In the 1950s, Montreal was a prized movie set for young NFB filmmakers. Images from Louis-Georges Carrier, Gilles Carle and Michel Brault, among others, bring this era back to life. Sketches featuring Anne Dorval and Doris Lussier lend continuity to the archival footage. Lussier plays the role of Père Gédéon who is visiting Montreal, a city that he knew well in the years after the war and before the Quiet Revolution. Arterial roads with marching parades and heaving tramways; wafting perfumes and memories of the "Saint Laurent; lovers strolling in Lafontaine Park; celebrations in Little Italy; the magic of Christmas reflected by the fairylike shop windows of department stores; Montreal in the snow; Montreal by night and the glowing neon lights of nightclubs: such are the nostalgic images of a glorious past.

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Henri Corman, guided by Karine Pounder, take us on a two-day excursion to various strange locations in Montreal: a corner sex shop, a car wash that is far from ordinary, an erotic hair salon, topless bars and other bars for men only. The duo then meets people who are just as bizarre: stewardesses stripping in front of voyeurs, prostitutes prowling hotels, erotica enthusiasts, sensual fashion show spectators, to name a few.

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While men and women in death's waiting room endeavour to live life fully, practitioners are debating science and conscience, researchers and clinicians are banding together, and philosophers and humanists are forging new paths. This film gives an account of the moral, human and scientific battle engendered by the emergence of AIDS. From Montreal to Amsterdam, from the lab to the clinic, AIDS is a fundamental challenge to our values and medical practice as we move into the next century.

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A documentary introducing a behind-the-scenes look at female impersonators. There's something for everyone: long legs, swivel hips, stuffed girdles, and bouffant hairdos. It exposes the lives of transvestites, transexuals, drag queens, and female impersonators. Shop with them for lingerie and high heels, meet them backstage as they transform from male to female, learn about their "extra curricular" occupations and family lives.

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He is nicknamed "Iceman" and is world champion kick-boxing, light heavyweight category, since 1980. Jean-Yves Thériault is a gentleman in every sense of the word. How does he transform from reserved and unassuming, to cold, domineering and "enraged" when facing an opponent? André R. Lavoie wanted to know. He followed him during his training in an Ottawa suburb all the way to Geneva, where he was to deliver, once again, an "ultimate" battle, the image of a lone hero facing his destiny

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A documentary on the career of jazz pianist Oscar Peterson. The film combines interviews with Peterson and many of the people with whom he worked, archival footage, and music in order to show how Peterson grew from a Montreal teenage sensation into one of the most admired jazz virtuosos.

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When movie cameras were put in the hands of a few young people, they made this film about themselves and their world. The footage they gathered is presented in this hour-and-a-half film with very little editing. There are sit-ins, love-ins, animated discussions among themselves about almost everything, and encounters with adults on a bus and on the street. The film is revealing in what it shows of a dissenting generation and its rationale.

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Nominingue then and now: two worlds that live side by side. One world is filled with incredible exploits, along with memories of misery and hardship-–the stuff that heroes are made of. In the other world, people spend their time lounging about, being pampered, weaving their way in and out of unexciting adventures that they don’t even bother to see through to the end.

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One of 27 satellite films completing the Saint-Jérôme full length feature. This documentary sheds light on events that took place between February and November 1967, a crucial period in the lives of the townsfolk in the small community of Saint-Jérôme, when they suddenly found themselves faced with the problems of the technological evolution. (Series of 27 films.)

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Compelling, often hilarious and always rebellious, nine women paint a portrait of lesbian sexuality against a backdrop of tabloid headlines, book covers and dramatizations from lesbian pulp novels.

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