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The Diggers is an observation journey into various artisanal mining sites in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The film shows the arduous and surreal labor of adults and teenagers extracting coltan, tungsten and black tourmaline. Our camera captures their repeated movements, their picks, their sweat, fatigue, their faces tense by the effort, their breathing. Their tirelessly repeated gestures compose a kind of bitter-sweet symphony. We enter makeshift tunnels and follow the men who have to arch their backs to advance to the deposits. Our camera is in no hurry to allow the spectators to live and feel this difficult work. The light falls and the workers leave the mining site little by little towards the evening refreshments, before returning to the same routine at dawn.
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An impressionistic journey that reveals the daily struggle of the hungry peasant class.
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An impressionistic journey that reveals the daily struggle of the hungry peasant class.
Writer
Mathieu Roy's L’Autre maison is an intimate and powerful family drama featuring three generations of great Quebec Actors. Marcel Sabourin plays Henri Bernard, an 86 year-old man with a failing grip on reality. His sons, a jet setting middle aged photo-journalist (Roy Dupuis) and a younger pilot-in-training (Emile Proulx-Cloutier) disagree on a course of action, leaving the father and the younger son inhabiting a rustic cottage in the woods. As the older man's health deteriorates, options become more limited; when an IED accident in Afghanistan kills the photo-journalist's translator, the family must come together like never before. Shot in Quebec, Iceland, Africa and Asia, Another House blends elements of memory, perception and lyricism into a remarkable cinematic mix that moves the story well beyond direct domestic issues into a visual realm that balances nature and humanity.
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Mathieu Roy's L’Autre maison is an intimate and powerful family drama featuring three generations of great Quebec Actors. Marcel Sabourin plays Henri Bernard, an 86 year-old man with a failing grip on reality. His sons, a jet setting middle aged photo-journalist (Roy Dupuis) and a younger pilot-in-training (Emile Proulx-Cloutier) disagree on a course of action, leaving the father and the younger son inhabiting a rustic cottage in the woods. As the older man's health deteriorates, options become more limited; when an IED accident in Afghanistan kills the photo-journalist's translator, the family must come together like never before. Shot in Quebec, Iceland, Africa and Asia, Another House blends elements of memory, perception and lyricism into a remarkable cinematic mix that moves the story well beyond direct domestic issues into a visual realm that balances nature and humanity.
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El best-seller de Ronald Wright, Breve historia del progreso, inspiró este réquiem cinematográfico al "progreso de siempre". A lo largo de la historia de la humanidad, aquello que parecía "progreso" siempre ha resultado un tiro por la culata. Algunos de los más reconocidos pensadores, activistas, banqueros y científicos nos desafían a superar las trampas del progreso, las cuales destruyeron las antiguas civilizaciones, pero se encuentran traicioneramente integradas en la nuestra.
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El best-seller de Ronald Wright, Breve historia del progreso, inspiró este réquiem cinematográfico al "progreso de siempre". A lo largo de la historia de la humanidad, aquello que parecía "progreso" siempre ha resultado un tiro por la culata. Algunos de los más reconocidos pensadores, activistas, banqueros y científicos nos desafían a superar las trampas del progreso, las cuales destruyeron las antiguas civilizaciones, pero se encuentran traicioneramente integradas en la nuestra.
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