Content from Projet Kinomada

Four interwoven stories about love and self-acceptance: An eleven year-old boy struggles to keep secret the attraction he feels towards his male cousin. Two former childhood friends reunite and start a relationship that gets complicated due to one of them’s fear of getting caught. A gay long lasting relationship is in jeopardy when a third man comes along. An old family man is obsessed with a young male prostitute and tries to raise the money to afford the experience.

OBSESSIVE is a meditation on obsessive doubt and facing your fears, written and created over the course of eight days in September 2022 for the 26th edition of Kinomada, a week-long cooperative film laboratory in Québec City at La Charpente des Fauves.

A couple of gay men must break up due the impossibility of one of them to accept his homosexual condition. The farewell gets very difficult when the other one tries to convince him to accept himself and not to leave him.

May 2017. As the new President of the United States takes his ease in the White House, the city of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, is the theatre of the mythic Crawfish Festival. It's just another day, in America.

Combining drawing and collage, this animated film captures the deep attachment bond between Edna, a hospitalized baby, and friends of her parents who regularly visit to comfort her, exploring themes of connection, life, grief, and vulnerability with poetic grace.

In 2019 Mississippi spring flooding hits record highs. Residents of Pierre-Part, Louisiana, prepare for the worst, as authorities are expected to open the floodgates of the Morganza Spillway to save the cities of New Orleans and Bâton Rouge from flooding. Faith and resilience are their only defense.

Through the words of the poet Kirby Jambon, the filmmakers offer a playful journey to the heart of the Cajun identity in Louisiana.

After a week of leave, Sylvie is back at the Quebec company where she has been an exemplary employee for more than 15 years. She is then requested to attend a bizarre meeting.

Malcom, octogenarian and artist by trade, has to leave his house along with the neighborhood where his artistic approach is firmly rooted.

An immersion into the daily life of Henri Painchaud, a history and encyclopedia enthusiast, who promised himself from childhood that he would one day build a trebuchet, a medieval weapon of war.

Katiana talks about her experiences as a woman in Haiti. As a woman, she faces many limitations and abuses from men who are more privileged than she is. Despite the difficulties of her condition, she has found the courage to achieve greater personal and financial independence.

An environmental activist has a plan against an international oil firm.

Richard, a traveling salesman disillusioned with his job, contemplates ending his life. He stops at a small inn between shifts and meets Christine, his roommate, who is completely drunk. As she falls asleep, Richard discovers that she keeps a strange collection. Loosely based on Stephen King's short story “Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away.”

In this alternative map of Iquitos we walk through the architectural vestiges of the rubber era, where each node is a facade of empty holes and beautiful tiles imported by the rubber tappers who tried to replicate within our jungle a little piece of their Europe, at the cost of exploitation and murder of more than 100 Amazonian primitive communities/ethnicities. The journey through these points of the city seeks to be an exercise where, through reflection, the bodies and the present occupy that emptiness, to claim it as their own.