TV season | Six documentaries to see

Transidentity, racism in the hockey world, alcohol and health are among the themes explored by documentaries that will be broadcast this winter. A look at six realities to explore.

trans childhood

“Going through puberty like someone you’re not is… hard,” Leena says. The 15-year-old trans teenager is one of the characters at the heart of the documentary trans childhoods (transhood), which follows four trans children and teens from Kansas City, USA, over a period of five years. We are therefore witnessing different stages of their transition, with the questions, anxieties and hopes that this change arouses. trans childhood shows the best (the unwavering support of families), the worst (hate and rejection of difference) and sometimes arouses discomfort (the activism of some parents). However, it is a sincere and complex work, on a reality that is just as complex.

January 8, 10 p.m., at Canal Vie

Rael’s women

Two former followers of the Raëlian movement, Sylvie and Martine, go back in their sometimes painful memories to understand, among other things, how they could have fallen into the nets of the guru. One of them has spent 30 years of her life in this movement, considered a sect, which believes in extraterrestrials and supports human cloning.

January 14, 10:30 p.m., on ICI Télé and January 26, 8 p.m., on ICI RDI

Black Ice

Series African Canadadirected by Henri Pardo, recalled the existence of a community of free black people in Nova Scotia at the turn of the 19^e century. Black Iceby director Hubert Davis, recounts another little-known part of the history of the Maritimes, that of the hockey league for “people of color” that existed at the turn of the 20^e century. This is the starting point for a reflection on racism in the professional leagues from the last century to the present day, in which PK Subban and Wayne Simmonds notably participate.

February 22, 9 p.m., on Canal D

middle class means

Inflation, rising mortgage rates, risk of recession, the economic news has been causing concern in recent months. We know that the cost of groceries has skyrocketed, that housing is more expensive than ever, that gasoline peaked last summer and that wages are not following the upward curve of everything we have needed to run the household. Journalist and producer Isabelle Maréchal meets people from this so-called “middle” class, which increasingly flirts with poverty, while wondering how the consumer society in which we live can drag us down.

March 15, 8 p.m., on Télé-Québec

garbage species

Once we put our garbage bag on the side of the street, we tend to forget about it. And it’s true that it disappears on its own, without anyone really knowing where it’s going. However, neither our waste nor the contents of our recycling bin evaporate by magic. garbage species is interested precisely in the way in which the big cities “make their toilet”. In 10 48-minute episodes, the series hosted by Frédéric Choinière travels the world to showcase the greenest and most innovative initiatives to deal with the phenomenal amounts of waste we produce each week.

Tuesdays starting April 18, 8 p.m., on TV5

Boys

Dany Turcotte took an interest in men in a series broadcast last fall on Savoir Média. Manuel Foglia goes back a step further and meets secondary five teenagers with whom he discusses the construction of male identity, the prejudices they have towards other guys and towards girls. After #metoo and as sexism, if not hatred of women, unfolds online, Boys seeks what, perhaps, is failing in the education and socialization of our boys.

May 8, 9 p.m., on UNIS TV