Nouveau-Québec
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.
On their way to Schefferville, an isolated village in northern Quebec, to settle the sale of a cottage, Sophie and Mathieu find themselves confronted with a serious and unexpected situation. Forced to stay longer than expected, while a police investigation is launched due to the limited means of the place, the couple finds itself isolated from the rest of the world, in contact for a rare time with the local Aboriginal reality. The couple's relationship is put to the test, as each of them takes an opposite path in the face of this oppressive situation, in this closed-door setting of the great outdoors.
Sarah Fortin
Sarah Fortin is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec. At the 2021 Whistler Film Festival, Fortin won both the Alliance of Women Film Journalists's EDA Award for best narrative feature directed by a woman, and the Borsos Competition award for Best Screenplay for a Canadian film. A graduate of the Université du Québec à Montréal, she previously directed the short films Deux enfants qui fument (2004), Synthétiseur *(2009) and *Le fleuve à droite (2010), the documentary films Stephen Faulkner: J'm'en va r'viendre *(2011) and *Du hockey propre: petite histoire d'un film culte (2016), and episodes of the television documentary series Taverne (2013) and En marge du monde (2019).
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À l’occasion de la sortie de Nouveau-Québec, la Cinémathèque s’est entretenue avec la réalisatrice et scénariste au sujet de son premier long métrage tourné à Schefferville. Un lieu situé à la limite du 54e parallèle nord, aux abords d’un territoire qu’on appelait autrefois « Nouveau-Québec », aujourd’hui le Nunavik.
