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Mathieu Bouchard-Malo
Mathieu Bouchard-Malo is a Canadian film editor from Quebec, who has received multiple Canadian Screen Award and Prix Iris The Prix Iris is a Canadian film award, presented annually by Québec Cinéma, which recognizes talent and achievement in the mainly francophone feature film industry in Quebec.Canadian film editors French Quebecers Living people [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love In The Time Of Civil War
''Love in the Time of Civil War'' (french: L'amour au temps de la guerre civile) is a 2014 Canadian drama film directed by Rodrigue Jean. It was selected to be screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. The film stars Alexandre Landry as Alex, a male hustler and drug addict in Montreal, Quebec. '''', 4 September 2014. Cast * Ana Christina Alva * Catherine-Audrey Lachapelle * |
Prayer For A Lost Mitten
''Prayer for a Lost Mitten'' (french: Prière pour une mitaine perdue) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Jean-François Lesage and released in 2020. The film centres on the lost and found office of the Montreal Metro system. The film premiered as part of the 2020 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada it was not screened theatrically, but premiered as part of the festival's online streaming component. It was named the winner of the festival's Best Canadian Feature Documentary award. Awards The film received three Prix Iris nominations at the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2021, for Best Cinematography in a Documentary ( Marianne Ploska), Best Original Music in a Documentary (Tom Brunt) and Best Sound in a Documentary (Marie-Andrée Cormier, Olivier Germain, Marie-Pierre Grenier).Jean-François Vandeuren"La déesse des mouches à feu part en tête des nominations du Gala Québec Cinéma 2021" ''Showbizz.net'', April ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
With Love (film)
''With Love'' (french: L'Amour) is a Canadian thriller film, directed by Marc Bisaillon and released in 2018. Based on the 2006 murder spree of Stephen Marshall, the film stars Pierre-Luc Lafontaine as Alex, a young man who travels to Maine under the pretext of visiting his father (Paul Doucet), but is instead planning to use the state's sex offender registry to track down and murder sex offenders; meanwhile, his mother Rose (Fanny Mallette), having awareness of his intentions, travels to Maine to try to stop him. The film premiered at the Festival du cinéma international en Abitibi-Témiscamingue in October 2018. ''L'Initiative'', October 22, 2018. The film receiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Darkened Days
''The Great Darkened Days'' (french: La grande noirceur) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Maxime Giroux and released in 2018. Set during World War II, the film centres on Philippe (Martin Dubreuil), a draft dodger from Quebec who is living as a drifter and Charlie Chaplin impersonator in the United States. Despite its setting, however, the film makes use of some deliberate anachronisms, including a scene where R.E.M.'s contemporary song "Everybody Hurts" plays on the radio. The film's cast also includes Sarah Gadon, Cody Fern, Luzer Twersky, Romain Duris, Reda Kateb and Lise Roy. The film premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. Accolades References External links * * The Great Darkened Days' at Library and Archives Canada Library and Archives Canada (LAC; french: Bibliothèque et Archives Canada) is the federal institution, tasked with acquiring, preserving, and providing accessibility to the documentary heritage of Canada. The national archive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genesis (2018 Canadian Film)
''Genesis'' (french: Genèse) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Philippe Lesage and released in 2018. The film stars Théodore Pellerin and Noée Abita as Guillaume Bonnet and Charlotte, teenage half-siblings simultaneously struggling with romance; Charlotte is in a relationship with Maxime (Pier-Luc Funk), but is reeling from his proposal that they change to an open relationship, while Guillaume is a student at an all-boys boarding school who is developing a romantic and sexual attraction to his classmate Nicolas (Jules Roy Sicotte). The cast also includes Paul Ahmarani, Rose-Marie Perreault, Jean-Simon Leduc, Amaryllis Tremblay and Mylène Mackay. The film also includes a segment which shifts to focus on the story of Félix (Édouard Tremblay-Grenier), the lead character of Lesage's 2015 film '' The Demons (Les Démons)''. The film premiered at the Locarno Festival in the International Competition. Awards The film has won numerous awards including the Golden Wolf at the F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Stripes
''First Stripes'' (french: Premières armes) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Jean-François Caissy and released in 2018."Marching Orders: Jean-François Caissy’s ‘First Stripes’" '''', April 25, 2018. The film profiles a group of recruits commencing . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venus (2017 Film)
''Venus'' is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Eisha Marjara and released in 2017. The film stars Debargo Sanyal as Sid, an Indo-Canadian who is just beginning to come out as a transgender woman when she unexpectedly discovers that she has a teenage son (Jamie Mayers) with a former high school girlfriend. The cast also includes Zena Darawalla, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Amber Goldfarb and Gordon Warnecke. The film premiered on the film festival circuit in 2017, before going into general theatrical release in 2018. '''', March 2, 2018. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulîstan, Land Of Roses
''Gulîstan, Land of Roses'' (French title: ''Gulîstan, terre de roses'') is a 2016 feature-length documentary film about women guerillas in a Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Free Women's Units, Free Women's Unit, in combat against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, directed by the Kurdish Montreal filmmaker Zaynê Akyol. Shot in Iraqi Kurdistan, the film is co-produced Montreal's Périphéria Productions, Germany's Mehmet Aktaş, MitosFilm and the National Film Board of Canada. The film was conceived and named for a woman, Gulîstan, who had been a role model for the director in her adopted home in Montreal, until she left to fight with the PKK. Akyol went to Iraq in 2010 in an unsuccessful effort to find her and make a film about her. Unable to locate Gulîstan, she found women who knew her, and the focus of the documentary shifted to telling Gulîstan's story through their memories of her. However, when she returned to Iraq to film in 2014, some of the women had died, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nelly (2016 Film)
''Nelly'' is a 2016 Canadian biographical-drama film directed by Anne Émond and starring Mylène Mackay as Nelly Arcan, an award-winning Canadian author and former sex worker who committed suicide in 2009. The film is based on some of Arcan's own writings, including her book ''Putain''. After debuting at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, the film received some positive reviews, including for Mackay's performance. It was nominated for two Canadian Screen Awards and won for Best Costume Design. Plot Isabelle Fortier is a young girl who develops a relationship and becomes engaged to a man, with whom she shares a cocaine habit. Their relationship deteriorates. Taking the pseudonym Cynthia, Isabelle becomes a prostitute. She receives rave online customer reviews, from clients who praise her for her physical features, service and aptitude in various sex acts. She begins to write about her experiences, submitting her first novel under the pen name Nelly Arcan to an edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noir (film)
''Noir'' is a Canadian drama film, directed by Yves Christian Fournier and released in 2015. An ensemble cast film set primarily in the impoverished Montreal North area,"Noir takes a grim view of gang life; Mean streets of Montreal North front and centre". ''Montreal Gazette'', April 10, 2015. the film focuses on a variety of interconnected storylines. Characters include Dickens (Kémy St-Eloi) and Bobby (Clauter Alexandre), two Haitian Canadian brothers involved in the gang lifestyle; Kadhafi (Salim Kechiouche), an Algerian immigrant who works in a dry cleaning shop with Jean-Jacques (Benz Antoine) and dreams of becoming a hip hop star; and Suzie (Jade-Mariuka Robitaille), a stripper in a relationship with drug dealer Evans (Christopher Charles) while simultaneously connected in an ambiguous way to Phil (Patrick Hivon). Kechiouche garnered a Jutra Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 18th Jutra Awards The 18th Quebec Cinema Awards ceremony ( fr , Gala du cinéma qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Demons (2015 Film)
''The Demons'' (french: Les Démons) is a 2015 Canadian drama film, written and directed by Philippe Lesage. Based in part on Lesage's own childhood, the film stars Édouard Tremblay-Grenier as Félix, a ten-year-old boy living with his family in a quiet suburb of Montreal who is prone to excessive worry."'The Demons' ('Les Demons'): San Sebastian Review" '''', September 30, 2015. As a series of s begins to grip the town, however, his vague and needless fears begin to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
