Wed
28
Jun
14th edition Opening of the Cinéma sous les étoiles
☂️ In view of the weather conditions, the launch scheduled for Wednesday, June 28, 2023 has been postponed to Friday, June 30 at 7:00 p.m. at Parc Laurier. ☂️ Sir-Wilfrid-Laurier Park, Plateau…
Fri
30
Jun
October 2019, an unexpected revolution, a social explosion. Chile had recovered its memory. The event I had been waiting for since my student struggles in 1973 finally materialized.
Mon
3
Jul
Big Fight in Little Chinatown documents the collective fight to save Chinatowns across North America. Coast to Coast the film follows Chinatown communities resisting active erasure.
Tue
4
Jul
With rigor, and a dose of humor, Tax Me If You Can explains the mechanisms of tax havens and demonstrates how tax evasion, an essential cog in the neoliberal system, accelerates the growth of economic inequality.
Marie has been working with farmers' seeds, the guardians of cultivated biodiversity, for over a decade. She fights to preserve this intangible heritage. Behind her strength of action lies a very sensitive relationship with the world and with plants.
Wed
5
Jul
Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot
The Super 8 films taken by writer Annie Ernaux between 1972 and 1981 are family archives, but also the testimony of a social class in the decade following 1968.
As environmental toxicity and civil unrest escalate, from their makeshift hospital in New Delhi, two brothers care for thousands of black kites, a majestic bird of prey essential to the city’s ecosystem.
Thu
6
Jul
The news is full of disturbing images of overcrowded boats and vast tent camps. But how much do we really know about what refugees are going through? Notes on Displacement takes a deep dive on a gruelling journey.
Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age
Guylaine Maroist, Léa Clermont-Dion
Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age is the shocking story of four women leaders whose lives are overturned by cyberviolence. They share a common cause: refusing to be silenced.
Mon
10
Jul
The film turns the talk show format inside out in response to media's ongoing fascination with trans people. The film breathes life into six previously unknown stories from the archives of the UCLA Gender Clinic in the 1950s.
Tue
11
Jul
Hubert Caron Guay, Serge-Olivier Rondeau
Ressources focus on the living conditions of humans, animals and plants linked together by the industrial chain of animal slaughter and meat processing. By following various actors captured by this chain, the film observes a state of precariousness shared beyond the boundaries of species.
Wed
12
Jul
Le Mythe de la Femme Noire is a feature-length documentary that investigates the image of black women in society. Experts say the Black community is the minority most affected by images created centuries ago.
Thu
13
Jul
This documentary offers a fascinating and critical case study of a universal basic income project established in the Kenyan village of Kogutu by GiveDirectly, an NGO convinced that it has found a foolproof algorithm to end global poverty.
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
This film traces the life of cultural and musical icon Buffy Sainte-Marie, an artist and activist for First Nations rights with a trailblazing journey.
Fri
14
Jul
Using footage from both amateur and professional sources, 2012/Throught the Heart immerses us into the intensity of the demonstrations and riots of the 2012 student strike.
Mon
17
Jul
Elena Sánchez Bellot, Maia Kenworthy
Rebellion tell the behind-the-scenes story of Extinction Rebellion from its launch in 2018. With unprecedented access, the filmmakers follow a group of unlikely allies and capture the human drama of social movements first hand.
Tue
18
Jul
An urgent look at the climate crisis, Rahul Jain’s eye-opening essay unfolds in a series of stunning, often birds-eye images of a very man-made disaster.
Cobalt rush : the future of going green
Arnaud Zajtman, Quentin Noirfalisse
Electric cars hold the promise of a clean ecological transition. The global automotive market is concentrating its efforts on competitive production, the key to which is the exploitation of the blue gold, cobalt. This mineral is needed for batteries, and is mainly found in the Congo. But at what price?
Wed
19
Jul
It's been ten years since Manon was charged in "l'affaire Tarnac", accused of having participated in a terrorist enterprise for sabotaging TGV lines. As the trial approaches, the filmakker joins the group of women who are helping Manon prepare her defense.
In the summer 2021, an exceptional heatwave and drought led to giant fires that ravaged 19 million hectares of land in northeastern Siberia.
Thu
20
Jul
After the largest mining dam breaks in history, further dam collapses threaten millions in Brazil. A state advisor confronts the government's modus operandi, while dam refugees resist the mining companies' abuses in their threatened communities.
The Marvellous Wild World of the Vegetable Garden
As we plunge into the heart of a vegetable garden free of pesticides and other chemicals, we discover thousands of tiny lives organizing themselves, as in a microsociety.
Mon
24
Jul
Created using a scope of innovative eco-friendly filmmaking techniques, Geographies of Solitude is an immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island and the life of a naturalist and environmentalist who has lived over 40 years on this remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean.
Thu
27
Jul
Mon
31
Jul
Émilie B. Guérette, Peggy Nkunga Ndona
After crossing 11 countries irregularly to seek asylum in Canada, Peggy, Simon and their three children are waiting for the hearing that will determine whether they get refugee status or not.
Tue
1
Aug
In the style of a film diary, I lost my Mom immerses us in the personal experience of the filmmaker and his sister as they try to ensure their mother can end her days with dignity in the CHSLD system.
Wed
2
Aug
Awards ceremony of the Short Film Competition
Wednesday, August 2, 2023 | Parc Sir-Wilfrid-Laurier | 7 :30 p.m. Awards ceremony: 8:15 p.m.Screening of winning films: 8:45pm For the past 9 years, Funambules Médias' Cinéma sous les étoiles has been organizing…
Thu
3
Aug
Wochiigii lo: End of the Peace
Produced over five years by Haida filmmaker Heather Hatch, this documentary follows the struggle of members of the West Moberly and Prophet River First Nations against the construction of a mega-dam that will devastate the « rivière de la Paix ».
Rojek meets incarcerated members of the Islamic State detained in prison camps, from all over the world and sharing a common ideal: to establish a caliphate.
Sat
5
Aug
Every year, over 400 children arrive alone at the Canadian border to claim refugee status. Fearing for their lives, Afshin, Alain and Patricia left their country, without their parents, when they were just children, in the hope of a better life in Canada.
Mon
7
Aug
Marie Perennes, Simon Depardon
At night, armed with white sheets and black paint, they plaster the streets with messages of support for the victims of misogyny and slogans decrying femicide.
The film turns the talk show format inside out in response to media's ongoing fascination with trans people. The film breathes life into six previously unknown stories from the archives of the UCLA Gender Clinic in the 1950s.
Tue
8
Aug
The film turns the talk show format inside out in response to media's ongoing fascination with trans people. The film breathes life into six previously unknown stories from the archives of the UCLA Gender Clinic in the 1950s.
Thu
10
Aug
From the northern edges of Vancouver Island to Oregon’s lower Snake Rivers, two passionate filmmakers connect with activists, Indigenous leaders, and renowned scientists to understand the fate of the orcas and find solutions to our most pressing environmental threats.
At the announcement of the signing of peace agreements between the Colombian government and the guerrillas in 2016, director Germán Gutiérrez filmed in one of the last FARC camps.
Fri
11
Aug
Christian Mathieu Fournier, Martin Frigon
Immerse yourself in the unprecedented social upheaval that took place in Rouyn-Noranda in 2022, following public health revelations of unusually high levels of arsenic in the air.
Sat
12
Aug
Through the autobiographical essay of sociologist and philosopher Didier Eribon, performed by Adèle Haenel, "Retour à Reims" (Fragments) tells an intimate and political story of the French working class from the early 1950s to the present day.
Tue
15
Aug
(R)évolution – le travail est humain
Discover inspiring worker cooperative solutions to today's challenges in the documentary (R)evolution – work is human.
Wed
16
Aug
High in the mountains of Tibet, photographer Vincent Munier and writer Sylvain Tesson wait patiently for the snow leopard to pass. Meantime, the two men weave a dialogue that is as facetious as it is philosophical about our place among living beings.
Thu
17
Aug
In the Greenland ice sheet we can see our future. Into the Ice travels with three pioneering glaciologist on their expeditions into the inland ice of Greenland, and top-notch science meets breathtaking visuals.
This documentary offers a fascinating and critical case study of a universal basic income project established in the Kenyan village of Kogutu by GiveDirectly, an NGO convinced that it has found a foolproof algorithm to end global poverty.
Sat
19
Aug
Tout au long des années 1970, le journaliste Elías Barahona s’infiltre au cœur du gouvernement militaire le plus répressif du Guatemala. In seeking to uncover the story of this secret and unique individual, The Silence of the Mole opens cracks in the walls of silence.
Mon
21
Aug
Marie Perennes, Simon Depardon
At night, armed with white sheets and black paint, they plaster the streets with messages of support for the victims of misogyny and slogans decrying femicide.
At the announcement of the signing of peace agreements between the Colombian government and the guerrillas in 2016, director Germán Gutiérrez filmed in one of the last FARC camps.
Tue
22
Aug
Pour la suite du doc : Filmmakers’ apero
Tuesday, August 22, 2023 Sir-Wilfrid-Laurier, Le Plateau Mont-Royal Start of Event : 16h00 For the 2nd year running, you're invited to an filmmaker’s apéro, presented in collaboration with Doc Québec and Pour la suite…
Thu
24
Aug
In the style of a film diary, I lost my Mom immerses us in the personal experience of the filmmaker and his sister as they try to ensure their mother can end her days with dignity in the CHSLD system.
Like a cinematic journey through melting icebergs, deafening waterfalls and crystalline rains, Aquarela reveals the transformative beauty and raw power of water.
Sat
26
Aug
Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On
This film traces the life of cultural and musical icon Buffy Sainte-Marie, an artist and activist for First Nations rights with a trailblazing journey.
Through the autobiographical essay of sociologist and philosopher Didier Eribon, performed by Adèle Haenel, "Retour à Reims" (Fragments) tells an intimate and political story of the French working class from the early 1950s to the present day.
Wed
30
Aug
Every year, over 400 children arrive alone at the Canadian border to claim refugee status. Fearing for their lives, Afshin, Alain and Patricia left their country, without their parents, when they were just children, in the hope of a better life in Canada.
Thu
31
Aug
Through the autobiographical essay of sociologist and philosopher Didier Eribon, performed by Adèle Haenel, "Retour à Reims" (Fragments) tells an intimate and political story of the French working class from the early 1950s to the present day.