Dreams of a Land

The story of Samuel de Champlain's futile search for a passage to China in North America and his later founding of Quebec.

Le pays de Galles sauvage

Son pays est une prison

How do the Burmese continue to live under a dictatorship which for the past two generations has impounded any form of hope? Along the River Irrawaddy appear signs of resistance of a people deprived of its guide, Aung San

Even a Cyclops Pays the Ferryman

An allegory for the passage from being alive to being dead. The cyclops is the one-eyed father - the one-eyed king in the land of the blind - the single lens of the camera - three screens beyond stereoscopy.

Gunivers au pays de Nini

Au pays des pêcheurs

This silent film, colored with stencils and restored by the French Film Archives (CNC) for the Cinémathèque de Bretagne in 1993, allows you to discover images of old sailing ships, Breton women in headdresses on the coas

The Hundred Books: Alice in Wonderland

"This book is a descent into the soul of a child." On November 26th, 1865, Lewis Carroll's 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' was published. In this 1973 broadcast, we discover the genesis of this "masterpiece of the abs

Somewhere in a Free Country

One missile means war. A second missile still means war. But between the two missiles… And if the second missile never arrives, what is it?

D'un pays lointain

Le Pays des âmes (a jazz fable)

In today's Montreal, the devil, through discreet manners of seduction, takes liberty upon death. A brave trumpet player in love with a damned soul must fight him.

Songs of the Standing Dead

This is the trans dystopian commune we are all dying to visit. Living gleefully in the French countryside, these queers are sent spiralling when a newbie arrives. The film grapples with the myths of queer utopia by teari

Axel and the True Story of an Imaginary Illness

Little Axel’s parents filmed the story of their son’s illness. After four years moving through hospitals, he was diagnosed with Lyme disease. Axel’s life unfolds between an invisible epidemic and the imaginary pathology

Mimi Carina: Emilie au pays des morts

A dream to fly turns dangerous as our young heroine is dragged into a new world only to be saved by a kindly witch. One of the winners of the “Next Genius” promotional contest run by Studio 4°C on MySpace for the release

Land of Black Gold

When cars start to explode, which can lead to a serious oil crisis, Tintin and his friends travel to the Middle East to get to the bottom of the problem.

Popeye au pays des 1001 nuits

Le Pays d'Auge

AU PAYS D'AMARIA

The daughter of Algerian immigrants, Amaria grew up and went to school in France, and she must now return to her parents’ homeland to marry a man she barely knows and doesn’t love. As she leaves this country where she gr

"La Zône" au pays des chiffonniers

In 1928, Georges Lacombe, then assistant to René Clair, filmed the ragpickers who lived in the "zone". As his camera was stationary, he took particular care over the framing and he offers the viewer a document that is i

Alice au pays des gros nez

Alice is the daughter, the ‘oriental pearl’, of filmmaker Nicole Giguère. ‘Big Noses’ is the familiar Chinese term for Westerners such as Nicole. In the late 1980s, Quebec led the way in adopting children from The People

Neverland

Jeanne, aged twelve, spends a weekend with her parents. Thanks to an indiscretion, Jeanne learns that her father has a mistress.