Wed
29
Jun
The singers of the group Astéréotypie, who come from a medical-educational institute for young autistic people, unveil their explosive universe on stage, encouraged by an educator who is more passionate about raw art than about educational techniques. Their collective adventure is a cry for freedom.
Thu
30
Jun
The singers of the group Astéréotypie, who come from a medical-educational institute for young autistic people, unveil their explosive universe on stage, encouraged by an educator who is more passionate about raw art than about educational techniques. Their collective adventure is a cry for freedom.
Fri
1
Jul
I Remember a Time When No One Jogged in This Neighbourhood
"I remember a time when no one jogged in this neighborhood" is an impressionistic film on the border of ethnographic documentary and cinematographic essay. It presents Montreal's most densely populated neighbourhood, Parc-Extension, and, above all, the people who live there in a series of intimate and contemplative tableaux.
The work also takes a critical look at the trajectory of the neighborhood as the foundations of a ruthless gentrification threaten the social fabric of the area. What impact will the construction of the new Université de Montréal campus, as large as 38 soccer fields, have on this landlocked neighborhood and its predominantly immigrant population?
The work also takes a critical look at the trajectory of the neighborhood as the foundations of a ruthless gentrification threaten the social fabric of the area. What impact will the construction of the new Université de Montréal campus, as large as 38 soccer fields, have on this landlocked neighborhood and its predominantly immigrant population?
Gerard and Catherine sacrificed family, friends and their native Belgium to live self-sufficiently in the boreal forest of the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec. 15 years later, as their three sons grow into young adults, what will become of this remarkable life they have given everything for?
Mon
4
Jul
In Port-au-Prince, a humanitarian organization's SUV is diverted from its usual use: its Haitian passengers now use it to talk about neo-colonialism and to denounce the promises made by the international community that have not been kept, while the people cry out their anger.
Tue
5
Jul
Despite the 1994 ceasefire, there is still no real peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, who continue to fight bitterly over the mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Under the same sun, the inhabitants of the region are listening attentively.
Wed
6
Jul
Millions of people throughout the world find work for hire online. The working conditions are often dangerous and unfair. "The Gig Is Up" makes us realize that the magic of technology that we are being sold may be an illusion.
Fri
8
Jul
To save her village from extreme weather, Anita Chitaya faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real.
Mon
11
Jul
Hugo Samson, Santiago Bertolino
RED SQUARE ON A BLACK BOARD traces the day-by-day anatomy of the student resistance and its main actors to reveal a militant movement of committed and inspired youth.
In 2016, when many have already left the war-torn eastern part of Ukraine, 10-year-old Oleg remains there with his grandmother who has taken care of him since his mother died. They have nowhere else to go. By getting close to Oleg, The Distant Barking of Dogs shows the effect of conflict on children.
Tue
12
Jul
An Indonesian activist travels the world to meet young people involved in the fight against social inequality and pollution.
Twenty young actors are brought together in a laboratory by directors Véronique and Gabrielle Côté to create a collective work. Over the course of a full year, they delve into contemporary Quebec poetry with the goal of extracting the "spirit of times" from it.
Wed
13
Jul
Dear Jackie unfolds as an intimate correspondence with Jackie Robinson, a baseball player who became a prominent civil rights activist in the United States, contrasting the milestones of his time in Montreal with the actual experience of the black community revealed in powerful moments of truth.
Throughout the 1970s, journalist Elías Barahona infiltrated the heart of Guatemala's most repressive military government. In seeking to uncover the story of this unique and secret individual, "El Silencio del Topo" opens cracks in the walls of silence.
Thu
14
Jul
In the north of Niger, the village of Tatiste is a victim of global warming and its inhabitants have to move every day to have access to water. A borehole would be enough to bring water to the center of the village.
Fri
15
Jul
Khabar Lahariya is a unique Indian news source. With smart phones in hand, these determined journalists confront the traditions of traditional media, tackling the hottest topics in Indian news while reworking their own identity as Dalits.
Mon
18
Jul
This animated documentary is based on the true story of Afghan refugee Amin Nawabi. Grappling with a painful secret, kept hidden for 20 years, that now threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his future husband.
Tue
19
Jul
An Indonesian activist travels the world to meet young people involved in the fight against social inequality and pollution.
Twenty young actors are brought together in a laboratory by directors Véronique and Gabrielle Côté to create a collective work. Over the course of a full year, they delve into contemporary Quebec poetry with the goal of extracting the "spirit of times" from it.
Wed
20
Jul
À Kara-Kara, quartier marginalisé de Zinder au Niger, règne une culture de la violence entre gangs. Certains jeunes tentent de s’en sortir, fonder une famille parfois et s’offrir un avenir autre que celui de la prison. Aicha Macky, originaire de Zinder, filme au plus près leur quotidien.
Hidden in the heart of the Bic Mountains, in this territory called the Bas-du-Fleuve, is a community of spirits, daring spirits that take root. This "Sageterre" is the work of Jean Bédard, writer, philosopher, social worker and above all a farmer.
Thu
21
Jul
Millions of people throughout the world find work for hire online. The working conditions are often dangerous and unfair. "The Gig Is Up" makes us realize that the magic of technology that we are being sold may be an illusion.
This is the story of Enric Duran, a Catalan activist who took out loans of half a million euros that he had no intention of repaying. Instead, he used the money to finance social projects and explains that he committed these thefts to denounce the bad practices of the banking system.
Fri
22
Jul
Every year, more than 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, with the hope of a better life in Canada.
Sat
23
Jul
Millions of people throughout the world find work for hire online. The working conditions are often dangerous and unfair. "The Gig Is Up" makes us realize that the magic of technology that we are being sold may be an illusion.
Tue
26
Jul
The director goes in search of fragments of memory of the man many call the "guerrilla priest". Through these discoveries and the testimonies of those who perpetuate his memory, we learn more about Camilo Torres, a pioneer of liberation theology in Latin America.
Wed
27
Jul
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.
Mon
1
Aug
This animated documentary is based on the true story of Afghan refugee Amin Nawabi. Grappling with a painful secret, kept hidden for 20 years, that now threatens to derail the life he has built for himself and his future husband.
Tue
2
Aug
Little Palestine, Journal d'un siège
In his first film, Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege, filmmaker Abdallah Al-Khatib offers a glimpse into the daily lives of the residents of Yarmouk, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in the world, as they persevere with dignity and hope in the midst of an endless state of war.
Wed
3
Aug
Eight residents and volunteers are working to create their own habitat, to move towards autonomy, to control their food or simply to live together in a space where different futures are possible.
Thu
4
Aug
An Indonesian activist travels the world to meet young people involved in the fight against social inequality and pollution.
Dear Jackie unfolds as an intimate correspondence with Jackie Robinson, a baseball player who became a prominent civil rights activist in the United States, contrasting the milestones of his time in Montreal with the actual experience of the black community revealed in powerful moments of truth.
Fri
5
Aug
How can we continue to live with the idea that the human adventure can fail? In search of answers, Emmanuel Cappellin meets experts who call for the most humane transition possible.
Mon
8
Aug
A reinvented initiation story, Damascus Dreams tells the story of Émilie, a filmmaker in search of an inaccessible homeland. By interweaving her father's memories, those of Syrian refugees and her own imagination, Émilie creates a country that lies somewhere between myth and reality, dream and nightmare, past and present.
Tue
9
Aug
Summit of the Americas, April 20, 2001. Quebec City looks like a city under siege. While the political and financial guests in the security perimeter discuss the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) agreements, citizen groups demonstrate in the streets.
Thu
11
Aug
By committing one of the 1,200 suicides that took place in Quebec that year, Mario plunged his friends and loved ones into a whirlwind of questions and deep sadness, the same one that assails anyone brutally left in mourning by a voluntary and irrevocable departure.
Fri
12
Aug
Millions of people throughout the world find work for hire online. The working conditions are often dangerous and unfair. "The Gig Is Up" makes us realize that the magic of technology that we are being sold may be an illusion.
Mon
15
Aug
A reinvented initiation story, Damascus Dreams tells the story of Émilie, a filmmaker in search of an inaccessible homeland. By interweaving her father's memories, those of Syrian refugees and her own imagination, Émilie creates a country that lies somewhere between myth and reality, dream and nightmare, past and present.
Despite the 1994 ceasefire, there is still no real peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, who continue to fight bitterly over the mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Under the same sun, the inhabitants of the region are listening attentively.
Tue
16
Aug
Ni Dieu ni maître – Épisode 3 : Des fleurs et des pavés
At the end of the Second World War, anarchism experienced a gigantic decline. But, little by little, in the heart of the Cold War, more and more revolutionaries turn to anarchism and contribute to give it a new echo.
Wed
17
Aug
This is the story of Enric Duran, a Catalan activist who took out loans of half a million euros that he had no intention of repaying. Instead, he used the money to finance social projects and explains that he committed these thefts to denounce the bad practices of the banking system.
Ni Dieu ni maître – Épisode 4 : Les réseaux de la colère
In the aftermath of the Cold War, where the imperial powers competed with violence, the main danger of anarchism was no longer to disappear. It was to become alienated. But, at the heart of the great social mobilizations, anarchism is always present, without always saying its name, and restarts for one turn at least the great wheel of our history.
Thu
18
Aug
Michel Brault, Pierre Perrault
A poetic and ethnographic documentary on the life of the inhabitants of Isle-aux-Coudres, rendered first by a language, green and hard, always eloquent, and then by the legendary porpoise fishing, work at sea governed by the moon and the tides.
Fri
19
Aug
Lorsque Jennifer Abbott perd sa sœur, décédée d’un cancer, son chagrin la rend sensible à l’extrême gravité de la crise climatique. Dans ce nouveau documentaire, elle esquisse des parallèles intimes entre les deuils vécus à l’échelle personnelle aussi bien que planétaire.
An Indonesian activist travels the world to meet young people involved in the fight against social inequality and pollution.
Wed
24
Aug
Millions of people throughout the world find work for hire online. The working conditions are often dangerous and unfair. "The Gig Is Up" makes us realize that the magic of technology that we are being sold may be an illusion.
Wed
31
Aug
How can we continue to live with the idea that the human adventure can fail? In search of answers, Emmanuel Cappellin meets experts who call for the most humane transition possible.
How can we continue to live with the idea that the human adventure can fail? In search of answers, Emmanuel Cappellin meets experts who call for the most humane transition possible.
Fri
2
Sep
An Indonesian activist travels the world to meet young people involved in the fight against social inequality and pollution.