Lost Paradises

Following the disappearance of a man in Scotland, his daughter recalls words chanted before nightfall.

Bridgeport, January 17, 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything points to suicide, the autopsy report reveals something else. Ten years later, the director and cousin of the teenager examine the past causes and future consequences of this unsolved crime. Like an imagined biography, the film will explore the relationship between the security of the living space and the violence that can jeopardize it.

The blacksmith returns to Montreal with fire and sword. He finds his old shop, now abandoned, and all the memories it holds.

Following the shooting of a documentary on the death of her daughter, a mother reflects on her own life and especially on the passing of time.

Aïcha, a 7-year-old black girl receives a drawing mocking her hair. With the help of her big sister, they will spend the evening trying to make her beautiful like her classmates. How far is she willing to go to be seen and accepted?

Jazz. Haiti. Plantains.

Told through letters and enigmatic glimpses of images, Miryam Charles’ film depicts a woman’s travels to Haiti to meet the lover of her partner.

Following a crushing defeat, a group of vigilantes get together to record an album of revolutionary songs.

Summer 1993. Marthe, 12, convinces her brother to run away from home and from the Haitian heritage they both reject. Joined by their cousins in a park, they debate what their future might hold. But as the hours pass, the children begin to realize that what they’re trying to escape is also what binds them together most deeply.

Francis is a taciturn teenager unhappy with his life. Not wanting to stay with is mother, he lives in a foster home in the Laurentian countryside with is guardian, Brian. They spend their days building a bed for Camille, a young orphan soon to be joining them. But Francis wants more: he wants out. As fate would have it, he crosses paths with Bruno, a young gardener who decides to pass the night in the forest.

The documentary looks back on the evolution and key moments of black humour in Quebec.

A maid is suspected of murdering her former employer. Questioned by the police, she will reveal the existence of a supernatural power.

Following a nuclear explosion that transforms the voice of all the inhabitants of an island, a Finnish journalist goes there in order to find a hermit with mysterious powers.

The voices of several women testify to the role and significance of the body — in particular, the racialized female body — in our society.