Fake Tattoos
An essential and timeless theme if ever there was one, love naturally holds a special place in cinema. Romantic, sensual, obsessive, ambiguous, forbidden, lighthearted or profound, love on screen is as diverse as the individuals who live its stories. Drawing form different eras, tones, and cinematic styles, this program brings together a selection of remarkable films that will warm your heart from the start of the winter season to Valentine’s Day.
In the presence of filmmaker Pascal Plante
Winner of the Grand prix Focus Québec/Canada, 2017 FNC
Theo spends his 18th birthday alone, getting drunk at a brutal punk rock show. There, he meets Mag, a marginal teenager who invites him to spend the night at her place. A love story unfolds between them, but Theo has to move at the end of the summer in a small town, far away from a painful past.
Pascal Plante
Pascal Plante is a Montreal filmmaker whose most recent feature, Red Rooms, was officially selected at the Karlovy-Vary Film Festival and Fantasia 2023. A graduate of Concordia University, he has written and directed numerous short films, including Blue-Eyed Blonde (Best Canadian Short, VIFF 2015), Nonna (Slamdance 2017) and BLAST BEAT (Slamdance 2019). His debut feature, Fake tattoos, won the Grand Prix Focus Québec/Canada at FNC 2017 and was selected at the 2018 Berlinale. Nadia, Butterfly was officially selected at the Cannes Film Festival in 2020. Pascal describes himself as a cinephile turned fiction filmmaker with documentary tendencies.
Photo: Danny Taillon, Courtesy of Entract Films
