In his living room, Earl Tremblay gives commentary on a home movie whose reels he changes on a regular basis: the film of his life. The son of a Francophone father and Anglophone mother, he tells his life story through the dual words of his ancestry. From the shores of the Gaspé to the jungles of Montreal, Earl bears witness to his fundamental duality, his Canadian “schizophrénie” which he carries like a torch burning within him.

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One of them is the only survivor of a plane crash and after a long rehabilitation, wrote a book to free herself from her guilt. Guilt about what? Quite simply being alive when others “died instead of her.” At the dawn of her adult life, another has found herself stuck in a wheel chair for a careless act on a sunny day – she had dove into a shallow lake. Stupid, terrible accidents that forever deprive us of our motor functions and leave us with the fateful question: Why live? All the characters in the film have found their own answers at the end of a painful road of self-revelation and discovery of the essential. Hope gradually replaces impotence, anger and bitterness and now guides their existence; it is coupled with a courage that must be admired.

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This documentary about homeless people follows three men living in the streets of Montréal. The director and the photographer worked for 6 years on this film which explores an important social issue without falling in media stereotypes.

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Encounters with Muscovites on the street. They are eager to speak on topics of importance to them, such as the power of Pushkin, the techniques of evading the draft, the rewards of mail-order-bride entrepreneurship, the post-communist decline in security, and the mystique of deceased rock star Victor Tsoi.

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A film that has us share the bitterness, anger, and indeed, the confusion of various groups of workers who are outraged at having been betrayed by both their bosses and their elected officials. Using the symbolism of a short story by Andersen, the filmmaker attempts to denounce the new economic credo - based on the flexibility of business agreements and open markets – which determines winners and losers in advance.

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They were young and angry, motivated by an ideal that they have not lost, even if they disapprove of the means used at the time by the most extreme among them. What do the names Pierre Vallières, Francis Simard, Charles Gagnon and Robert Comeau mean today to the new generation? They were the protagonists of one of the most difficult periods in our history. We find them a quarter of a century later on the occasion of their first shared account. The debate places men, no longer ideologues, against one another, taking a sensitive look back on the past; they attempt an enlightened analysis of the present and continue to share the ideal of a country to be built. Hearing them, we have a better understanding of what motivated them in their youth and especially how important it is for a people to preserve its historic memory. Their anger, which has scarcely abated in the current state of the world, last of all reminds us of the valuable meaning of the word freedom.

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