Actualités
L’enfant rêvé
OFFICIAL SELECTION – Festival du Film Francophone d’Angoulême – 2020OFFICIAL SELECTION – Festival International du film francophone (FIFF), Namur – 2020 After Francois inherits the family sawmill, he and his wife Naomi try for a child. But when Naomi finds that she is infertile, Francois engages in an affair with his neighbor and must decide where his heart lies when she falls pregnant.
Fahim
Youth Jury Award – Festival international du film francophone de Namur (Belgium) – 2019 With Gérard Depardieu et Isabelle Nanty Presented by Service d’aide aux Néo-Canadiens Forced to flee his native Bangladesh, eight-year-old chess prodigy Fahim arrives in Paris with his father. Refused asylum, as illegal immigrants they spiral downwards into homelessness and desperation. By a stroke of luck, Fahim is introduced to one of France’s top chess coaches, Sylvain. Between distrust and fascination, they will get to know one another and befriend each other. As the French Championship begins, the threat of expulsion becomes urgent and Fahim has only one chance to get out: to be Champion of France. Film suitable for viewing by all ages (QC)
Le jeune Ahmed
Meilleur espoir masculin – Les Magritte du cinéma – 2020Award for Best Director – Festival de Cannes (France) – 2019Prix du meilleur montage et Prix du meilleur scénario – Seminci 2019 (Espagne) In Belgium, today, the destiny of young Ahmed (13), caught between his imam’s ideals of purity and life’s temptations. Film suitable for viewing by all ages (QC)
Beans
Best Motion Picture – Canadian Screen Awards – 2021John Dunning Best First Feature Film Award – Canadian Screen Awards – 2021Emerging Talent Award – Toronto International Film Festival – 2020Crystal bear – Best Film in the Generation Kplus category – Festival de Berlin – 2021 Inspired by true events, BEANS is about a Mohawk girl on the cusp of adolescence who must grow up fast and become her own kind of warrior during the armed stand-off known as the 1990 Oka Crisis. 13 years and older
Antoinette dans les Cévennes
Official Selection – Festival de Cannes – 2020 Presented by Service d’aide aux Néo-Canadiens Antoinette, a school teacher, is looking forward to her long planned summer holidays with her secret lover Vladimir, the father of one of her pupils. When learning that Vladimir cannot come because his wife organized a surprise trekking holiday in the Cévennes National Park with their daughter and a donkey to carry their load, Antoinette decides to follow their track, by herself, with Patrick, a protective donkey. Film suitable for viewing by all ages (QC)