This Love, These Days
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.
Opening Film, 2026 International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA)
“Making documentaries means accepting that life flows through the film”. In this daringly intimate documentary, André-Line Beauparlant turns her camera towards the life and work of her lover, filmmaker Robert Morin. Through a collage of film excerpts, archival footage, recorded discussions, and personal photographs, she reveals the ins and outs and the highs and lows of their collaboration on, off, and behind the screen. Tracing a double biography that contemplates love, obsession, death, and the passage of time, This Love, These Days is a love letter, a journal of everyday life, and a resolutely feminist proposition: to imagine artmaking as a coming together.
André-Line Beauparlant
André-Line Beauparlant is a Quebec filmmaker and art director. In 2000, she directed her first documentary film, Trois princesses pour Roland, an all-female, intergenerational saga. Still fascinated by family, with all its joys and quirks, she went on to direct Le petit Jésus (2005), Panache (2007), and Pinocchio (2015). Her latest documentary features, Petit Tom, filmed over a period of 10 years, and This Love, These Days, an intimate portrait of filmmaker Robert Morin, will hit the screens in 2026. As an art director, André-Line Beauparlant worked on more than thirty arthouse films, including Louis Bélanger's Gaz Bar Blues (2003), Denis Villeneuve's Incendies (2010), Robin Aubert's Ravenous (2017), Robert Morin's Infiltration (2017), Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette's Goddess of the Fireflies (2020), Stéphane Lafleur's Viking (2022), Sophie Deraspe's Shepherds (2024) and Philippe Falardeau's Lovely Day (2025). Winner of the Prix Excellence at the Gala Femmes du cinéma, de la télévision et des nouveaux médias (2011) and the Prix de la création at the Observatoire du cinéma au Québec (2016), she presented a series of screenings dedicated to her documentary practice at the Cinémathèque québécoise in 2019.
Photo: Laurent Guérin, Courtesy of Maison 4:3
