La Guardia Blanca
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.
April 28 and May 2 screenings will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker
Winner of the Magnus Isacsson Award and the Student Jury Award, 2023 RIDM
The Mexican landscape fades away into ashes and dust, fragmented, defaced and scorched. Behind barbed wirefences, forests, rivers and mountains fall to the hands of private companies. Once transformed, the landscape becomes a separate universe, an incongruous and dangerous area where the new masters and their mercenaries terrorize people into silence. Like other farmers from across the country, Roberto de la Rosa now walks on pathways riddled with booby traps. In recent years, it’s in Mexico that the number of defenders of the land assassinated has been highest.
Julien Elie
In 2002, Julien Elie directed his first documentary about the death penalty in the USA, followed by a medium length documentary filmed in East Africa the same year. After taking a fifteen year hiatus from cinema he returned in 2018 with his film Dark Suns. The epic story about the wave of violence that has affected Mexico for years won multiple awards and distinctions (CPH DOX, FICUNAM, Hamburg Film Festival, RIDM) and was presented in nearly sixty festivals worldwide. In 2023, La Guardia Blanca, a second feature length documentary filmed in Mexico, addressing the devastation of landscapes and territories by private companies was released. Shifting Baselines, his latest film, has had a remarkable run with selections in national and international festivals, notably Visions du Réel, Hot Docs, DokuFest, Festival du nouveau cinéma, and DOC NYC, where it won the Grand Jury Prize of the Kaleidoscope competition.
Bio: pixelleX
Photo: Valérian Mazataud
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