Catalogue des films de « René-Ruiz Portillo »

Certains sont là depuis plusieurs années, d’autres viennent d’arriver de Tunisie, de Syrie, du Burundi, du Vietnam ou du Mexique. Tous sont élèves de la classe de Madame Loiseau, au centre William-Hingston de Montréal, qui leur apprend le...

Nestled above a decaying district of Havana is a secret village, hidden from the clamour of the streets below. Makeshift houses, pigeon coops, pig pens, altars to the gods of Santería, laundry flapping in the breeze and improvised gardens make up...

Montreal author Marie-Célie Agnant collects stories, dreams and demands from Parc-Extension neighbours, in order to write a letter to their deputy, Justin Trudeau, now the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada.

With this first feature, Steve Patry delivers a compassionate and just exploration of several years in the lives of three ex-convicts. Three people who did not know each other, each trying to avoid relapsing into the addiction that keeps sending...

"Philémon chante Habana" is a cinematographic odyssey tracing a young artist’s musical voyage across La Havana. It starts with a memory and ends with a song: an ode to the human spirit, to friendship, to the wanderer. It’s the story of an...

United States of Africa follows African hip hop pioneer Didier Awadi as he crafts a new album that shines a light on black revolutionary leaders who fought for an independent united Africa. On a sprawling musical journey that takes him to some 40...

The gentle drifting of a haitian child. A sense of form, the whirl of poetry, thinking that is deep and light all at the same time work that was never meant to be contained. From Port-au-Prince to Paris by way of Montreal, New York and...