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 !

MÁ SÀI GÒN (MOTHER SAIGON)

98 min., Documentary, Canada, 5.1

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.

I LOST MY MOM

75 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

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).

NICOLE

23 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

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.

WHERE THE WITCH LIVES

14 min, Fiction, Canada, 5.1

After moving into an old isolated house with her newly-single mother and her little sister, 12 year old Cassie begins to suspect that her family is being tormented by the spirit of a sadistic River Witch.

THE FAMILY OF THE FOREST

85 min, Documentaire, Canada, 5.1

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?

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.