Étienne Roussy

After a difficult separation, Serge Jr. takes his daughter Lily, 9, on a truck ride across Canada. They head to Alberta and its legendary Badlands World’s Best Truck Rodeo, a race Lily and him have been dreaming about. On the road, under his daughter’s increasingly worried gaze, Serge will eventually need to face the music.

In this anxious and hectic time, Happy Life explores those unusual outlets that soothe the turmoil of the body and mind. In a meditative journey through these analgesic places, this documentary essay paints a portrait of a society in seek of meaning and relief.

무척 인간적인 과학 기술 다큐멘터리로 우버, 아마존, 딜리버루 같은 기업에서 일하는 전 세계 노동자들의 삶을 조명하며, 플랫폼 경제가 실제로 어떤 비용을 초래하고 있는지를 폭로하는 작품이다.

Today, 11 years after the massive earthquake in Haiti that left over a million people homeless and killed hundreds of thousands, the country has still not recovered from the disaster. Despite billions of dollars in aid money, Haiti struggles with some of the highest levels of poverty and unemployment in the Western hemisphere. In Port-au-Prince, various citizens are shuttled through a city in crisis. Maneuvering around barricades, garbage dumps and the packed streets of the capital, they speak candidly about the current state of their country. Through the car window a frustrated population passes and occasionally interacts with the passengers in the vehicle. Beautifully shot, with a lively score, Zo Reken presents a complicated portrait that testifies to the magnitude of the tragedy and highlights the disorganized state of international aid.

December 24, 1983, 10:50 p.m.: Julie and her cousins ate too much sugar, Santa Claus is late. Denis, alone in his car, is anxious at the idea of setting foot in his ex-in-law's house to pick up his children.

A teenager who longs to just be a teenager must instead spend the last days of summer helping her family cope with a recent loss as well as her younger brother’s health crisis.

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.

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

Chloe has to leave. Arnaud is determined to make her last night one she'll never forget.

쿠르드족 무장 독립운동 단체 PKK에 소속된 젊은 여전사들은 정의와 자유에 대한 갈망으로 전쟁의 경계에 서 있다. 지금 이 게릴라 여전사들은 이라크와 시리아 국경선 근처에서 급진 수니파 무장단체 IS와 싸우고 있다. 영화는 혁명적 이상을 위해 싸우는 이들의 삶에 초점을 맞추고, 우리를 그들의 가장 내밀한 순간으로 초대하여 꿈과 이상을 나누기를 청한다. EIDF 2016 페스티벌 초이스 출품작

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.

At a critical moment in the history of the written word, as humanity’s archives migrate to the cloud, one filmmaker goes on a journey around the globe to better understand how she can preserve her own Romanian and Armenian heritage, as well as our collective memory. Blending the intellectual with the poetic, she embarks on a personal quest with universal resonance, navigating the continuum between paper and digital—and reminding us that human knowledge is above all an affair of the soul and the spirit.

A guy tries to convince his ex-girlfriend to have sex with him, on the very same day that they both plan to commit a robbery with her new boyfriend.

Winter is in full swing. With her mother by her side, Laurence is en route to her grandma’s funeral to pay her last respects. But her mind is elsewhere; Laurence is expecting someone.