Eastern Anthems

Eastern Anthems

Eastern Anthems

Matthew Wolkow & Jean-Jaques Martinod

76 minutes | 2024
Documentary

Supported by PRIM as part of the
Creative Assistance Program

Prayer for a Lost Mitten - Jean-François Lesage

Synopsis

An unfinished film is passed along from one friend to another. The dialog between them is a journey crossed by the swarming of the Great Eastern Brood X of periodical cicadas that prophetically emerge every 17 years in the United States, invoking a reflection of a post-pandemic present and our shared futures.
A road movie composed of a chorus of voices (both human and non-human), the warnings of history, the power of nature and rebirth. (Kino Rebelde)

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Insecta Mundi

Insecta Mundi

Insecta Mundi

Frédéric Lavoie

45 minutes | 2025
Documentary

Supported by PRIM as part of the
Programme d’Aide à la Création

Prayer for a Lost Mitten - Jean-François Lesage

Synopsis

This film is an exploration of the unsuspected world of insects and their relationship to the rest of the living world (including humans). Neither a purely scientific document, nor simply made up of anecdotes and curiosities, the aim is to create a narrative based on subjects associated with insects. The story is sometimes dramatic, sometimes comic. The aim is to raise public awareness of the collapse of insect biodiversity. Neither a didactic documentary nor a formalist work, the story unfolds through detailed video footage of insects. A telescoping on a scale too small for the eye, to reveal the invisible and the unsuspected.

Biosphère , Canada
World premiere – 2025

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The weather

The weather

WAITING FOR THE STORMS

François Delisle

94 minutes | 2025
Experimental Fiction

Supported by PRIM as part of the
Programme d’Aide à la Création

Prayer for a Lost Mitten - Jean-François Lesage

Synopsis

Through time and varied landscapes, four characters weave a web of stories exploring human resilience in the face of environmental upheaval.Marie, grappling with a young mother’s obsessive and heartbreaking questioning of a dead-end future for her child, transforms her anxiety into passionate activism. Terence, a climate refugee, entrusts his fate to strangers, hoping to find asylum in the north. McKenzie, a state security agent, breaks the shackles of the system to regain control of her destiny and finally feel alive. Then Kira, a soldier, deserts the army to join a nomadic tribe, guardians of humanist values. A fable about the climate crisis, Time transcends artistic boundaries to engage in a necessary dialogue between our past, present and future.

International festival on Films on Art , Canada
World premiere – 2025

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False fir trees

False fir trees

Les faux sapins

Justine Martin

15 minutes | 2025
Fiction

Distributor: Travelling Distribution

Supported by PRIM as part of the
Programme d’Aide à la Création

Prayer for a Lost Mitten - Jean-François Lesage

Synopsis

Florence (8) accompanies her sister Simone (6) to meet Santa Claus at the local market. The magic is at its height when, a few moments later, a traumatic incident occurs: Santa Claus jolts violently and falls to his death. Shocked, Florence will do anything to protect her little sister’s imagination.

Regard , Canada
World premiere – 2025

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Orbits

Orbits

Orbits

Sarah Seené

23 minutes | 2025
Documentary

Distributor: Vidéographe

Supported by PRIM as part of the
Programme d’Aide à la Création

Prayer for a Lost Mitten - Jean-François Lesage

Synopsis

Because she lost her sight a few years ago, Marie-Christine explores life in a sensitive way, from the pulp of her fingers. Through her personal experience, she awakens her son to the curiosity and wonder inspired by the beauty of the universe. Bringing together a constellation of textured analog images and a bouquet of caressing layers of sound, Orbites embodies a plunge into Marie-Christine’s sensory memory and reflects on the fundamental aspect of love and transmission.

Regard , Canada
World premiere – 2025

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