Synopsis

Caiti Lord has a beautiful voice that she plans to use to do more than sell cherry cocktails. As madness surges in the United States, in a most disturbing absurd manner, Caiti is overtaken by a growing sense of suffocation. So Caiti sings. The blues.

Production

Cinquième Maison and Sister Productions - Nellie Carrier and Julie Paratian

Festival

ACID CANNES - 2023

HotDOCS - 2023

Special Juy Prize for Canadian Feature Documentary Film

Vision Du Réel - 2023

Synopsis

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.

Production

Félix Dufour-Laperrière (Embuscade Films)

Festival

Berlinale 72 - Forum - 2022

ART of the Reel - 2022

HotDocs - 2022

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Synopsis

In 1965, Tiffany’s mother was separated from her parents. She never saw them again. 40 years later, Tiffany flies to Taiwan to try & find her grandparents - with just two names scribbled on a napkin.

Production

Golden Nugget Productions and CBC Gem

Festival

TIFF 2020

Share Her Journey award

TIFF Top 10 Short Films 2020

NYC DOC 2020

Best Documentary Short Film

Canadian Screen Awards 2021

Best Short Documentary

THE NEW YORKER SHOWCASE

Synopsis

The animals’ brown, beige, white and black coats blend into the ochre earth and sunbaked walls. After the calm of rest hour, a deafening cacophony breaks out at feeding time, as the dogs bark excitedly. In a stray-dog refuge in Agadir, Morocco, more than 750 animals find help and protection while awaiting adoption. Each day is the same as the last, the only excitement provided by mealtime. Empathetic and alert to subtleties of light and texture, Halima Ouardiri observes the rhythm of the animals’ lives, their suspended existence paralleling the far more tragic waiting endured by millions of human beings in search of a new home.

Production

Producer: Halima Ouardiri

Festival

Berlinale 70

Generation 14+ Crystal Bear

Special Prize of the Generation 14plus International Jury for the Best Short Film

RENDEZ-VOUS QUEBEC CINEMA 2020

Best Documentary Short Film

FICFA 2019

Prix La Vague for Best Short Film

RIDM 2019

Official Selection

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Synopsis

A journey in and around Montreal that takes us from the detail of an icon painter to the massive feather dress of a Queen of the Night to the alleys at dawn in search of precious throwaways. Where we invent our lives...

Production

Written, directed and produced by Michka Saäl

Festival

Rendez-vous QuÉbec CinéMa 2020

Official Selection

RIDM Montreal International Documentary Film Festival

Official Selection

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Synopsis

Only after the birth of his daughter, a blind man who lost his eyesight as an eight-year-old and was abused by his parents and relatives, finally begins to heal and rediscover what happiness fells like.

Production

Producers: Malcolm Clarke, Yi HAN

Artefact Entertainment

Festival

Shanghai International Film Festival - 2018

In competition for Golden Goblet Awards

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Synopsis

A young Chinese folk singer left his hometown to the big city, only to return to his musical traditions. On this journey, his humor, anger and powerful folk songs all comes from the rural life of past. That's the real taste of soil and dust.

Production

Producers: Ruby Chen, Sinae Ha, Yong Zhang

Boda Media Group / CNEX Foundation

Festival

International Film Festival Rotterdam -2018

Official selection

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Synopsis

Kobbar is a 73 min long creative documentary produced by Zhou Yan about the inmates in Kumla prison in Sweden. Kumla is known as the Underground Kingdom. Inside the largest Swedish A-rate prison, the corridors connecting every section are covered with artwork done by inmates with the support from established artists.

Production

Producer: Zhou yan, Zhang Yun

Mountain fire production(China) / Shanghai TXDH Films(China) / Palmroos Produktion (Sweden)

Festivals

stockholm international film festival - 2016

Official Selection

Beijing international Film Festival - 2017

Synopsis

Today he is a star of dozens of kung fu films and working behind the camera with Jackie Chan’s crew. But how Luc Bendza, born in a small Gabonese town, became a kung fu master in an art that didn’t count any African before him?
This is the story of a kid who wanted to fly like Chinese fighters, so passionate he tackled his destiny and entered the legendary Shaolin Temple at the age of 15.
His saga begins when he’s 10 and starts shooting his own kung fu films with his friends in the streets of Koulamoutou...

Production

Producers: Aurélien Bodinaux, Oualid Baha, Pierre Ceccaldi

Neon Rouge Production(Belgium) / TACT Production(France) / Princesse M(Gabon)

Festivals

Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur (Belgium)

Official selection

Les Escales Documentaires de Libreville (Libreville - Gabon) 

Special Jury Prize

Escales Documentaires de La Rochelle (La Rochelle - France)

Official selection

AFRICLAP (Toulouse - France)

Paul Soumanou Prize of Best Documentary Film 

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Synopsis

Within the jazz milieu of Paris, a story of music and friendship that revolves around questions of artistic exile, and begins and ends with a photograph.

Production

Producer: Michka Saäl

Produced with assistance from Embryo Productions (Quebec), French Cuisine (France), and 24 Images (France)

Festivals

2018

BronzeLens Film Festival, Atlanta, Georgia 

MIMO 15, Amarante, Portugal

DOC-Cévennes, Lasalle, France

Lac in Blue Festival, Annecy, France

Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, Montréal, Québec

Jazz Day, Fouras, France

2017

Cry from the Port, Marseille, France

Cinéma Saint André des Arts, Paris, France

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Synopsis

In central China, a Master coach recruits poor rural teenagers and turns them into Western-style boxing champions. The top students face dramatic choices as they graduate -- should they fight for the collective good or for themselves? A metaphor for the choices everyone in the New China faces now.

Production

Producers: Bob Moore, Peter Wintonick, Han Yi, Zhao Qi

Eyesteelfilm(Canada) / Yuangfang Media(China) / CNEX Foundation

Festivals

2012

Sundance Film Festival

Nominee Grand Jury PrizeWorld Cinema - Documentary

Golden Horse Film Festival

Winner Golden Horse AwardBest Documentary

Milan Film Festival 2012

Winner Best Feature Film - International Competition

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