Vidéo-Femmes

Anorexia-bulimia, a complex disease that starts from within, is a daily struggle between the desire for absolute control of the body and the desire to live. A sneaky fight that takes place in loneliness and distress ignored by all. Between the voice that screams "don't eat" and the one that begs "love me", Joanny, Catherine and Annick talk to us, in Duel en 2 voix, about this much sought-after balance and the pitfalls that lie in their way. But beyond the voices that respond to each other in a duel every day, it sometimes happens that we begin to become aware of the life that surrounds us. On this day, the disease takes up less space.

Thousands of girls who were in the first wave of Chinese children to be adopted in Québec in the 1990s have reached adolescence. The filmmaker focused her lens on five of them and accompanied them throughout their emotionally charged transition to adulthood. In their quest for identity, how do these young Quebecers experience their difference? An intimate and touching journey into the world of Alice, Léa, Julia, Anne and Flavie.

Alice is the daughter, the ‘oriental pearl’, of filmmaker Nicole Giguère. ‘Big Noses’ is the familiar Chinese term for Westerners such as Nicole. In the late 1980s, Quebec led the way in adopting children from The People’s Republic of China. Since then, over 5,000 Chinese children, mostly girls, have found a home in Quebec. This documentary follows Alice over a span of ten years, as she and many of her friends face the challenges of growing up in a white world. The one hour program presents Big Nosed parents and their Chinese daughters, sharing their love, concerns and expectations as they learn to adopt each other. Members of Quebec’s long established Chinese community also express their views on this emotional and sometimes controversial issue. The film is a portrait of an ever-changing world, and shows how the presence of so many new Quebecers with almond-shaped eyes can contribute to the evolution of our society.

A musical film based on a song by Folles Alliés illustrating the unacceptable insults made to the female body and intellect: sexual harassment, sexist advertisements and video clips, pornography, domestic violence, rape.