Films
Film
21e
La chute
Frédérique De Montblanc & De Montblanc
Belgium, Canada (Quebec), Experimentation
Invited at an exclusive cocktail party, a woman, Queen KA tries her best to engage with what seems to be quite an austere group. After some unfortunate exchanges, awkward smiles and odd food bits, she eventually escapes through the garden. As darkness surrounds her, she discovers the guests in a new light.
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21e
La course navette
Maxime Aubert
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Wojtek recently attended Bonsecours High School in the Montreal suburbs. This discreet teenager remains a mystery to his peers. This is why it represents a prey designated for Thomas and Philippe, two troubled students in search of entertainment. Not knowing how to find the words in front of his assailants, he will go back to his physical education course to express the substance of his thought.
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21e
La laine sur le dos
Lotfi Achour
France, Tunisia, Fiction
While driving along a road in the Tunisian desert in an old battered van on their way to market to sell their sheep, an old man and his grandson are stopped by two policemen. In order to be allowed to leave, they have to accept a strange and unusual deal.
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21e
La partie
Alexandre Isabelle
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Bernard is an austere man whose sole occupation is to care for his beloved Line, who is very ill. Their son organizes a sugaring off party that forces Bernard to reconnect with the exhilaration of spring.
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21e
La tempête du siècle
Renaud Gauthier
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
Winter 1971, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The storm is raging and, although the holiday shopping is in full swing, the snowy sidewalks are deserted on this Thursday, December 23th, pay day. A few cigarette butts accumulate on the icy roadway, next to the door of an old black Pontiac that drones in the blowing snow ...
Film
21e
La vie commence
Émile Proulx-Cloutier
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
The twenty-four hours who will turn upside down the life of a teenager and his older brother. The two of them having always stayed together, in heart of a gray suburb, without really knowing each others.
Film
21e
La voyante
Alexandre Auger & Alexis Fortier Gauthier
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
A medium receives three clients who came to talk about their problems. She's trying to help them as best as she can.
Film
21e
Le Hibou-roc de Riopelle
Philippe Arsenault
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Between an art film and the conventional documentary, this short brings to life all the stages of the casting of art as they are practiced nowadays in some foundries of North America, a lesser known aspect of the techniques tackled by Riopelle, a multidisciplinary artist.
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21e
Le bruit du gris
Vincent Patar & Stephane Aubier & Vincent Patar
Belgium, Animation
A still frame, the hallway of the gray, dull house of Horse, Cowboy and Indian. Cowboy and his crazy stooges fill the place, giving it life and color. Until a troublemaker enters and ruins everything…
Film
21e
Le bulbe tragique
Guillaume Vallée
Canada (Quebec), Experimentation
Ephemeral traces of nothingness. Rotoscoping farmers, scrumbling churches, dying memories as hand-painted layers, decay & collage on film emulsion as incidental traces of nothingness. A work that is aware of his own mecanism.