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Pride vs. Prejudice: The Delwin Vriend Story

Delwin Vriend never wanted to be a human rights activist. However, in challenging his firing for being gay, he set in motion a chain of events that impacted the lives of LGBTQ+ people —not just in Alberta, not just in Canada, but around the globe. Pride vs. Prejudice: The Delwin Vriend Story delves into the riveting narrative of the Vriend v. Alberta case, where Delwin Vriend, an unlikely hero, courageously battles against discrimination from a government determined to deny his human rights. Uncover the twists and turns that unfold as Vriend's pursuit of justice challenges societal biases, culminating in a ground-breaking Canadian Supreme Court ruling in 1998 that confronts prejudice and sets a transformative precedent for LGBTQ+ rights that is cited around the world.

Pride vs. Prejudice: The Delwin Vriend Story

NR 2024
Infravision

This film explores the "forms of the visible" as anthropologist Philippe Descola puts it. Images educate the eye to see the world. The invention of perspective led to the invention of landscape painting and the contemplation of the distant. An animist's vision (which considers that non-human things have a spirit and a social life) operates on different scales. A close-up view reveals relationships between things. This film questions perception. The optical tracking shot, whose focus varies incessantly, modulates the viewer's gaze. The eye's path is deregulated, and the transition from macro to micro breaks the illusionist view and eliminates all perspective. No special effects are applied to the image : the plastic approach stems from the alteration of the video playback codec. The deteriorated video file fails - just like the deregulated eye - to render an illusionistic view. The explosion of color and the organic movements of pixels reveal a new possibility of looking.

Infravision

NR 2024
Women of Science

Meet six women of power: scientific researchers, technological leaders, mathematical or engineering geniuses. In this film, they reveal themselves: they share their journey, showcase their groundbreaking work and reveal the obstacles they have overcome as girls and women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. In celebrating these contemporary pioneers, we are also highlighting a dark truth. Throughout history, women scientists have been silenced, their contributions relegated to the shadows. Will this generation rewrite the rules and create a new legacy?

Women of Science

NR 2024
Enquête sur les trésors enfouis de Notre-Dame de Paris

Three years after the devastating fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, archaeological excavations uncovered treasures that had been hidden beneath the building for centuries: In addition to numerous sculpture fragments, there were also two human-shaped lead coffins. Who are the dead in these sarcophagi? What did the sculptures represent and why are they buried under the church? By venturing into previously inaccessible areas of the Gothic sacred building, the archaeologists uncovered a forgotten part of its history. An interdisciplinary team of scientists is undertaking extensive work to uncover the secrets of Notre-Dame.

Enquête sur les trésors enfouis de Notre-Dame de Paris

7.5 2024