May 5, 2016
Avant les rues (2016) **
Shawnouk tue un homme lors d’un vol à main armée. Après s’être évadé en forêt, il retourne dans sa communauté et cherche à se libérer par la pratique de rituels traditionnels.
Les Mauvaises herbes (2016) **
Jacques a des dettes de jeu et fuit la ville pour échapper à un dangereux créancier. Il se retrouve à la ferme de Simon qui le force à travailler sur sa plantation de cannabis. Malgré des débuts pénibles, Jacques et Simon s'apprivoisent. La dégourdie Francesca se joint à eux. Le trio aura à affronter le malsain créancier de Jacques.
Rupture (2016) ***
Gulistan Land Of Roses (2016) **
The film follows the female fighters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) as they fight for independence. These women are the revolutionary future of a people and the hidden face of a highly mediatized war: the female, feminist face in the war against ISIS.
Pays (2016) **
Montreal la blanche (2016) *
In Montreal, one evening when Christmas has fallen during Ramadan, the Muslim fast, the paths of two Algerians cross momentarily, resurrecting a past they thought was long buried.
April 4, 2016
Ennemis intérieurs (2016) ****
E.W.A. (2016) ***
Frame 394 (2016) ***
Please Re-Elect Gerald (2016) ***
Pleasure And Pain (2016) ***
Formation (2016) ***
Wild Skin (2016) **
Suite à la découverte d'un bébé python dans son appartement, le quotidien d'une jeune femme solitaire se métamorphose. Cette mystérieuse rencontre libère des pulsions trop longtemps enfouies et laisse enfin place à sa vraie nature.
Tshiuetin (2016) **
A trip on an Indigenous-owned train line in northern Québec, shot in exquisite black and white, becomes an eloquent symbol of the pride and dignity that come with autonomy.
A Funeral For Lightning (2016) *
Seven months pregnant and stuck in a sleepy corner of Tennessee, a young woman begins to see through the promises made by her charismatic husband.
This River (2016) *
With over 4,000 missing or murdered Indigenous people in Canada, everyone knows someone who never came home. "This River" offers a first-hand perspective on the devastating experience of searching for a loved one who has disappeared.
The Road To Webequie (2016) *
In the remote island home to Webequie First Nation, a nearby mining development poses new hopes and threats for the local community. "The Road To Webequie", through the eyes of three unique youth, portrays the challenges of contemporary life on a remote reserve in Canada that is facing imminent development.
Stone Makers (2016) *
A routine workday in a granite quarry turns surreptitiously into a captivating industrial symphony. While men work in the background, different equipment and machines perform for the camera as if they are individual dancers in a contemporary ballet.
Joe's Violin (2016) *
There is a serious overdose of pathos and sentimentality in this "music and the Holocaust" documentary short.
Pearl (2016) ***
Mamie (2016) ***
Mamie lives in Gaspésie in a house that faces away from the sea. Her granddaughter wonders: “Why isn’t Mamie interested in me? What happened that made Mamie so indifferent?”
Blind Vaysha (2016) **
Vaysha is not like other little girls. Her left eye sees only the past. Her right, only the future. Blinded by what was and tormented by what will be, she remains trapped between two irreconcilable temporalities. “Blind Vaysha,” they called her.
Red Of The Yew Tree (2016) *
La traversée d’un imaginaire féminin et universel, un périple encré à pointe fine. Une chasse à la perdrix est l’occasion d’un voyage à la fois délicat et puissamment évocateur sous le souffle de l’amour maternel et de la passation d’une condition féminine partagée.
I Am Here (2016) *
A mysterious traveller journeys across space and time in search of the origin of the universe. Along the way, he arrives at a devastating realization. But when he voices his conclusion, his discovery is brushed off as the babble of a deranged man. The world continues to spin.
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