Édition 2023
Du 28 October au 2 November 2023
Programmation
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Totally School
This quirky parody of melodramatic teen series tells the highs and lows of Allie Thompson, the new girl in New Garden Hills Valley's high school. Being a teenager is never easy! Especially when the most popular girl in school, Ashley Winterbottom, makes you her worst enemy... Fortunately, Allie can count on the help of her gay best friend Keith to see through Ashley's shenanigans and of her boyfriend Brian, quarterback of the football team.
Le temple
The crew of a German u-boat on a mission in the North Atlantic witness strange phenomena on board. After an inexplicable explosion in the engine room, the submarine slowly sinks to the abyssal depths, while madness decimates the submariners.
La théorie Lauzon
This exploratory work on Jean-Claude Lauzon, the mythical and promising black sheep of Quebec cinema, takes us on the psychoanalytical and incredible journey of the relationship between a father and his son.
Ditch
Since her aunt threw herself into the depths of a quarry, Josette has been obsessed with death. She decides to run away, hoping to escape the madness she believes is running in her family blood. In her frantic race, her destiny will crash into another fugitive, Michelle, who may well save her from her curse. But the harsh reality will catch up with them at high speed.
backflip
Un parc. Un appartement. Un processeur à 6 cœurs. Mon avatar apprend à exécuter un salto arrière.
Moi Soleil
A sun worshipper’s commitment grows desperate when he catches a sunflower turning towards him.
Cinq octobre
It's cold, it's snowing, it's winter in Quebec. Recovering from her experience as a caregiver for her mother, Maripierre is sitting in her cottage. Her sister Raphaëlle visits her and together they recall the day their mother opted for medically assisted dying, on October 5th.
Louis I. King of the Sheep
One windy day, Louis the sheep finds a paper crown and thereby becomes Louis I. King of the Sheep. He addresses his people, tames nature, initiates festivities, separates the sheep by color and decides who gets to do what. Things go their royal ways. At least until the next gust of wind.
The Diamond
Stefan is lonely with a blinding ambition to make friends.
One day he stumbles upon a diamond in the woods. Unable to reach it, the solution presents itself in the form of an even smaller man.
Canary
A young boy named Sonny works in an underground coal mine with the adults, taking care of the canary that detects deadly methane gas. He teaches the bird to play dead to prank the men, risking their lives for a moment in the sunlight above.
SCALE
Driving along the motorway, Will loses his sense of scale. As his crippling drug addiction deepens, he struggles to unpick the sequence of events that led to his predicament, before he’s lost forever.
Le Saboteur
An ex-saboteur gets back in the game and every trick will be exposed!? A short action film about the joint adventure of indie filmmaking - with all the special effects.
Séance gratuite
Au lieu de prendre mon char
The Quebec territory is gigantic. So big that we forget to put the distances that separate us and the divergent realities of its many regions in perspective. To reconnect with this territory, Guillaume Rivest, adventurer, and radio columnist, decided to cross the 680 km separating his native Abitibi from Montreal by Nordic ski to deliver his column live from the Radio-Canada headquarters.
NA
As the pandemic has rekindled the concept of autonomy, a key question arises: is Canada in a position to one day become autonomous? What is this legacy that would allow us to seek autonomy? Are our natural resources at the heart of this autonomy? Since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, there has been a lot of discussion about health products and drugs, and then food autonomy quickly became part of a new ideology. Canada is rich in natural resources; producing “here, for us” has been done in Quebec with the nationalization of electricity, for example. But what about our fresh water reserves, forests, minerals and ocean and land products? To be autonomous, we must be sovereign, masters of our own house and owner of our own territory and its resources. Are we in fact? Over the past 40 years, Canadians, like all western peoples, have embraced globalization, allowing us to obtain a wide variety of products at reasonable prices. Even whitefish from Vietnam has shown up on our plates! However, this globalization has had a number of negative effects, including the financialization of our resources. The pandemic, combined with a more nationalist government, has led us to believe in local production, here, for us. But is this minor revolution a utopian dream or is it achievable?
Bloc 1 - Soirée d'ouverture - 17h
SUZANNE ET CHANTAL
Chantal (60 years old) picks up Suzanne (92 years old) to go to the hair salon where she works. Once there, Chantal is intercepted by her boss who asks her to give him what she owes him. But this week, she has no money for him... This week, she has a surprise for him.
Tu te souviendras de moi
Edouard, a public figure and retired History teacher, is slowly starting to lose his memory. Accustomed to speaking on all the stands, he must make himself more discreet, even if he believes he still has a lot to say. Since no one can watch over him, he is placed in the care of Bérénice, a young girl who is a little rebellious and lost. Their meeting will lead Edouard to revisit a chapter from his personal history that he had chosen to forget, and Bérénice to find meaning in her life.
Bloc 2 : Ciné-Muffin - Promutuel Boréale
Le Pharaon, le Sauvage et la Princesse
Presented in collaboration with the FIFEM ( (Festival international du film pour enfants de Montréal)
Three tales, three ages, three worlds. At the time of Ancient Egypt, a young king becomes the first black pharaoh to deserve the hand of his loved one. During the French Middle Ages, a mysterious wild boy steals from the rich to give to the poor. In the 18th century Turkey, a prince of pastries and a princess of roses escape the palace to live their love.
Brunch-Conférence
Les frères Fournier : 100 ans de cinéma et de télévision
EN COLLABORATION AVEC RADIO-CANADA
Dimanche 30 octobre - 11 h
Centre de congrès de Rouyn-Noranda
41, 6e Rue, Rouyn-Noranda
35 $ (incluant le brunch)
Venez bruncher en compagnie de nuls autres que Guy et Claude Fournier. À eux deux, ces jumeaux représentent plus de 100 ans de cinéma et de télévision. C’est le moment idéal pour retracer la carrière de ces figures emblématiques, en plus de discuter avec eux de l’évolution et de la transformation de la télé et du cinéma, des années 1960 à aujourd’hui. Avec des feuilles de route plus qu’impressionnantes (Deux femmes en or, Peau de banane, Jamais deux sans toi, etc.), ces touche-à-tout (animation, écriture, réalisation...) sauront partager une expérience et des
anecdotes tout à fait savoureuses!
L’évènement sera animé par notre fidèle collaborateur de longue date, le cinéaste Martin Guérin.
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Zaï Zaï Zaï Zaï
Fabrice went to the supermarket without his store's loyalty card. This serious misconduct forces him to go into hiding, as both police and media hunt him down.
NIL
Franck is a scrap dealer who lives with Meriem in the outskirts of Paris. They have five children, a sixth on the way, and serious money problems. Julien and Anna are lawyers and can’t have children. This is the story of an unthinkable arrangement.
Bloc 4 : Soirée LeBleu
La théorie Lauzon
This exploratory work on Jean-Claude Lauzon, the mythical and promising black sheep of Quebec cinema, takes us on the psychoanalytical and incredible journey of the relationship between a father and his son.
Waiting for Raif
A Macumba Média Inc. and National Film Board of Canada co-production
Filmed over a period of eight years, Waiting for Raif tells the tragic tale of a family torn apart by the Saudi monarchy’s intransigence, as it follows Ensaf Haidar’s inspiring battle to free her husband, prisoner of conscience Raif Badawi. The documentary offers a privileged and moving look at the personal and political implications of the affair, providing an inside view of the challenges faced by a young refugee mother of three, both in her adopted home of Quebec and on the global stage.
Bloc 5 : Avant-midi Desjardins
The queen of the foxes
The queen of the foxes is the saddest of them all. In order to make her happy, her worried gang swarms out at night to lay at her feet the secretly written, but ultimately unsent love letters retrieved from the city's rubbish.
Marie‘s Fridge
"Marie‘s Fridge" is an unusual love story told from the perspective of a refrigerator. Marie lives alone, she is young and owns an old fridge inherited from her grandmother. Little does she know that this heirloom will change her fate one day.
BOY FROM HEAVEN
Adam, the son of a fisherman, is offered the ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in
Cairo, the epicenter of power of Sunni Islam. Shortly after his arrival in Cairo, the university’s highest
ranking religious leader, the Grand Imam, suddenly dies and Adam soon becomes a pawn in a ruthless power struggle between Egypt’s religious and political elites.
Bloc 6 : Relève Desjardins
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Mac is a dog found by a despicable farmer. What will happen when they meet Sylvérina, a female healer with many talents?
Animal
Emmanuelle, an animal photographer, will embark on the trail of a mysterious unlisted animal. Between the strange discoveries she will make in the forest and the feeling of being hunted, Emmanuelle will discover that the creature she is pursuing is nothing ordinary and never been seen.
Mistral Spatial
The evening of his break-up with Cath, Sam is victim of an inexplicable phenomenon where he loses consciousness. When he wakes up a few hours later, he tries to understand. Could his heartbreak be related to the hypothesis of an alien abduction?
Bloc 7 : Soirée Desjardins
Canary
A young boy named Sonny works in an underground coal mine with the adults, taking care of the canary that detects deadly methane gas. He teaches the bird to play dead to prank the men, risking their lives for a moment in the sunlight above.
FFF
Invited by a stranger to join a mysterious feminist group, Cynthia puts herself in a spiral where there is no possible way out but chaos.
Tomorrow I’ll be back
Carlos sleeps in the funeral home until he is awakened because his grandmother has disappeared from the coffin.
Danavan
In the Limoilou neigbourhood of Quebec City, René and Polo are apprehensive about the arrival of the new next-door neighbour. Though he doesn't know it, the young man is moving into the apartment previouly occupied by Robert, their late friend who passed away two weeks prior. Spotting Robert's barbecue left on the balcony, René begins to spiral as he refuses to leave it in the hands of the new next-door neighbour.
No Ghost in the Morgue
Medical student Keity wants to become a surgeon like her mother and grandmother. But after her first operation takes a dramatic turn, she has to accept an internship at the morgue. Between her dead patients, her unconventional colleagues and seeing her grandmother’s spirit, she tries to tough it out.
Inheritance
Beirut, October 2020. Zeina is returning to the Karantina neighbourhood of Beirut for the first time since becoming pregnant. Her father owns a family flat there, and he shows her round.
Meanwhile, other Lebanese tell their own stories...
Une belle course
A seemingly simple taxi ride across Paris evolves into a profound meditation on the realities of the driver, whose personal life is in shambles, and his fare, an elderly woman whose warmth belies her shocking past.
Bloc 8 : Avant-midi Fonderie Horne
London’s Burning
In 1977, in a frantic London on the eve of Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee, Ralph, punk, anarchist and in love, gets it into his head to steal the Crown of England for the beautiful Wendy, whatever the cost. After all, is there a better proof of love than the symbol of this monarchy they dream of overthrowing?
Sauerkraut
A young man wants to marry a pretty Alsatian girl and go ask her father, but the latest is a very bizarre, scary man, master of sauerkraut. The young man, despite his clumsiness, decides to cook him a sauerkraut in order to get his daughter's hand. Litterally.
Action!
Faire le clap sur un plateau de tournage exige de l’assiduité et constitue une étape importante de la réalisation d'un film. Son but est de maintenir un flux d'informations tout au long de la production. Au centre de cette histoire se trouve un responsable du clap. Une symphonie d'applaudissements.
Ma Gueule
Stéphane, 35 years old, has recently moved to Brussels. He returns to his hometown of La Louvière to watch a soccer match with his childhood friends, Luca and Cesare. At the end of the game, they manage to persuade Stéphane to follow them to a Flemish nightclub, "like in the good old days". But the exit does not go as planned: Stéphane is refused entry. This is the beginning of a crazy night that will lead him to discover that we don't choose the way others see us.
JUNIPER
When a self-destructive teenager is suspended from school and asked to look after his feisty alcoholic grandmother as a punishment, the crazy time they spend together turns his life around.
Bloc 9 : Après-midi Fonderie Horne
La Meute
After a harrassing day, Marion, a young woman in her twenties, recounts her story to a policeman, hoping to be unterstood. For her, the responsible one is part of the hounds. For him, she is the one responsible.
Rouyn Noranda
Titled after the town in which it was shot, Rouyn Noranda features a nameless woman drifting through a bleak, industrial wasteland. The desolation of her interior world is both reflected in, and witnessed by, the environmental terrain she is compelled to traverse. Eschewing traditional narrative progression, the film follows the protagonist’s actions through a series of languorous panoramas, fixed shots and close-ups—evoking a landscape equally beautiful and terrifying, yet possessing a haunting allure.
Brasser la cage
Brasser la cage is a short experimental documentary film from filmmaker Colin Malgogne's encounter with the Pitch site-specific dance project. Four choreographers and a sound designer explored Mouska Park in Rouyn-Noranda as a place of imagination and citizen expression.
Worthy
A woman is recording a birthday video for a friend. But while remembering the highlights of their meeting, she slowly reveals a secret that might threaten the relationship. Will she find the right words to justify her choices and preserve their friendship?
Les 12 travaux d’Imelda
Imelda, a larger-than-life character inspired by the director's grandmother, lives in Gentilly, where she attempts to get her own way and exerts a certain control over her family. However, this notary's widow says she is not at peace and has some unfinished business before she turns 100. Through 12 tableaux marking her final years, Imelda faces a series of trials and tribulations as she explores the bonds that bind a family. When nothing is holding her back and she has lived out her life, can Imelda finally leave in peace?
Bloc 10 : Soirée Fonderie Horne
Yallah!
Beirut, 1982. As Nicolas prepares to flee his hometown, torn apart by an endless civil war, he crosses the path of Naji, a reckless teenager determined to go to the Swimming Pool...
Nantong Nights
Jian works as an e-driver, driving the cars of customers too drunk to drive home. One night, one of his passengers asks him to be taken to the police station…
By the Sea
Struggling with both the occupation and the pandemic, a woman left alone with her son insists on having a semblance of normalcy by baking a cake to mark a special occasion. This film is an original take on a woman’s fight to keep her family together under unusual circumstances and against all odds.
Palisade
2040. Jeanne, a woman in her forties, has recently left the capital to settle in an isolated house bordering a forest. But a wild boar keeps wrecking her fence and her garden. Jeanne fires away and nearly kills a group of hikers. A wildlife mediator is sent to the scene in order to solve this bizarre neighborhood quarrel…
Couleurs de l’incendie
February 1927. The funeral of Marcel Péricourt, the most powerful banker in Paris. Madeleine is to take over as head of the financial empire she inherited, but fate will decide otherwise: with one tragic move, her son Paul will unexpectedly oblige Madeleine to put business aside. A conspiracy takes shape, aimed at robbing her of everything she has. Faced with the adversity of the men around her and the rampant corruption in the greed-ridden France of the interwar period, Madeleine will draw upon a wealth of intelligence and energy to bring to completion her terrible vengeance that will spare no one
Bloc 11 : Avant-midi Crave
Cat and Moth
A fluffy white cat wants nothing more than to find the most comfortable spot in the universe, but little does she know someone else has their eye on it too.
For Pete's Sake
Jim is going insane, he has been in the hospital forever. When the doctor finally arrives with his tests, the results are unexpected. A matter of laugh or death.
Chiatura
Eliso is a cable car operator in Chiatura, a manganese mining town in the Republic of Georgia, where her husband recently lost his life in a work accident. In the wake of massive strikes and protests, an agreement is reached between the workers and mining company, but for Eliso, it's not enough. She then takes up her own battle against the mining company and the entire city by putting a stop to the cable car system.
HEARTBEAST
Elina, a 17 year-old aspiring rapper, is forced to leave her homeland of Finland when her mother decides to join her boyfriend in the South of France. Elina is immediately fascinated by her new 18-year-old step-sister, Sofia, a very charismatic ballerina who leads a double life of parties, boys and drugs. But this apparent friendship quickly turns into obsession and a game of power with dramatic consequences...
Bloc 12 : Après-midi Crave
Elena
Elena is enjoying her life in clouds, until she meets a charming Red Crane and a seed starts growing inside her. Not ready for the changes and sacrifices that the seed brings to her life, Elena rips it out of her body. Soon she will realise the consequences of doing so.
Ashes
The traditional Boys Camping Weekend turns dark when Nic learns some disturbing news about one of them in the group.
Bitch
Facing a sexual assault, a young woman recognizes in herself a wild strength that helps her transcend the horror.
Nowhere
André, 55, lost his only daughter in an unsolved hit-and-run accident. His obsession with finding the person responsible has cost him his job and his marriage. One night, he catches Thierry, a homeless teenager, breaking into his home. Touched by the story of this boy in search of his identity, he takes him under his wing.
Bloc 13 : Soirée Crave
Night
The dust of war keeps the eyes sleepless. Night brings peace and sleep to all the people in the broken town. Only the eyes of the mother of the missing child stay resilient. Night must trick her into sleeping to save her soul.
Slouch
Wannabe musical legend Slouch is pushed by his song-writing-demon Nuffti to deep dive into his darkest emotions, while his girlfriend Lisa is pregnant and wants him to transition into a harmonic family life...
Destruction
A businessman's life goes into a tailspin when he discovers that an orange chocolate is missing from his box. This film is a tribute to Jean-Marc Vallée.
Aziz
Aziz, a street child, wanders around Marrakech with his older brother Hamza, surviving as best he can. His life will change when he meets by chance an old man, Mohammed, who discovers Aziz's gift: he is a prodigy calculator.
The little prodigy
Félix has to pass a crucial piano competition for his career. However, he agrees to participate in a trick set up by his cousins, agents of football players...
Maestro(s)
The Dumars are music conductors from father to son: François is finishing a long and brilliant international career while Denis has just won yet another Classical Music Award. When François learns that he has been chosen to conduct at La Scala, his ultimate dream, his grail, he cannot believe his ears. At first thrilled for his father, Denis is quickly disillusioned when he discovers the truth: it is he, who has been chosen to go to Milan...
Bloc 14 : Avant-midi Ville de Rouyn-Noranda
Bottle Cap
Size matters to a fiddler crab---claw size, that is. And it's a problem for Shelton. When a plastic bottle cap stands in for his worthless digging claw, Shelton believes he is about to become a god. But for a crab who hated being different and instead dreamed of being 'just average', this kind of glory will come at a horrible cost.
La Civil
When her teenage daughter, Laura, is kidnapped in Northern Mexico and the officials offer no support, Cielo takes matters into her own hands and transforms from housewife into vengeful militant. Featuring a riveting performance from veteran Mexican actress Arcelia Ramirez (Like Water For Chocolate).
Bloc 15 : Après-midi Ville de Rouyn-Noranda
The Invention of Less
Due to global warming a young polar bear has to leave her home and moves to Zurich. Together with other animals she tries to make a living with casual jobs until she suddenly has an idea, that will change the world for ever.
Blind Spot
Under the dictatorship of Ben Ali, on the 7th of October 1991, a man is kidnapped in the bathroom of a public company, somewhere in a town in the south of Tunisia. He carries us alongside him in the meanders of this memory, by taking over the question of his mother: "Where did you abandon my son's body?
Action
Sur un plateau de tournage, il y a toujours des imprévus. Certains jours, il n’y a que ça. Et parfois, c’est encore pire.
Le Bonheur
What is happiness? Do we really know what this word, this reality, this state, this utopia means? How does it affect your life and, above all, how do you perceive it? This documentary freely demystifies what happiness is through the reflections of the director, her immediate circle, and experts.
Ravaged
For the first time, Sophie goes hunting with her father in autumn. Hunting is an enigma that wavers between contemplation and confrontation, forest and camp, survival and death, silence, and screams. Father and daughter track animals and search for each other. And, as always, hunting is a reconciliation.
Chien Blanc
1968. The United States is on the verge of imploding. Martin Luther King is assassinated and racial tensions plunge the country into violence. French author, Romain Gary, who lives in Los Angeles with his wife, actress Jean Seberg, takes in a stray dog. That dog is soon a fixture in the house, charming the couple’s only son, Diego. The dog is affectionate with everyone – except Black people. The “white dog” has been trained to attack African American demonstrators.
For Seberg, who is a committed ally of the Black Panthers, keeping the dog is unthinkable. For Gary, putting it down is equally unthinkable. Gary becomes fixated on the animal. He can’t abandon it. He takes it to a kennel, hoping to cure it of the hatred that was instilled in it by humans. He entrusts the dog to Keys, a Black dog trainer, who promises to reform it. Keys, gripped by his own tragedy, does the job – and then some.
Bloc 16 : Soirée ville de Rouyn-Noranda
No Title
Through the memories of a small-town journalist, we discover Louisiane Gervais, blind sculptor and iconoclast. Their meeting sets off a chain reaction over which they quickly lose control. The animated short "No Title" explores the ambiguous relationship that exists between the artist, their work and their audience.
FAIRPLAY
A teenager in search of recognition, a worker ready to do anything to hit the jackpot, a senior executive at the end of his career who wants to prove to himself that he is still alive. Three characters who are losing speed on the competition highway...
Les Pires
A film shooting will take place at the cité Picasso, in the suburbs of Boulogne-Sur-Mer, in the north of France. During the casting, four teenagers, Lily, Ryan, Maylis and Jessy are chosen to play in the film. Everyone in the neighborhood is surprised: why only take the “worst ones »?
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À mort le bikini!
Lili, a feisty 10-year-old girl, has always swam topless. When her parents force her to wear a bikini top for a trip to the water park, she rebels: why should she hide her flat chest when her friends, all boys, don't have to?
Gaby's Hills
Thirteen-year-old Gaby arrives in the Magdalen Islands to spend the summer with her father, as she does every year. She is thrilled to find the sea she loves so much, the childhood friends, the winding hills on the horizon, and the warm joy of her dad's home. But this time something is different: she hit puberty, and her life will never be the same.
Heat Spell
A hot summer day. A half-unpacked house. A mother who needs room to breathe, and a child who needs space to exist. As the afternoon heat turns oppressive, time seems to move entirely differently for each person.
27
Alice is 27 years old today. Even though she is suffocating a bit, she still lives with her parents and tends to live in her dreams to escape her dreary everyday life. After a psychedelic party on a factory roof, she has a serious drunken bike accident. Will this give her the courage to become an adult?
Un trou dans la poitrine
In a run-down neighborhood, Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves. A young adolescent, Zoe is a ball of anger haunted by an intimate terror. Theo, still a child, flees reality into a fantastical world. During a scorching summer day, the two children will have to burst the abscess of their relationship so as not to lose each other.
Episode 1 – Maisonneuve
Ce percutant récit brosse un nouveau portrait de la jeunesse et soulève un questionnement important sur le rôle des institutions collégiales, dans une société en constante évolution. La série Maisonneuve met en lumière les divers parcours de sept jeunes étudiantes et étudiants cu Collège de Maisonneuve, de 2018 à 2021.
Atlantis
During an idyllic family vacation by the sea, Marie, the matriache, develops an irrepressible urge to flee. As the days succede and as the vacation langueur envelopes them, its close feel more and more the threat weigh on their clan. To the sound of the waves crashing on the shore, Atlantis opens a window on the last instants of a family at the edge of the precipice.
AUTRE CHOSE (Something Else)
Crippled by the motorcycle accident that took away his lover, a broken young man decides to rebuild the machine that caused him so much pain. On a last ride deep into the Canadian wilderness, an unexpected encounter pushes him to confront both his personal and cultural past. Autre chose (Something Else) is a meditation on a place through a man and the means he will take to confront the weight of his history, alone, in the silence of a territory scarred in his image.
A kind of testament
A young woman comes across animations on the Internet which have clearly been created from her private selfies. An unknown female with the same name confesses to identity theft. But death is quicker than the answer to the question: Why?
Dinosauria, We
Dinosauria We is an experimental documentary that explores the repercussions of the corrupt, ultra-capitalist human species, exploiting every last resource on earth through a dystopian, post-apocalyptic vision imagined by poet Charles Bukowski.
Drijf
Two people adrift at sea are fighting a bloody battle for the survival of both themselves and their relationship.
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Time of the Buffoons
Lors de la célébration du 200e anniversaire du Beaver Club à Montréal, la haute bourgeoisie canadienne anglaise déguisée de façon ridicule fête le bon vieux temps, c'est-à-dire la conquête anglaise de 1759. Charge violente contre les possédants, l'establishment canadien anglais et ses collabos bilingues.
Human Resources
Andy, followed by a friend filming the scene, goes to his recycling appointment. Wanda, the secretary of the company, welcomes him. We follow Andy through the whole process, until his last seconds of life.
À La Fontaine
Cégep student Alice is going through her first existential crisis. Uncertain of her future, she relies on her mother, her favorite teacher, her friend Julien and the sweet music he composes. In class this morning, the principal delivers a piece of news that marks the beginning of a complex relationship between Alice and the absent mourner.
On the Caribous Trail
Meditation on the passage of time, the territory we live in and the ties that bind us.
Aujourd’hui c’est dimanche, demain on meurt
Two survivors must learn to cope with a suddenly empty, noxious world.
Sandwich cat
David lives alone with his kitty, Sandwich Cat. It seemed like an ordinary day, but an unexpected visit will lead him to a crucial reflection to humanity.
Symphonie pathétique EP 1 & 2
Symphonie Pathétique est une comédie décalée sous fond musicalo-absurde où l'on suit les aventures de Bénédicte et Morgane, deux musiciennes au maucais goût conscient et aux touchantes ambitions de grandeur. La triste réalité de leur échec professionnel et la grande victoire de leur amitié inébranlable ne laissent personne indifférent.
Soleil de Nuit
During a geology training session in an abandoned open-pit mine, a team of Canadian astronauts is interrupted by an Atikamekw elder. They ask him to leave, as they are training for an important mission to the moon. The elder hesitates, but decides to leave on one condition: the astronauts must deliver a sacred message to the moon spirits.
Reine des Punks
The story of an aging punk/anarchist named Mado and her dog Voodoo. In the last weeks before her death, she meets a young homeless woman named Lambi. Mado decides to take Lambi under her wing and shares with her the abandoned space she calls home. Lambi slowly learns to survive like Mado and forges new friendships.
Joie de vivre
On a bright winter morning, Trevor and Elsa share breakfast in their Montreal apartment. Trevor interrupts the silence with a simple, "You good?" disrupting the balance of their relationship.
Entre-deux
While imagining the possibility of becoming a mother, Adele moves between resistance and abandon, wrestling with a vortex of feelings she’s trying to understand.
Scéance gratuite
Chip Chip – Chopin par Desjardins
Chip Chip : Chopin propose un regard intime et universel sur le phénomène Chopin. Cherchant à comprendre comment Frédéric Chopin a pu l’émouvoir autant, tout au long de sa vie, le réalisateur Richard Desjardins retrace le parcours de celui qu’il considère comme le plus grand compositeur de tous les temps.
Richelieu
Trying to get her life back on track after a breakup, Ariane (Ariane Castellanos) moves back to her hometown by the Richelieu river in southern Quebec. To save her sinking finances, she takes a job at the local food transformation plant as a French-to-Spanish interpreter for the seasonal migrant workers employed there. She befriends Manuel, an illiterate, naive young man who has left his small children behind in Guatemala to earn as much as he can in Canada. Although she is supposed to remain impartial, when she repeatedly witnesses the migrant workers’ mistreatment, she cannot remain silent. She may possibly be the only person who sees them as more than wage laborers – for they are above all human beings.
Bloc 1 - Soirée d'ouverture - 17h
Dead Cat
But why did Catherine and Louis choose a cat with white spots?
It would have been so much easier to replace if they'd chosen the black one!Now they'll have no choice but to tell their daughter Sophie that Croquette is dead.Unless, of course...
L’Abbé Pierre – Une vie de combats
Né dans une famille aisée, Henri Grouès a été à la fois résistant, député, défenseur des sans-abris, révolutionnaire et iconoclaste. Des bancs de l’Assemblée nationale aux bidonvilles de la banlieue parisienne, son engagement auprès des plus faibleslui a valu une renommée internationale. La création d’Emmaüs et le raz-de-marée de son inoubliable appel de l’hiver 1954 en ont fait une icône. Pourtant, chaque jour, il a douté de son action. Ses fragilités, ses souffrances et sa vie intime à peine crédibles sont restées inconnues du grand public. Révolté par la misère et les injustices, souvent critiqué, parfois trahi, Henri Grouès a eu mille vies et a mené mille combats. Il a marqué l’histoire sous le nom qu’il s’était choisi : l’Abbé Pierre.
Ciné-Muffin Westwood
Toopy and Binoo, The Movie
Après avoir commis une erreur de formulation dans ses souhaits à un génie, Toupie fait disparaître le toutou adoré de Binou, M. Mou. Afin de réparer sa gaffe, Toupie se lance à la recherche de la peluche dans le fabuleux monde des objets perdus. Sur son chemin, il fera la rencontre d'une panoplie de personnages colorés, dont les jumeaux goélands et la magnifique princesse cheval. Tous espèrent retrouver quelque chose qu'ils ont égaré. Réussiront-ils à arriver à destination avant la fermeture?
Bloc 2 : Matinée Air Canada
La Petite
Joseph learns that his son and his partner have died in an accident. They were expecting a child via a surrogate mother in Belgium. What will become of their future baby? Is Joseph the legitimate grandfather? Carried by the promise of a birth that will prolong his son's life, the sixty-year-old sets off to meet the young Flemish woman with her fierce, indomitable character...
Brunch-Conférence
BRUNCH-CONFÉRENCE
KIM THÚY ET CHARLES-OLIVIER MICHAUD:
DE LA GRANDE VISITE À ROUYN-NORANDA
29 OCTOBRE 2023, 11 H
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CENTRE DE CONGRÈS, 123, AVENUE MURDOCH,
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Nous aurons la chance d’accueillir Kim Thúy (roman Em, 2020), écrivaine québécoise de nationalité vietnamienne bien connue du public québécois, lauréate de plusieurs prix littéraires prestigieux pour son roman Ru, ainsi que Charles-Olivier Michaud qui a réalisé l’adaptation pour le grand écran dudit livre, actuellement traduit dans une quinzaine de langues. Ru, c’est l’histoire de la jeune Vietnamienne Tinh et les membres de sa famille qui sont acceptés comme réfugiés au Canada et qui arrivent à Granby après une dangereuse traversée en mer et un séjour dans un camp en Malaisie. C’est là qu’ils entreprennent leur nouvelle vie. Pour Tinh, s’adapter comporte son lot de difficultés. Déjà de nature timide et réservée, elle doit apprendre une nouvelle langue et s’intégrer à son nouvel environnement. Hantée par les épreuves du voyage, Tinh devra puiser au plus profond d’elle-même la résilience nécessaire à sa survie et son bonheur. Le long métrage sera présenté en salle à la fin du mois de novembre. Charles-Olivier est aussi connu pour son travail sur plusieurs séries télévisées telles que Boomerang, M’entends-tu? et Prémonitions.
L’évènement sera animé par notre fidèle collaborateur de longue date, le cinéaste Martin Guérin.
Bloc 3 : Après-midi Air Canada
On the Ground
Lily meets Édi and Bélix. Curious to learn more about this atypical duo, she quickly becomes attached to them. Trying to do the right thing, she tries to help the old man and his dog get off the streets. Lily's relentless drive to go the extra mile doesn't seem to make her realize how much she's already helped them...
Normale
Based on the play Monster in the Hall by David Greig.
Lucie is 15 and has a vivid imagination. She lives alone with her father William, who, underneath his retarded adolescent exterior, is battling multiple sclerosis. Between school, a small job and the daily grind, Lucie manages as best she can, and escapes into the writing of a whimsical autobiographical novel, which navigates between dream and reality... The announcement of a visit from a social worker upsets this precarious balance. Lucie and her father must redouble their inventiveness to give the illusion of a normal life.
Blue Bear Woman
Claude Hamel was amazed by the talents of Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau, a Quebec artist, painter, sculptor and storyteller who is Métis and Cree on her mother's side, and decided to devote a documentary to her. The Blue Bear symbolizes the two cultures Virginia carries and explores. Surveying the duality that inhabits us all, Virginia takes us back and forth from one shore to the other. We walk alongside her, our heavy hearts lightening with each step towards acceptance of what is, of what has shaped us. Virginia is Quebec, the very essence of this reconciliation with ourselves, with this métissage that is intrinsically synonymous with territory. It's a film about the beauty of a self-assumed artistic life.
Bloc 4 : Soirée Air Canada
Pareils à des oies blanches
S’inspirant de la migration des oies blanches, le poète Jean Désy a écrit ce poème qui rend hommage aux enfants migrants.
NINawit in Paris
To mark the launch of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Languages (2022-2032), an Anicinabe delegation had the opportunity to present its NIN exhibition at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. This important occasion enabled them to make their language, Anicinabemowin, resonate, and to assert their culture beyond their community, beyond borders. Like this documentary, this nomadic exhibition is a tribute to their mother tongue and a means of stimulating pride in identity, as well as reflection on the challenge of revitalizing it.
ATIKAMEKW SUNS
On June 26, 1977, a van carrying seven people ran aground in the Rivière du Milieu north of Saint-Michel-des-Saints. Two Quebecers escaped, but five young people from the Manawan community lost their lives. Produced in collaboration with the Conseil des Atikamekw de Manawan, Soleils Atikamekw is freely inspired by the dreams, impressions and memories of the relatives of the victims of this tragedy.
Baghdad Messi
Iraq. Hamoudi lives for soccer and his dream of becoming as remarkable as his soccer hero, Lionel Messi. One day, when he is unintentionally involved in an assault, he wakes up in hospital with a missing leg. While his parents do all they can to keep the family safe, Hamoudi fights to make his dream come true in spite of everything.
Bloc 5 : Relève Desjardins
Leaving the Garden
Quitter le jardin allegorically presents the evolution of a young man as he detaches himself from his parents.
TDAH sur les bancs d’école
School and medical professionals share their views on the way ADHD students are looked after in schools, on false diagnoses and on the increase in cases.
Psyché
Charles has just moved into his new home, along with his most precious memories. He decides to decorate his new room by opening box after box, but soon realizes that the layout doesn't suit him. An inner quest takes him through a series of states, leading to the construction of a place that represents him. Charles gains confidence in himself, despite the events of the past and the future he had planned for himself.
Ashta
A young prince offers fruit at the altar of a ruined temple when he comes face to face with the deity he worships. Ashta is a tale of desire, spirituality and the innate human greed that only leads to pain and destruction.
Défier l’impossible
The Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2023, driven by the ambition to continue to grow and contribute to the vitality of its host regions.Proud of the ground it has covered since its founding, the university has risen to the first impossible challenge: to stand where few would have dared to imagine.Its history is a succession of challenges met, one after the other, thanks to people with heart, convinced that a university in harmony with its territory necessarily becomes a fundamental pillar for coherent development.
Gamma rays
There's Abdel, whose quiet life is turned upside down by the arrival of his extrovert cousin, whom he takes in for the summer; Fatima, who longs for a more stable existence and is trying to get away from her bad company; Toussaint, who goes fishing and finds a bottle washed up with a message inside.Then there's Naïma, Maya, Ayoub and the others.There's a remote-controlled car, a pastel castle lining the freeway, electric cicadas, a monolith and very powerful rays. A blend of fiction and documentary, Les Rayons Gamma is a comedy-drama filmed with young people from Montreal's Saint-Michel district.
Bloc 6 : Soirée Desjardins
Synchrony
En route pour un entretien d’embauche, Noah tombe en panne. En l’absence d’autre solution, il monte dans la voiture de Katia, chasseuse de tornade.
Faire un enfant
After many years together, a couple decides to have a baby. Throughout their relentless efforts, the partners try to maintain their love and unity. Making Babies is a minimalist comedy drama that takes a bittersweet look at a couple’s life, with its doubts, its challenges and its resilience.
The Chapel
The Chapel is the story of Jennifer Rogiers, a 23-year-old virtuoso pianist who has lived much of her life with a terrible secret. When she gets the chance to compete in the world-famous Queen Elizabeth Championships, the memory of a traumatic experience resurfaces.
La Chambre des merveilles
Thelma's planned life takes a tragic turn when an accident sends her 12-year-old son Louis into a coma. Determined to wake him up by any means necessary, she sets out to accomplish one by one the "10 things to do before the end of the world" he had written in his diary, to show him all the wonderful things life has to offer. This journey into her teenager's dreams will take her further than she ever imagined... until it rekindles her own taste for life.
Bloc 7 : Après-midi Fonderie Horne
Chasing Birds
When the world is turned upside down, we have a choice between clinging tightly to old ideas in fear, or embracing a new vision. Chasing Birds is the symbolic story of a little girl who enjoys chasing a bird during a chaotic period of transformation.
Doux temps
Set to music by Lionel Daunais and filmed in a colorful, cinematic style, Doux temps explores the stark contrast between the somewhat routine daily lives of four characters and the lyrical lyrics and music that evoke the amorous passions of the sweet times of youth.
The end
In the last years, Carmen has dedicated herself body and soul to caring for her wife Rosa, who suffers from Alzheimer's. In each gesture, Carmen maintains the hope that Rosa will look at her as she used to do when they were younger.
Stormy weather
Gabrielle, an imaginative but timid child, spends the summer at the cottage with her family. While her brother and sisters enjoy the last swims of the summer, the youngest closes herself indoors, accompanied by her dog and her many toys, too afraid of the sun and thunderstorms. In spite of herself, Gabrielle finds herself exposed to the elements. Under the watchful eye of her family, the young child gradually finds the courage to face her fears.
Aban
Under constant pressure from her ex-husband, Nazanin should turn their child - Aban, 9 years old - away from a very driven feminine taste. One day, Aban goes to the hospital, thinking of undergoing life-changing surgery.
Été 2000
9 year-old Sarah is quietly discovering love when an assault derails her sexual awakening. Été 2000 is an intimate and delicate tale in which the play between different mediums offers an insight into gender performativity and consent.
Magnificat
When a priest dies, the diocesan chancellor is stunned to discover that it was a woman! Against the advice of her bishop, who wishes to hush up the affair, she investigates to find out how and with whose complicity such an imposture was possible...
Bloc 8 : Soirée Fonderie Horne
D’UNE PEINTURE… À L’AUTRE
An immersion in art through two paintings on the same subject created half a century apart.
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
Sasha is a young vampire with a serious problem: she’s too sensitive to kill! When her exasperated parents cut off her blood supply, Sasha’s life is in jeopardy. Luckily, she meets Paul, a lonely teenager with suicidal tendencies who is willing to give his life to save hers. But their friendly agreement soon becomes a nocturnal quest to fulfill Paul’s last wishes before day breaks.
Le Règne animal
In a world plagued by a wave of mutations that are gradually transforming some humans into animals, François does everything in his power to save his wife, who has been affected by this mysterious phenomenon.As the region becomes populated by creatures of a new kind, he embarks Emile, their 16-year-old son, on a quest that will change their lives forever.
Activité spéciale
Séminaire théâtral de jeu devant la caméra
Agora des arts 37, 7e rue Rouyn-Noranda - 5 $ le billet
Le 1er novembre prochain, l’Agora des arts ouvrira ses portes au public pour l’immerger dans l’univers cinématographique. Pour ce faire, nous proposons une activité de jeu devant la caméra, animée par nuls autres que le comédien et metteur en scène Étienne Jacques, l’animateur et chroniqueur Luc Drolet et la bien aimée Sylvie Moreau. Saisissez votre chance d’assister à une expérience qui visera à démontrer qu’il est possible d’interpréter une même scène de mille et une manières, créant ainsi des moments à la fois ludiques et dramatiques. De plus, au cours de cette activité les participants auront l’opportunité d’assister à la projection du court métrage GRWM – Get Ready With Me réalisé par Étienne Jacques, qui a eu l’honneur d’être sélectionné dans plusieurs festivals internationaux.
Bloc 9 : Après-midi Crave
A night for the dogs
On a frigid December night, a fire breaks out in an apartment building. Standing out in the cold, a young man watches as the inhabitants huddle together, plotting and scheming their revenge and airing their grievances towards the man responsible for the blaze. As the firemen battle to contain the fire, the mob of neighbours work themselves into a frenzy, transforming into a pack of ferocious dogs.
Un trou dans la poitrine
In a run-down neighborhood, Zoe and her little brother Theo are left to fend for themselves. A young adolescent, Zoe is a ball of anger haunted by an intimate terror. Theo, still a child, flees reality into a fantastical world. During a scorching summer day, the two children will have to burst the abscess of their relationship so as not to lose each other.
What remains
In the course of his daily gathering, Bo has a life-changing encounter that reveals other existences to him. A hybrid story between short fiction and dance, questioning our relationship with living things.
ACTS IN PARTS
Marta's cancer is back with a vengeance.Tired of her fate, she's about to throw in the towel when, exposed to three unexpectedly humorous stories, she finds the strength to rewrite her destiny.
Keep
On the Dover coast, former lighthouse keeper Gordon (68), now in charge of the dormant lighthouse museum, spends his days waiting for visitors, hoping to tell the stories of his former vocation.But they're more interested in sampling scones in the lighthouse's adjoining tearoom.His luck changed when Musa (22), a student with a passion for lighthouses, introduced himself to him.Musa offers to renovate the building.As their relationship grows stronger, Gordon suspects Musa of having ulterior motives.
INSHALLAH A BOY
Jordan, nowadays. After the sudden death of her husband, Nawal, 30s, has to fight for her part of inheritance in order to save her daughter and home in a society where having a son would be a game changer.
Bloc 10 : Soirée Crave
Marie . Eduardo . Sophie
An immersive diving into the movement of bodies and painting, with three magnificent performers of contemporary dance from Montreal, Marie Mougeolle, Eduardo Ruiz Vergara et Sophie Corriveau.
FÁR
A bird hits a window of a café and disrupts its customers. A woman faces a decision on whether to
ignore nature or to react.
Caravaggio's Shadow
Italy 1609. Accused of murder, Caravaggio fled Rome and took refuge in Naples.Supported by the powerful Colonna family, Caravaggio tried to obtain a pardon from the Church to return to Rome. The Pope, wondering whether he should be granted clemency for killing a rival, decides to have an inquisitor, the Shadow, investigate the painter, whose art is deemed subversive and contrary to the morals of the Church.
After the fire
Following the death of her younger brother during a police intervention, Malika embarks on a legal battle to ensure a trial takes place. However, her quest for truth jeopardizes the stability of her family.
Bloc 11 : Après-midi Ville de Rouyn-Noranda
PIG
A big group of animals makes itself dependent on a power grid, hooked onto the socket-shaped snout of a single sleeping pig... How long will that last?
Return to Hairy Hill
Ethel's childhood ends abruptly when her mother flies away, leaving Ethel alone to care for an isolated homestead and her younger siblings. As a merciless winter descends upon them, Ethel must decide whether to resign herself to fate or to try her luck in the wide world…
The Ruse
When two bullied teenagers find themselves stuck together in a bathroom, they have to think quick to elaborate a plan in the hope of changing their fates.
GRWM - get ready witn me
Venant tout juste d’arriver au sein d’une petite ville mono-industrielle, une jeune youtubeuse rêve de l’Australie et espère y emménager bientôt avec sa mère. Cependant, un évènement tragique vient menacer ses plans.
Mission Cohesion
Sent against their will on a team building weekend, four cynical colleagues who don’t care at all about team playing are forced to pool their efforts to deal with an unexpected incident.
TITS
After an argument, best friends Jasmine and Iben loose the sight of each other at the beach. Jasmine meets up with the girls. Iben hooks up with Jonas, the boy she is crazy about. Later on, the seemingly shy boy Oscar has an unpleasant run in with Iben. When both of them are left behind by their friends, one of them makes a friendly gesture and they soon realise that they are dealing with similar issues. The summer night doesn’t turn out like they had expected but leads to an experience that might be the beginning of an unexpected relationship.
Wild Feast
A wounded moose escapes its hunters, later dying deep in the forest and becoming... a communal feast. As the seasons go by, mammals, birds and insects invite themselves to the banquet – multiplying ensuing games, rituals and conflicts. In exploring and occasionally foiling nature’s wildlife codes, our story becomes a simple yet poignant reflection on death, on its natural place in this world and, by extension, on its deeper meaning and purpose – important lessons to explore at this time when the glorious paradises offered by religions tend to feel less and less credible.
Bloc 12 : Soirée ville de Rouyn-Noranda
Nun or Never!
A nun digs a man up from the ground and loses her grip on everyday life. Can secrets and harmony coexist?
LAST DAYS OF SUMMER
A mysterious sound from the Himalayan mountains is heard only by two curious young shepherds. Unable to convince the villagers of the frightening nature of the sound, they travel into the unknown to unravel the mystery.
Tell me why these things are so beautiful
1931. Brother Marie-Victorin was 46 when he met 23-year-old Marcelle Gauvreau. Both have been close to death and share the same love of God and nature. He becomes her teacher, later she becomes his assistant. Their friendship evolves. This great chaste love, the love of Quebec's flora, pushes Antoine and Roxane, who embody them on screen, to question their own relationship with love and Nature.
