History & Politics
Les Films du 3 Mars (F3M) invites you to discover thematic cinema about History & Politics. From fiction to documentaries, long and short, enjoy the best of Québécois and Canadian filmmaking !
IN THE FOREST
123 min, Documentary, Canada, 2025
A documentary essay exploring the bonds between humans, animals, and the forest, revealing a complex world where protection and exploitation collide. Blending realism, political engagement, and a dreamlike approach, the film calls for a rethinking of our connection to the living world.
Read more
SHIFTING BASELINES
100 min, Documentary, Canada, 2025
Where the Rio Grande meets the sea, the rockets of SpaceX are launched; astronomers gaze skyward, hawkers shill their wares and environmentalists survey the damage. Welcome to Boca Chica, USA.
Read more
AMONG MOUNTAINS AND STREAMS
98 min, Documentary, Canada, 2024
In a mysterious forest, far from the borders of the China they’ve left behind, the painter Meng Huang and writer Ma Jian talk about exile, political opposition and artistic creation as a response to oppression and lies. Ma Jian lives in London. He is a dissident and a prominent writer translated into numerous languages. Since 2011, he has been unable to return to China, where all of his books are banned. Meng Huang is a renowned painter who lives in Berlin.
Read more
SEEING THROUGH THE DARKNESS
93 min, Documentary, Canada, 2024
Carried by an immersive sonic universe, this film offers a sensitive journey through memory, perception, and resistance. It invites us to listen differently to lives transformed by war.
Read more
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.
Read more
ZO REKEN
86 min., Documentary, Québec, Canada, 2021
In Port-au-Prince, a humanitarian aid organization’s 4x4 vehicle has been hacked: its Haitian passengers now use it to talk about neocolonialism and to denounce the promises of the international community that were made and never kept. Outside, barricades are erected, and the people cry out in anger.
Read more
UNDER THE SAME SUN
97 min, documentary, Canada, 2020.
The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan as seen through the eyes of the inhabitants of the Caucasus.
Read more
NIN E TEPUEIAN – MY CRY
82 min., Documentary Quebec, Canada, 2019
NIN E TEPUEIAN - MY CRY is a documentary tracks the journey of Innu poet, actress and activist, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, at a pivotal time in her career as a committed artist.
Read more
A MOON OF NICKEL AND ICE
110 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2017
An intimate portrayal of the closed-off Russian city of Norilsk through the eyes of its youth, mine workers and truth seekers.
Read more
TRACING ARTHUR
75min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2015
Portrait of Quebecois drawer and cartoonist André Montpetit.
Read more
AN AMERICAN, PORTRAIT OF RAYMOND LUC LEVASSEUR
99 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2015
The fife and work of a Franco-American some called a political prisoner, others a domestic terrorist.
Read more
THE BLACK CASE
13 min, short film, Quebec, Canada, 2014
An eight year old girl experience a series of traumatic events while quarantined in the infirmary of a residential school for Native children in Canada.
Read more
RED SQUARE ON A BLACKBOARD
110 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2013
Red square on a blackboard takes us into the heart of the 2012 student crisis to experience from the inside one of the most important social movements in Quebec history.
Read more
AUJOURD’HUI POUR MOI DEMAIN POUR TOI
97 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2013
We discover the Red mountain college a collective of graphic design students that was formed during and for the Quebec student strike.
Read more
THE LEGACY OF THE OKA TRAPPISTS
52 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2008
Having been established in their magnificent abbey at Oka, Québec, for over 125 years, the Trappist monks now prepare to leave.
Read more
TREE WITH SEVERED BRANCHES
80 min, documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2005
In Moscow, two elderly men who lived under the Soviet regime adapt to their new sociopolitical reality by creating an imaginary world through art.
Read more