International Affairs

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

SEEING THROUGH THE DARKNESS

93 min, Documentary, Canada, 2024

Seeing Through the Darkness is an anti-war polyphonic tale exploring the unique and humane perspectives of five individuals blinded by global conflicts.

LIKE A SPIRAL

28 min, Documentary, Canada, 2024

Like a Spiral is a dialogue between Beirut and five women, migrant domestic workers, under the Kafala system.

INTERCEPTED

93 min, Documentary, Canada, France, Ukraine, 2024

Sound and image stare each other in the face as Intercepted contrasts quiet compositions of everyday life of Ukrainians since the full-scale invasion with intercepted phone conversations between Russian soldiers and their families.

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.

ZO REKEN

86 min., Documentary, Québec, Canada, 2021

In Port-au-Prince, a humanitarian aid organization’s 4×4 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.

THE SPECTER OF WAVES

52 min, Documentary, Canada, 2020

Afflicted by various ailments and symptoms, François, Suzanne and Lorraine adapt or take refuge, challenged by the torments imposed by electrohypersensitivity.

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.

GUNS AND US

75 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2018

EXARCHEIA: The Chanting of Birds

73 min., Documentary Quebec, Canada, 2018

Shot as a nocturnal stroll through one of the most political and lively neighbourhoods of Athens, EXARCHEIA is a poetical and polyphonic essay that dives into a place where living together is first and foremost a matter of shared speech and hopes held in suspense.

THE OTHER RIO

88 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2017

The day-to-day life of the forgotten people of the Rio Olympic Games.

DESTIERROS

92 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2017

Destierros is an immersive experience that puts on screen the confusion and vertigo of the migration route leading to the United-States.

20-22 OMEGA

111 min, documentary, Canada, 2018

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.

FAR AWAY LANDS

98 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2017

On a cargo ship, a crew of eight drift on the seas, from port to port, longing for home and searching for freedom.

THE AMINA PROFILE

85min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2015

During the Arab revolution, a love story between two women – a Canadian and a Syrian American – turns into an international socio-political thriller spotlighting media excesses and the thin line between truth and falsehood on the Internet.

CITIZENS OF NOWHERE – SPIRA

52 min., Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2015

September 2013. The Court ruling is reached. Almost a quarter million Dominicans of Haitian descent have just become stateless because of the Dominican Constitutional Tribunal’s decision.

SLUMS : CITIES OF TOMORROW

82 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2013

From the heart of the planet’s slums, squats and shantytowns, individuals have taken over these marginalized worlds and erected cities in their own image.