Babel Films

By invalidating the Roe v. Wade decision, the American Supreme Court has taken a fifty-year leap back in time by ensuring that abortion is no longer a protected right. This setback is symptomatic of a disconcerting polarization. Disturbed by this historical situation, filmmaker and feminist Léa Clermont-Dion wonders: what effect will this legal setback have on us? The documentary “La peur au ventre” explores the rise of anti-abortion groups in Canada. The mobilization is taking place here and now, in Quebec. Throughout the story, the filmmaker also presents the feminist and pro-choice response that is being organized across the country.

Everything changes for Eva when she receives an insurance settlement check accidentally made out for $5,000,000 instead of the expected $50,000. She and her best friend take the money and head out for the adventure of a lifetime.

In October 1970, members of the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnapped Minister Pierre Laporte, triggering an unprecedented crisis in Quebec. Fifty years later, Félix Rose tries to understand what could have led his father and uncle to commit such acts. Thanks to the confidences of his uncle Jacques, who agrees for the first time to speak on the subject, and to the precious traces left by his father Paul, he revives the rich heritage of a Quebec working family and gives back to the October crisis its social dimension. The fruit of ten years of research, Les Rose allows us to revive moments and characters that we only knew through a few clichés, and gives a glimpse of the social blockage experienced by a rebellious youth and the upheavals that followed.