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1. A Vision in the Darkness (Des lumières dans la grande noirceur)

Through the eyes of a Quebec Jewish activist, Lea Roback, feminist, unionist, pacifist and communist, A VISION IN THE DARKNESS proposes a modernist vision of Quebec history, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the period knows as « La Grande Noirceur », the Great Darkness.

2. To Be and to Have (Être et avoir)

The documentary's title translates as "to be and to have", the two auxiliary verbs in the French language. It is about a primary school in the commune of Saint-Étienne-sur-Usson, Puy-de-Dôme, France, the population of which is just over 200. The school has one small class of mixed ages , with a dedicated teacher, Georges Lopez, who shows patience and respect for the children as we follow their story through a single school year.

It has an average vote of 7.266 on TMDB.

3. The Monastery (Amoureuses)

For the first time, cloistered sisters agree to be filmed for one year in all aspects of their lives. The nuns of Berthierville, the only Francophone community of Dominican nuns in North America for nearly a century, engage in a rare and unique documentary in which exceptional testimonies and archives intermingle.

4. Death (& Rebirth) Of A PhD

This Cheeky Scientist Documentary chronicles origins of Cheeky Scientist and includes in depth interviews with PhDs from different backgrounds who overcame extreme personal challenges to get hired in industry. This feature also includes behind the scenes footage of the Cheeky Scientist Summit and is narrated by Isaiah Hankel, Ph.D.

5. Daughters & Sons

Two women struggle to talk about their roots: one a daughter with her father, the other a teacher with her students.

6. The Disunited States of Canada (Les États-Désunis du Canada)

Secessionnist movements in Canada outside Quebec.

It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.

7. A Tent on Mars (Une tente sur Mars)

Three decades after the shuttering of the mining town of Schefferville, the Innu people, who moved in after the non-natives abandoned the town, are facing a new challenge: the iron mines are about to be reopened. Land, identity and legitimacy are central to the dialogue between peoples locked in parallel struggles, the Québécois and the First Nations.

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

8. 100 jours au coeur de la campagne de vaccination (100 jours au coeur de la campagne de vaccination)

(100 jours au coeur de la campagne de vaccination)

9. La ferme et son état (La ferme et son état)

(La ferme et son état)

It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.

10. If You Build It

A year in the life of one of America's most innovative classrooms where students design & build to transform their hometown community. The film follows Emily Pilloton and Matt Miller as they teach the fundamentals of design, architecture and construction to a class of high school juniors in rural North Carolina.

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

11. Dance for All

(Dance for All)

12. Lise Watier, une vie à entreprendre (Lise Watier, une vie à entreprendre)

(Lise Watier, une vie à entreprendre)

13. Tales of Sand and Snow (Histoire de sable)

In a quest to rediscover the spiritual values of his own people, an African filmmaker from the Gourmantche tribe of Burkina Faso visits an Aboriginal band, the Atikamekw of northern Quebec. The resulting documentary is a dialogue between those who divine the future in the sand with those who use snow-encased sweat lodges to reconnect with the spiritual world.

14. Vincennes, l'université perdue (Vincennes, l'université perdue)

Recounts the epic of Vincennes Experimental University Center, from its creation after the events of May 68 until its demolition in the summer of 1980. To talk about Vincennes is to relive unique ten years of intense intellectual and political extravaganza, educational and artistic inventiveness, utopias, hopes, and betrayals that marked the history in a unique place, the forest with the eponymous name.

It has an average vote of 8.5 on TMDB.

15. Nanook of the North

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains some fictional elements, it vividly shows how its resourceful subjects survive in such a harsh climate, revealing how they construct their igloo homes and find food by hunting and fishing. The film also captures the beautiful, if unforgiving, frozen landscape of the Great White North, far removed from conventional civilization.

It has an average vote of 7.105 on TMDB.

16. A Way Out (出·路)

For six years the film follows 3 young Chinese from different social levels, different regions and different mindsets into their adult lives.

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

17. Behind Our Walls

In America, the prison system has become a place of retribution, not restoration. Inmates are often treated as sub-human, and often find themselves feeling hopeless. But a small midwest college decides to give inmates an opportunity to earn a bachelor's degree. Experience the journey of the resilient inmates as they fight incredible odds to change their lives – and change the system.

18. Being and Becoming (Être et devenir)

Being and Becoming explore the choice not to school ones children, to trust them and to let them learn freely what they are passionate about. Through four countries, the US, Germany , France and the UK, the film is a truth quest about the natural desire to learn.

It has an average vote of 8.5 on TMDB.

19. NDDJ (Notre-Dame-du-Jambon) (NDDJ (Notre-Dame-du-Jambon))

Karan and Rohan, two biracial brothers raised in a marginal environment, are finding ways to get stimulated on a normal summer day. They embark on a trip to buy candies to avoid boredom. This film plays with the sense of boundaries between what is real and what is fiction. It is a film about the love of two brothers and their singular reality in the countryside of Quebec.

20. Corno (Corno)

A feature-length documentary portrait of Québécoise painter Johanne Corno, who has lived and worked in New York City for more than 20 years. Ignored by the art intelligentsia in Québec, she settled abroad to escape that creative constraint, and built an enviable international career. Today, she casts a lucid eye on her work and describes the resources she draws on to survive in the jungle of the contemporary art world.

It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.