The Other Rio (2018)

When Fannie offers her father to cut his hair, he accepts. Alain knows that his daughter will do it carefully and thoroughly, as usual. But an outside incident change their plans and confront the precariousness of this shared moment. The cut tells the story of a father and a daughter, between proximity and detachment, for the moment of an haircut. -Written by Colonelle films

A young man travels across America hopping from one freight train to another.

We watch from behind as a person with a sling bag walks through the night, before melting among her peers in a refuge, in Mexico, welcoming those women and men who are fleeing a political situation, an economic impasse enriching organised crime. It is of little matter where these migrants come from, as it is, above all, a matter of staying alive and avoiding the gangs that keep an eye on the long path to exile. However, everyone knows the goal: to get into the north of the continent, the United States or Canada, at all costs, aboard goods trains, which they hang onto dangerously. In complete immersion, Hubert Caron-Guay filmed this last chance voyage in which waiting contends with anguish, even though solidarity is tangible at times, like in the sequence where a man enjoins his companions in misfortune to “run at the same speed as the train”, otherwise, death is certain.

A documentary portrait of high-school students in the Quebec city of Sorel-Tracy.

The reality of addiction in a tough-minded docudrama set in the bleak milieu of hustlers and junkies in Montreal.

소심한 열두 살 소녀 밀리아는 타지에 위치한 고등학교에 진학하기 위해 시골 고향 마을을 곧 떠날 예정이다. 새롭고 낯선 환경 속에서 이리저리 휩쓸리면서도, 그녀 나름대로는 청소년기의 부조리와 불쾌함, 소소한 성취감 등을 느끼며 열심히 적응해나간다. 가끔 이상해 보일 때도 있지만 말이다. 그러던 와중에 근처 원주민보호구역에 살고 있는 외부인인 원주민 소년 지미와 친분을 쌓는다. 밀리아는 지미의 도움으로 마음을 굳게 다잡고 스스로의 정체성을 받아들이기로 한다.