Programmation

19:00 -
Espace court

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?

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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Two people adrift at sea are fighting a bloody battle for the survival of both themselves and their relationship.

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19:00 - Petit Théâtre du Vieux Noranda
Espace court

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.

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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.

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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.

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Meditation on the passage of time, the territory we live in and the ties that bind us.

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Two survivors must learn to cope with a suddenly empty, noxious world.

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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.

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20:31 - PAUSE

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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12:00 - Théâtre du cuivre
Scéance gratuite

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.

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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.

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17:00 - Théâtre du cuivre
Bloc 1 - Soirée d'ouverture - 17h

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...

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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.

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09:00 - Petit Théâtre du Vieux Noranda
Ciné-Muffin Westwood

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?

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09:15 - Théâtre du cuivre
Bloc 2 : Matinée Air Canada

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...

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11:00 - Centre de congrès de Rouyn-Noranda
Brunch-Conférence

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29 OCTOBRE 2023, 11 H
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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.

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13:00 - Théâtre du cuivre
Bloc 3 : Après-midi Air Canada

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...

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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.

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14:39 - PAUSE

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.

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18:30 - Théâtre du cuivre
Bloc 4 : Soirée Air Canada

S’inspirant de la migration des oies blanches, le poète Jean Désy a écrit ce poème qui rend hommage aux enfants migrants.

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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.

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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.

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20:38 - Pause

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.

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13:00 - Théâtre du cuivre
Bloc 5 : Relève Desjardins

Quitter le jardin allegorically presents the evolution of a young man as he detaches himself from his parents.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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14:06 - PAUSE

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.

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18:30 - Théâtre du cuivre
Bloc 6 : Soirée Desjardins

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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13:00 - Théâtre du cuivre
Bloc 7 : Après-midi Fonderie Horne

Ewen, eight years old, affronts in crown court, everyone's silence.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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18:30 - Théâtre du cuivre
Bloc 8 : Soirée Fonderie Horne

An immersion in art through two paintings on the same subject created half a century apart.

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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.

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20:11 - PAUSE

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.

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11:00 - Agora des arts
Activité spéciale

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.

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13:00 - Théâtre du cuivre
Bloc 9 : Après-midi Crave

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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14:15 - PAUSE

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.

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18:30 - Théâtre du cuivre
Bloc 10 : Soirée Crave

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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13:00 - Théâtre du cuivre
Bloc 11 : Après-midi Ville de Rouyn-Noranda

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?

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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…

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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18:30 - Théâtre du cuivre
Bloc 12 : Soirée ville de Rouyn-Noranda

A nun digs a man up from the ground and loses her grip on everyday life. Can secrets and harmony coexist?

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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.

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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.

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