Diary of a Father
When a film's subject hits close to home, it can be a challenge for adventurous filmmakers whose ambition goes beyond simply telling a story. Through recent examples from Québécois documentary cinema, we explore the practice of intimacy as it unfolds on screen.
To make up for the absence of his 7-year-old daughter who lives in Berlin, a Montreal filmmaker keeps a film diary that conjures up his relationship with his adoptive father and his biological father, whom he never knew. His film diary also becomes a reflection on filmmaking by revisiting the work of directors who have influenced him, such as Ingmar Bergman and Wim Wenders. Diary of a Father is a poetic response to help make the separation between a father and his daughter bearable.
Paul-Claude Demers
Paul-Claude Demers, known as Claude Demers, is a self-taught independent filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and visual artist based in Montreal, Canada. He directed his first feature film, The Invention of Love, in 2000. He then turns to documentary filmmaking with Barbers – A Men’s Story (2006) and Ladies in Blue (2009). In 2014, he directed the first installment of his trilogy themed around the quest for origins: Where I’m From. In 2016, he directed the fiction short film My Last Summer, which received 17 awards in multiple countries. In 2019, Demers directed the second installment of his trilogy: A Woman, My Mother, (Grand prize in the 2019 RIDM National Feature Film Competition). In 2023, his new documentary essay Diary of a Father concludes his trilogy. Poetic and human, his films have been awarded and selected at several international festivals: Rotterdam, RIDM, São Paulo, Palm Springs, Hot Docs, La Rochelle, Vancouver, Hot Docs and Interfilm-Berlin. In 2007, the Cinémathèque québécoise celebrated the filmmaker's singularity with a retrospective of his works.
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