À mon chevet
The mission of the Centre d'art et essai de la Cinémathèque québécoise (CAECQ) is to primary program Quebec-made documentaries and independent fiction, as well as international documentaries, animated and foreign films, while encouraging opportunities for meetings between the public and the artists. Its programming is presented in conjunction with the Cinémathèque québécoise’s under the label New releases.
The May 19 screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Jérémie Battaglia and Dr. Geneviève Dechêne, general practitioner in palliative care
The May 21 screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Jérémie Battaglia, Patrick Déry, public policy analyst, and Natalie Stake-Doucet, nurse, researcher, and professor at UQAM
What if Quebec's healthcare system became a patient like any other? Overwhelmed, out of breath, it collapses. Once a source of national pride, it must be hospitalized to diagnose the illness consuming it. This hybrid film, blending fiction and documentary, paints a lucid, sensitive, and allegorical portrait of a system in crisis. To hope for a cure, one must confront the illness head-on.
Jérémie Battaglia
Jérémie Battaglia is a French Canadian filmmaker based in Montreal, where he co-funded the production company Extérieur Jour. He defines himself as an admirer of everyday heroes. He explored the themes of adversity, the body and his limits in Perfect and The Brother. Since his debut, with the short musical documentary Casseroles on the students protests of 2012, he tries to explore his medium through collaborations with artists from various art froms : animation, theater, dance, or music. He co-directed, with Johanne Madore, a circus film called The Sum of our Dreams, and with Mélanie Demers, a dance film titled The Goddam Milky Way. In 2024, in addition to Adonis, he will release a second feature-length documentary, The Other French Youth, about young North African men in the south of France that want to free themselves through their passion for bullfighting.
Photo: Guillaume Boucher
