Among the concrete highways, as life constantly keeps driving people crazier and crazier, a small group is peacefully enjoying its coffee break. Momentarily without their day-to-day concerns, rescued by the sunny temperature from their every-instant run life, everyone is slowly enjoying its caffe...

Documentary · Equal parts family saga, sports film and intimate portrait, The Athlete offers a unique window into the story of Stevens Dorcelus.

Directed by Marie-Claude Fournier · 2024

28 min, documentary, animation, Canada, 2019

Directed by Jérémie Battaglia
Produced by Les Films Extérieur Jour
Language french/japanese

Synopsis
Suffering from an illness causing paralysis in his body, Kais is awakened every morning by a different member of his family. Stuck in a frozen body,...

Short Film, 13 min., Quebec, Canada, 2013

Pierre, an eight years old young boy, spends most of his summer vacation behind the curtain of the dining room's window. He dreams of playing basketball with the other kids what his overprotective mother constantly denies him. One day Pierre decides to...

Réalisé par Laurence Turcotte-Fraser ·2021

Le long-métrage documentaire The End of Wonderland est le portrait de Tara Emory, une artiste vétérane qui travaille de manière indépendante dans l’industrie du sexe depuis le début des années 2000. Faisant face à l’éviction imminente de son immense stu...

85 min, Documentaire, Québec, 2022

Directed by Laura Rietveld
Produced by Katarina Soukup - Catbird Productions 2, Inc
Language French

Synopsis
Gérard Mathar and Catherine Jacob left family, friends and homeland for a life of self-sufficiency in the boreal forest of the Gaspé Peninsula, Québec....

93 min., Documentary, Québec, Canada, 2023

Directed by Émilie B. Guérette & Peggy Nkunga Ndona
Produced by Colonelle films - Justine Chevarie-Cossette, Fanny Drew, Sarah Mannering
Languages French, Lingala

Synopsis
After crossing 11 countries irregularly to seek asylum in Canada, Peggy, Simon a...

Documentary
French with English subtitles
75 minutes
Quebec, Canada
Production: Les films de l'Autre

Festival - RIDM, Special Jury Prize Canadian Feature

In the heart of a deep forest runs a river. On its banks, men and women sit and talk, opening up to each other. In this remote settin...

Between the abandoned factories and crumbling buildings of Griffintown is concealed Montreal’s oldest stable, last remnant of a time gone by. In this intriguing, anachronic enclave, running alongside modernity, it seems like time has withheld its course. But since its aging owner has decided to s...

74 min, Documentary, Québec,Canada, 2013
Director(s) : Sicotte-Lévesque, Alexandra
Producers : Alexandra Sicotte-Lévesque, Yanick Létourneau (Périphéria)
Language : Arabic and English with French subtitles

"The meeting of the Blue and White Nile in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, is referred to...

Fat, thin, fit, or decrepit, naked bodies come out of the closet in the kingdom of clothing. But rather than make love, they garden, they cook, they do taichi... Are they trying to regain the lost freedom?

Short film, 17 min., Quebec, Canada, 2015

When Vlace is suspended for hitting a classmate, Sasha is called to come get his son at school and has no choice but to take him along on his delivery route. During this intimate journey, we discover what provoked Vlace’s uncharacteristic act, as fathe...

78 min, Documentary, Québec, Canada, 2012
Director: Phil Comeau
Producer : Cécile Chevrier
Language : French, English
Subtitles: English

The Nature of Frédéric Back draws a masterful portrait of an exceptional man. A visual artist and animation filmmaker, he has produced an immense body of...

Documentary
88 minutes
Original language : Portuguese with English subtitles
Québec, Canada 2017
Production : Colonelle Films

Rio de Janeiro, August 2016. The Summer Olympics are in full swing. A few steps away from the Maracanã stadium, but far from the international attention, a hundre...

This is the story of a friendship and burgeoning love between two Romanian Gypsy kids in a camp on the outskirts of Bari in southern Italy. Vitalis just arrived from Romania. On his first day at school, Vitalis gets taken there by Giuly, but at school he is the victim of an act of racism. Giuly a...

19 min, fiction, Canada, 2019

Directed by Sami Mermer & Houman Zolfaghari
Produced by Leitmotiv - Patricia Bergeron
Languages French, English, Kurdish

Synopsis
In the midst of the sadness of exile, of the living wounds of wars, failures and solitude, two men, both strangers, unexpectedly find t...

10 min 50, France, 2019

Directed by Gabriel Gonzalez Guirola & Yasmina Touzani
Produced by Yasmina Touzani et Gabriel Gonzalez Guirola
Language French

Synopsis
“The Roses of Damascus” is an image adaptation of a poem that evokes a current topic, witnessing the journey of a young Syrian in exil...

FR
Documentaire | 95 min | Canada | 2024 | Anglais (sous-titres français en option)

Une voiture parcourt lentement les rues sinueuses et les ondes radio des États-Unis d’Amérique, pour discerner les cicatrices du capitalisme dans les paysages naturels, les environnements urbains, les gens et les...

16 min., Documentary, Québec, Canada, 2021

Directed by Aucéane Roux
Produced by Éliane Chartier | École des médias de l'UQAM
Languages French, English

Synopsis
In Canada, the village of Val Gagné is facing a rural exodus. Life seems to be dissolving, the future is uncertain. But these Franco-On...

Documentary · A portrait of artist and seed producer Patrice Fortier, who dedicates his passion and expertise to preserving plant biodiversity.

He likes beets, especially hardy varieties that can stand up to a strong wind. He admires independence in a plant. He looks over his carrots with the sa...

Documentary · Forced to protect themselves and flee from exposure to the electromagnetic waves and fields that surround us, François, Suzanne and Lorraine share with us the torments imposed by electrohypersensitivity. Through an intimate approach, The Spectre of Waves sheds light on the humanity ...

Documentary · Within the confines of a housing project in one of Montreal’s most disadvantaged neighbourhoods, Monique, Ginette, Yimga, Élisabeth, José, René (and many others) are waging a battle in which every gesture counts. Together, through daily efforts, residents and social workers pit soci...

Documentary · Three artists – Louis-Pierre Bougie, François-Xavier Marange and Denis Saint-Pierre – have shared a studio for over thirty years when one of them is hit by cancer. Meanwhile, they all keep working, expressing their thoughts and feelings by craft, gesture, art, and poetry. A film abo...

Dpcumentary · A privileged encounter with Adrien, a child who has a passionate relationship with his creativity. Shot over the course of several years, he explores various forms of art all the while sharing with us his passions, his sensitivity and his vision of his own colorful world.

Directed ...