PROGRAMME 2009
November 20, 2009
Doc&Café
Doc&Café Will that be one or two docs with your morning coffee? The RIDM and the National Film Board of Canada are hosting a series of late A.M. conversations, featuring local and international filmmakers, called Doc&Café, to which you are warmly...
November 20, 2009 , 11:00AM
Grande Bibliothèque, room R-515
Café croissants with our filmmakers! Hosted by the NFB, free of charge. Theme: Doc or fiction? Jean-Charles Hue (Carne viva), Peter Liechti (The Sound of Insects - Records of a Mummy), Don McWilliams (En ce temps-là : Souvenirs des derniers jours de la colonie du Kenya), Jawad Rhalib (Les damnés de la mer), John Walker (Passage). Moderator: Kat Baulu, Producer, English Program, NFB
Bananas!*
Nicaraguan workers sue Dole for exposing them to a banned pesticide that causes sterility, but the judge rules against the attorneys. A documentary with a John Grisham plot.
Multiple projections
Beekeepers (The)
The hives are empty but no one is paying much attention. Does it matter? Absolutely. Bees are true environmental sensors, tremendously sensitive to climate change, pesticides and pollution. Their decreasing numbers are cause for alarm but few people seem to...Silent Color Silent Voice [Shimanoiro Shizukanakoe]
The island of Iriomote lies in remote southwest Japan, a wild and beautiful place known to the outside world for a rare species of lynx and scuba diving. Akiko Ishigaki and her husband, Kinsei, are weavers. Using materials from the...
Déchets : le cauchemar du nucléaire [Waste: The Nuclear Nightmare]
A careful exposé by researchers in France of the long history of disinformation about radioactive nuclear waste, from the U.S. to Europe to Siberia. An issue still very much alive.
Amos Oz - The Nature of Dreams
A portrait of the now 70-year-old Israeli writer, journalist, politician and thinker who talks carefully and convincingly, in Hebrew and in English, about his country and his people.
R.A.S Nucléaire - Rien à signaler
Picking up where Silkwood left off, the nuclear industry as seen by its workers, who are being sub-contracted out to aging reactors in a now largely profit-driven industry. Who takes the risks?
Damnés de la mer (Les)
Overfishing by northern countries in southern oceans, through the eyes of the Beggar, the Grocer, the Fisherman, the Union Rep and the Captain.
Whatever It Takes
One year in a small high school in the South Bronx equals 365 challenging days for students, parents and teachers.
Locked Up Time [Verriegelte Zeit]
Four years after her incarceration and expulsion from East Germany, the filmmaker returns to talk to those involved in her case.
Burma VJ: Reporting From A Closed Country
An electrifying montage of amateur underground footage that tells the big story of the Burmese protests against the military regime in 2007.
November 20, 2009 , 07:30PM
Concordia University ? H-110
In collaboration with Cinema Politica Concordia. No advance ticket sales
Small Wonders
A salute to a disappearing era, in three portraits of small Montreal merchants who embody the neighbourhood life of the downtown. To be savoured.
Multiple projections
Kitakinan - Notre territoire à tout le monde
“Kitakinan means our territory, not in the sense that it belongs to us, in the sense that we are part of it.” The Aboriginal ethic is a collective one, and in this debut feature, Serge Bordeleau talks with simplicity and...Étendue de sable (L') [O areal]
Guajará is a municipality established in this Amazonian region some 200 years ago by descendants of African slaves. The people here live apart from modern society, protecting the myths and legends attached to a sand pit they believe is a...
Multiple projections
Coupe franche [Rough Cut]
It may seem trivial but symbolically it’s anything but. Since the end of the 80s, female mannequins in Iranian shop windows have had all signs of their womanhood removed. Breasts and arms have been hacked off, faces covered and bodies...Je porte le voile
In secular societies, whether or not women should cover their heads arouses heated debate. Even among believers, there is no consensus. Natasha Ivisic became a Muslim when she married, and now lives in Longueuil. Deep down, she wonders, what does...
November 20, 2009 , 08:00PM
Grande Bibliothèque
Screening & Discussion : Wearing the veil : Personal choice or religious duty? The filmmakers will attend
Katanga Business
It’s all about the mines in Katanga province, but shareholders are impatient, workers are dying, the government never quite makes its payroll, and corruption rules.
Chants de la détermiNATION [DetermiNATION Songs]
Samian, Cheri Maracle and CerAmony reinvent music and language to communicate pride in their Aboriginal roots. The third instalment in the Rebel Music trilogy.
Multiple projections
Mohammed Rewind
“What’s the use of images in a world filled with people who can’t see?” asks Arnaud Bouquet. In September 2004, the camera operator comes across a confrontation on a street corner in Ramallah. Palestinians are throwing rocks at an Israeli...Plomb durci [Piombo fuso ]
In January 2009, at the end of the Israeli government’s Operation Cast Lead, a military attack on the Gaza Strip, Stefano Savona was the only western director in Palestinian territory to film what happened next. Cast Lead offers a glimpse...
Bagatela
In a Columbian court, petty criminals line up to see a lawyer. Most are jobless, poor, addicted or homeless. And the prisons continue to fill in a crushingly repressive system.
Musiques rebelles autochtones
After the premiere of Chants de la détermiNATION, Multi-Monde Productions invites you to an unforgettable evening with shows by Cheri Maracle, CerAmony and Samian!
