Rural Life
Les Films du 3 Mars (F3M) invites you to discover thematic cinema about Rural Life. From fiction to documentaries, long and short, enjoy the best of Québécois and Canadian filmmaking !
ISLAND & FLIGHT
23min, Short film, Quebec, Canada, 2014
Through a visual and narrative collage of personal testimonies, Island & Flight poetically explores the universe of contemporary travels by air.
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THE SOWER
77 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2013
A portrait of artist and seed producer Patrice Fortier, who dedicates his passion and expertise to preserving plant biodiversity.
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WAITING FOR SPRING
80 min., documentary, Québec, Canada, 2013
Documentary feature that tells a winter in the life of Berny and his neighbors, former miners from Nord-du-Québec who decided to stay in the region despite the closure of the mines and the departure of their relatives.
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A SHADE OF GREY
14 min, Fiction, Quebec, Canada, 2013
A short film loosely inspired by Lionel Groulx’s novella.
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THE COSSACK AND THE GYPSY
79 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2012
A portrait of the “last of the firsts” Slav migrants in Abitibi.
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HAUT-FOND PRINCE
43 min, Fiction, Quebec, Canada, 2011
A frail writer is being haunted by the past of a light-house.
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THE GOLDEN RULE
75 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2011
200 families are uprooted for a few bars of gold.
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BULL’S EYE: A PAINTER ON THE WATCH
76 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2010
A boreal forest, in the fall. A man wearing a face mask is on the watch. Camouflaged in the bush, he holds his gun at the ready. Is he a serial killer or just a trophy hunter!? He’s neither. He’s an artist waiting for an animal and that elusive moment when the image for a work will come to him.
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THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
78 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2009
The Theory of Everything navigates its way between people and landscapes, between discourse and territory.
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JOURNEY’S END
80 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2009
An abandoned motel converted into a retirement home sets the stage for an elegiac exploration of life and ageing.
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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.
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A GARDEN UNDER THE LINES
116 min, documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2008
In the heart of a North American city, a cast of retired Haitian and Italian immigrants tend their gardens, planted on a vast vacant lot soon to be replaced by a highway.
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THE SPIRIT OF PLACES
84 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2006
This documentary follows the photographical journey of Gabor Szilasi in the area of Charlevoix in 1970, 35 years after the facts.
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SOMETHING LIKE IMMORTALITY
81 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2003
Three compulsive creators face judgment by their fellow citizens.
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OCEAN
50 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2002
A Road-Movie on rails, Ocean offers both a journey between Montreal and Halifax, as well as a sensory evocation of the intimate experience of travelling.
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