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Habiter le mouvement, un récit en dix chapitres
Béatriz Mediavilla
In 2017, Thierry Thieû Niang, choreographer, toured in eastern Canada with Cinédanse to offer intergenerational workshops to non-dancers. According to movement is a cinematic journey where the thoughtful gesture merges into this great human choreography. Subdivided into 10 chapters, the feature film is a poetic and playful reflection on the beauty of the everyday gestures that define us as living beings. It also presents a portrait of Thierry Thieû Niang through is choreographies. An invitation to live according to movement.
Danse avec elles
Béatriz Mediavilla
At Rouyn-Noranda, north Québec, we find a dance school that has been run by the same person for 45 years. With her unique approach, choregrapher Lynn Vaillancourt teaches singing and different kinds of dancing. The PRELV school does not limit itself to dance teaching. It spreads values that are filled with humanity and dignity to girls aged between four and twenty. Over a one-year period, filmmaker integrated herself into the PRELV activities, and the documentary exposes the school’s distinctiveness and the ties that unite the young dancers together.
Louise Warren poète – Fragments
Anne-Marie Tougas
Louise Warren – Fragments, une résonance entre l’écriture et la matière. Le court métrage plonge le spectateur dans « l’enveloppe invisible » de la poète, au coeur même de la matière par un entrelacement du geste intime de l’écriture, de la collection d’art de la poète et des éléments du sous-bois travaillé de ses mains. Autant de fragments reliés par la poésie.
Entre mon nom et ton film – Hommage à Michel Brault
Geneviève Albert
Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois présentent une série de courts métrages conçus spécialement en hommage à l’un des pères fondateurs du cinéma québécois et du cinéma direct, Michel Brault. Hommage à ses films Les ordres 1974, 109 min, et Entre la mer et l’eau douce 1967, 85 min.
Un printemps d’ailleurs
Xiaodan He
Li Fang, a 35-year-old Chinese immigrant who lives in Montreal with her husband. Their brutal rupture pushes her to a big depression. Li Fang leaves chaos behind to go back to Dazu, a small district in south China. She finds relief alongside the people around her, all the while witnessing their respective problems and quiet efforts.
Le lac des hommes
Marie-Geneviève Chabot
Hoping to reconnect, three brothers embark on a fishing trip with their father, whose absence from their childhood has left them with lasting scars. For Stéphane, Jean-Pierre, Jérôme and Laurent, this is a chance to find some answers, and maybe even to make their peace with the past. On the gently rocking boat, dreams and regrets slip in and tangle up with their fishing lines. The trip is a bittersweet quest to find a lost family ideal. It’s a foray into a masculine world struggling toward reconciliation, where sometimes the most courageous thing to do is break the silence.
Slaxx
Elza Kephart
SLAXX tells the story of a possessed pair of jeans brought to life to punish the unscrupulous practices of a trendy clothing company. Shipped to the company’s flagship store, SLAXX proceeds to wreak carnage on the staff, locked in overnight to set up the new collection. When the body count mounts, the panicked staff disbands and the struggle for survival begins. It is up to idealistic employee Libby to uncover the reason behind SLAXX’s blood thirst before its evil is released into the world.
La face cachée du baklava
Maryanne Zéhil
The uneventful middle-class life of Lebanese sisters Houwayda and Joëlle spirals into turmoil after Houwayda announces that she is accompanying Pierre, her Québecker husband, on a sabbatical year in France. Joëlle will stop at nothing to keep her sister in Montréal, even if it means exploring the sticky side of baklava. With its humorous treatment of the culture clash of immigration, The Sticky Side of Baklava is a heartwarming film that seeks to bring people together by embracing our differences.
En tête de ligne
Joëlle Arseneau
Garance Chagnon-Grégoire
With 40 years of telecommunications in Quebec as its backdrop, Leading The Wave presents André Chagnon’s exciting, groundbreaking journey to becoming the founder of Videotron.
Je me souviens
Naomie Décarie-Daigneault
Exercice inspiré des Je me souviens de Georges Perec. Ou quand ma grand-mère m’échappe et que je tente de la retenir.
Le temps retrouvé – Hommage à Michel Brault
Naomie Décarie-Daigneault
Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois présentent une série de courts métrages conçus spécialement en hommage à l’un des pères fondateurs du cinéma québécois et du cinéma direct, Michel Brault. Hommage à son film Le temps perdu, 1964, 27 min.
Je vous regarde de ma fenêtre
Naomie Décarie-Daigneault
Le récit de la rencontre entre papa et maman. Cartierville, théâtre des premiers amours.