Actualités
As Far as I Can Walk
CANADIAN PREMIERE Grand Prix Crystal Globe – Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republic – 2021Official Selection – Montpellier Film Festival – 2021 Strahinya and his wife, Ababuo, both 28, left Ghana at the beginning of the migrant crisis.They managed to reach Germany but were deported back to Belgrade. Serbia may not be Germany, butStrahinya does his best to start a new life. He works hard to secure asylum, trying out as a football playerfor a local club and working as a volunteer for the Red Cross. The process, however, is lengthy andAbabuo, a passionate woman aspiring to become an actress in London, feels unfulfilled in their life. Onenight, a new group of Syrian refugees arrive, on their way to Western Europe. One of them is Ali, acharismatic left-wing activist. Ababuo initially mocks him, but, the very next day, leaves Serbia with him,providing no explanation. Strahinya sets off along the Balkan migrant route for completely differentreasons than anyone else: for love. A re-imagining of the medieval Serbian epic poem BanovichStrahinya in which contemporary African migrants take the place of Serbian national heroes. Urgent andtimeless at the same time, this adaptation raises questions about identity, tradition, race and love. * Country of production: Serbia, Luxembourg, France, Bulgaria, Lithuania
Twist à Bamako
Dramatic comedy Mali, 1960. The youth of Bamako dance the twist to rock and roll music newly imported from the West and dream of political renewal. Samba, a young socialist, falls for spirited Lara during one of his missions to the bush. To escape her forced marriage, she secretly flees with him to the city. But Lara’s husband won’t let them be and the Revolution soon brings painful disillusions as they dream of a future together.
Bonne mère
Prix d’ensemble Un Certain Regard – Festival de Cannes – 2021Official Selection – Hamptons International Film Festival – 2021Official Selection – Festival Cinémania – 2021 NORA, a cleaning lady in her fifties, looks after her small family in a housing estate in the northern part of Marseille. She is worried about her grandson ELLYES, who has been in prison for several months for robbery and is awaiting his trial with a mixture of hope and anxiety. NORA does everything she can to make this wait as painless as possible…
Freda
Meilleur film TV5 Québec-Canada – Festival Cinémania – 2021Prix découverte et Prix du public – Festival international du film francophone de Namur – 2021Official Selection – Un certain regard | Festival de Cannes – 2021 Freda lives with her family in a poor neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince. They make ends meet thanksto their small street shop. Faced with precarious living conditions and the rise of violence in Haiti,each of them wonders whether to stay or leave. Freda wants to believe in the future of her country.
All My Puny Sorrows
QUEBEC PREMIERE With Alison Pill, Sarah Gadon, Mare Winningham, Amybeth McNulty, Donal Logue Based on the international best-selling novel by Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows unexpectedly infuses wry humour into this heart-wrenching story of two loving sisters: one a gifted pianist (Sarah Gadon) obsessed with ending her life, the other a struggling writer (Alison Pill) who, in wrestling with this decision, makes profound discoveries about herself.
La Frontera
QUEBEC PREMIERE Best Foreign Film Award – Festival de Cinema de Gramado, Brasil – 2020Best Screenplay Award – Festival de Cinema de Gramado, Brasil – 2020Official Selection – Vancouver Latin American Film Festival – 2020International Competition – Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt – 2019 Amid a political crisis on the border between Colombia and Venezuela, an Andean woman lives with her husband, and her brother looting travelers until fate pushes her to the brink of illusion and getting lost in mysterious dreams. Corruption, non-access to health, education and water, and the coexistence between various cultures, next to the crisis derived from the border closure, are some of the subtle themes of this beautiful debut, dominated from beginning to end by the strength of the Wayuu indigenous woman.
Quo vadis, Aida?
Official Selection – Festival de Venise – 2020Winner BankGiro Loterij Audience Award – International Film Festival Rotterdam – 2021Nominee Best Film Not in the English Language – BAFTA – 2021Nominee Best Director – BAFTA – 2021Nomiee Best International Feature Film – Academy Awards (Oscar) – 2021 Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. Contries: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Austria, Romania, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, France, Norway, Turkey
La nuit des rois
Best Foreign Film – Black Film Critics Circle Awards, USA – 2021Amplify Voices Award – Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) – 2021Official Selection – Sundance Film Festival – 2021Official Selection – Mostra, Venice – 2020 A young man is sent to “La Maca,” a prison in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red moon, he is designated by the Boss to be the new “Roman” and must tell a story to the other pris-oners. Learning what fate awaits him, he begins to narrate the mystical life of the legendary outlaw named “Zama King” and has no choice but to make his story last until dawn.
Soeurs
Official Selection – Festival Francophone d’Angoulême – 2020International Premiere – Cinémania – 2020 For thirty years, French-Algerian sisters Zorah, Nohra and Djamila have been living in the hope of finding their brother Rheda, abducted by their father, and hidden in newly decolonised Algeria. Their relationship is shaken when Zorah, the eldest sister, decides to write a play based on the traumatising events of their childhood that haunted them their whole life. But when they learn that their father is dying, the three sisters decide to go to Algeria to seize their last opportunity to have him reveal where their brother is. When the past catches up, the three sisters have no choice but to put their differences aside. Featuring Isabelle Adjani.
Le mariage de Rosa
Best Supporting Actress – Goya Awards – 2021Best Original Song – Goya Awards – 2021Official Selection – Festival de San Sebastián – 2020 When Rosa decides to take charge of her own life, she will realize that her plans collide with the interests of her entire family. Getting married, even with herself, is going to be the hardest thing she’s ever done.