CSE 2022
The Ants and the Grasshopper
To save her village from extreme weather, Anita Chitaya faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real.
CSE 2022
Our Silent Struggle
This documentary exposes the cultural genocide of the Sami people, made possible by the assimilation and colonization policies of the Finnish governments until today. Giving voice to these people, "Eatnameamet - Our Silent Struggle" shows their struggle to exist.
CSE 2022
Little Palestine, Journal d'un siège
In his first film, Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege, filmmaker Abdallah Al-Khatib offers a glimpse into the daily lives of the residents of Yarmouk, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in the world, as they persevere with dignity and hope in the midst of an endless state of war.
CSE 2022
Zinder
À Kara-Kara, quartier marginalisé de Zinder au Niger, règne une culture de la violence entre gangs. Certains jeunes tentent de s’en sortir, fonder une famille parfois et s’offrir un avenir autre que celui de la prison. Aicha Macky, originaire de Zinder, filme au plus près leur quotidien.
CSE 2022
Robin Bank
This is the story of Enric Duran, a Catalan activist who took out loans of half a million euros that he had no intention of repaying. Instead, he used the money to finance social projects and explains that he committed these thefts to denounce the bad practices of the banking system.
CSE 2022
Oui
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.
CSE 2022
The Distant Barking of Dogs
In 2016, when many have already left the war-torn eastern part of Ukraine, 10-year-old Oleg remains there with his grandmother who has taken care of him since his mother died. They have nowhere else to go. By getting close to Oleg, The Distant Barking of Dogs shows the effect of conflict on children.
CSE 2022
Pour la suite du monde
A poetic and ethnographic documentary on the life of the inhabitants of Isle-aux-Coudres, rendered first by a language, green and hard, always eloquent, and then by the legendary porpoise fishing, work at sea governed by the moon and the tides.
CSE 2022
View from the Summit
Summit of the Americas, April 20, 2001. Quebec City looks like a city under siege. While the political and financial guests in the security perimeter discuss the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) agreements, citizen groups demonstrate in the streets.