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L’été l’éternité
CANADIAN PREMIERE Special Jury Prize Ciné+ – Locarno Film Festival – 2021 To live and to love at the age of 18, immersing yourself in the carefree summer days and nights, losing your best friend suddenly, and realizing that nothing lasts forever. It’s a time of decisive encounters in order to be reborn.
Stop – Zemlia
PREMIÈRE QUÉBÉCOISE Ours de cristal du jury jeunesse Génération 14+ – Berlinale Generation 14Plus – 2021Meilleur jeu d’acteur, Grand prix – Odesa International Film Festival – 2021 Masha, étudiante introvertie, s’est toujours sentie à part sauf lorsqu’elle est en compagnie de ses deux amies, Yana et Senia, qui partagent ses vues non-conformistes. Alors qu’elle navigue les temps tumultueux de son année de prégraduation, elle trouvera un amour qui l’amènera hors de sa zone de confort. Pour son premier long métrage, la réalisatrice ukrainienne, Kateryna Gornostai, nous présente un récit très personnel sur la découverte de soi et de la patience que cela requiert.
Hive
Meilleur film, Prix de la mise en scène et Prix du public – Sundance Film Festival 2021.Gagnant de 13 autres prix internationaux et nominé à 11 reprises. Le mari de Fahrije a disparu pendant la guerre du Kosovo. La jeune femme essaie d’ouvrir un petit commerce pour nourrir sa famille, mais se heurte à une société patriarcale.
Anima Bella
PREMIÈRE CANADIENNE Gioia a 18 ans. Elle vit avec son père dans un petit village des montagnes où elle travaille comme bergère. Rayonnante et généreuse, elle prend soin de sa communauté en collectant et livrant chaque jour quelques litres d’eau thermale provenant de la source « miraculeuse », bien connue pour ses propriétés thérapeutiques. Un jour, sa vie est bouleversée par un événement tragique qui la mènera loin de chez elle, dans une ville qu’elle ne connaît pas, pour aider son père.
Anima Bella
CANADIAN PREMIERE Gioia has just turned 18. She lives with her father Bruno in a small country village where she works as a shepherdess. They live very simply yet harmoniously with the villagers. Their lives are disrupted when Bruno gives in once again and once too many to his gambling addiction, in spite of his efforts to quit. Gioia will have to follow him to a faraway town, where he will be treated in a specialized center. This will radically change her existence, forcing her to abandon the safety of the village, her friends and her habits. She will be all by herself to support her father, in his journey for a better life.
Hive
Winner of the Audience Award, Directing Award, and World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival.Kosovo’s official submission for the Academy AwardsWinner of 13 international awards and nominated 11 times. Sundance triple award winner, and Kosovo’s official submission for the Academy Awards®, HIVE is a searing drama based on the true story of Fahrije (Yllka Gashi), who, like many of the other women in her patriarchal village, has lived with fading hope and burgeoning grief since her husband went missing during the war in Kosovo. In order to provide for her struggling family, she pulls the other widows in her community together to launch a business selling a local food product. Together, they find healing and solace in considering a future without their husbands but their will to begin living independently is met with hostility. The men in the village condemn Fahrije’s efforts to empower herself and the women around her, starting a feud that threatens their newfound sovereignty and the financial future of Fahrije’s family. Against the backdrop of Eastern Europe’s civil unrest and lingering misogyny, Fahrije and the women of her village join in a struggle to find hope in the face of an uncertain future. Winner of the Audience Award, Directing Award, and World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, HIVE is a pithy, devastating portrait of loss and our uphill journeys to freedom.
Les amants sacrifiés
Lion d’Argent – Prix de la réalisation – Mostra de Venise 2020Meilleur film, Meilleure actrice (Yu Aoi), Meilleurs costumes (Haruki Koketsu) – Asian Film Awards 2021 Kobe, 1941. Yusaku et sa femme Satoko vivent comme un couple moderne et épanoui, loin de la tension grandissante entre le Japon et l’Occident. Mais après un voyage en Mandchourie, Yusaku commence à agir étrangement… Au point d’attirer les soupçons de sa femme et des autorités. Que leur cache-t-il? Et jusqu’où Satoko est-elle prête à aller pour le savoir? Thriller romantique
Les amants sacrifiés
Winner Silver Lion (Best Director) – Venice Film Festival 2020Best Film, Best Actress (Yu Aoi), Best Costuming (Haruki Koketsu) – Asian Film Awards 2021 Master filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse, Cure, Tokyo Sonata) won the Silver Lion (Best Director) at the Venice Film Festival for this riveting, gorgeously crafted, old-school Hitchockian thriller shot in stunning 8K. The year is 1940 in Kobe, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. Local merchant and amateur filmmaker Yusaku (Issey Takahashi, Kill Bill) senses that things are headed in an unsettling direction. Following a trip to Manchuria, he becomes determined to bring to light the things he witnessed there, and secretly filmed. Meanwhile, his wife Satoko (Japan Society’s 2021 Honoree Yû Aoi) receives a visit from her childhood friend, now a military policeman. He warns her about Yusaku’s seditious ways and reveals that a woman her husband brought back from his trip has died. Satoko confronts Yusaku, but when she discovers his true intentions, she is torn between loyalty to her husband, the life they have built, and the country they call home.
Luzzu
PREMIÈRE QUÉBÉCOISE Prix du jury – Sundance Film Festival – 2021 Jesmark, un vaillant pêcheur maltais, fait face à un choix déchirant. Soit il répare son luzzu troué (un bateau de pêche traditionnel) dans l’espoir d’en tirer un faible revenu afin de faire vivre son épouse et son fils nouveau-né, tout comme son père et son grand-père l’on fait avant lui. Soit, il le remise en échange d’un paiement de l’UE et s’embarque dans une opération clandestine qui décime les bancs de poissons de la Méditerranée et, par le fait même, les revenus des familles locales vivant de la pêche. L’acteur non professionnel Jesmark Scicluna, un réel pêcheur maltais, a remporté un prix d’interprétation du jury au festival Sundance pour sa performance. Le film annonce également l’arrivée de l’auteur-réalisateur Alex Camilleri. Son film palpitant dans le style néo-réaliste de Luchino Visconti, Roberto Rossellini et des frères Dardenne n’est pas sans rappeler le cinéma engagé de Ken Loach et du producteur Ramin Bahrani (Man Push Cart et The White Tiger).
Luzzu
QUEBEC PREMIERE Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award – Sundance Film Festival – 2021 A hardworking Maltese fisherman, Jesmark is faced with an agonizing choice. He can repair his leaky luzzu – a traditional, multicolored wooden fishing boat – in the hopes of eking out a meager living at sea for his wife and newborn son, just as his father and grandfather did before him. Or he can decommission it in exchange for an EU payout and cast his lot with a sinister black-market operation that is decimating the Mediterranean fish population and the livelihoods of the local families who depend on it. Luzzu won a Sundance Jury Prize for its non professional lead actor Jesmark Scicluna, a real-life Maltese fisherman, and heralds the arrival of writer-director-editor Alex Camilleri. His gripping film operates in the neorealist tradition of Luchino Visconti, Roberto Rosselini, and the Dardenne brothers and calls to mind the socially engaged cinema of Ken Loach and the film’s producer Ramin Bahrani (Man Push Cart, The White Tiger).