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...

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 | 77 minutes | 2013 | Canada

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 lo...

52 min, Documentary, Canada, 2020

Directed by Mikaël Huot
Produced by Mikaël Huot
Language French

Synopsis :
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 electro...

Documentary, 79 min., Quebec, Canada, 2015

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, resid...

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 about friendship ...

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.

Long métrage documentaire, 80 minutes, 2015, Canada

“In his world there are griffons, supermen, the 3rd voice or THE voice, and numerous voices which speak of almost everywhere. There are the neuroleptic and their unacceptable side effects, the crises and the stays in psychiatric hospitals, th...

ocumentary
77 min
Languages: Abenaki / Atikamekw / Innu / Mohawk / Naskapi /Inuttitut / French / English
Quebec, Canada, 2017
Production : Les Films de l'Autre

Those Who Come, Will Hear proposes a unique meeting with the speakers of several indigenous and inuit languages of Quebec. The fi...

50 min, documentary, Québec, Canada, 1992

Directed by Bernard Émond
Produced by Bernadette Payeur
Languages french and english

Synopsis
His name was Henri Turcotte. He has lived all his life in the Hochelaga Maisonneuve district. He walked through existence with such light footsteps that he alm...

André Montpetit, also known as "Arthur", passed through Québec’s artistic scene like a shooting star. This extraordinary cartoonist and his overactive imagination became widely known in the poster and comic strip world, at the end of the 1960s, before disappearing as quickly as he had appeared. I...

Out of their spartan lives, two humble, elderly Moscovites carve an imaginary world – a space of identity created in solitude. Following the social upheaval of Russia art becomes a lifeline for these seasoned cast-offs.

90 min, Documentary, Maroc, Québec, 2010

Directed by Hind Benchekroun & Sami Mermer
Produced by Hind Benchekroun et Sami Mermer
Language Arabic/French

Synopsis
This film celebrates longevity by introducing us to three colorful characters, all in their 80s, living in the North of Morocco. They s...

97 min, documentary, Canada, 2020.

Directed by François Jacob
Produced by Les Films de l'Autre
Languages Armenian, Azerbaijani, Russian, English

Synopsis
Despite the 1994 ceasefire, there is still no real peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which continue to fight fiercely over the mountainou...

60 min, Documentaire, Canada, 2008
Productrice: Sonia Despars (Productions Thalie)
Langues: Français, s.t. anglais | In French with English subtitles

Trente ans après la fermeture de la colonie minière de Schefferville, les Innus, après avoir pris possession de la ville abandonnée par les no...

72 min., Documentary, Canada, 2020

Directed by Nicolas Lachapelle
Produced by Brousse | Suzel D. Smith et Nicolas Lachapelle
Language English

Synopsis
A group of jilted souls have found refuge inside a forsaken neighbourhood scorched by brutal violence, fire and destruction. They try to build t...

This documentary tells the story of my native town, Xalko, one of the very few Kurdish villages in the heart of Turkey’s Central Anatolia. Deserted by its men who have gone to Europe or America, Xalko still survives to this day thanks to those who keep the fort: mothers and children who do what i...

Documentary, 26 minutes, Dioula with English subtitles, Quebec, Canada 2016, Production: Mango Films

Nyassan, Sourou Valley, Burkina Faso. The night watchman awaits the dawn, marking the end of his night shift guarding the rice fields. At daybreak, the dryers light the fires, and the frothing ...

ZAGROS follows the creation of carpets across the Western mountains of Iran, the land of Bakhtiaris. Wool is the guiding thread that traverses nomadic and sedentary cultures, revealing the worlds of weavers, dyers and shepherds through their labour. Carpets weave the social fabric of their lives,...