90년대 초반 캐나다, 캐러비안 출신 이민자인 홀어머니는 성인이 된 두 아들과 함께 살고 있다. 가난하지만 자신들을 열심히 부양하는 어머니를 위해 바르게 살려고 노력하는 동생 마이클과 힙합 가수를 꿈꾸는 형 프란시스는 서로 다른 삶을 살고 있으면서도 끈끈한 형제애는 변함이 없다. 하지만 어느 날, 프란시스가 꿈꾸었던 힙합 오디션에 문제가 생기면서 두 형제에게는 예기치 못했던 비극이 찾아온다.
A notorious gangster is incited to transform into a film hero and opts for a filmmaker and their project descends into a scenario they had never anticipated.
As anger and resentment grow in the face of social inequalities, many citizens-led protests are being repressed with an ever-increasing violence. In this documentary, David Dufresne gathers a panel of citizens to question, exchange and confront their views on the social order and the legitimacy of the use of force by the State.
The personal stories lived by the Uncle, the Father and the Son, respectively, form a tragic experience that is drawn along a line in time. This line is comparable to a crease in the pages of the family album, but also to a crack in the walls of the paternal house. It resembles the open wound created when drilling into a mountain, but also a scar in the collective imaginary of a society, where the idea of salvation finds its tragic destiny in the political struggle. What is at the end of that line? Will old war songs be enough to circumvent that destiny?
In 2046, a time when torture deals with Algea, The God of Pain, is enforced to reduce the pain and suffering in the mortal world. The worst of the worst criminals are given a sentence to indefinite torture in the underworld. Through a portal to the ungodly is where they will remain.
A girl from St. Petersburg walks around protest-ridden Moscow, talking to riot police and believing that sooner or later they will go over to the side of the demonstrators. An 18-year-old student of a St. Petersburg college introduces herself as Alice and tells about herself that from the age of four she lived in an orphanage and in foster families. In Moscow, Alisa, for whom this is the first rally in her life, walks along the police cordons and looks under the OMON helmet. "Under the mask you can't see, are you even human?"
A documentary about to police situation in France after the institution of a prolonged state of emergency. From the anger of the police to that of the victims of their violence, through the words of activists and inhabitants of working-class neighborhoods, everyone expresses here a moment of unease in the face of order and its maintenance.