Actualités
Le Choix de Théo
Enter the universe of Theo Brode who, like so many in Louisiana, chose to learn, speak, and preserve the language of their Cajun, Creoles and other French ancestors. Theo’s Choice (Le Choix de Théo) is a documentary about French language in South-West Louisiana and the struggle to preserve an endangered heritage in the United States.
L’envol
Ce court documentaire, fruit d’une démarche collective par et pour les jeunes, vous invite dans l’univers de la transition à l’âge adulte. « L’envol » aborde avec authenticité les défis et enjeux liés à cette période de vie, qui ne laisse personne indifférent. Cette œuvre lucide livre un message d’espoir concernant ce passage obligé, d’une liberté à l’autre.
La nuit des Krampus
On an alpine winter night, Saint-Nicolas visits the children accompanied by frightening creatures, the Krampus. For centuries, these monsters have been responsible for disciplining children to ensure good behavior in the coming year. Is the Krampus good or bad? Holder of a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication (Film Major) from UQAM, Pierre-Yves Beaulieu then worked in multimedia. For a few years, he has lived as a digital nomad, traveling mainly throughout Europe and Asia. Inspired by his journeys, encounters and his curiosity for a variety of topics, he completed a Documentary program (Director’s Track) at INIS in 2017.
What is important
Competing for the Cercle d’or Meilleur court métrage de l’Estrie (Best Short in the Eastern Townships award), presented by La Fabrique culturelle Through introspective questionings emerges a portrait of childhood as a time which may disappear too quickly. A short bilingual documentary.
Rouge D 4 Femme
Competing for the Cercle d’or Meilleur court métrage de l’Estrie (Best Short in the Eastern Townships award), presented by La Fabrique culturelle Josée Delorme has cerebral palsy. She communicates by fixing consecutively a color, a letter and a number on a board for each word that she wants to say. This documentary oversteps the boundaries of her disability to reach the real women inside. While being mainly director and actress, Nadia Fortin often takes the role of scriptwriter, editor and producer of her movies. She began her career by studying drama and also obtained a bachelor of social work degree. Sensitive to human beings, Nadia Fortin linked up these two assets to produce documentaries and fiction movies depicting essentially different kind of social problems.
Émergence
Katiana emerges. She finally takes her head off the water and she speaks for all Haitian women. Clarissa Rebouças is Brazilian and has lived in Quebec since November 2015. She is a director, screenwriter and editor. She has directed more than ten short fictions and documentary shorts around the world that have been selected in some international festivals. Her short “Desvelo” (2012) has won seven awards in total. She has also written two TV series in Brazil and at the moment she is filming a web serie in Quebec City. Currently she is developing her first feature called Cine Ruby. A native of Saint-Bruno-de-Kamouraska, Julie Bernier obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Quebec in Chicoutimi in 2013. Through performance, video and installation, she tries to raise social questions by infiltrating circulation and stimulating exchanges and human contacts. Her work inspires her with texts of a documentary and poetic nature and it is this rich material that ignites her slams. The work of last Thursday (pseudonym used when she feels like it) was seen in Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean, Quebec City, Montreal, the Magdalen Islands and Chicago.