Cinéma à la carte’s catalog

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.

Choose one or more films and eas­i­ly orga­nize screen­ings with our turnkey ser­vice, designed for the­aters, film clubs, aca­d­e­m­ic set­tings, schools, and com­mu­ni­ty orga­ni­za­tions. Please note that we gen­er­al­ly have rights in Cana­da only.

A Gold­en Life 

Boubacar San­gare

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 

Chris­t­ian Math­ieu Fournier, Nadine Beaudet

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 

Helen Doyle

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 

Erik Gan­di­ni

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 

Guil­laume Lan­glois, Nico­las Lévesque

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 

Guil­laume Fournier, Samuel Mat­teau, Yan­nick Nolin

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 

Karen Cho

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 

Flo­re Vasseur

An Indone­sian activist trav­els the world to meet young peo­ple involved in the fight against social inequal­i­ty and pollution. 

Bras de fer 

Jean-Lau­rence Seaborn, Jonathan Seaborn

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 

Lina Soualem

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 

Simon Larochelle

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 

Cha­di Ben­nani

At the begin­ning of sum­mer, Adam, Ana, and Dahlia turn to their fam­i­lies and friends to ques­tion their cul­tur­al heritage. 

Dam­as­cus Dreams 

Émi­lie Ser­ri

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 

Matthieu Rytz

Punc­tu­at­ed by breath­tak­ing images of deep-sea organ­isms, Deep Ris­ing traces sev­er­al decades of manip­u­la­tions ben­e­fit­ing com­pa­nies aim­ing for deep-sea min­ing extraction. 

Fast Fash­ion — Les dessous de la mode à bas prix 

Édouard Per­rin, Gilles Bovon

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 

Chen Sing Yap

A psy­chother­a­pist strug­gling with cli­mate anx­i­ety explores what it means to live in a dying world. 

Fram­ing Agnes 

Chase Joynt

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. 

Gen­tle Hum of Spring 

Simon Garez

As the spring thaw approach­es in Saskatchewan, a young bee­keep­er strug­gles to main­tain his bee colonies after they are afflict­ed by a mys­te­ri­ous malady. 

I lost my Mom 

Denys Des­jardins

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 

Steve Patry

In Mon­tre­al, front-line work­ers are work­ing hard to pro­vide appro­pri­ate care for our soci­ety’s most vul­ner­a­ble citizens. 

Irréductibles 

Olivi­er Dubuquoy

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 

Sara Ben-Saud

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 

Hugo Lat­ulippe

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 

Namai Kham Po

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 

Julien Élie

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 Madone 

Anne-Marie Tur­cotte, Mario Calvé

Lise, a woman with a trou­bled psy­chi­atric his­to­ry, believes she is the rein­car­na­tion of the char­ac­ter in Edvard Munch’s paint­ing The Madon­na. A poet­ic and col­or­ful uni­verse of hal­lu­ci­na­tions, obses­sions, intense moments of emo­tion, and pro­found lucidity. 

La Pensée-Machine 

Olivi­er D. Asselin

A doc­u­men­tary essay explor­ing the inva­sion of machines into our lives and the result­ing “cul­ture war.”



La théorie du boxeur 

Nathanaël Coste

Nathanaël Coste explores the Drôme val­ley to under­stand farm­ers’ adap­ta­tion strate­gies, while ques­tion­ing the food resilience of our regions. 

Le Château 

Denys Des­jardins

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. 

Le goût des choses 

Alain Wirth

For the past three years, Pierre-Gilles and Antoine have been grow­ing their veg­eta­bles entire­ly nat­u­ral­ly. It’s a dai­ly chal­lenge that only resilience can overcome. 

Like There is No Tomorrow 

Mat­teo Kef­fer, Ric­car­do Cre­mona

Like There is no Tomor­row tells the sto­ry of a group of activists engaged in a cam­paign of non-vio­lent civ­il disobedience. 

Mael and the revolution 

Céline Thiou

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 

Nan­te­naina Lova

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 — E01 : La volup­té de la destruction 

Tan­crède Ramon­et

This first part traces the ori­gins of the anar­chist move­ment around the world between 1840 and 1914, high­light­ing its found­ing fig­ures and its cen­tral role in the social strug­gles of the 19th and ear­ly 20th cen­turies, notably through the Inter­na­tionale, the May Day hol­i­day, and the demand for the eight-hour day. 

Ni Dieu ni maître, une his­toire de l’a­n­ar­chisme — E02 : La mémoire des vaincus 

Tan­crède Ramon­et

Episode 2 traces the rise of anar­chism between 1911 and 1945, from the Mex­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion to the Span­ish Rev­o­lu­tion. Anar­chists orga­nize in rev­o­lu­tion­ary unions (CGT, IWW, CNT-FAI) and fight against cap­i­tal­ism, fas­cism and author­i­tar­i­an­ism. The Span­ish War marked their high point, fol­lowed by a bru­tal defeat. 

Ni Dieu ni maître, une his­toire de l’a­n­ar­chisme — E03 : Des fleurs et des pavés 

Tan­crède Ramon­et

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 

Tan­crède Ramon­et

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 

Chris­t­ian Math­ieu Fournier, Mar­tin Frigon

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 

Emmanuel Cap­pellin

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 

Eli Jean Tahchi

After find­ing com­mu­ni­ty on a rug­by team in Munich, Jamaican-born Desmond tack­les life by embrac­ing his identity. 

Red Forest 

Lau­rie Las­salle

A grow­ing group of anar­chists estab­lish an eco-activist, anti-cap­i­tal­ist com­mu­ni­ty in a French for­est. But the state has oth­er plans. A cin­e­mat­ic, rev­o­lu­tion­ary film about free­dom and ideals. 

Rev­o­lu­tion — Work is Human 

Pro­duc­tions 4 Élé­ments, Réseau COOP

Dis­cov­er inspir­ing work­er coop­er­a­tive solu­tions to today’s chal­lenges in the doc­u­men­tary ®evo­lu­tion – work is human.

Robin Bank 

Anna Giralt Gris

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 

David Sanchez

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 

Eti­enne Lan­glois

The film recounts the occu­pa­tion of the city of Sept-Îles by work­ers in May 1972, through the tes­ti­monies of activists and archival footage. 

Seuls 

Paul Tom

Every year, over 400 chil­dren arrive alone at the Cana­di­an bor­der to claim refugee sta­tus. Fear­ing for their lives, Afshin, Alain and Patri­cia left their coun­try, with­out their par­ents, when they were just chil­dren, in the hope of a bet­ter life in Canada. 

Tax Me If You Can 

Yan­nick Ker­goat

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! 

François Ruf­fin

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 

Alexe Poukine

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 

Nico­las Paquet

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 

Lau­ra Rietveld

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 FARC Guer­ril­la, a His­to­ry of the Future 

Pierre Car­les

Through Canaguaro, a fic­tion film direct­ed by Duni Kuz­manich about the guer­ril­las of the 1950s, and Rio Chiq­ui­to, JP Ser­gent and Bruno Muel’s doc­u­men­tary on the birth of FARC, retraces fifty years of armed strug­gle in the Colom­bian jungle. 

The Free Ones 

Nico­las Lévesque

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 

Shan­non Walsh

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 Pickers 

Elke Sasse

The Pick­ers takes us to the fields of Europe where 1 mil­lion migrants har­vest the dai­ly fruits and veg­eta­bles in more than pre­car­i­ous conditions. 

The Pos­i­tive Ener­gy of Gods 

Laeti­tia Møller

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 

Anaïs Tara­ce­na

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 

Adrien Pinon, Thomas Lafarge

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. 

True North 

Michèle Stephen­son

Michèle Stephenson’s mov­ing doc­u­men­tary cen­tres on the 1969 stu­dent protests against racism at Montreal’s Con­cor­dia Uni­ver­si­ty and their con­tri­bu­tion to the sto­ry of Black liberation. 

Un jeu à soi 

Julia Mar­tinez Heimann, Natalia Laclau

In Buenos Aires, Lore­na, Juliana, and Luci, foot­ballers and fem­i­nists, fight for their dreams and a sym­bol­ic space. 

Uprising 

Thomas Lacoste

Through 16 sin­gu­lar voic­es, this film draws an inti­mate por­trait of the Earth Upris­ings move­ment — a youth resist­ing eco­log­i­cal cat­a­stro­phe and forg­ing new bonds with the living. 

Vil­la Madjo 

Elen Syl­la Grol­limund

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. 

Voir — Juger — Agir : L’his­toire de la JOC au Québec 

Annie Deniel

The film heds light on the untold sto­ry of Quebec’s Young Catholic Work­ers, a grass­roots labor move­ment born in the 1930s. The film explores its essen­tial role in the fem­i­nist and union strug­gles and social trans­for­ma­tions that shaped Que­bec in the 20th century. 

Volem rien foutre al païs 

Christophe Coel­lo, Pierre Car­les, Stéphane Goxe

Faced with grow­ing job inse­cu­ri­ty and the con­sumer soci­ety, some peo­ple are choos­ing to break away from it and lead a more autonomous life, based on cho­sen activ­i­ty and sol­i­dar­i­ty, refus­ing both exploita­tion and assistance. 

Wandering 

Kar­la Meza

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 

Mélanie Car­ri­er, Olivi­er Hig­gins

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 

Emanuel Licha

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. 

Éviction 

Mathilde Capone

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.