Emigration & Migration

THE ATHLETE

94 min, Documentary, Canada, 2024

Equal parts family saga, sports film and intimate portrait, The Athlete offers a unique window into the story of Stevens Dorcelus.

SIMPLY JOHANNE

75 min, Documentary, Canada, 2024

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

LIKE A SPIRAL

28 min, Documentary, Canada, 2024

Like a Spiral is a dialogue between Beirut and five women, migrant domestic workers, under the Kafala system.

A FRENCH YOUTH

84 min, Documentary, Canada, France, 2024

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?

HERE AND THERE

19 min., documentaire, Québec, Canada, 2023

THE HEARING

93 min., Documentary, Québec, Canada, 2023

Having fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Peggy, Simon and their children seek political asylum in Canada after a dangerous migration route. The film delves in the daily life of the family over one year, as they go through the complex legal maze of claiming asylum.

RESOURCES

99 min, documentary, Canada, 2021

An observational film about the meat industry in Quebec, where asylum seekers, mainly from Latin America, process a vast herd of livestock into meat. What is life like at various points along this chain ? – IDFA

THE SOUTHERN WIND

16 min., Documentary, Québec, Canada, 2021

A Franco-Ontarian village, victim of a rural exodus, is surprised by a wind of change.

THE ROSES OF DAMASCUS

10 min 50, France, 2019

An exile seeks refuge, the spectator confront himself to the different spaces of memorie’s refugee :
Camps and barbed, the journey in a sea, a ceaseless walk.

JONGUÉ, A NOMAD’S JOURNEY

80 min, documentary, Canada, France, 2019

The life of photographer-writer Serge Emmanuel Jongué, told
using his own talismans, images and texts.

ISLAND ROAD

75 min, documentary, France, 2019

XALKO

100 min., Documentary, Québec, Canada, 2018

This film looks at Xalko, a kurdish village in Turkey, threatened by exodus. Deserted by its men who have gone to Europe or America, Xalko still survives thanks to those who keep the fort: mothers and children who do what it takes to keep it alive. It looks at migration from those left behind.

ZAGROS

58 min., Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2018

ZAGROS follows the creation of carpets across the Western mountains of Iran, revealing the colours of a culture through labour.

DESTIERROS

92 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2017

Destierros is an immersive experience that puts on screen the confusion and vertigo of the migration route leading to the United-States.

FAR AWAY LANDS

98 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2017

On a cargo ship, a crew of eight drift on the seas, from port to port, longing for home and searching for freedom.

EXIL AU FAR WEST – SPIRA

59 min, documentary, Canada, 2017

CITIZENS OF NOWHERE – SPIRA

52 min., Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2015

September 2013. The Court ruling is reached. Almost a quarter million Dominicans of Haitian descent have just become stateless because of the Dominican Constitutional Tribunal’s decision.

ISLAND & FLIGHT

23min, Short film, Quebec, Canada, 2014

Through a visual and narrative collage of personal testimonies, Island & Flight poetically explores the universe of contemporary travels by air.

WE WERE THERE

63 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2012

A witty and joyful trip into their memories, We Were There gives voice to six old friends and their surprising destinies.

THE COSSACK AND THE GYPSY

79 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2012

A portrait of the “last of the firsts” Slav migrants in Abitibi.