Acting Blind
Aller-Retour
Acting Blind

Films


Acting Blind Aller-Retour Asylum Balfour Mount

Acting Blind

(2006) 52 minutes

directed by Martin Duckworth
This documentary film
follows the transformation
of a group of blind adults
and children who act[+]

Aller-Retour
(1994) 52 minutes
This documentary film
follows four Mexican
migrant workers during
their summer in Quebec [+]

Asylum
(1998) 78 minutes
Asylum tells the
emotional stories of
refugees who seek entry
into Canada.[+]

Balfour Mount:
Reflections on Living and Dying

(2008) 26 minutes
A series of three videos
that illuminate Canada's
father of palliative
medicine, Dr. Balfour
Mount [+]

Bonjour! Shalom! Chez Schwartz Endnotes

Bittersweet Deliveries

(1998) 58 minutes

Santropol Roulant is an unusual meals-on-wheels program. Located in downtown Montreal, the program is staffed by unemployed young people

Bonjour ! Shalom !
(1991) 52 minutes
Bonjour! Shalom!
explores the relationship
between Hassidic Jews
in Montreal's Outremont
district

Chez Schwartz
(2006) 83 minutes
Chez Schwartz takes us
inside a year in the life
of Schwartz’s Deli, the
unique 75-year-old
landmark

Endnotes

(1999) 51 minutes
A documentary about
Montreal's Royal
Victoria Hospital's
Palliative Care Unit,
capturing the poignant
interactions

In Danku, the Soup is Sweeter Living with Kidney Failure The Man Who Learned to Fall My Dear Clara

In Danku, the Soup
is Sweeter

(1991) 30 minutes
Portrays a Canadian
development project
which allows women in
Northern Ghana to get
access to credit to start

Living with Kidney
Failure

(2008) 45 minutes
In Canada, the number
of patients with (ESRD)
End State Renal Disease
has increased from 5,549
in 1981 to[+]

The Man Who Learned to Fall
(2004) 77 minutes
A documentary film about a gifted writer and teacher who celebrates the wonder of life even as he is slowly dying of ALS

My Dear Clara
(2001) 44 minutes
A passionate World War
II love story about one
woman’s nine year
struggle to bring her
husband to Canada

Nothing Sacred On Wings of Song – Music Therapy at the End of Life Radio Novelas The Socalled Movie

Nothing Sacred
(2003) 52 minutes
Serge Chapleau and
Aislin from La Presse
and the Montreal
Gazette respectively,
are profiled during the
2003 Quebec

On Wings of Song – Music Therapy at the End of Life
(1999) 43 minutes
This is an intimate
portrayal of the work of
Deborah Salmon, a music
therapist who inspires
patients[+]

Radio Novelas
(1994) 58 minutes
Follows an exchange
between Natives in
northern Quebec and
Quechua Natives in
Bolivia[+]

The Socalled Movie
(2009)
Socalled is Montréal’s
resident Yiddish rapper,
musician, magician and
all-around fascinating
guy[+]

Taxi Sans Detour Métis Gardens Vive le Québec... Anglé ! Water for Tonoumassé

Taxi Sans Détour
(1988) 51 minutes
Portrays the experiences
of Haitian born taxi
drivers in their first years
working in Montreal

Twice Upon a Garden
(2009)
This film captures the lush beauty through the changing seasons of Quebec’s most visited garden.

Vive le Québec... Anglé !
(2002) 51 minutes
Vive le Québec... Anglé !
is an original take on
Anglo-Quebec culture in
Quebec. It is part of the
Télé-Québec series

Water for Tonoumassé
(1980) 28 minutes
A Canadian development project encourages women to play a leading role in bringing clean water