Red Rooms
We have the opportunity to showcase a few films that have shine in the past few months in Quebec. While we await the winner of the Prix collégial du cinéma québécois, let's discover - or rediscover the nominated films of Monia Chokri, Pascal Plante, Ariane Louis-Seize, Henry Bernadet and Jacquelyn Mills. A program of short films will also offer a glimpse at the next generation of filmmakers.
Winner of the Best Feature and Best Screenplay Awards, Fantasia 2023
Kelly-Anne wakes up every morning by the courthouse to secure a seat at the high-profile trial of Ludovic Chevalier, a serial killer she is obsessed with. As days go by, the young woman bonds with another groupie, which momentarily breaks her out of her loneliness. But as the proceedings drag on and she spends more time in the courtroom with the victims’ families, Kelly-Anne finds it increasingly difficult to maintain her psychological balance and assume her morbid fixation with the killer. She will then do whatever it takes to get her hands on the final piece of the puzzle: the missing video of a murdered 13-year-old girl, to whom Kelly-Anne bears a disturbing resemblance.
Pascal Plante
Pascal Plante is a Montreal filmmaker whose most recent feature, Red Rooms, was officially selected at the Karlovy-Vary Film Festival and Fantasia 2023. A graduate of Concordia University, he has written and directed numerous short films, including Blue-Eyed Blonde (Best Canadian Short, VIFF 2015), Nonna (Slamdance 2017) and BLAST BEAT (Slamdance 2019). His debut feature, Fake tattoos, won the Grand Prix Focus Québec/Canada at FNC 2017 and was selected at the 2018 Berlinale. Nadia, Butterfly was officially selected at the Cannes Film Festival in 2020. Pascal describes himself as a cinephile turned fiction filmmaker with documentary tendencies.
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