Une Femme A La Mer

Arlette Morand, a rich and pretty young widow, would like to remarry. She hesitates between Henri, the athlete, and Serge, the artist. She grants her favors to Henri, for whom it is only an adventure. She realizes that she doesn't love him and goes to join Serge on the boat that takes him to England...

Tehran, October, 2000. One year ago, Morvarid lived as a man. Since her operation, she lives her femininity shielded from glances, between the four walls of her apartment. For the first time, she is covered with a chador and gets ready to go out as a woman: we are to follow her metamorphosis. How, in a country as Iran, can one have the will to be a woman?

Before Nicholas had a family and children, he was a doctor. It was 10 years ago when he left them to create a new life. Now Nicholas is Lea. When a business trip brings Lea to Paris the urge to see her children again is too great to resist, Lea pretends to be a musical journalist and interviews her daughter Emma, a pianist. Through gradual revelation the children learn the truth. Lea’s unwavering determination and spirit lead her to find reconciliation with her family no matter what the price.

Filmmaker Claude Demers tells the story of his search for his biological mother and their eventual meeting. He does this in voice-over, accompanied by images from Canada's national archives. The painstakingly selected and fluidly edited black-and-white clips build up, like the perfectly fitting pieces of a puzzle; an impression of his mother as he had imagined her. How she grew up, worked, loved and left him.

A young lord who has abandoned his pregnant mistress hires his son, twenty years later, as secretary. He will try to fix his mistake.

This documentary composed of numerous testimonies and archives, filmed in Japan highlights the extraordinary career of the actress-director Kinuyo Tanaka and her singular ambition to impose a female point of view on cinema, reflecting her own vision of the world.

This film bears witness to a life that changes... Or how Aurore, a young woman of 26 who is bored in Nohant, with Baron Dudevant, her country husband with the appearance of a gentleman, becomes George Sand.

Drama following the extraordinary adventures of female medics in the British Army.

Human bodies, animals, children, and plants undulate together on rapidly changing frequencies. Between landscapes of anger and sexual desire, a white-hot climax builds under the surface. A collaboration between Emily Eddy and Natalie Chami (TALsounds), commissioned by Chicago Film Archives for the 2019 Media Mixer.

As the mother of a 16-year-old girl, Anne Joubert is happy in her job and in her marriage. But when she learns that her daughter is using drugs, everything she took for granted suddenly collapses. She is forced to begin a major overhaul of her life.

Daniel falls madly in love with Victoria. After seducing her, he learns that the young woman has a troubled past.

A married professor has an affair with a young colleague during a trip with his students to Venice.

Following a winning game, a young man finds himself at the head of the harem of an oriental prince who has seven wives. One of them escapes, replaced by the young girl her family wants the young partygoer to marry. Everything ends in songs and as desired.

While entertaining her lover one weekend, a woman's marriage is threatened by the sudden appearance of her evil step-brother. Beyond using her home to hide from the police after his recent heist, he also blackmails her in to a horrendous weekend filled with debauchery and violence. After her ordeal she is anything but bored.

A film about the women who supported the 1978 miners strike against Inco, the multinational which owned the nickel mines in Sudbury, Ontario. As the women became increasingly involved in the strike, they questioned more and more their traditional supportive role. This provoked many heated discussions among the women and obviously not without upsetting husband, family, union - and company...