Contemporary clown and a hyper mime, Michel Courtemanche has an amazing sense of timing. This rubber-faced humorist’s presence on stage is truly astounding. He performs here his best numbers on the circus, the microphone, the baby, the western, child-birth and the office.

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This wryly humorous and provocative feature-length documentary casts a critical eye at the North American experience of motherhood over the latter half of this century. Through conversations with seven mothers, a wonderful selection of archival footage from the 1950s, as well as some very candid and funny home movies from the director, MOTHERLAND offers new ways of thinking about what it means to be a good mom.

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Interviews with guest speakers, professors Henry Van Leer of Belgium and Henry Jones, of Montreal. Shot in Paris. Premier at the Cultural Center of Canada in Paris.

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Interview with the guest, Professor Gilbert Simondonof France, shot in Saint-Étienne St. Stephen. Premier at the Cultural Center of Canada in Paris.

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A young fluid physics researcher meets a mysterious actress. He becomes completely obsessed with her from the moment he lays eyes on her. Thierry undertakes piercing the mystery of Pamela’s strange behaviour and discovers in the course of his research the disturbing universe in which she is evolving. A series of events then occur that could be considered black magic. In his quest, the young man comes up against his deepest secrets and the emotion that is incubating beneath his mind. In Greek mythology, Gaia is the goddess of the earth and the English physician James Lovelock gives the same name to his theory, which views the earth as a living entity.

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Recording of a concert given in July 1993 by the Quebec singer, Richard Séguin as part of the Festival international d’été de Québec, to which scenes from rehearsals and daily life, interviews and archival footage are added. The songs “L’Ange vagabond, “Ici comme ailleurs”, “Les Bouts de papier”, “Sous les cheminées”, “Les temps changent”, “Double vie”, “Ensemble”, “Protest Song”, “Journée d’Amérique”, “J’avoue”, “Et tu marches”, “Pleure à ma place”, “Terre de Caïn”, “Aux portes du matin” are performed.

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In 1965-1966, the Urban Social Redevelopment Project prepared a research and action plan targeted at identifying and resolving issues faced by school children in poorer districts. The program was implemented at the Olier school in Montréal; it ensured that children would receive the assistance of a doctor, a nurse, a psychologist, social workers and teachers. Together, they strived to help these children and their families deal with serious problems: overpopulated housing, insufficient nourishment, chronic unemployment and low morale. The film captures real people going through the project’s training process and finding work. The experimental project featured in this film inspires reflection and serves as a useful working instrument for specialists dealing with educational, family and social issues.

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Velcrow Ripper and Heather Frise renew the social-issue documentary form with this avant-garde reflection on our relation to nature and the earth. Incorporating striking visual effects and often taking a satirical tone, this film, shot in British Columbia, is a lively, lyrical exploration of the tensions that have developed between "those who were here" (the Aboriginal population) and "those who came" (the colonists). Through the reminiscences of Native and non-Native elders, longtime environmentalists, and retired loggers, the film documents the social and environmental impact of years of colonialism and and irresponsible logging practices. The film blends black-and-white interviews with a range of cinematic techniques such as animation, semi-abstract images to the glory of nature, and news footage of deforestation and confrontations between, on the one side, ecologists and Native people, and on the other side, loggers and the police. An expressive soundtrack and caustic intertitles pull everything together. A respectful, poetic, and humourous perspective on the protagonists of an ecological disaster.

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