Catalogue des films de « Ariane Pétel-Despots »

"Zo reken (Shark bone)" is the nickname given in Haiti to the Toyota Land Cruiser, a powerful 4x4 vehicle popular among the humanitarian aid organizations that are omnipresent in the country since the 2010 earthquake. Ten years later, as the...

Border mechanisms that act on migrants are many. Moving from shelter to shelter and hopping on trains, they head up north across Mexico to reach the United States and Canada. During the U.S election, migrants are more than aware that it could be...

In the heart of a deep forest runs a river. On its banks, men and women sit and talk, opening up to each other. In this remote setting conducive to reflection, they wonder what it takes to attain inner peace, debate the wisdom of passing something...

It's summer in Montreal and everyone is in love - everyone except you. Late at night, up in the mountain, couples lay in the grass. In these after hour picnics, bodies move in closer, expressions transform. You roam from one gathering to another,...

"Des adieux" est une immersion dans un centre de soins palliatifs, la Maison Michel-Sarrazin, à Québec. Un lieu qui vit grâce à la générosité et à l'écoute des bénévoles et du personnel soignant, un lieu où on meurt dans la dignité....

When human souls break up, they seem irreconcilable. Is there an antidote for heartbreak? Wandering through his neighbourhood after dusk, a young man, searching for answers, inspires friends and strangers to open their hearts to him. Encounters,...

L'état du monde is the second feature (after L’état du moment) to come out of the collective Épopée project, a cinema and Web experiment (epopee.me) led by Rodrigue Jean. The film is a mosaic, unfolding over time, of portraits of...