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.

Alex é um jovem viciado que vende seu corpo em Montreal. Ele é ladeado por Bruno, Simon, Jeanne, Eric e Velma, todos presos na mesma espiral de compulsão. Reféns da lógica do mercado da sociedade, eles são os anjos caídos de um tempo sombrio e violento.

Mylia, uma adolescente introvertida, se sente perdida em meio à incerteza de sua vida familiar, o clima superficial de sua nova escola e suas primeiras festas em casas de amigos. Certo dia, ela conhece Jimmy: o garoto da reserva indígena Abenaki é diferente e incentiva Mylia a se libertar.