Family
Les Films du 3 Mars (F3M) invites you to discover thematic cinema about Family. From fiction to documentaries, long and short, enjoy the best of Québécois and Canadian filmmaking !
MÁ SÀI GÒN (MOTHER SAIGON)
98 min., Documentary, Québec, Canada, 2023
Má Sài Gòn is a love letter – a bittersweet ode to a comforting yet disturbing mother, to a city that is as liberating as it is oppressive.
Read more
I LOST MY MOM
75 min., documentary, Québec, Canada, 2022
In the form of a filmed journal, filmmaker Denys Desjardins documents the extraordinary sequence of events that drove him to place his mother in a CSHLD (long-term care home).
Read more
NICOLE
23 min, Documentary, Canada, 2023
In this touching documentary, filmmaker Chadi Bennani accompanies his mother, Dominique, as she sets out to empty Nicole’s apartment, her mother who passed two years prior. Through their discoveries, Dominique and Chadi share their memories of Nicole, as well as their apprehensions of a future without her.
Read more
THE FAMILY OF THE FOREST
85 min, Documentaire, Québec, 2022
Gérard and Catherine sacrificed family, friends and their homeland of Belgium for a life of self-sufficiency deep in the boreal forest of Gaspé Peninsula, Québec. Now 15 years later, as their three sons become young adults, what will happen to this remarkable life they’ve given everything to create?
Read more
MARGOT’S SISTER
17 min., fiction, Quebec, Canada, 2021
When her intellectually disabled sister enters the after school program at her school, a young teen struggles to keep her worlds appart.
Read more