Films
Film
29e
Ni Dieu Ni Père
Paul Kermarec
France, Experimentation
No God No Father is a docufiction where a young man, fatherless, turns to Google as a mentor, blurring the lines between daily learning, reality, and the virtual world.
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Night Bus
Joe Hsieh
Taiwan, Animation
On a late-night commuter bus, a necklace was stolen. This was followed by a tragic and fatal road accident, and a series of intriguing turn of events which revealed love, hatred, and vengeance. The film climaxes as the bus went ablaze, burning and glittering against the dark coastal sky.
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29e
Nuuhkuum uumichiwaapim
Lindsay Chewanish
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
“Nuuhkuum uumichiwaapim” (« My Grandmother’s Tipi ») is an exploration of the sensorial and textural experience of a grandmother’s tipi. It is based on memories of being in a tipi, observing in the bliss of cooking and the time in-between.
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29e
O
Rúnar Rúnarsson
Iceland, Sweden, Fiction
Quebec Critic Award AQCC winning film offered by Lussier & Khouzam and AQCC
O is a humanistic and poetic story of a fragile man trying to achieve a simple task where his main obstacle is within himself.
O is a humanistic and poetic story of a fragile man trying to achieve a simple task where his main obstacle is within himself.
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29e
On a Sunday at Eleven
Alicia K. Harris
Canada (Ontario), Fiction
A young Black ballerina performs her Sunday rituals, while facing the pressure to perform whiteness.
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29e
Orbites
Sarah Seené
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Canadian Grand Prize Award winning film offered by the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi and MTL Grandé
International FIPRESCI Critic’s Award winning film offerd by Bureau du Cinéma de Saguenay and SLA Location
Marie-Christine, who lost her sight some years ago, explores life in a particularly sensory way ,through her fingertips. Through her personal experience, she awaken her son's curiosity and sense of wonder about the beauty of the universe. Drawing from a constellation of highly textured analogue images and a rich tapestry of sound, Orbit journeys into the sensorial depths of Marie-Christine's memory, pondering the very essence of love and legacy.
International FIPRESCI Critic’s Award winning film offerd by Bureau du Cinéma de Saguenay and SLA Location
Marie-Christine, who lost her sight some years ago, explores life in a particularly sensory way ,through her fingertips. Through her personal experience, she awaken her son's curiosity and sense of wonder about the beauty of the universe. Drawing from a constellation of highly textured analogue images and a rich tapestry of sound, Orbit journeys into the sensorial depths of Marie-Christine's memory, pondering the very essence of love and legacy.
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29e
Paroles en l'air
Roger Gariépy
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Alternate facts, half-truths, or false appearances, lies spread throughout the world, mysteriously carried by the ignorance of some or the credulity of others. Do we even know if the truth will ever come to light one day ?
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29e
Pastorale
Francis Leclerc
Canada (Quebec), Experimentation
All by himself in a spaceship in 2225, Antoine Corriveau lives alone and shares different intimate subjects with other isolated persons residing in other spaceships.
All those characters are memories and parts of Antoine himself. As the story evolves, the line between him and the others gets blurred until it collapses and leads to the spaceship's explosion.
Death is like a second chance, a memory, a futuristic projection, or a parallel world.
All those characters are memories and parts of Antoine himself. As the story evolves, the line between him and the others gets blurred until it collapses and leads to the spaceship's explosion.
Death is like a second chance, a memory, a futuristic projection, or a parallel world.
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29e
Maybe Elephants
Torill Kove
Norway, Canada (Quebec), Animation
Three rebellious teenage daughters, a restless mother, a father struggling with potatoes, and maybe some elephants, find themselves in Nairobi. What could possibly go wrong?
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29e
Pidikwe
Caroline Monnet
Canada (Quebec), Experimentation
Shot entirely on 16mm film to recapture the aesthetics of the Roaring Twenties, Pidikwe mixes indigenous traditional and contemporary dance to create a unique object that can blur the boundaries between cinema, work of art and performance. Dance and language are linked to a system of knowledge. These are healing tools rooted in community.