Family

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

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.

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LARRY (THEY/THEM)

103 min., Documentary, Québec, Canada, 2024

A luminous and engaging portrait of young non-binary trans photographer Laurence Philomène, one of the most original and inspiring voices of their generation and an LGBTQ+ community icon.

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HERE AND THERE

19 min., documentaire, Québec, Canada, 2023

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AUTRE CHOSE (SOMETHING ELSE)

26 min., Fiction, Québec, Canada, 2023

Crippled by the motorcycle accident that took away his lover, a broken man decides to rebuild the machine that caused him so much pain.

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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.

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MÁ SÀI GÒN (MOTHER SAIGON)

98 min., Documentary, Québec, Canada, 2023

Má Sài Gòn is a love letter – a bittersweet ode to a comforting yet disturbing mother, to a city that is as liberating as it is oppressive.

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I LOST MY MOM

75 min., documentary, Québec, Canada, 2022

In the form of a filmed journal, filmmaker Denys Desjardins documents the extraordinary sequence of events that drove him to place his mother in a CSHLD (long-term care home).

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NICOLE

23 min, Documentary, Canada, 2023

In this touching documentary, filmmaker Chadi Bennani accompanies his mother, Dominique, as she sets out to empty Nicole’s apartment, her mother who passed two years prior. Through their discoveries, Dominique and Chadi share their memories of Nicole, as well as their apprehensions of a future without her.

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WHERE THE WITCH LIVES

14 min., fiction, Québec, Canada, 2022

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THE FAMILY OF THE FOREST

85 min, Documentaire, Québec, 2022

Gérard and Catherine sacrificed family, friends and their homeland of Belgium for a life of self-sufficiency deep in the boreal forest of Gaspé Peninsula, Québec. Now 15 years later, as their three sons become young adults, what will happen to this remarkable life they’ve given everything to create?

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MARGOT’S SISTER

17 min., fiction, Quebec, Canada, 2021

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

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THE END OF WONDERLAND

85 min, documentary, Canada, 2021

Tara Emory, veteran sex-industry artist, confronts a family history of hoarding through art as she faces eviction from her studio Wonderland.

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IN BROAD DAYLIGHT

110 min, fiction, Québec, Canada, 2022

A one-night stand plunges a family into chaos. After giving birth in the living room of an opulent suburban home, a young woman decides to head off in search of her child’s father. But can she prevent the family fabric from shredding and the walls from crumbling?

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HEIRDOMS

70 min, Fiction, Canada, 2021

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BENEATH THE SURFACE

75 min., Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2021

Three brothers embark on a fishing trip with their father, despite relationships that have become fragile due to his absence.

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SMALL TROPHIES

16 min, documentary, Canada, 2019

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LE FRÈRE (THE BROTHER)

28 min, documentary/animation, Canada, 2019

Trapped in his body because of an illness, Kaïs dreams at night he’s the hero of his favorite manga, along with his brothers: Fehd, the bodybuilder and Zaïd, the ninja.

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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.

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PRIMAS

95 min, Documentary, Argentina, Canada, 2017

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

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IN THE WAVES

60 min, documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2017

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