The Fabulous Shorts of Amélie Hardy
The mission of the Centre d'art et essai de la Cinémathèque québécoise (CAECQ) is to primary program Quebec-made documentaries and independent fiction, as well as international documentaries, animated and foreign films, while encouraging opportunities for meetings between the public and the artists. Its programming is presented in conjunction with the Cinémathèque québécoise’s under the label New releases.
Presented as part of the soirées pixelleX
Followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Amélie Hardy, hosted by Ariane Roy-Poirier
Welcome to Mississauga where lawns are clipped, neighbors are watchful and no blade of grass dares misbehave. Except at Wolf Ruck’s place. His lawn grows wild, and so does the trouble.
Between loads of laundry at the corner laundromat, Cooper shares the story of her gender reassignment journey. Piecing together her memories, from her childhood in a small fishing village through her tumultuous medical process, Cooper attempts to make peace with the last male imprint remaining on her body: that annoying deep voice that sticks to her skin.
Capture, document, record, share, restart. We are making ourselves more memorable than ever by archiving every bit of our daily lives. What if we lost something along the way?
In this anxious and hectic time, Happy Life explores those unusual outlets that soothe the turmoil of the body and mind. In a meditative journey through these analgesic places, this documentary essay paints a portrait of a society in seek of meaning and relief.
Amélie Hardy
A UQAM graduate in Film Studies, Quebec filmmaker Amélie Hardy has directed several short films including A Wolf in the Suburbs (2026), Make Money, Find Meaning, Don’t Panic (2025), Hello Stranger (2024), About Memory and Loss (2022), Happy Life (2021), and Train Hopper (2019), as well as the documentary series Ordinary Life Chronicles (2022). Her cinematic approach, combining humanity, aesthetic sensitivity, and ingenuity in staging reality, defines her artistic signature. Her projects have received numerous awards and have been screened at internationally renowned festivals such as SXSW, Hot Docs, Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Palm Springs ShortFest, Festival de Namur, and REGARD. Her first feature documentary, Overthrow (2026), will be the opening film of the Quebec City Film Festival (FCVQ) this fall.
Bio & photo: Courtesy of pixelleX
