Films
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20e
Un jour à l'école
Victor Ghizaru
Burkina Faso, Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Winding around the dusty, mirage-soaked roads of Burkina Faso on their donkey carts, two brothers transport soil. Layered with lively regional folk sounds, the boys fulfill their daily grind, encountering worlds vastly different from their own.
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Un printemps incertain
Carole Laganiere
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Francis is dying of cancer in a hospital care unit. His niece, Léa, visit him daily after school. She also sends him, from her cell, pictures of the Spring outside. A loving fellowship between a young girl and her uncle.
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20e
Una Storia Normale
Michele Vannucci & Michelle Vannucci
Italy, Documentary
Sometimes, encounters occur that can change the perception we have on life. Encounters, in which no apparent bond links us to the person we have in front of us, but with whom we feel instinctively intimate.
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20e
Une bombe
Guillaume Harvey
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
In the fall of their 16th year, Maxime, Guérin and J-P find the recipe for a pipe bomb on the Internet. When Guérin decides to build it in his parents’ shed, Maxime volunteers to help. But the bomb isn’t his main concern.
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Une bonne récolte
Bogdan Stefan
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
The bloodletting of a pig in the countryside is soberly filmed like an initiatory ritual. An honest and touching tribute to the transmission of actions shared in families and passed on from one generation to another.
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20e
Une formalité
Simon Lamarre-Ledoux & Pierre-Marc Drouin
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Remy, henchman for East Montreal Cosa Nostra, is in charge to kill his partner Fernand, who speaks too much. The plan : Invite him to drink a coffe, win his confidence and do the dirty works in the alley. A very simple formality…
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Une nuit
Serge Bordeleau
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
A night in a bar, like any other. Neatly capturing furtive looks, euphoric and awkward moments. Each night holds a multitude of potential stories.
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20e
Until The Quiet Comes
Yaron Cohen
Netherlands, Documentary
During the war between Abkhazia and Georgia, Toro fled to Georgia with his cousin and his cousin's wife. Since then they have been living together in a remote mountain village. Despite Toro's endless positivity, humour and resilience, the harsh reality starts kicking in.
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20e
Viaduc
Patrice Laliberté
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
One night, Mathieu, 17, goes under an overpass to do a graffiti.
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Violence en réunion
Karim Boukercha
France, Fiction
Every night, a mysterious woman wearing a burka taunts police officers patrolling the projects. Meanwhile, Vince, a former street legend, must face his demons and avoid falling off of the wagon, and back into the streets…