Ten years after an enormous open-pit gold mine began operations in Malartic, the hoped-for economic miracle is nothing more than a mirage. Filmmaker Nicolas Paquet explores the glaring contrast between the town’s decline and the wealth of the mining company, along with the mechanisms of an opaque decision-making system in which ordinary people have little say. Part anthropological study, part investigation into the corridors of power, Malartic addresses the fundamental issue of sustainable and fair land management.
Jeff is awoken in the middle of the night to his brother pounding on his apartment door. The body of his lifeless girlfriend clutched in his arms, he claims they were attacked by a werewolf.
Parents struggling to cope after the horrific death of their son are visited by a stranger whose motives are unclear, all of which compounds the understandable mix of fear, grief, and blame that permeates every move they make.
In the early 1990s, Robert Kemp savagely raped, tortured, and murdered thirty-two people before being caught and sentenced to death. The Great American Serial Killer is the account of the final interview by Dr. Jeremiah Stone. Kemp's story, in his own words, lets us all see into the mind of the twisted and sadistic mind of a true psychopath.
This feature film tells the story of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and the fires in Santa Rosa, California, two near simultaneous climate-related disasters in the fall of 2017, through the voices of LGBTQ people who lived through them and were part of the community response. The film explores the vulnerability of LGBTQ communities to climate disasters and also lifts up queer and trans strategies for resilience, transition, and survival.
Mayhem erupts in a quiet suburban neighborhood as the result of sinister influence. Listen. Smile. Obey. LOOP.
A young boy with down syndrome attends his first year in a "regular" classroom. This documentary traces that year and the changes that take place for Peter, his teacher, and the other students. Oscar-winning documentary short from 1992.
Bankrobbers, foreigners and a kinky priest wind up in a public restroom together.
In our 'freelancer' age, many who reside in a city find themselves confined to their apartment and use a computer screen mostly to branch out. This film brings nature, lunacy, emotion and humanity into the apartment, using the colour blue as the main protagonist. It is the third instalment in an ongoing series of diaristic films.
Two dark-comedy stories involving blackmail, murder and love triangles in Rio de Janeiro
A fiction about the founder Mingquan Yang, and the early ages of Quanjude Restaurant, the most famous Peking duck restaurant. Yang bought the Dejuquan restaurant and changed the name to Quanjude according to a fortune teller, hired cooks from the Forbidden City, and invented a special recipe of roasted duck.
Vice travels to West Africa to rummage through the messy remains of a country ravaged by 14 years of civil war. Despite the United Nation’s eventual intervention, most of Liberia’s young people continue to live in abject poverty, surrounded by filth, drug addiction, and teenage prostitution. The former child soldiers who were forced into war have been left to fend for themselves, the murderous warlords who once led them in cannibalistic rampages have taken up as so-called community leaders, and new militias are lying in wait for the opportunity to reclaim their country from a government they rightly mistrust. America’s one and only foray into African colonialism is keeping a very uneasy peace indeed.
A high living society playboy marries a nightclub singer, and she soon realizes that, though they're genuinely in love, the husband's endless partying completely dominates and is destroying their marriage.
A teenage girl engages in a psychedelic meltdown after murdering her ex-best friend.