Environment

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

RESOURCES

99 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

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 ? (Credit: IDFA)

PLANTED IN 2020

18 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

Despite a workforce in quarantine, Canada planted almost 700 million trees in 2020 – the most ever. With future forests under threat, a young woman journies into the Canadian bush to endure a grueling and unconventional season of tree planting during a pandemic.

MESHES OF THE OCEAN

13 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

Ron, a 96-year-old fisherman, introduces us to the days when we still fished by net in northern Canada. He talks about a time when fishing quotas did not exist.

ISLAND ROAD

75 min, Documentary, France, 5.1

Louisiane, le bayou. Cette langue de terre disparaît peu à peu à cause de la montée des eaux, des ouragans et des changements climatiques. Les communautés autochtones seront relocalisées à l’intérieur des terres. Les derniers résidents interrogent leur condition d’isolement entre la résistance et l’abandon.

20-22 OMEGA

111 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

A purely cinematic nonverbal film transcending the human language to reveal the posthuman world in this unprecedented Earth epoch known as the Anthropocene: the age of the New Humans.

BRAS DE FER – SPIRA

77 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

On October 26, 2012, a red dust covers the neighborhood of Limoilou, in Quebec City, where Véronique Lalande and her husband Louis Duchesne live with their one-year-old boy. Iron oxide, nickel, zinc, arsenic and other heavy metals fall on the district close to the Port of Quebec, where the multinational Stevedoring transports the largest nickel amount in North America. Véronique Lalande calls, writes, speak out her indignation; she is not afraid to fight for a healthy environment.