Nathalie Cloutier

Ghosts of the Sea (2024)

While searching for clues about the death of her brother, who was lost at sea, Virginia Tangvald embarks on a fascinating investigation into her family's dark secrets. Calling into question the idyllic life of her father, legendary sailor Peter Tangvald, h ...

My Friend the Green Horse (2024)

Often feeling alone in her waking life, the young Alanis Obomsawin found friendship with the Green Horse, a benevolent being she visited regularly in her dreams. Together with other animal spirits, the Green Horse guided Alanis to realize the immensity of ...

Ninan Auassat: We, the Children (2024)

Known for her intimate films, director Kim O'Bomsawin (Call Me Human) invites viewers into the lives of Indigenous youth in this absorbing new documentary. Shot over six years, the film brings us the moving stories, dreams, and experiences of three groups ...

Malartic (2024)

Ten years after an enormous open-pit gold mine began operations in Malartic, the hoped-for economic miracle is nothing more than a mirage. Filmmaker Nicolas Paquet explores the glaring contrast between the town's decline and the wealth of the mining compan ...

Afterwards (2024)

Inside a shelter, participants in a talking circle share their experiences of intimate partner violence as a way to regain their dignity and strength to act. Powerfully empathetic, Après-coups creates a space of sisterhood and solidarity—a chorus of voi ...

The Geographies of DAR (2023)

A visually stunning film on acclaimed author David Adams Richards and his connection to one of Canada's most overlooked yet breathtaking regions. ...

Fire-Jo-Ball (2023)

Jo-Ann, a 57-year-old bartender, wants to be a singer and actress. Oscillating between spectacular and intimate, between extra and ordinary, Jo-Ann uses her daily life to stage her dream role. ...

Koromousso, Big Sister (2023)

With candor, humour and courage, a group of African-Canadian women challenge cultural taboos surrounding female sexuality and fight to take back ownership of their bodies. Combining her own journey with personal accounts from some of her radiant, endearing ...

Undertaker for Life! (2022)

With candour, compassion and a healthy dose of humour, an insightful group of morticians and funeral directors take us on a philosophical journey through our inevitable mortality and behind the scenes of their industry's daily routines. ...

Beyond Paper (2022)

At a critical moment in the history of the written word, as humanity's archives migrate to the cloud, one filmmaker goes on a journey around the globe to better understand how she can preserve her own Romanian and Armenian heritage, as well as our collecti ...

Florent Vollant: I Dream in Innu (2021)

The soul of the Innu language is embodied in the territory, the water and the forest, witnesses to the rapid disappearance of the caribou. Florent Vollant's music continues to carry this language throughout the world. ...

Sometimes I Wish I Was On a Desert Island (2020)

As the world learns to live again in the midst of the pandemic, for many Arabic-speaking LGBTQ+ people living in Montreal, this is just a period of time like any other. When you've fled homophobic violence in your home country and endured a painful migrato ...

Into the Light (2020)

Les Rose (2020)

In October 1970, members of the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnapped and murdered Minister Pierre Laporte, part of an unprecedented crisis in Quebec. Fifty years later, Félix Rose tries to understand what could have led his father and uncle to ...

Far from Bashar (2020)

A few years ago, the al-Mahamids fled Bashar al-Assad and Syria to settle in Montreal. A nuanced portrayal of a courageous family coping with a seemingly interminable war, thousands of kilometres away, that continues to affect their lives. ...

Kenbe La: Until We Win (2019)

Kenbe La: Until We Win chronicles the inspiring journey of Alain Philoctète, an artist and activist who dreams of developing a permaculture project in his native country even as he fights an ongoing battle with cancer. ...

Daughter of the Crater (2019)

A woman with a deep love of the land, Yolande Simard Perrault sees her life as having been shaped by a planetary upheaval in Charlevoix, Quebec, millions of years ago. As enduring as the Canadian Shield, she's a woman of strength and spirit, a child of the ...

Waseskun (2016)

At the Waseskun Healing Center, men with troubled and violent pasts follow a treatment plan based on Indigenous philosophy. In the great tradition of cinéma vérité, director Steve Patry spends an extended period of time at the centre, producing a grippi ...

Gulîstan, Land of Roses (2016)

They belong to the armed wing of the PKK, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which is also an active guerrilla movement. The mission of these female fighters? Defend Kurdish territory in Iraq and Syria, and defeat ISIS (the armed militants of the so-called Isla ...

At the Beach (2015)

Burn victims get to enjoy a family day at the beach thanks to an outing organized by the Association des grands brûlés. ...

A Gay Girl in Damascus: The Amina Profile (2015)

There is no indication that this typical online flirtation between two strangers would turn into a case of shocking international intrigue. For months, Sandra in Montreal and Amina, a Syrian-American, bond romantically and intellectually. Encouraged by San ...

Interview with a Free Man (2015)

In this documentary short, several men go through a job interview eager to get a fresh start in life. With each question that's asked, we glimpse tiny snippets of their lives along with their hopes and fears. Nicolas Lévesque's Interview with a Free Man c ...

Little Big Girls (2014)

The documentary Little Big Girls by director Hélène Choquette sheds light on the phenomenon of early-onset puberty. Today, it isn't unusual to see the earliest signs of puberty in girls younger than the age of 9, though this was not the case a few decade ...

The Wanted 18 (2014)

Through stop-motion animation, drawings and interviews, directors Amer Shomali and Paul Cowan recreate an astonishing true story from the First Palestinian Intifada: the Israeli army's pursuit of eighteen cows, whose independent milk production on a Palest ...

Anatomie (2014)

A white room. The aging bodies of actors Gilles Pelletier and Françoise Graton testify to a love that has triumphed over time and a captivating lover's dialogue emerges between two octogenarian bodies defying inertia, old age and death. With music by the ...

The Wind at My Door (2014)

In this feature documentary, filmmaker Pierre Goupil, suffering from bipolar disorder, recounts his difficult relationship with the disease and looks back on his journey as an artist in a society that does not accept marginalized people. The film celebrate ...

After the Ballot (2008)

After the Ballot is a full-length documentary portraying the gruelling everyday life of two Members of Quebec's National Assembly who, although at opposite ends of the political spectrum, share the fact that their sole power lies in their convictions. One ...

They Chose China (2006)

The story of twenty-one American POWs who, after the Korean War ended, chose to live in China instead of returning the USA. ...