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- Albert Einstein
Documentary
La nouvelle chasse
La surpopulation de phoques dans le fleuve Saint-Laurent a rendu ces animaux omniprésents sur les berges dans l’est du Québec.
Le Lièvre et le Pèlerin
Havres naturels à la richesse insoupçonnée, paradis des randonneurs, refuges d'oiseaux et lieux de villégiature en plein cœur du fleuve : les îles du Pot à l'Eau-de-Vie et l'île aux Lièvres, en face de Rivière-du-Loup, sont un véritable trésor caché que la Société Duvetnor s'est...
Magazine
The Langlais Cottage
Originaires de Mont-Joli, les frères et sœurs Carl Mélanie et Émilie Langlais viennent d'acheter un chalet dans leur Matapédia natale, tout près de celui de leurs parents où ils ont passé tant d'étés à se baigner et à s'amuser....
Take me Along
Ils sont 26 et la certains vivent avec une incapacité à différents degrés. Cela ne les empêche pas de vouloir transporter Sam, qui ne peut pas marcher, dans l’un des ultra-trails les plus difficiles du monde : La diagonale des fous inclusive de l’île de la Réunion....
Fiction
Converted
Dans ce monde fictif, les extrémistes ne sont pas ceux qu’on pense. Zoé a grandi dans une famille stable et aimante. Elle mène une adolescence paisible, jusqu’à ce qu’elle fasse la connaissance d’un agent de radicalisation sur TikTok...
Digital media
From the Sea to the Menu
Seals, seaweed bacon, Stimpson's surf clams and green sea urchins: The St. Lawrence is full of undervalued treasures. This is a foray into the world of seal hunters and of the chefs that dream of (re)adding seal to the menu of the big river’s...
Gaspésie Seeks African Priest
In a small church in the Gaspé countryside, an African priest presides over the congregation of a few elderly people. Despite their apparent differences, the Gaspésiens and their African priests have one thing in common: their Catholic faith...
Births of the Future
What will giving birth be like in 20, 50 or 100 years? Be it egg donation and freezing, in vitro fertilization, or ultra-sophisticated incubation, all this was science fiction to previous generations. What is in store for the parents of...
The Butcheress of Trois-Pistoles
The film follows the footsteps of a daring butcheress and her like-minded allies who promote their mission to revolutionize the meat industry by sourcing food locally...
Laurentian Objectives
An odyssey in modern Province of Quebec through the perspective of the historian and aerial photographer Pierre Lahoud.
Resilience in Midwifery
The practice of midwives is floundering in Quebec and many say it is in ultimate decline. This contrasts with the fact that there are not enough practising midwives to provide parents in Quebec the birth support they are seeking as the demand for “outside-of-the-hospital-system”...
The Happiness Quest
How can we live on earth in a meaningful way in this year of 2024? How can we achieve a balance of life in this world together?
Seal à la Carte
It is widely understood that the seal population in the waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence has reached critical levels as natural predators have disappeared and hunting has practically ceased...
Pestacle
In a community, a performance hall is much more than a location for the dissemination of culture. It is a magical site, essential to the social fabric of its surrounding communities...
Hotel Central
At Hotel Central, Jo Laterreur receives our columnists at his bar to talk about cultural, regional and community news in Eastern Quebec. Sports, social media, digital arts, cinema, literature, regional development, terroir, economy, microbrewery...
40%
The phenomenon of microdistilleries is still fairly young in Quebec, but it is expanding rapidly. This series presents the perfect occasion to discover them, as well as the regions in which they are thriving...
Les Priants
While scandals and church closures, as well as the overall decline of our religious communities are extensively documented, the question remains as to what happens to the faithful who persist in praying to the God of the Catholics? What remains of this belief that is so intrinsically woven...
And What does it Change?
In this interview-based documentary magazine the filmmaker and ecologist Hugo Latulippe examines the various dimensions and stakes of the climate crisis. As determined by the fields of expertise of the invited guests, the crisis is discussed from natural-scientific, social, historical...
Cinéma d’ici
From the Gaspé Peninsula to northern Quebec, Cinéma d’ici presents some of the Lower St-Lawrence region’s best filmmakers in a fascinating study of today’s filmmaking outside of the metropole. Each episode is about one filmmaker, his artistic journey...
Overcoming Image
In our era of universal communications, idealized images of more or less standardized “perfect bodies” are continuously relayed to us all on all media platforms. As millions strive to attain omnipresent beauty standards, there are also those that reject standardization...
Captains of the Shoals
During one entire fishing season on the waters of the St-Lawrence, three captains make us discover the ups and downs of a changing industry. Passionate shrimp, snow crab, lobster and halibut fishermen, our captains are steadfast lovers of the sea that work hard to chase an often-elusive resource.
On the Ice Floe
Worlds come together on the wintery shores of the St-Lawrence River as the visiting French artist Joseph Kieffer provides the local ice floe fishermen of Rimouski an offer of sharing: Inspired by authentic stories of their lives, he would design a weather vane for each narrator’s ice fishing shack.
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The Land of Shipwrecks
Through the eyes of photographer Marius Jomphe, four local historians and several contemporary “stranded men” of Gaspé, The Land of Shipwrecks paints a portrait of this "city at the end of the world" that has preserved its essence through the ages...
Amazons
One inconspicuous morning the day-to-day of a quietly dysfunctional couple tips over as housewife Nicole rebels against the trap her life has become. In the attempt to break free of demons that she refuses to bestow upon her daughter Jeanne, Nicole makes a radical decision...
Vidéodep
Aimé has operated the convenience store and video-club Vidéodep for 35 years: Every day appears like the previous, bringing forth parasitic clients that spit out ever-the-same banalities over the movie racks and chip bags on the counter. One beautiful morning, arriving customers find Aimé with a hunting rifle under his chin
Sponsor a Wealthy Child
Sponsor a Wealthy Child (SaWC) is a transmedia game that turns the world upside down. Thanks to an offbeat humanitarian campaign, families from the so-called Third World come to the rescue of Western children ravaged by “relational poverty”.
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