Films
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28e
Ilnikueu
Comité De femmes Puakuteu
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Testimonials from the women’s group at Mashteuiatsh Puakuteu fill this intimate short film about grief and healing. In doll-making workshops, the women share their doubts and hopes and, in doing so, build a space of strength and solidarity.
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28e
Joe Buffalo
Amar Chebib
Canada (British Columbia), Documentary
Joe Buffalo is an Indigenous skateboard legend. He’s also a survivor of Canada’s notorious Indian Residential School system. Following a traumatic childhood and decades of addiction, Joe must face his inner demons to realize his dream of turning pro.
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28e
Juste un toit
Emmanuel Rioux
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
The housing crisis had many faces. Those of Jeannette and Frances drive us into the difficult experience of eviction. During many months of anxiety, brief hopes and uprooting, Jeannette and Frances fight, alone and surrounded, against a growing phenomenon: the forced loss of one’s home.
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28e
Krush The Wrestler
Alex Megaro
United States, Documentary
Exploring the innate intimacy of submission wrestling, a lifelong wrestler turns his talents into an on-demand fetish video service.
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28e
L'Esquisse
Cali Tomas
France, Documentary
Arriving in Paris, I start learning two languages, French and drawing. In an artist's studio, I meet Linda Demorrir, a live model. Like me, she is transgender and an immigrant. As I draft her outlines, it is also myself that I learn to draw.
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28e
L'artifice
Isabelle Grignon-Francke
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Kim and Billy work at carnivals. This summer, Kim procrastinates. He plans to leave this family of colleagues to devote himself to his passion, the search for precious stones. The layoff of Billy, his best friend, accelerates his disenchantment. We always dream of elsewhere.
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28e
La fille au béret rouge
Janet Perlman
Canada (Quebec), Animation
A girl takes a ride on the Montreal metro, which becomes the unlikely venue for a strange and wonderful musical journey.
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28e
La pâquerette-raclette
Liselotte Macagno
France, Animation
Claude want to see the cheddar daisy, which can only be found at the top of the Pic-Odon.
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28e
Le Flou Des Arbres
Fanny Perreault
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Two incarcerated women in a secured forest of the North of Quebec are subjected to hard labour of reforestation. Confronted to their body’s instrumentalisation and its underhand control, they enjoy a little area of freedom they managed to create thanks to a prison guard particularly empathetic towards them.
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28e
Le Hérisson
Daniela Hýbnerová
Czech Republic, Animation
Can hedgehog swim?