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
Julien Elie is a Quebec filmmaker and screenwriter. In 2002, he made his first feature film, The Last Meal, a dive into the absurd and the horror of Huntsville, Texas, capital of the death penalty in the USA. After several years away from cinema, he directed Dark Suns in 2018. The film, an epic journey into the heart of the wave of violence that is hitting Mexico, won a dozen awards (CPH:DOX, BAFICI, Filmfest Hamburg, Nashville Film Festival, etc.) and has been presented at numerous festivals. La Guardia Blanca is his third feature film, his second shot in Mexico.
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