The 25e edition of the Montreal International Documentary Meetings begins this Thursday and runs until November 27. Here are our suggested names and themes.
Laura Poitras
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A scene from the movie All the Beauty and the Bloodshedby Laura Poitras
Launched at the Venice Film Festival, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed will delight festival-goers since it is signed by Laura Poitras, Oscar-winning director with Citizenfour, a film dedicated to Edward Snowden. This time, the filmmaker explores the art and world of New York photographer Nan Goldin as well as her addiction to opioids and her fight against the Sackler family behind OxyContin.
At the Musée du Cinéma, November 22 at 5:45 p.m., and in the Latin Quarter, November 25 at 8:15 p.m.
Films dedicated to Ukraine
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A House Made of Splinters is a poignant immersion by Simon Lereng Wilmont in a children’s center in Ukraine.
For months, Ukraine has been at the heart of the news. Four films are devoted to it. One Day in Ukraine by Volodymyr Tykhyy tackles war head-on. We follow the daily life of civilians and combatants near the bombs. For a more poetic look, A House Made of Splinters is a poignant immersion by Simon Lereng Wilmont in a center for children. Best Direction Award at Sundance.
Focus Brazil
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movie scene Waiting for the Carnival
The elections have just ended in Brazil. Now is a good time to learn more about this country. The RIDM are precisely offering a Focus Brazil of five feature films and four short films. Landless by Camila Freitas focuses on the fate of rural workers dispossessed of their land. grinby Roney Freitas, Isael Maxakali and Sueli Maxakali, dates back to the 1970s and the militarization of indigenous communities. Waiting for the Carnival by Marcelo Gomes chronicles the life of a rural community that has become the national capital of jeans.
The environment under the magnifying glass
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Veranada by Dominique Chaumont questions climate change through the uncertain fate of shepherds in Argentina.
As COP27 takes place in Egypt and COP15 takes place in Montreal, environmental issues are, as always, discussed at the RIDM. All That Breathes of Shaunak Sen features two brothers in India caring for birds affected by pollution. Zug Island by Nicolas Lachapelle tracks down a mysterious source of noise pollution between Detroit and Windsor. Veranada by Dominique Chaumont questions climate change through the uncertain fate of shepherds in Argentina.
Of Quebec
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A scene from the short film The song of the night by Felix Lamarche
Quebec documentaries are, of course, very present. I placed my mother by Denys Desjardins addresses the fate of seniors. ROJEK by Zaynê Akyol gives the floor to prisoners of the Islamic State. The song of the night by Félix Lamarche evokes the last days of a woman who requested medical assistance in dying. In The myth of the black woman by Ayana O’Shun, women deconstruct racist and sexist stereotypes. Robert Morin is also present with 7 landscapeswhich points out that reality in the cinema remains a fabrication.