Carlos Ferrand

Brave New River (directed by Nicolas Renaud) is a feature documentary exploring the paradoxes of our control over nature, the meeting between two worlds and the dilemmas of those taking part in the transformation of the land.

After the Agrarian Reform enacted in 1969 by the government led by Juan Velasco Alvarado, the Andean communities recovered their land, obtained fundamental rights such as access to public education and the possibility of working for themselves. From then on, life alternatives opened up for the children of the Andes who, unlike their predecessors, could attend school, although they still had to face many scarcities. This film looks at the lives of these children, who, together with their communities, are trying to move forward.

This documentary is a road-mind movie that immerses us in the fascinating world of photographer-writer Serge Emmanuel Jongué.

As if perched atop the majestic Rocher Percé, a stranded stone ship, this film takes an innovative look at the Gaspé Peninsula, shaped by nature, culture, and history. “Two parts geology and one part magic,” the story focuses on the splendor of Percé, which has always been surrounded by fishermen, geologists, poets, and botanists.

Documentary that collects with a mixture of lightness and thunderous passages from the life and death of the Peruvian poet, who from a very young age was already the best version of himself and the promise of his generation. A kind of tribute through the testimonies of the people who loved him, contextualized with images of the political and social moment of the time, which contribute to the rescue of his memory and his poetic word, which was expressed hand in hand with his unfailing commitment to freedom. Javier Heraud, the guerrilla poet, was murdered in the Madre de Dios River in Puerto Maldonado in 1963. He was 21 years old.

From Panagonia to Nunavut, during four years, Carlos Ferrand visited dear friends, men and women he met wandering the americas. All the while, observing the way of life of the forgotten populations and learning about the fate of some indigenous people.

A Road-Movie on rails, Ocean offers both a journey between Montreal and Halifax, as well as a sensory evocation of the intimate experience of travelling.

In 1970, Hungarian-Québécois photographer Gabor Szilasi set out for the Charlevoix region of Québec to photograph the last vestiges of a disappearing rural world. Thirty-five years later, filmmaker Catherine Martin (Océan, Dans les villes, Trois temps après la mort d’Anna) went back to revisit the landscape, places and people he photographed. The Spirit of Places retraces Szilasi’s photographic journey, taking stock of what remains and what has disappeared.

The broadcast of a Peruvian national football team match, part of the World Cup qualifiers, transforms the bustling streets of Lima into empty, desolate, ghostly spaces. A sonic counterpoint of the shouts of the crowd, the chants of supporters, the announcers in the middle of the broadcast, etc., speaks of a city suspended in its daily routine by a sporting event.

13, a ludodrama on Walter Benjamin' is a documentary essay on the German philosopher Walter Benjamin. Divided into 13 small chapters, the film tells the stories of Benjamin's exile in Paris between 1933 and 1940.

A woman in love with a musician has a change of heart on her 18th birthday.

Joseph takes a fragile step into adolescence while Matt, his big brother, stagnates in a menial job. At home, they rarely interact. One night, their house gets broken into and their father's gun is stolen.

In Pursuit of Peace follows four Canadians on the front lines of international peace initiatives - in South Sudan, Turkey, Congo and Iraq. We experience the challenges of their work, exploring how their peace building strategies are put to the test in this new 21st century paradigm of conflict resolution.

This short documentary tells the story of a cheese—the famous Oka—and of the monks who make it. The Trappists in Oka, Quebec, began making the cheese around 1890, when a Trappist monk from France taught them the recipe, which dates back to the 11th century. Today, Brother Albéric continues to make the cheese at an abbey in Manitoba according to traditional methods and a secret recipe written in a mysterious notebook.

Documentary exploring the thought and work of Aimé Césaire.

After her Senegalese lover leaves her, Rosalie keeps brooding over his obsessive memory. The crucial need to speak of her distress drives her to a psychotherapist. Her introspection helps her grasp her insatiable attaction to dark-skinned men.

In a space outside of time, Indigenous playwright Yves Sioui Durand encounters the masks that have been created for his plays over a period of more than 30 years.

Lamento is an unfinished novel by writer Albert Laberge. Laberge, recognized today as Quebec's first naturalist author, published La scouine in 1918, a novel that earned him accusations of pornography from the Catholic Church. The fiction paints an impressionistic portrait of a man torn between his literary ambitions and his exhausting work as a sports journalist for the daily La Presse.

A dramatic reconstruction of a turn-of-the-century incident involving African slaves in South America.

Une famille de petits commerçants chinois veut désespérément quitter Hong Kong avant son rattachement à la Chine en 1997. Ils tentent, mais en vain, d'émigrer au Canada. Un volcanologue d’origine chinoise, habitant l'Islande depuis quelques années, les invite à le rejoindre sur son île. Une correspondance et une relation toute particulière s’établissent entre lui et l’aînée de la famille. A family of chinese shopkeepers is desperately seeking to leave Hong Kong after the retrocession to China. After failing to emigrate to Canada, they are invited to go live in Iceland by a chinese-born volcanologist who moved there a few years ago. A correspondance and relationship builds between the two entities