Films (engl.)

THE GREAT SHAWL OF AAMU

A children’s film bringing together fairy tales and documentary, live footage and animation. 42 minutes, 2020. Director: Lucie Lambert

Le chant d'Empédocle

LE CHANT D’EMPÉDOCLE

Empedocles imagines the birth of the world from the elements: water, earth, fire and air. His voice merge with the metamorphoses of an invisible Wanderer whose journey reminds us that the stories we believe to be outside of time never pass away. 107 minutes, 2019. Director: Sylvain L’Espérance

FIGHTING THROUGH THE NIGHT

An epic journey to the heart of Greece today. 285 minutes, 2016. Director: Sylvain L’Espérance.

Monsieur Lambert’s Inventory of Personal Property

What to do with the objects and personal effects left behind by our loved ones, after their death? Short film with animation and live footage, 27 minutes, 2016. Director: Lucie Lambert

AN AMERICAN, PORTRAIT OF RAYMOND LUC LEVASSEUR

The Life and Work of a Franco American some called a political prisoner, others a domestic terrorist. Documentary, 98 minutes, 2015. Director: Pierre Marier

Bamako temps suspendu, un film de Sylvain L'Espérance

BAMAKO, TEMPS SUSPENDU

Two musicians in Bamako. Documentary, 30 minutes, 2014. Director: Sylvain L’Espérance

FOLLOW THE TIDE

In Dakar, Senegal, a group of thirteen fishermen set out to sea in a large wooden pirogue. Documentary, 30 minutes, 2013. Director: Thomas Szacka-Marier

STANDING ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD

In the heart of Bamako, men and women are trying to invent ways of dreaming. Documentary, 105 minutes, 2012. Director: Sylvain L’Espérance

AUGUSTINIANS, BODY AND SOUL

Nearly 4 centuries have passed since the Augustinians came here to build the first hospital in New France. They are still here, in the heart of Old Quebec City, but not for long. Documentary 63 minutes, 2010. Director: Ninon Larochelle

AT NIGHT THEY DANCE

The film takes us into the heart of a clan of women, in which the art of dancing has been passed down from mother to daughter since time immemorial. Feature length documentary, 2010. Director: Isabelle Lavigne, Stéphane Thibault

Wordless Landscapes

A film about love and loss. 52 minutes, 2009. Director: Lucie Lambert

INTO THE DELTA

The life of a family of fishermen, in the inland delta of the Niger river. Documentary 77 minutes, 2009. Director: Sylvain L’Espérance

PRÉCIS OF THE EVERYDAY

A summer in the life of a mother and her two children. Short filmic essay, 25 mins., 2008. Director: Lucie Lambert

THE LEGACY OF THE OKA TRAPPISTS

Having been established in their magnificent abbey at Oka, Quebec, for over 125 years, the Trappist monks now prepare to leave. Documentary, 52 minutes, 2008. Director: Ninon Larochelle

AMERICANO

A personal journey through America. Documentary, 109 minutes, 2007. Director: Carlos Ferrand

THE RIVER WHERE WE LIVE

The interior delta of the Niger River, a vast region inhabited by a million people. Documentary 92 minutes, 2006. Director: Sylvain L’Espérance

A NAKED SOUL SLIDING INTO VIVID WATERS 

A meditation on the parallel universes that exist within a simple glass of water. Animation, 16 minutes, 2005. Director: Denis Chabot

GRACILE’S FATHER

What does a girl with a curious eye find along the way during her journey northward? Documentary fable, 80 minutes, 2004. Director: Lucie Lambert

Something like Immortality 

The film presents the works and daily life of three artists and their family. Documentary, 81 min., 2003. Director: Pascale Ferland

CASA LOMA, JOURNAL DE BORD

Theatrical and mystical quest leads by Pol Pelletier. Documentary, 89 minutes, 2002. Director: Carlos Ferrand

THE INVISIBLE HAND

The African country of Guinea contains the biggest bauxite deposits in the world. Documentary, 77 minutes, 2002. Director: Sylvain L’Espérance

4125 PARTHENAIS

Studio apartments for rent by the month, furnished or unfurnished. The film tells the story of an apartment building in daily life. Documentary, 50 minutes, 2001. Director: Isabelle Lavigne

BEFORE DAYBREAK

A film about how life is passed on, and about the privileged relationship people have with the land they inhabit, the Lower North Shore of Quebec. Documentary, 93 minutes, 1999. Director: Lucie Lambert

LE TEMPS QU’IL FAIT

The film weaves a mosaic of stories in which dreams and disappointments, hopes and worries intertwine with the life that is before them. Documentary, 63 minutes, 1997. Director: Sylvain L’Espérance

OPITCIWAN

About a century later, Louise de Grosbois sets out to relive her grandfather’s journey through the Haute-Mauricie region, territory of the Atikamekw. Documentary, 49 minutes, 1997. Director: Louise de Grosbois

LANDSCAPE IN THE MIND’S EYE

The spirit of a small village on Quebec’s Upper North Shore, as experienced through the eyes of children, and women of different generations. Documentary, 63 minutes, 1995. Director: Lucie Lambert

Les printemps incertains, un film de Sylvain L'Espérance

SHADOWS OF SPRING

Emerging from the multiple perspectives of this film, a memory of a neighbourhood is recreated which tells of the fragility of working class habitats. Documentary, 52 minutes, 1992. Director: Sylvain L’Espérance

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