From Book to Screen | Antigone
Free activity
In presence of guests
Québec cinema
Sessions
| Tuesday, 21 April | 18:00 | Baobab - café de quartier |
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Book-to-film adaptations are a genre of their own. Full of promise for readers, these adaptations also come with significant challenges. How can one remain faithful to a text when images take over? How can a story be adapted without simply reproducing it? What kind of relationship does a filmmaker develop with the book they seek to bring to the screen?
Félix Morin, together with Antigone’s director Sophie Deraspe, will discuss the challenges and the creative opportunities that come with such an adaptation.
Free activity
In collaboration with the Service d’aide aux Néo-Canadiens and Canadian Film Day.
Réservation | Du livre à l'écran | Antigone | Baobab / FCMS 2026
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Presented film:
Guests
Félix Morin Enseignant | Cégep de Sherbrooke
Félix Morin teaches early childhood education at Cégep de Sherbrooke. He is an essayist for Les libraires magazine. He is best known for his long interviews on CFAK radio, where he welcomes thinkers, authors, and other intellectuals who inspire him and with whom he converses without any time constraints. He is also a member of the editorial board of the magazine Lettres québécoises.
Will attend:
- Tuesday, 21 April | 18:00 - Baobab - Café de quartier
Sophie Deraspe Membre du jury | Présidente du jury international | Réalisatrice et scénariste
It was visual arts and literature that led Sophie Deraspe to screenwriting and directing fiction and documentary films in which social and existential issues rub shoulders with formal audacity. Her filmography includes six feature films, including Antigone (2019) and Bergers (2024), both of which won Best Canadian Film in their respective years at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Antigone received remarkable critical acclaim and represented Canada in the race for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Bergers was a popular success in both Quebec and France before being distributed in several countries. Sophie is currently working on a…
Will attend:
- Tuesday, 21 April | 18:00 - Baobab - café de quartier