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Break Free 2022
Filmed in a refuge for abused women, Break Free shows the courage of these women, most of whom tell their story openly to the camera. The film chronicles the shelter’s ups and downs, its dramatic and happy moments, and at its heart we get to know the residents and workers of the L’Escale in Sherbrooke. Break Free was filmed over more than three months and reveals the immense wounds of these women and the great generosity of the ones who try to heal them.

Head First 2019 star_border 7
Director Mathieu Arsenault and two other sufferers of bipolar disorder tell the story of their journey into mental illness and back, while the partners and family members who helped them through it tell the story as they experienced it.

Quartiers sous tension 2017

Last of the Elephant Men 2015 star_border 6
A people's struggle to save the animal at the heart of their culture. For centuries the Bunong indigenous people on the Cambodian-Vietnamese border lived with elephants, believing they shared the same destiny. Today, as the forests and rivers both man and animal depend on are threatened, their fates seem even more inseparable. Last of the Elephant Men follows over a period of time several members of the tribe as they attempt to save the animal that once defined their way of life and may hold the key to their own survival.

The Price We Pay 2014 star_border 6.4
A documentary on the history and present-day reality of big-business tax avoidance, which has seen multinationals depriving governments of trillions of dollars in tax revenues by harboring profits in offshore havens.

Le sable - Enquête sur une disparition 2013 star_border 9

Frameworks 2013
Bombarded by thousands of images every day, are we still able to truly see them, especially those of conflict and its aftermath? Helen Doyle takes us on a quest for the meaning of images and discovers a vast palette of contrasting images which shock and compel.

Body Language 2013

L'Est pour toujours 2011

Chef Thémis: A Cook Without Borders 2010
Chef Thémis, the founder of the Cooks Without Borders organization, returns to his country of origin, Madagascar, to teach classes and show the underprivileged how to cook.

Unlikely Treasures 2010 star_border 5
About compulsive collectors or people who collect unexpected things like clothespins, platform shoes and discarded tea-tags, taking you on a trip inside their homes, their minds and their drawers of stuff. There is method to their madness and this film will show you why.

Le magicien de Kaboul 2009

La vie après la shop 2005
The town of Montmagny loses its primary employer when an American appliance corporation transfers production to the United States. The closing of Whirlpool's Montmagny factory brings 137 years of history to an end. The filmmaker enters the world of the people hardest hit: the workers. The drama of Montmagny is also being played out in the outlying regions of Quebec.

Vues de l'Est 2004

Un toit, un violon, la lune 2003

Le rendez-vous de Sarajevo 1997