Antoine
- Documentaire
- 89 min
- français
- 2009
Antoine is five years old and he is blind. A sensitive and poetical portrait of the real and imaginary life of Antoine, a boy detective who runs, drives, hosts radio shows and adores simultaneous telephone conversations. Over the course of two years he uses a mini-boom microphone to discover and capture the sounds surrounding him. In this manner he co-created the sound track of this film. This child, who is of Vietnamese origin, was born one hundred days prematurely. He is integrated into the regular school system in Montreal, with unprecedented success.
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Awards and recognition : Mention spéciale du jury, Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal (RIDM), Montreal - Canada
Prix Jean Pierre et Yolande Perreault, Rendez Vous du Cinéma Québecois, Montréal - Canada
Lindalee Tracey Award, Hot Docs, Toronto - Canada
Special Jury Award, San Diego Asian Film Festival, California - États-Unis
Audience Award , Auburn Child and young Adults international film festival, Alabama -États-Unis
Merit Award, Culture! Disability! Talent!, Berkeley - États-Unis
First Special Jury Prize, Emotions Pictures, Athens - Grèce
Honorific Prize, Best Experimental Documentary, Docupolis, Barcelone - Espagne
Talent Competition Dove, Leipzig DOK - Allemagne
Special Jury Prize - DOC Planet, Varsovie - Pologne
Jury Honorific Prize, “Cinéma vérité” int documentary Film Festival, Tehran - Iran
Distribution : BESOFILM / EyeSteelFilm
Diffusion : Rendez Vous du Cinéma Québecois - Canada
Vancouver Film Festival - Canada
Traverse City Intenational Film Festival - États-Unis
Tribeca Film, New York - États-Unis
Salt Lake City Film Festival - États-Unis
Fesival international de Films de Femmes - France
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival - Grèce
Kos International Health Film Festival - Grèce
Reykjavik International Film Festival - Islande
EBS International Documentary Festival - Corée du sud
Sheffield DOC\FEST - Royaume Uni
Mar del Plata International Film Festival - Argentine
International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA) - Hollande
Göteborg International Film Festival - Suède
Istanbul Independent Film Festival - Turquie
DOX BOX, film festival - Syrie
Festival international de films de Punta del Este - Uruguay
Festival international de films pour enfants - Taiwan
La Habana Film Festival - Cuba
Production : EYESTEELFILM