Films
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Pharmakon
Jean-Martin Gagnon
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Like every winter, the boys get together for a weekend sprinkled with snow and psychotropic drugs. A necessary tradition to abandon oneself, to marvel and to trust the unknown.
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25e
Picbois
Kevin T. Landry
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
More than a decade after his mother abandoned him, Émile accepts Fanny’s invitation to work with her on an isolated logging camp. While he foolishly expected a joyful reunion, he is pitted against a hostile environment and a woman who distinctly lacks maternal instinct.
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25e
Piché retourne sur le ring
Helgi Piccinin
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
At 64, Bruno resumes training, determined to get back in the boxing ring one last time. After two difficult hip surgeries, the former boxer, now a village baker, decides to plan an epic amateur fight to bring his community together and celebrate his “rebirth”.
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Progressive Touch
Michael Portnoy
Netherlands, Austria,
Can you fu*k to an irregular beat? Progressive Touch depicts three futuristic, absurdist love scenes in which the goal is to "improve" sex by complicating its rhythm and choreography. Sex as dance, as comedy. Enacted by three real life couples, the dancers' every explicit move is synchronized to the propulsive, unpredictable score.
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25e
Pâté à viande
Pierrot Néron
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
A car isolates itself in the forest, a tension is felt among the passengers. Affected by fatigue and past events, they try to keep their cool.
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25e
Rated x
Nadia Louis-Desmarchais
Czech Republic, Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Rated X, a short documentary about the adult industry, focuses on giving a voice to the pornographic actresses working within it. In a perspective of showing how these women empower themselves with their job, Rated X exposes the porn industry as it has rarely been done before.
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25e
Room With a View
(LA)HORDE Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer, Arthur Harel
France, Experimentation
An apocalyptic storm is raging inside the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Violently taken off from her seat, a spectator is dragged to the centre of the scene. Rone looks from aside at the bodies swirling around her. As the storm grows bigger, he rushes to the emergency exit where everybody rushes after him...
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25e
Rosa
Jean-Michel Gervais & Gabriel J. Lemay
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
After being touched by a patient's story, a psychiatrist learns the hard way that appearances are sometimes deceptive.
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25e
SHE|/I
Shaun Clarke
United States, Experimentation
A meditation on the human body, identity and movement. Directed by Shaun Clarke. Featuring Maria Alvarez (Boston Ballet) and John Lam (Boston Ballet).
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25e
STICKER
Georgi M. Unkovski
Macedonia, Fiction
Thirty-seven-year-old year old Dejan finds himself at odds with the law after a local DMV is out of registration stickers and is unable to renew his car registration. Determined to continue on the journey to see his daughter, Dejan faces a series of events which test his commitment to being a responsible father.