Caiti Blues
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.
National Feature Competition, RIDM 2023
Caiti Lord has a beautiful voice that she plans to use to do more than sell cherry cocktails. As madness surges in the United States, in a most disturbing absurd manner, Caiti is overtaken by a growing sense of suffocation. So Caiti sings. The blues.
Justine Harbonnier
Justine Harbonnier was born in France and grew up in Nantes. After completing a master’s in comparative literature at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), she began making short independent films that screened at a number of international festivals. Her first self-produced film, Il y a un ciel magnifique et tu filmes Angèle Bertrand, distributed by SPIRA, had its world premiere at New York’s MoMA. She followed that up by working with other production studios on writing and research projects, and by directing the video poem Terrain vague, an award-winner at the Festival de la poésie de Montréal. Her most recent short, Andrew Keegan démenage, won the GREC/France TV “Une Minute” award. Distributed by the MEM – Centre des mémoires montréalaises, the film has shown at such venues as FIDMarseille, the RIDM, DOXA, Festival Interférences, the Istanbul International Architecture and Urban Films Festival, and the Pančevo Film Festival. Harbonnier’s first feature-length film, Caiti Blues, co-produced by Sister Productions (France) and Cinquième Maison (Québec), was selected for Visions du Réel, Hot Docs and ACID Cannes. A documentary feature, La Simulation, is currently in development with French co-producers Les 48e Rugissants and Special Touch Studios.
