Unarmed Verses

Ce long métrage documentaire brosse le portrait vivant et plein de délicatesse d'une communauté forcée de déménager. Au cœur du récit se trouve une jeune fille noire de 12 ans, aussi perspicace que lumineuse, qui, au fil de ses bouleversantes observations sur la vie, l'âme et la puissance de l'art, se fait la porte-parole des gens que la société réduit souvent au silence. Notes d'espoir témoigne en images du besoin universel de trouver sa voix et son appartenance.

Invisible City is a moving story of two boys from Regent Park crossing into adulthood - their mothers and mentors rooting for them to succeed; their environment and social pressures tempting them to make poor choices. Turning his camera on the often ignored inner city, Academy-award nominated director Hubert Davis sensitively depicts the disconnection of urban poverty and race from the mainstream.

In the Name of the Mother and the Son paints a portrait of life in the Montreal neighbourhood of Saint-Michel for two youths of Haitian origin, whom we follow in their quest for hope and freedom. Not unlike their parents, who had to start from scratch on arriving in Canada, James and Le Voyou both yearn to take wing, each in his own way. The film is a cri de coeur to the women of Haiti who, like the mothers of these two young men, sacrificed so much to give their children a better future. In the name of the mother and the son is also a sensitive account that eloquently decries the prejudice that, even today, plagues young Quebecers of Haitian origin. In French with English subtitles.