Four elders from Montréal-Nord come together to share their perspectives on aging. This film also highlights engaged seniors for whom aging is synonymous with community involvement.
A cultural mediation project led by Julie Langlois, created in collaboration with the Centre d’Action Bénévole de Montréal-Nord.
Direction and screenplay: Marie-Josée Lafontant, Raymonde Muse, Manon Thibault, Robert Gamache, and Cinthya Dietz.
Produced by Funambules Médias.
The many routes to reaffiliation
Homeless survival trajectories in Laval
The movement to defend the rights of people with disabilities and their families was born in Quebec in the 1970s, in the wake of mobilizations by other oppressed and discriminated social groups. A young movement, it rapidly gained momentum and made several important gains in the 80s and 90s. Since the 2000s, like the community movement as a whole, it has lost some of its strength, weakened both by the neoliberal policies of successive governments and by the waning militancy of disabled people and their parents.
Produced by Mouvement des personnes handicapées pour l’accès aux services (PHAS), in collaboration with Funambules Médias.
Every month in Quebec, hundreds of prisoners are released after serving their sentences. What happens to them once they’re released? And what kind of freedom do they find on the other side of the bars?
From prison to prison documents the journey of three ex-prisoners as they attempt to reintegrate into society. The film gives the various offenders the opportunity to talk about their precarious daily lives, uncertain futures and troubled pasts. Unvarnished and unabashed, without complacency or voyeurism, the film bears witness to that fragile moment when the hope of a new beginning can be toppled for better or worse.