Materia explores stones and minerals in my surroundings with a close-up and tactile approach.
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Princess Dina Bo Bina
When a vain princess runs out of her signature hair gel, she ventures outside of the kingdom in search of slug jelly, motivated by the fear that she will become unlovable if she can’t live up to her family’s eccentric beauty standards.
Final Sale (Vente Finale)
A young woman tries to grieve by emptying her deceased mother's house.
Motel Grand-Pre
In Gaspésie, a remote region of Quebec, a quirky Chinese motel owner navigates his quiet routines between fixing rooms and casting lines into the sea—until his filmmaker son visits for a week. What begins as an interruption gradually unfolds into an exploration of distance, care, and the delicate ways a father and son learn to share time together.
Airborne
Marie Dubreuil' at 105, with her story of the first baby born in air in 1948 and the profound work of the Saskatchewan Air Ambulance.
Moon Noonk Edouard
In this intimate portrait that blends archival footage and dreamlike reenactments, the family of Edouard Beaupré—also known as “the Willow Bunch Giant”—takes back ownership of his story. Beaupré’s great-grandniece Jessie Ray Short retraces the Giant’s journey from his hometown in Saskatchewan to his tragic death at the St. Louis World’s Fair, and his body’s bizarre posthumous voyage. But the film is above all an act of healing in which his loved ones share emotional memories and stories, seeking