Canada | V.O. French | 2017 | 52 min | color | Documentary
Bagages gives the floor and the stage to newly arrived teenagers in Montreal who attend l’école secondaire Paul-Gérin-Lajoie d’Outremont. Their story of migration and integration is discovered through drama workshops, theatrical staging and interviews. They attest to an ‘elsewhere’ and a ‘past’ which become ‘here’ and ‘now.’ They are young but they speak of their journey with a disconcerting wisdom, and an emotion to make even the hard-hearted tremble with a disarming authenticity. PT
| Director | Paul Tom |
| Music | Vincent Lefevbre |
| Cinematographer | Paul Tom |
| Screenplay | Mélissa Lefevbre, Paul Tom |
| Participation | Les Élèves En Classe D'accueil Et Les Professeurs De L'école Paul-Gérin-Lajoie D'Outremont Paul-Gérin-Lajoie D'Outremont, Nathalie Vézina, Mélissa Lefevbre |
Paul Tom, filmmaker specialized in animation and documentary, is also a professional editor, museum exhibition video designer and cultural mediation project trainer. Born of Cambodian parents in a refugee camp in Thailand, his favorite subjects are identity construction, family relationships and the exploration of science as a means of communication. His short films have been selected in over forty festivals around the world.
