Les sauf-conduits et Kidnappé
This recurring program showcases works from Québec’s audiovisual heritage, digitized and restored by the Cinémathèque québécoise, or thanks to its contribution. Since 2018, we have restored around fifty independent films thanks to the support of the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec as part of its Digital Cultural Plan. Other works have been restored in collaboration with local or international cultural organisations, using elements preserved in our collections.
Kidnappé uses techniques as diverse as photography, drawing, painting, collage and live footage. Beyond its narrative centering around a police investigation, the film becomes an open reflection on the power of the imagination.
Alice, Marc and Hubert wanted to break the distance record for the raw egg throw and get into the Guinness Book of Records. They hadn't foreseen that love would create a distance even more difficult to break. And that desire would challenge them.
Thomas Corriveau
Born in Sainte-Foy in 1957, Thomas Corriveau is a visual artist and filmmaker. Since the 1980s, he has worked in drawing, painting, printmaking and animated film. He regularly exhibits his works in Canada and abroad and has produced fifteen public artworks in the Québec province. He is an associate professor at the School of Visual and Media Arts at the University of Quebec in Montreal, after having been a professor there from 2002 to 2022. Since 2010, he has been fully involved as an independent director of animated films.
Photo: Antonio Calabrese
Manon Briand
A Concordia University graduate, screenwriter and director, Manon Briand first made a name for herself with short and medium-length films (Les saufs-conduits – Prix du meilleur espoir au Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, Croix de bois, Picoti Picota), before taking part in the collective film Cosmos, crowned at Cannes' Directors' Fortnight in 1995. Her first feature, 2 Seconds (1998), was acclaim at numerous film festivals, and earned her recognition as one of Variety magazine's Top New Directors to Watch for. Since then, she has directed Heart: The Marylin Bell Story (1999) for television, written numerous screenplays in both French and English, and directed La turbulence des fluides (Jutra Award for Best Foreign Film) in 2002, as well as Liverpool (Artistic Merit Award at the Vancouver Film Festival) in 2012. She recently released Tous Toqués! in 2024.
This restoration is part of the implementation of a measure in Quebec's Digital Cultural Plan.
