Human Rights Archives - Page 3 of 8 - Le Cinéma sous les étoiles de Funambules Médias

CSE 2024

The Ballad of Hard Times

La Turlute des années dures released in 1983, explores the Quebecois Great Depression with poignant testimonials and popular songs. Forty years later, it remains relevant in the face of persistent social inequalities.

, Economy, Human Rights, Music, Sociology

CSE 2024

A Golden Life

, Boubacar Sangare

In Burkina Faso, young men look under the earth for gold – and a better future. As a result, 16-year-old Rasmané barely seems like a teenager any more. This mainly observational film follows him into the 100-metre abyss of small-scale mining.

, Environnement, Human Rights, Work

CSE 2024

Manufacturing the Threat

, Amy Miller

A poor couple, manipulated by undercover agents, is coerced into committing a terrorist attack in Canada. This documentary reveals police infiltration and incitement practices, exposing unchecked surveillance post-9/11.

, Human Rights, Politics, Sociology

CSE 2023

The Hearing

, Émilie B. Guérette, Peggy Nkunga Ndona

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.

, Human Rights, Migration, Sociology

CSE 2023

Paradise

, Alexander Abaturov

In the summer 2021, an exceptional heatwave and drought led to giant fires that ravaged 19 million hectares of land in northeastern Siberia.

, Climate Crisis, Culture, Environnement, Human Rights

CSE 2023

Cobalt rush : the future of going green

, Arnaud Zajtman, Quentin Noirfalisse

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?

, Economy, Environnement, Human Rights, Work

CSE 2023

Tax Me If You Can

, Yannick Kergoat

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.

, Democracy, Economy, Human Rights, Politics

CSE 2023

Framing Agnes

, Chase Joynt

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.

, Human Rights, LGBTQI2SA+, Social struggle

CSE 2023

Seuls

, Paul Tom

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.

, Human Rights, Migration, Racism

CSE 2023

Rejeito

, Pedro De Filippis

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.

, Climate Crisis, Colonialism, Environnement, Human Rights