Tahani Rached’s powerful documentary enters the doors of an AIDS clinic in Montreal. We meet a group of dedicated doctors struggling to provide health care to their patients. This 1994 film explores legal and ethical problems surrounding HIV/AIDS and the struggle against fear, rumours and prejudice. It is still relevant today.

Doctors with Heart

A feature-length documentary portrait of Québécoise painter Johanne Corno, who has lived and worked in New York City for more than 20 years. Ignored by the art intelligentsia in Québec, she settled abroad to escape that creative constraint, and built an enviable international career. Today, she casts a lucid eye on her work and describes the resources she draws on to survive in the jungle of the contemporary art world.

Corno

Les Criminelles lifts the veil on the lives of sex workers. Three themes are treated on Les Criminelles: Why is public nudity offensive to so many people, when raw sexuality is repeatedly featured in TV series? Why is the social acceptability of prostitution impossible when, sometimes, the thing is done between consenting adults, in a respectful manner? What are the consequences of this social hypocrisy on violence against women and on public health?