Actualités
Une femme, ma mère
IN PRESENCE OF THE DIRECTOR ON SATURDAY, APRIL 4 Grand Prize for Best National Feature – Montreal International Documentary Festival (Canada) – 2019 A Woman, my Mother is the story of a woman who didn’t want to have children. This woman is the filmmaker’s mother. He sets out to find her in a poetic essay that blurs the line between documentary and fiction. Source : IMDB
Fondations
IN PRESENCE OF THE DIRECTOR ON SUNDAY, APRIL 5 Best documentary – Fine Arts Film Festivals (États-Unis) – 2019 Official selection | International Festival of Film on Art (Canada) – 2019 Mathieu Collette, a passionate blacksmith, has renovated an abandoned heritage building belonging to City of Montreal to create a blacksmithing school. Sixteen years later, after having transformed it into an internationally renowned transmission center fpr living heritage, Mathieu is threatened with eviction for obscure administrative reasons, on the very year the City celebrates its 375th anniversary. What can justify ousting one of the last blacksmiths in Quebec who carries a project of such social and patrimonial interest? Shot over several years, this documentary recounts Les Forges de Montréal’s fight against the disappearance of part of our collective memory. The film will be preceded by the short film The Assailant, by the same director.
Jongué, carnet nomade
IN PRESENCE OF THE DIRECTOR Canadian feature competition – Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM) – 2019 A film about Serge Emmanuel Jongué, photographer-writer. Emigrated to Quebec to escape the family’s shadows, wounds and silences he spent his brief life exploring his multiple origins. Jongué’s life is told with his own texts, images and talismans from his birth in Aix-en-Provence until his untimely death in Montreal.