Parc Sir-Wilfrid-Laurier : Avenue Laurier Est coin Mentana, Montréal, QC, H2J 1G8
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Esplanade Louvain : Avenue de l'Esplanade, Montreal, QC H2N 1V8 Coin avenue de l’Esplanade et rue de Louvain Ouest
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Parc Jarry : Rue Gary-Carter / Boul. Saint-Laurent, Montréal, QC H2R 2V7
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Square Dézéry : 3250 rue Sainte-Catherine Est, Montréal, H1W 2C6
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Parc Médéric-Martin : Rue du Havre / Rue Ontario, Montreal, H2K 1W8
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Parc Dante : Avenue de Gaspé / Rue Dante, Montréal, QC H2S 1K2
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Biosphère : 160 Chem. du Tour de l'isle, Montréal, QC H3C 4G8
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Wed28Jun
Fri30Jun
My Imaginary Country
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.
Mon3Jul
Big Fight in Little Chinatown
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.
Tue4Jul
Tax Me If You Can
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.
Entre tes mains
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.
Wed5Jul
Les années Super 8
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.
All that Breathes
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.
Thu6Jul
Notes on Displacement
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
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.
Mon10Jul
Framing Agnes
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.
Tue11Jul
Ressources
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.
Wed12Jul
Le Mythe de la femme noire
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.
Thu13Jul
Free Money
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.
Fri14Jul
2012/Throught the Heart
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.
Mon17Jul
Rebellion
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.
Tue18Jul
Invisible Demons
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
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?
Wed19Jul
Acquittal
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.
Paradise
In the summer 2021, an exceptional heatwave and drought led to giant fires that ravaged 19 million hectares of land in northeastern Siberia.
Thu20Jul
Rejeito
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.
Mon24Jul
Geographies of Solitude
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.
Tue25Jul
Wed26Jul
Thu27Jul
Mon31Jul
The Hearing
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.
Tue1Aug
I lost my Mom
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.
Wed2Aug
Thu3Aug
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
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.
Sat5Aug
Seuls
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.
Mon7Aug
Riposte feministe
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.
Framing Agnes
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.
Tue8Aug
Framing Agnes
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.
Thu10Aug
Coextinction
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.
History Will Judge
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.
Fri11Aug
Notre-Dame-de‑l'Arsenic
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.
Sat12Aug
Returning to Reims
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.
Tue15Aug
(R)évolution – le travail est humain
Discover inspiring worker cooperative solutions to today's challenges in the documentary (R)evolution – work is human.
Wed16Aug
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.
Thu17Aug
Into The Ice
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.
Free Money
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.
Sat19Aug
The silence of the Mole
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.
Mon21Aug
Riposte feministe
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.
History Will Judge
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.
Tue22Aug
Thu24Aug
I lost my Mom
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.
Aquarela
Like a cinematic journey through melting icebergs, deafening waterfalls and crystalline rains, Aquarela reveals the transformative beauty and raw power of water.
Sat26Aug
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.
Returning to Reims
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.
Wed30Aug
Seuls
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.
Thu31Aug
Returning to Reims
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.