Inspired by the solidarity embodied in our films, we have decided to make the three films in our focus accessible for the price of a single ticket.
The Focus "A roof for everyone" is presented by the Dévo Foundation
Homles | September 10 at 5 p.m.
When Steeve was a young adult, his parents, members of Jehovah's Witnesses, isolated him from the rest of the world before brutally throwing him out onto the streets. Today, he is still there.
This atypical barber lives and works in his van, named Homles, which he parks here and there, sometimes more or less legally, in and around Montreal. His clients and friends gather there, forming a community around Steeve that reflects his own image: musicians, skateboarders, punks, and other friendly misfits who populate his daily life of freedom and wandering, misfortune and gratitude.
The ups and downs of Steeve's life lead him to reflect on his childhood and adolescence, which were ruled by a sectarian group with strict laws.
A portrait of a resolutely free nonconformist, Homles evokes resilience and the quest of an individual, a former member of a religious sect, and offers a meditation on uprooting, rupture, and nomadism.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with the film’s director, Bruno Chouinard, and Éric Boulay, executive director of Lauberivière
Petit Rempart | September 11 at 5 p.m.
Mariem, 53, a former luxury real estate agent, has been living at a shelter for several months. If she had the courage last June to leave her large house in Namur to escape a violent man, she had no idea that she would have to lose everything. In a daily struggle to get by, and surrounded by women much more precarious than her, Mariem tries to live this unprecedented social fall as an immersion in real life. When she finally manages to leave this emergency shelter, her view of the world will have changed forever, enriched by all the women she will meet on her way.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Stéphanie Lampron, Executive Director of the YWCA Québec , and Linh Nguyên-Biron, a social worker at La Maison des femmes de Québec
Everybody to Kenmure Street | September 12 at 5 p.m.
Anti-establishment struggles and activism run in the veins of Glasgow inhabitants.
So when In May 2021, a U.K. Home Office raid is launched at dawn on the first day of Eid, it triggers one of the most spontaneous acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Scotland’s most diverse neighbourhood, hundreds of residents rush to Kenmure Street to stop the deportation of their neighbours.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, Member of the National Assembly for Gouin, and Smay-Lee Dubé, a member of the board of directors of the association Agora Déclic
- Refunds
- No refunds
- Exchanges
- No exchanges
- Access for persons with mobility impairment
- Yes
- Free for Accompanying Person
- Yes
