Explore our selection of Quebec and international documentaries, both feature-length and short films, addressing social, political, and environmental issues. Drawn from past programming, our catalog is regularly updated to offer you fresh and relevant works.
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A Golden Life
In Burkina Faso, young men look under the earth for gold – and a better future. As a result, 16-year-old Rasmané barely seems like a teenager any more. This mainly observational film follows him into the 100-metre abyss of small-scale mining.
A House for the Syrians
A citizens’ committee in Saint-Ubalde, which is preparing to welcome a family of Syrian refugees, has to contend with the slow pace of the administrative process.
After The Odyssey
Hundreds of young migrants from Nigeria, seeking a better life, survive a trip to the Mediterranean Sea to reach the coast of Italy.
After Work
In 1958, Hannah Arendt predicted a society without work. After Work explores this current reality and the quest for meaning in economies such as Italy, the USA, South Korea and Kuwait.
Atik, gardien du territoire
Jean-Luc Kanapé, an Innu from Pessamit, guides us along the trail of the last caribou herds on his community’s ancestral territory.
Belle River
2019. Spring flooding on the Mississippi River is reaching record levels. In Louisiana, the residents of Pierre-Part prepare for the worst.
Big Fight in Little Chinatown
Big Fight in Little Chinatown documents the collective fight to save Chinatowns across North America. Coast to Coast the film follows Chinatown communities resisting active erasure.
Bigger Than Us
An Indonesian activist travels the world to meet young people involved in the fight against social inequality and pollution.
Bras de fer
For several years, Véronique Lalande and her husband Louis Duchesne waged a legal battle against St. Lawrence Stevedoring and the Port of Quebec, which they accused of being responsible for heavy metal dust emissions affecting certain neighbourhoods in the capital.
Bye Bye Tiberias
Hiam Abbass left her Palestinian village to pursue her dream of becoming an actress in Europe, leaving behind her mother, grandmother, and seven sisters. Thirty years later, her daughter Lina, a filmmaker, returns with her to trace the lost places and scattered memories of four generations of Palestinian women.
Chronicle of a Crisis
Sarah and Simon, a young Montreal couple, lose their apartment amid a housing crisis. This intimate documentary captures the daily anxieties and resistance in the face of growing economic insecurity affecting their generation.
D’ici, d’ailleurs
At the beginning of summer, Adam, Ana, and Dahlia turn to their families and friends to question their cultural heritage.
Damascus Dreams
A reinvented tale of initiation, Damascus Dreams recounts the quest of Émilie, a filmmaker in search of an inaccessible homeland, interweaving the memories of her father, Syrian refugees and her own imagination.
Deep Rising
Punctuated by breathtaking images of deep-sea organisms, Deep Rising traces several decades of manipulations benefiting companies aiming for deep-sea mining extraction.
Éviction
Since 2010, Parthenais has become home to a queer community in Montreal. They share a triplex, creating memories between the dilapidated walls. Twelve years later, a wealthy family bought the building, marking the end of an era of gentrification.
Fast Fashion — Les dessous de la mode à bas prix
Making a dress for a dozen euros, in the heart of Europe and in less than 15 days: it’s not only possible, it’s becoming the norm.
Feeling the Apocalypse
A psychotherapist struggling with climate anxiety explores what it means to live in a dying world.
Framing Agnes
The film turns the talk show format inside out in response to media’s ongoing fascination with trans people. The film breathes life into six previously unknown stories from the archives of the UCLA Gender Clinic in the 1950s.
I lost my Mom
In the style of a film diary, I lost my Mom immerses us in the personal experience of the filmmaker and his sister as they try to ensure their mother can end her days with dignity in the CHSLD system.
I might be dead by tomorrow
In Montreal, front-line workers are working hard to provide appropriate care for our society’s most vulnerable citizens.
Irréductibles
Irréductibles is a film about men and women who have won battles that seemed lost in advance. Blocking nuclear power plants, sabotage to stop pollution at sea, ZADs to protect forests — they all have one thing in common: they are victorious in their struggle.
J’suis pas raciste, j’ai un ami noir
Young people of color who have evolved in predominantly white circles reveal their reality. They embody that mythical figure in the collective imagination: the “black friend”.
Je me soulève
20 young performers brought together for a creation lab strive to tap into the spirit of the times by scouring contemporary Québécois poetry. When, to everyone’s amazement, one of theirs is elected to Quebec’s National Assembly, poetry becomes an integral part of the country’s political landscape.
L’atelier
Kathy Tran and Agnès Gaudreau work as auto mechanics at Bâtiment 7, a collective-run space that facilitates the integration of minorities. We get to know them through this inspiring place where they’re truly able to be themselves.
La guardia blanca
This documentary by Julien Elie exposes the regime of terror orchestrated by transnational corporations, the government, and organized crime to seize natural resources in Mexico.
La Pensée-Machine
A documentary essay exploring the invasion of machines into our lives and the resulting “culture war.”
La théorie du boxeur
Nathanaël Coste explores the Drôme valley to understand farmers’ adaptation strategies, while questioning the food resilience of our regions.
Le Château
Madeleine, 86 years old, has been living at Château Beaurivage for five years. But as her condition deteriorates, she has to move out of the apartment where she promised herself she would end her days.
Mael and the revolution
At the age of 17, Maël, a Le Mans 24-hour race enthusiast, took the environment by surprise. A student at an agricultural high school, he developed a singular political awareness, despite the opposition of his fellow students.
Morning star
In the name of “development”, the trawlers loot “their” sea, and this australian mining project is a new curse. To keep courage, Edmond named his canoe : Aza Kivy (Let’s not give up ).
Ni Dieu ni maître, une histoire de l’anarchisme — E03 : Des fleurs et des pavés
At the end of the Second World War, anarchism experienced a gigantic decline. But, little by little, in the heart of the Cold War, more and more revolutionaries turn to anarchism and contribute to give it a new echo.
Ni Dieu ni maître, une histoire de l’anarchisme — E04 : Les réseaux de la colère
In the aftermath of the Cold War, where the imperial powers competed with violence, the main danger of anarchism was no longer to disappear. It was to become alienated. But, at the heart of the great social mobilizations, anarchism is always present, without always saying its name, and restarts for one turn at least the great wheel of our history.
Notre-Dame-de‑l’Arsenic
Immerse yourself in the unprecedented social upheaval that took place in Rouyn-Noranda in 2022, following public health revelations of unusually high levels of arsenic in the air.
Once you know
How can we continue to live with the idea that the human adventure may fail? In search of answers, Emmanuel Cappellin meets experts who are calling for the most humane transition possible.
Outside Center
After finding community on a rugby team in Munich, Jamaican-born Desmond tackles life by embracing his identity.
Révolution — le travail est humain
Discover inspiring worker cooperative solutions to today’s challenges in the documentary ®evolution – work is human.
Robin Bank
This is the story of Enric Duran, a Catalan activist who took out loans worth half a million euros that he had no intention of repaying. Instead, he used the money to finance social projects, and explains that he committed these thefts to denounce the bad practices of the banking system.
Sacrifiée
Flavie is a bold and stubborn 15-year-old who, in order to defend her social and environmental convictions, is ready to use civil disobedience even if it means facing the law.
Sept-Îles ’72: Archives du monde ordinaire
The film recounts the occupation of the city of Sept-Îles by workers in May 1972, through the testimonies of activists and archival footage.
Tax Me If You Can
With rigor, and a dose of humor, Tax Me If You Can explains the mechanisms of tax havens and demonstrates how tax evasion, an essential cog in the neoliberal system, accelerates the growth of economic inequality.
Thank you, boss!
Jocelyne and Serge Klur face job loss and possible homelessness after their factory relocates. François Ruffin leads an effort to confront LVMH’s CEO Bernard Arnault at a general assembly, seeking justice in a struggle against corporate power.
That Which Does Not Kill
It all happened very quickly, but the trauma remains. That Which Does Not Kill tackles the delicate and intimate question of rape with modesty and accuracy.
The Act of Beauty
Tucked away in the heart of the Bic mountains, in the territory known as the Bas-du-Fleuve, lies a community of spirits, daring spirits that are putting down roots. This “Sageterre” is the work of Jean Bédard, writer, philosopher, social worker and, above all, farmer.
The Family of the Forest
Gerard and Catherine sacrificed family, friends and their native Belgium to live self-sufficiently in the boreal forest of the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec. 15 years later, as their three sons grow into young adults, what will become of this remarkable life they have given everything for?
The Free Ones
The Free Ones plunges us into the lives of four inmates at the end of their prison sentences. It’s in a wood-processing plant that they will finish their correction before returning to the job market and reintegrating, or not, into society.
The Gig Is Up
Millions of people around the world find task-based work to do online. Working conditions are often dangerous and unfair. The Gig Is Up makes us realize that the magic of technology we’re being sold may just be an illusion.
The Positive Energy of Gods
Coming from a medical-educational institute for autistic youngsters, the singers of the Astéréotypie group unveil their explosive universe on stage, encouraged by an educator more passionate about art brut than educational techniques. Their collective adventure is a cry for freedom.
The silence of the Mole
Tout au long des années 1970, le journaliste Elías Barahona s’infiltre au cœur du gouvernement militaire le plus répressif du Guatemala. In seeking to uncover the story of this secret and unique individual, The Silence of the Mole opens cracks in the walls of silence.
The World according to Amazon
The World According to Amazon reveals how one man is taking control of how we shop, how we run our economy and the data that defines us.
Villa Madjo
Her white-skinned father was born in Africa, and her black-skinned mother was born in Europe. A complex story of her family, colonialism and the interracial couple.
Wandering
For the past three years, a young Mexican asylum seeker has been forced to put his academic career and his dream of becoming a police officer on hold due to his immigration status.
Wandering, a Rohingya Story
The documentary film Wandering, a Rohingya story offers a poetic, immersive and powerful look at the world’s most densely populated refugee camp, Kutupalong.
ZO REKEN
In Port-au-Prince, a humanitarian organization’s 4x4 is being diverted from its usual use: its Haitian passengers are now using it to talk about neo-colonialism and to denounce the promises made by the international community that have not been kept, while the people are crying out in anger.
