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With an ingenious assembly of archival footage and animated sequences, Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre brings us a clever and astute cinephile portrait of Claude Jutra. Through the magic of editing and animation, he is seen in dialogue with himself at various stages of his life – becoming the spirited narrator of his own biography.
Last Dance on the Main
An animated documentary on the demolition of a row of historic buildings on Montreal’s St. Laurent Boulevard, also known as "The Main", about politicians and building developers behind the scenes, and the resistance put up by the local artists’ community.
While Mary and Jia Tsu are rehearsing the play “The Vagina Monologues”, which is about Asian women who were forced to become prostitutes for the armed forces in the 1930s and 40s, the two women discuss their intense feeling of grief and anger in order to be able to perform the play in the end.
Petra Tolley performs a candid soliloquy about what it feels like to be “in the middle.” Petra has Down syndrome, and draws from her emotional experiences of living and working in the flux between societal order and personal chaos to produce a distinctive take on the social self.
In 1983, nine-year-old Hart attends Jewish summer camp for the first time and participates in a sport event with kids from a nearby town. But this is not just any group of visitors—these kids have been taught anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial in school. The film uses humour and suspense to tell a poignant tale of hope and tolerance in the face of fear and stereotypes.
