HAK_MTL

May 17, 2019

1h 7m

★ 7.1

Overview

Does privacy still exist in 2019? In less than a generation, the internet has become a mass surveillance machine based on one simple mindset: If it's free, you're the product. Our information is captured, stored and made accessible to corporations and governments across the world. To the hacker community, Big Brother is real and only a technological battle can defeat him.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Les Productions du Rapide-Blanc

HAK_MTL Trailers

Cast

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Jean-Philippe Décarie-Mathieu

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Daniel Legault

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Steven Rambam

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Alexandre Sheldon

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Edward Snowden

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Richard M. Stallman

Antoine Beaupré

William Budington

Gabriella Coleman

Danukeru

Arturo Filasto

Lex Gill

Alexis Conran investigates whether loyalty cards save consumers money when shopping, looking into the possibility that supermarkets could be inflating prices only to discount them. Alexis discovers how supermarkets offer a reduced price in return for an exchange of data from shoppers, speaking to those responsible for handling the data and making profits from it.

0.0

Le dernier souffle, au cœur de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal

Apr 7, 2017

No overview available.

8.0

Click to Ransom

Oct 31, 2022

A small rural hospital in Japan battles an international cybercriminal gang that is holding them ransom with their stolen patient data.

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0.0

Conference of the Homeless

Jan 1, 2003

Delegations of the homeless from all over the world march in. This is a film in which there is nothing to see. - Vlado Kristl

0.0

Cricket & Park-Ex: a love story

Feb 24, 2016

This film takes us inside the world of cricket and the daily life of Montreal's Parc Extension - one of Canada's poorest yet most vibrant immigrant neighbourhoods.

0.0

Snowflakes at the End of the World

Nov 18, 2025

Snowflakes at the End of the World offers a meditation on the beauty and ugliness of Montreal winter, and invites critical reflection on the relationship between humans and nature.

8.0

Your Face is Ours: The Dangers of Facial Recognition Software

Jun 24, 2023

New York-based tech company Clearview AI is working to identify and compile the faces of every human being on the planet. The firm claims that its database will serve as a force for good, helping to solve crimes and prevent espionage. But what if Clearview AI’s powerful facial recognition software, that could potentially be used for mass surveillance and profiling, fell into the wrong hands? What if it already has?

0.0

The War On Code: Investigating the Tornado Cash Sanctions and the Arrest of Alexey Pertsev

Dec 10, 2022

A film on Tornado Cash and the arrest of Alexey Pertsev.

6.9

Nothing to Hide

Sep 6, 2017

NOTHING TO HIDE is an independent documentary dealing with surveillance and its acceptance by the general public through the "I have nothing to hide" argument. The documentary was produced and directed by a pair of Berlin-based journalists, Mihaela Gladovic and Marc Meillassoux. It was crowdfunded by over 400 backers. NOTHING TO HIDE questions the growing, puzzling and passive public acceptance of massive corporate and governmental incursions into individual and group privacy and rights. After the emotion initially triggered by the Snowden revelations, it seems that the general public has finally accepted to live in a monitored digital world.

0.0

Hacking at Leaves

Apr 6, 2024

Hacking at Leaves documents artist and hazmat-suit aficionado Johannes Grenzfurthner as he attempts to come to terms with the United States' colonial past, Navajo tribal history, and the hacker movement. The story hones in on a small tinker space in Durango, Colorado, that made significant contributions to worldwide COVID relief efforts. But things go awry when Uncle Sam interferes with the film's production.

10.0

Breaking Point: Canada/Quebec - The 1995 Referendum

Oct 30, 2005

BREAKING POINT brings viewers back to those tense, critical moments when Canada's future as a country was at stake.

0.0

Unit 8200

May 8, 2017

A story about the world's best Cyber spies. Their training in Israel's military, and their impact on the world we live in.

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The 80 Goes to Sparta

Aug 1, 1969

This feature documentary studies the different faces of Montreal’s Greek community in 1969. Instead of giving voice to the businessmen and well-integrated few, the film highlights the cultural and economic problems encountered by new immigrants and their families.

7.8

Les Mathématiques du Roi Heenok

Jan 21, 2008

No overview available.

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0.0

This Beggar's Description

Jul 19, 2006

It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, musician and diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic. A promising athlete as a child, Philip began experiencing mood swings in his early 20s. His extended family, including his daughter, share their conflicted feelings love, guilt, shame, anger with the camera. They want to make sure he's safe, but how much can they take?

7.0

EXPO 67 Mission Impossible

Apr 25, 2017

This documentary let us to relive the challenge of the men behind the 1967 Universal Exposition in Montréal, Canada. By searching trough 80,000 archival documents at the national Archives, they managed to bring light on one of the biggest logistical and political challenges that were faced by organizers during the "Révolution Tranquille" in the Québec sixties. Includes the accounts of the Chief of Advertising Yves Jasmin, and businessman Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien.

8.0

La langue est donc une histoire d'amour

Oct 11, 2019

No overview available.