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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.
In a dystopian future, female sex and procreation have become obsolete. Science has created a nation of bio-titans, a race of asexual, immortal men. As the Earth becomes toxic, the bio-titans rush to colonize the cosmos aboard a colossal spaceship, taking with them only one female body barely kept alive.
Theodore Ushev
Theodore Ushev is a Canadian animation filmmaker of Bulgarian origin. He is also a visual artist and has signed numerous illustrations and posters. The period from 1999 to 2004 is devoted to the realization of a dozen short films. Among these films are Aurora (1999), Well-Tempered Heads (2003) and Vertical (2003). In 2005, still at the NFB, Ushev completed Tower Bawher, which was followed by a second film entitled Drux Flux (2008). In parallel to this work, the filmmaker directed The Man Who Waited (2006), adapted from the work of** Franz Kafka**, and **Tzartitza **(2006), a film for children dealing with the theme of immigration. In 2012, he was a member of the international jury at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, which paid homage to him through the Ushev/Lipsett series in which Ushev crossed his work with that of Arthur Lipsett, another Quebec filmmaker to whom he dedicated a film, and presented his latest short film.
His film Blind Vaysha wins the Special Jury Prize and the Junior Jury Prize for short film at the 2016 Annecy International Animation Film Festival. It was also nominated for the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film at the 89th Academy Awards. In 2018, the La Rochelle International Film Festival is dedicating a retrospective to him.
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