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Gloria
Four friends swear the solemn oath. Joëlle Arseneau is from the Magdalen Islands and has been living in Montreal (QC) for a few years. Her passion for film has led her to explore many facets of this art, both as director and producer. In 2009, she founded Le Pied Marin Production.
Ces gens du pays…
Mention honorable – Los Angeles Diversity Film Festival 2018 My Thu is a Vietnamese immigrant who fled her country during the war. After a life of struggle, she is now facing an imminent eviction. Trapped in a gentrification battle and unable to speak her mind in another language, she needs her daughter’s help. As a young woman director, I am very interested by human causes, human feelings and social issues. I was a volunteer at Red Cross and in a children’s hospital; it was an important moment in my artistic life. I graduated in editing studies in France, then I moved in Canada, to have more work opportunities. Now I manage my time to create short movies, and translate stories into pictures and feeling into sound.
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.
Des j’aimes pour maman
Facebook, 2018. Entre les mamans professionnelles qui font carrière de l’exposition de leur vie de famille et les mamans ordinaires actives sur les médias sociaux, se trouve une ribambelle d’enfants qui, trop jeunes pour être consultés, verront leur enfance exposée en ligne… ou ailleurs. Un film documentaire qui propose une réflexion sur la vie privée des enfants à l’ère des médias sociaux.
Quand les pouvoirs s’emmêlent
For the past 2 decades, in many regions of the world, religious and political powers got closer. In those same regions, women rights are weakened and affected. In Arabic countries, women have lost liberties acquired in the middle of the 20th century and under the appearance of liberty, the western countries are more and more influenced by the return of a very strong traditional wind. Entangled Powers is an initiatory road movie in the heart of those changes in Tunis, Paris, Washington, and Montreal. Graduated from the University of Montreal in Film Studies, Yvonne Defour has signed about 50 videos before joining the television market. In 2018, she directed a film for cinema called Entangled Powers… This feature-length documentary addresses the tricky link between politics and religion, a link that can, when too mixed up, contribute to pushing back the place of women in society. In 2017, she directed a documentary for television, Vieux, that depicts how elders are coping according to the country they’re living in 4 destinies from Senegal, China, Sri Lanka, and Sweden. In the last 20 years, Yvonne has worked on more than 20 documentary series for Canadian television as a director. These series, broadcasted in several American and European countries, have been rewarded with numerous nominations but moreover, they had a major impact on a wide audience. Yvonne’s natural empathy and curiosity towards everything that deals with human nature had led her to shoot widely on the five continents of the planet. Among her recent productions, one can find, among […]
Le vieil âge et l’espérance
When old age brings with it physical and sometimes mental decline, is there a way to keep a hopeful attitude towards life and its mysteries? That is the question this documentary aims to answer by calling not only on specialists such as geriatricians, gerontologists, psychologists and philosophers, but, first and foremost, on the experience of elderly people themselves.
La fille du cratère
A woman of the land, Yolande Simard-Perrault sees herself as a child of an earthshaking event in Charlevoix, Quebec, millions of years ago. Strong as the Canadian Shield, she is a daughter of the crater formed by that meteor impact, which explains her uncommon vitality. This documentary portrays a determined woman who is the reflection of a land that has always been bigger than life. She was the creative and life partner of filmmaker Pierre Perrault, who left everything behind to be by her side. The film charts the influence of this insatiable dreamer and her contributions to the building of a collective unconscious. In a stream of images and words, Simard-Perrault recounts the splendours of the landscape and the people who shaped it. Generous and boundless, her quest for identity nurtured and perpetuates the oeuvre of the man who breathed new life into Quebec cinema.
Point d’équilibre
Official Selection – Montreal International Documentary Festival 2018 Filmed from the point of view of its young subjects, A Delicate Balance takes an introspective look at the lives of four dancers on the cusp of adolescence—that critical time in one’s life when childhood fantasies begin to collide with the realities of being an adult. A tender and captivating documentary in which students of the École supérieure de ballet du Québec candidly tell their stories and share their hopes and dreams.
Avec un sourire, la révolution!
Magnus-Isacsson Award – Montreal International Documentary Festival – 2018 Forty years after the end of Franco’s dictatorship, Catalans of all backgrounds are mobilizing to hold a self-determination referendum despite Spain’s refusal to countenance it. As they openly engage in disobedience, Catalans face growing repression with a smile. After directing a first feature right out of college (La Planque, 2004), Alexandre Chartrand spent a few years editing documentary films before directing his first feature doc in 2016 (Le Peuple interdit). Fascinated with Catalan culture, he has made it his subject of predilection. He shares his career between cinema and painting.