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The Tënk platform, in partnership with the Centre Art et Essai de la Cinémathèque québécoise and the Consulate General of France in Quebec City, is pleased to unveil a new series of screenings: Conversations françaises. Every last Friday of the month, discover the great voices of contemporary French documentary cinema. Each screening will be followed by a virtual discussion with the filmmaker. A unique opportunity to meet today's great French documentary filmmakers!
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.
Discussion virtuelle avec le cinéaste après la projection
We will never be made of the wood of victories, but of the wood of struggle. Our Defeats draws a portrait of our relationship to politics, thanks to a game of reinterpretation by high school students of excerpts from post-68 cinema, combined with interviews with these young actors. How do they apprehend the world in which they grow up and, above all, would they like to change it, to destroy it or to build a new one?
Jean-Gabriel Périot
Born in France in 1974, Jean-Gabriel Périot has directed several short films at the border of documentary, experimental and fiction. experimental and fictional. He has developed his own style of editing that questions violence and history from film and photographic archives. His films, including Dies Irae, Would She Have Been a Criminal..., Nijuman no borei (200,000 Ghosts) and The Devil, have won awards at numerous festivals around the world. His first feature film, A German Youth opened the Panorama section at the 2015 Berlinale before being released on German, Swiss and French screens and honored with several awards. Lumières d'été, his first feature film premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival, was released in France in summer 2017.
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Image : Météore Films
Image : Météore Films
Image : Météore Films
Image : Météore Films
Image : Météore Films
Image : Météore Films
