The Lies We Tell Ourselves

An eccentric director on the rise travels to Cannes, Berlin, New Caledonia, Australia and England to create her latest art house film and jumps many entertaining hurdles before realizing her vision.

We Ourselves

We Ourselves is an unconventional drama about isolation and belonging, about being alone with one’s own thoughts while being part of a shared experience, culture and nation. It takes us into the minds and hearts of a gro

5x Favela, Now by Ourselves

The project '5 x slum, now by ourselves' gathered over 80 young people from Rio's favelas (slums), selected through workshops, script and filmmaking techniques to create a feature film consisting of five stories that ref

La Grande Ourse

Every summer, Chloé goes to the same campsite. But this year, she goes without her family, more than ever to escape her daily life. There, she reunites with Alexia, her childhood friend, who lives nearby and is training

La Cabale des oursins

A travelogue of abandoned strip mining sites in France extolling their potential for recreational use.

Ourse blanche, oursons noirs : la belle histoire

Sea Urchins

Underwater photography, magnified close-ups, and film through microscope present the sea urchin, a complex creature. We see their mouth and five teeth close and open. After injecting one with gelatin, the shell is remove

Fragments of Us

As Louis prepares to move house; he relives memories of a past relationship, figuring out what went wrong and hopefully finding the key to moving on for good.

A Sea Urchin in the Pocket

A young journalist, abandoned by her wealthy lover, sets out with a musician inventor to stage a musical.

L'homme et l'ourse

The Bears' River

In a huge city where everyone is busy transforming the few available resources into an industrial quantity of intoxicating drink, Mackenzie, a sensitive soul, steps out of line as a hungry bear approaches.

Apartment Wife: Night by Ourselves

A couple lives in a housing complex, but as soon as the wife got married, she became a lazy. The husband keeps asking for sex. The exhausted man spends his days in despair, wondering what the point of marriage is. One da

The Kids In The Hall: Laughing Ourselves Sick

A half an hour doc shining light on the KITH during the making of their feature film, Brain Candy. Interviews go through the troupe’s formation, their eventual tv show and future with the making of the film.

Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone?

The Irish entry in the BFI's "Century of Cinema" documentary series examines Irish filmmaking in a decade when the country is going through a highly significant period of creativity and growth in cultural self-confidence

Let's Arm Ourselves and Go!

Franco and Ciccio work as waiters in an inn in France. The day Ciccio officially takes French citizenship, the First World War breaks out between Germany and France and all citizens are forced to enlist.

Sea Urchins

A close-up look at sand urchins and rock urchins. At the seashore, a man digs up a sand urchin. We look closely. He sets it back in the sand, and it burrows out of sight. Its intestines take nutrients out of sand. Using

Shadows of Ourselves

The refugee, the fled, the persecuted. The hidden, the migrant, the foreigner. The newcomer, seen with distrust, looks of fear and suspicion. In this evocative sand animation by filmmaker Pedro Serrazina, shadows, contra

The Bear and the Bird

Up north, the leaves on the trees are turning colour, winter is just around the corner. The bear and her friend, the bird, are still romping about the hills near the forest, but it is getting time for her to retire for h

Murderer Around Ourselves

North Of Ourselves

By attempting to travel 2,960 km from southern Quebec to its northernmost point, by bike and skis, in the middle of winter, adventurers Samuel Lalande-Markon and Simon-Pierre Goneau want to reinvest the territory and ref