The Seven Last Words sounds out the experiential states and rituals particular to humanity, based on seven themes expressed in an oratorio: forgiveness, hope, relation, abandonment, distress, triumph, and life after the death.
Mani, a master’s student, returns to the reserve in northern Quebec where she grew up. Her painful past resurfaces. Resolved to reintegrate into the community, she gets involved in the debate around a referendum on allowing the free sale of alcohol on the reserve. Laura, a bootlegger, pockets the profits she makes there under the protection of the band council and her partner Raymond. The latter is still angry with Mani, whom he holds responsible for the death of his daughter in a fire. Opposing forces quickly divide the community into two sides who face each other to determine the best path to independence.
Housewife and grandmother Roberta struggles to fit the conformist society she lives in and turns to amphetamines to cure her boredom.
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 group Forêt, this sensuous short film depicts the tremblings of desire and the most elemental components of love.
After being granted asylum in Germany, a renowned Arab author is not allowed to return home. Tired and embittered by his life in exile, Munir sets off in search of a place to kill himself. When he arrives on a remote island in the North Sea, Valeska, the kind older woman who takes him in, quickly realizes that he intends to commit suicide. Yet as the days go by, Munir finds himself drawn out of his depression by Valeska’s unexpected motherly care and the nature of the island, which reawaken his desires and inspire him to give life a second chance.
Deco Dawson uses rare audio recording and film footage taken from Jean Benoit's studio in Paris to whimsically illustrate the life of the last official member of the hugely influential Surrealist group.
Shocked by the video of a woman who sets herself on fire, Ali, a young computer scientist, becomes a whistleblower to elicit empathy and rouse his stagnant society.
Documentary #6261 is a symbolic and demographic identity journey on the migration movements of citizens of different origins.
