Au lendemain de l'odyssée
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 February 11 screening will be followed by a Q&A.
After a harrowing journey, women from Nigeria arrive alone and increasingly young in Italy in search of a better life. From human trafficking to the sexual slavery that awaits them, this choral film offers poignant accounts whose restraint spares us the unbearable. These stories of hospitality lead to a broader reflection on migration and otherness, that true encounter with the Other.
Helen Doyle
Helen Doyle is a Quebec screenwriter and director. The majority of her films are documentaries, and several are devoted to the female condition. She sometimes uses experimental cinema, fiction and docufiction. In 1973, in Quebec City, she joined forces with Nicole Giguère and Hélène Roy to lay the foundations of La femme et le film, a collective dedicated to the distribution and production of videograms made by women, later renamed Vidéo Femmes in 1979. It was within this collective that Helen Doyle made her first films, often co-directed and addressing the female condition from a feminist perspective.
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