Catherine Van Der Donckt Archives - Le Cinéma sous les étoiles de Funambules Médias

CSE 2024

Yintah

, Brenda Michell, Jennifer Wickham, Michael Toledano

YINTAH, meaning “land” in the Wet’suwet’en language, tells the story of an Indigenous nation asserting sovereignty. It is the story of the Wet’suwet’en people reoccupying their territory and resisting the construction of multiple pipelines.

, Colonialism, Economy, Environnement, First nations, Human Rights, Social struggle

CSE 2024

Twice Colonized

, Lin Alluna

Aaju Peter embarks on a quest to recover her language and culture, from which she was cut off by colonial assimilation policies. Her personal journey, filmed over seven years, shows how courage, emotion and conviction can combine to have a lasting influence on the course of history.

, Colonialism, First nations, Human Rights, Racism

CSE 2024

Malartic

, Nicolas Paquet

Ten years after the opening of the gigantic Malartic open-pit gold mine, the hoped-for economic miracle is a mirage. Main Street is not prospering, with no demographic gain. Director Nicolas Paquet exposes an opaque decision-making system that excludes citizens.

, Economy, Environnement, Work

CSE 2022

Oui

, Henri Pardo

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.

, Culture, Human Rights, Racism, Social struggle

CSE 2022

The Family of the Forest

, Laura Rietveld

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?

, Agriculture, Economy, Environnement, Rurality

CSE 2022

The Act of Beauty

, Nicolas Paquet

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.

, Agriculture, Democracy, Economy, Environnement

CSE 2022

ZO REKEN

, Emanuel Licha

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.

, Colonialism, Democracy, Human Rights, Politics