DOC Québec – Le chantier des possibles

Special screening in partnership with DOC Québec, with filmmaker Ève Lamont in attendance

If you’re in Montreal, it’s impossible not to see it. After making its way through a number of neighbourhoods, gentrification finally reached Pointe-Saint-Charles, along the Lachine Canal. Pressed forward by developers, luxury condo towers are springing up in the traditionally working-class neighbourhood in the southwestern part of the city. For long-time residents who call it simply “The Point,” it’s a disaster. Facing the threat of being pushed out, some have organized to promote a different vision of urban development centred around community projects like the preservation of an old CN workshop for a combination urban agriculture project and cultural centre. Ève Lamont filmed them for more than 10 years, following them closely in a stimulating activist film.