Identity

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

THE SCANDINAVIAN METHOD

93 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

Filmmaker Anik Salas travels to Scandinavian societies – world leaders in gender equality – to understand the key to their success. Part investigation, part manifesto, her documentary reveals one essential truth: change does not happen by magic, but through political will and concrete strategies. An urgent, fiercely committed film that refuses to postpone equality to another century.

A FIRE THERE

95 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

An impressionistic portrait of life in an Armenian village in southern Georgia, this intimate film follows three friends on the cusp of adulthood, caught between tradition and the desire to forge their own path.

ROTTING / LOVING U

14 min, Fiction, Canada, 5.1

After an accident that confines her to her home, Torte II wanders alone through her decaying apartment. Revisiting the pages of her diary, she relives—violently—what she never dared to say. Desire, sorrow, fear, femininity, illness—emotions surge and blur, blending into chaos, swallowed by an absurd algorithm overwhelmed by too much data.

THE PUNK OF NATASHQUAN

20 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

Forty years after the mysterious disappearance of an enigmatic figure known as “The Punk of Natashquan”, a remote Quebec community reflects on his fleeting yet unforgettable presence.

CIRCO

88 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

In Rio de Janeiro, Richard dreams of dazzling audiences in the world’s biggest circus tents. But when the 20-year-old artist is kicked out of his home by his adoptive mother, his life is turned upside down. Through an intimate, direct cinema approach, Circo immerses us in the lives of residents of Brazil’s favelas as they seek to shape their own futures.

SEEING THROUGH THE DARKNESS