After the Ashes
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.
Official Selection, CINEMANIA 2025 & RVQC 2026
Leonor joins a contemporary dance company to unravel the mystery of Oraison, a mythical piece performed by her mother thirty years ago, in the hope of understanding what shattered her. She discovers a ritual in which every gesture summons up the ghosts of the past and reopens the wounds of a lineage.
Laetitia Demessence
Laetitia Demessence is a Franco-Spanish director and screenwriter who grew up in Spain, Indonesia and Chile, before emigrating to Canada to study cinema at the University of Montreal. After graduating, she explored filmmaking through various fiction short films, art and dance films. She then graduated from the Feature Film Writing program at INIS, where she developed her first feature-length fiction film, After the Ashes (2025), for which she received the Louise Spickler Excellence Scholarship.
