Coming of Age

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

A FIRE THERE

95 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

An impressionistic portrait of life in an Armenian village in southern Georgia, this intimate film follows three friends on the cusp of adulthood, caught between tradition and the desire to forge their own path.

THE PUNK OF NATASHQUAN

20 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

Forty years after the mysterious disappearance of an enigmatic figure known as “The Punk of Natashquan”, a remote Quebec community reflects on his fleeting yet unforgettable presence.

CIRCO

88 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

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.

MARGOT’S SISTER

17 min, Fiction, Canada, 5.1

When her intellectually disabled sister enters the after school program at her school, a young teen struggles to keep her worlds appart.

PASSAGE

81 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

Passage paints a poetic portrait of 18-year-olds Gabrielle and Yoan’s summer, on the eve of their inevitable departure from remote area of Temiscamingue.

SMALL TROPHIES

16 min, Documentary, Canada, 2.0

The obligation to perfom in society takes a complete different form for Marie and Gabriel, two young adults with Down syndrome. Aware of how people look at them, they try to reach their dreams otherwise. This short movie documentary treats, in an intimate way, their most personal aspirations. Marie and Gabriel don’t want to live in parallel.