintre à l’affût). Gagné is the wise keeper of a place and a time, of memory and nature. The perfect guide for passing down knowledge and discovering eternal beauty.

BGL FANCY

83 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

A documentary portrait on contemporary art trio, BGL.