PROGRAMME 2009
November 13, 2009
Doc Circuit Montréal
November 13, 2009 , 08:30AM
Grande Bibliothèque
The Documentary Marketplace
Domination masculine (La) [Male Domination]
Patric Jean looks from misogynist Léo Ferré to the slaughter of women at Montreal’s Polytechnique, finding patriarchy alive and well despite illusions of equality.
H2Oil
The tar sands. Some say we’ve reached the bottom of the barrel. Others plan to keep filling it up.
Théorie du tout (La) [Theory of Everything (The)]
A sumptuous black-and-white film deconstructs the beauty of Quebec’s territory (including the winter so rarely seen on film) and the people shaped by it.
Episode III - Enjoy Poverty
Ostensibly naïve, Enjoy Poverty facetiously claims that poverty is Africa’s greatest source of wealth.
November 13, 2009 , 06:00PM
Grande Bibliothèque
Screening & Discussion: Media images of poverty : Humanitarian or exploitive? Moderated by Michel Coulombe.
El Mercurio ment (2 ou 3 choses sur le journal le plus puissant du Chili) [El diario de Agustín]
A richly supported, fascinating document on the role of the El Mercurio newspaper in establishing and bolstering the Pinochet regime.
Lights From Afar [Lichter aus dem Hintergrund]
A thoughtful portrait of the Wall Children who grew up in East Berlin and have had to adapt to the extraordinary changes that reunification has imposed on their lives.
Multiple projections
Ne le dis pas [Nika tshika uiten mishkut]
This short film is a monologue, nothing more, and it is simple and deeply moving. Filmmaker Jani Bellefleur-Kaltush tells us about a life-changing event that happened when she was a teenager living in foster care. Gossip spread that she was...Aimer, finir
Jade, 22 and a brand new mom, lives in Schefferville. Anne-Marie, who is 70, lives in Uashat, shrouded in the memory of her husband. On one level, their lives could not be more different but on another, they are related...
Pax Americana
The militarization of space has begun and it’s a race nobody intends to lose… especially not the U.S.!
Cycle d’idiot (Le) [Idiot Cycle (The)]
The multinationals manufacturing petrochemical products associated with cancer hold the patents on anti-cancer medication. Now they’re producing GMOs. A film about pattern-recognition.
Multiple projections
18 ans [18 Years]
It should be one of the most beautiful days of her life. Morgane is 18 today. But as usual, her mother doesn’t come through. And as usual, she only stammers a feeble excuse to cover the fact she is an...C'est notre histoire [It's Our Story]
It sounds like the beginning of a fairy tale: a man from northern France and a young woman from Brittany meet in Paris, fall in love and immigrate to Canada in 1969. Shortly afterwards, a baby boy is born. But...
Multiple projections
Side by Side [Side om side]
Twenty years ago, as one wall came down in Berlin, another went up in the Danish countryside between the houses of Mr. Frost and Mr. Jepsen, the director’s father. It matters little whether the source of the dispute is a...Lumière du Nord
A wolf circles in the snow. Little girls are tucked fast asleep under a thick woollen blanket. Someone adds logs to the fire. In a few weeks, the polar night will descend on the hamlet of Sumskoy Posad, 1,000 kilometres...
Archipels nitrate
Fun, erudition and poetry are on the menu in this deeply personal tribute to Belgium’s Cinémathèque Royale.
Murs du son (Les)
Disillusionment, day jobs, hustlers, hopes… the road to rock stardom is a long one. Featuring Montreal bands Despised Icon, Huis Clos and La Gachette.
War+Love in Kabul
A luminous, sensitive portrait of a modern-day Romeo and Juliette in war-torn Afghanistan.
