Youth

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

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.

KINDERGARTEN

84 min, Documentary, Canada, 5.1

The caring yet bustling environment of a kindergarten serves as the anchor for this deep dive into early childhood. Structured to follow the gradual progression of ages on screen, the film takes us into the bubble of various children from ages 1 to 5, at a stage where the world seems to revolve around them, and self-awareness slowly shifts from ‘I’ to ‘We’. Through these rarely filmed moments, human nature gradually takes shape. Kindergarten is the 4th film of a series about life’s.

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.

PLATANERO

25 min, Fiction, Canada, 5.1

Ti-Frè and Gran-Frè, two brothers of Haitian origin living in a Dominican Republic shantytown, struggle daily to survive. On a full moon night, desperation pushes them to steal from a plantation, where a mysterious beast prowls in the shadows of the banana trees.

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.

PORNOMANIA

15 min, Fiction, Canada, 5.1

Trauma and fascination growing from the roots of our sexuality : pornography.