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Okurimono (Japanese with French subtitles)
Location
Fernand-Seguin screening room
Date
February 6th, 2025
Duration
96 min
Cycle
New releases

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.

The February 6 screening will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker
Winner of the Earl A. Glick Award, 2024 Hot Docs

Okurimono
Directed by
Laurence Lévesque
Language
Japanese with French subtitles
Origins
Quebec
Year
2024
Duration
96 min
Genre
Documentary
Format
Digital
Synopsis

Noriko Oi, a Japanese-Canadian woman who has been living in Montreal for more than 20 years, is about to return to Nagasaki, her hometown. She has to go back to help her brothers and sisters clear out their childhood home, which will soon be sold. Noriko decides to reconstruct the past of her mother Mitsuko, a survivor of the atomic bomb, in the hope of passing down her cultural heritage to her children and healing the dark reminiscences of the tragic past.

Okurimono
Awards

Laurence Lévesque

Laurence Lévesque is a Quebec filmmaker. She directed her first documentary short, Port d'attache, in 2019. Selected at Visions du Réel, the film won Best National Short Film at RIDM and was nominated for Best Short Film at the Gala Québec Cinéma. In 2022, she completes a master's degree in which she reflects on documentary writing and the narrative modes that make up reality. She won the Philippe-Ménard prize for Best Creative Thesis. Okurimono is her first feature film.

Photo: Emile Desroches