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Browse 61 movies from Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
Women are lucky, they get to have the only organ in the human body dedicated exclusively for pleasure: the clitoris! In this humorous and instructive animated documentary, find out its unrecognized anatomy and its unknown herstory.
Aug 2017
A young woman's television stops working, so she gets a telescope to watch TV through her neighbor's window.
Apr 2019
As an older woman is cleaning her home, she remembers that she is all alone in her home and dreams of the boy that once lived with her.
Francine faces the inevitable: she must sell her motorcycle, her greatest passion. Plunged into the apprehension of mourning, a potential buyer offers her an exchange that will bring her out of her torpor.
In a village at the tip of Nova Scotia, an Acadian community of 2,000 inhabitants is preparing to begin yet another lobster fishing season. The fishermen are preparing all year round for this great return to school day, on the verge of their feet, all waiting for the Atlantic wind to finally calm down, to be able to weigh anchor.
Jan 2021
Unity in an art form (music), no matter genre or age.
A woman dances out the effects of Lithium, a white crystalline solid used to treat manic episodes of bipolar disorder. Lithium helps to control the symptoms of mania, which may include a reduced need for sleep, poor judgment, hyperactivity, and sometimes hostility.
A silent short film about love, lust and betrayal.
Dec 2018
The Plaza Saint-Hubert was long shunned by the petty-bourgeoisie of Montreal for its too "kitsch" allure or the questionable choices of town planning which shaped the layout of its facades. However, the biome of the Plaza is no longer resisting the tendencies of gentrification that are affecting the city of Montreal as a whole. This short film focuses on the real open wound that is the repair site of the mythical Plaza. An incongruous universe where wedding dresses dance with mechanical shovels.
A perverted boy looks through a peephole. He sees something he is not suppose to see, a woman farting in a bathtub.
A surreal portrait of homelessness.
May 2023
Within a society fearful of vampires, Ernesto Murciélago, a detective and luchador, must rescue a kidnapped basketball player and defeat the city's evil leader, L0L1TA (a fascist tape recorder).
A young woman is chased across a schoolyard by faceless people. She escapes by entering a car that drives by the schoolyard, and she is brought to a garden.
Two acquaintances desperately wish they didn't have to shake hands.
It's a medical operation, the removal of the human being's nature and the implantation of concepts imagined by him.
May 2022
Director Kayla Fragman presents a deeply personal, sensory piece on Parkinson’s disease and her Portuguese grandparents who lived in Quebec for 45 years.
Felix, fourteen, starts a relationship with an older boy, hoping to get caught by his conservative father so he can confront him.
Aug 2018
May 2017
Wind burial, influenced by Shamanism, is an old Mongolian tradition. When someone dies, the corpse is carried on a cart until a bump causes the body to fall. The place where the body lands becomes a simple tomb.
Aug 2012
In 2067, the Canadian government resurrects Expo 67 using advanced projection technology. As a woman searches for the ghost of her grandfather, the exhibition catches fire.
Sep 2026