FILMS SHOWN
CSE 2023
Un robot à soi
By reusing home appliance commercials and television archives, this retrofuturist feminist essay questions the capitalist discourse between 1940 and 1970 in order to examine the relationship between women and technology.
CSE 2023
L'atelier
Kathy Tran and Agnès Gaudreau work as auto mechanics at Bâtiment 7, a collective-run space that facilitates the integration of minorities. We get to know them through this inspiring place where they’re truly able to be themselves.
CSE 2023
Les terrains vagues
Les Terrains Vagues offers a window onto a time-stretched space, from which emanate the voices of five individuals. Revolving around their internal dialogues, the film takes the form of a broad conversation about the models and preconceived ideas that impact the way they experience their sexuality.
CSE 2023
Paradoxe
Paradox, portrays a being of intensity and gentleness. As she undergoes feminizing hormone therapy, Laure learns to cope with the changes in her body, emotions and identity.
CSE 2023
Sofia
The death of my great-grandmother Sofía is a taboo in the family. The surface of this story is known, but not the background and much less the beginning, only its tragic end. The answers are in the family, in my grandparents and my uncles.
CSE 2023
Fragments
Women's voices are raised to give testimony of victims of sexual violence. It is through the reconstitution of a story with these fragments of experience that a societal portrait is painted throughout the documentary.
INFORMATION
Third program of the Cinéma sous les étoiles 2023 short documentary competition. Following our short film week, the winners will be announced at a special evening of award-winning films on Wednesday August 2, 2023 at 8:45 pm at Laurier Park.