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Prisma -Prism- (2015) chronicles five months of 2014 during which my eleven year-old daughter lived with my wife and I. It was the first time my daughter and I had lived together since she was two years old.

Irv Kaplan has been with the Israeli educational tv since its foundation 30 years ago as "trust for educational tv". Over the years he has written, starred in, directed, and produced a few of the stations landmark shows. In this film, his retirement project, he reviews the stations work and the changes it has undergone. Having been into comedy throughout his professional life, this "documentary" has more then a touch of humour in it as well.

This project is part of an approach to question disease and the continuity of life after these uncertain times. It relies on an interview conducted in an intimate setting with the director's mother who was affected by cancer for many years. It was recorded without her knowledge, making the talk even more spontaneous, true and authentic. The story she tells us appears as a pure hint of life captured by the camera. The physical marks she has testify of her fight for survival. Her point of vue intend to be positive on what is today a victory of the body over the disease.

'Missing in the Land of Gods' is a road movie about Jock and Di, whose son Ryan has mysteriously disappeared in India. We follow them as they travel through the country, on one final search for their missing son. It's a mystery, a road movie, an exploration of parental love. What will they find? Why did Ryan go missing?

An intimate portrait of five young Canadians who decide to become farmers.