CSE 2025
Accept yourself as I am
An intimate encounter with Élise, a transgender woman living in the Magdalen Islands.
CSE 2025
An Impression of Everything
A lyrical film glimpses oneness amidst escalating division, using footage from a decade of productions, family archives, and stock sources.
CSE 2025
Balance
Anna, a 12-year-old Ukrainian gymnast, explores the challenges of exile and identity rebuilding after the war.
CSE 2025
Blue Tango
Born mute, Azalia uses her body as language, her art freeing her from cerebral palsy's social, physical, and psychological constraints.
CSE 2025
Chronicle of a Crisis
Sarah and Simon, a young Montreal couple, lose their apartment amid a housing crisis. This intimate documentary captures the daily anxieties and resistance in the face of growing economic insecurity affecting their generation.
CSE 2025
Cohabiter
Young people searching for roommates reveal themselves in this touching portrait of a generation unafraid to show every facet of their identity.
CSE 2025
Dahomey
November 2021: Twenty-six royal treasures looted from Dahomey finally return to Benin, sparking emotion and debates about their past absence.
CSE 2025
Dear Oscarz
Dear Oscarz is a correspondence between the desire to create and life that swallows you up. Something like that.
CSE 2025
Deep Rising
Punctuated by breathtaking images of deep-sea organisms, Deep Rising traces several decades of manipulations benefiting companies aiming for deep-sea mining extraction.
CSE 2025
Después del silencio
An aggressor's power is a victim's silence; speaking out is their crucial weapon for freedom, starting after silence.
CSE 2025
Diaries from Lebanon
A poetic, personal portrait of Lebanon’s turmoil and resistance, through three voices and the filmmaker’s intimate reflections.
CSE 2025
Emboîter leurs pas
The encounter of various donors to a queer archive center reveals the colors and history of Montreal's LGBTQIA2S+ community.
CSE 2025
Ernest Cole, lost and found
Ernest Cole, an exiled photographer, exposed apartheid; Raoul Peck retraces his life, work, and rediscovered legacy.
CSE 2025
Ever since, I have been flying
Growing up nomadic in Turkey, a 60-year-old Kurdish man recounts his idyllic youth, lost first love, and police mistreatment.
CSE 2025
From Ground Zero
22 Palestinian filmmakers document life in wartime Gaza — a powerful tribute to dignity, resistance, and creative survival.
CSE 2025
Gan Tang, The Lake
In the summer of 2023, the government of Jiujiang launched the Gan Tang Lake Cleansing Project. Within weeks, this ancient lake with over two millennia of history was drained.
CSE 2025
Healing Dolls
Mashteuiatsh women share grief and hope making dolls, building a strong, supportive space for healing together.
CSE 2025
It will Always End in the End
Montreal designer Gabriel, queer and HIV-positive, shares his acceptance journey, offering a timely, hopeful view of Quebec's HIV activism.
CSE 2025
King's Court
An intimate look of two young men navigating life, love, friendship and family.
CSE 2025
La Pensée-Machine
A documentary essay exploring the invasion of machines into our lives and the resulting "culture war."
CSE 2025
Le dernier flip : démarchandiser l’immobilier
Our housing became commodities. Profit-driven speculation blocks access. Boosting supply isn't enough; new units fuel speculation. Decommodification is the essential solution.
CSE 2025
Le goût des choses
For the past three years, Pierre-Gilles and Antoine have been growing their vegetables entirely naturally. It’s a daily challenge that only resilience can overcome.
CSE 2025
Les Lavandières
Les Lavandières tells the story of Jeanne, an immigrant mother, exploring the birth and sudden collapse of a dream.
CSE 2025
Les perdants
Three candidates destined to lose expose deep inequalities in Quebec’s electoral system.
CSE 2025
Like There is No Tomorrow
Like There is no Tomorrow tells the story of a group of activists engaged in a campaign of non-violent civil disobedience.
CSE 2025
Make a wildlife documentary in front of home
A vacant lot near his home sparks Sofian's idea: a wildlife documentary in that rare, human-absent neighborhood space.
CSE 2025
Marche ou crève
Maïté, a shepherd and livestock farmer, shares her daily life with us, from morning rituals to the steep paths of Voguë’s hills.
CSE 2025
Maurice
Maurice portrays the legendary #9 of the Montreal Canadiens in an entirely new light.
CSE 2025
Middletown
Fred Isseks led his students to expose a toxic waste conspiracy, a lesson in civic courage captured by McBaine and Moss.
CSE 2025
Mr. De Garie
Julien De Garie, a screen printing enthusiast and teacher, explores creativity, teaching, and the meaning of being an artist.
CSE 2025
Ninan Auassat : Nous, les enfants
Ninan Auassat: We, the Children is a heartfelt cry in a time when Indigenous youth are claiming their place and their future.
CSE 2025
No Other Land
An activist film documents the struggle of Palestinian and Israeli voices against apartheid and occupation in the West Bank.
CSE 2025
People are thirsty
A short film where activist Islem reveals how water and labor are linked, exposing daily struggles in a fragile state.
CSE 2025
Plastic People: The Hidden Crisis of Microplastics
Humanity’s relationship with plastic and one woman’s mission to expose shocking new revelations about the impact of microplastics on human health.
CSE 2025
Posthumains
After years of relying on medical devices for her survival, director Dominique Leclerc turns to emerging technologies in search of alternative solutions.
CSE 2025
Rooted
Linda returns to Kapuskasing, her hometown, to understand why her Indigenous family gave her up for adoption.
CSE 2025
Saturday
From England to Hong Kong to Canada, Katherine and her mother defy doubts, building a vibrant life despite the challenges of disability.
CSE 2025
Sept-Îles '72: Archives du monde ordinaire
A film about the 1972 workers’ revolt in Sept-Îles — its causes, its tragic unfolding, and its human consequences.
CSE 2025
Sleepless Birds
Industrial light in Bretagne, its environmental impacts on nature and time, and it raises philosophical questions about human control.
CSE 2025
Snake Hill
Filmmaker Joëlle and husband Melhem return home for permaculture. With herpetologist Rami's support facing snakes, she finds her true mission: pesticide devastation.
CSE 2025
Speech for a melting statue
A poet hopes for the fall of the statue of Leopold II in Brussels, a symbol of institutional racism inherited from Belgium's colonial past.
CSE 2025
Sudan, Remember Us
In 2019, Sudanese protesters topple a dictator. Their democratic hopes collide with a stalled, impossible transition.
CSE 2025
The battle of Saint-Leonard
The Battle of Saint-Léonard tells the story of Raymond Lemieux and Mario Barone, two remarkable yet forgotten men of modest origins, who each fought with strength and conviction, despite the heavy consequences to themselves, their families, and their professional lives.
CSE 2025
The Delightful One
Fusing poetry and music, La Ravissante is a love letter to the Huron-Wendat Nation, carried by its engaged youth.
CSE 2025
The Last Straw
An organic farmer faces ruin, revealing the contradictions of an agricultural system in ecological and economic crisis.
CSE 2025
The part of sky
Grey seals migrate, guided by light and currents, stirring in us poetry, mystery, gentleness, and the deep beauty of nature.
CSE 2025
The Pickers
A journey to European fields: 1 million migrants are harvesting our daily fruit and veg. Most of them under precarious conditions.
CSE 2025
The Sky Above Zenica
In Zenica, citizens fight deadly pollution and the toxic silence of political, industrial, and European institutions.
CSE 2025
The Velvet Queen
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.
CSE 2025
Un jeu à soi
In Buenos Aires, Lorena, Juliana, and Luci, footballers and feminists, fight for their dreams and a symbolic space.
CSE 2025
Union
A group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York
CSE 2025
Way Out
Way Out delves into the darkest parts of the mind and the journey toward healing, breaking the silence around mental health stigma.
CSE 2025
Who Loves The Sun
In war-torn northern Syria, makeshift oil refineries define a post-apocalyptic life where Mahmood navigates harsh work and local complexities.
CSE 2025
Wilfred Buck
A vibrant journey where Wilfred Buck heals his past by reconnecting with the ancestral wisdom of the stars.