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Sophie Lefebvre
Sophie Lefebvre is a Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ... costume designer, most noted as a two-time Jutra/Iris winner for Best Costume Design. Filmography Awards References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lefebvre, Sophie Canadian costume designers Canadian women in film French Quebecers Living people Women costume designers ... [...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] |
Congorama
'' Congorama '' is a French-Belgian-Canadian film directed by Philippe Falardeau, released in 2006. Plot Michel is a Belgian inventor. He cares for his father, a paralysed writer, is married to a Congolese woman and is the father of an interracial child whom he reassures as to his parentage. He discovers at the age of 41 that he was adopted, actually having been born in Sainte-Cécile, Quebec. In the summer of 2000, he travels to Quebec, supposedly to sell some of his inventions. While on a near-impossible quest to find his birth family in the town where he was born, he crosses paths with Louis Legros, son of another inventor, in a meeting which will change their lives. Premiere Congorama received its world premiere at the Directors' Fortnight series held alongside the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.(2003)Allmovie information ''Allmovie'', accessed 2008-04-12 Awards Genie Award – Screenplay; Prix Jutra The Prix Iris is a Canadian film award, presented annually by Québec Ciné ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Four Soldiers
''The Four Soldiers'' (french: Les 4 soldats) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Robert Morin and released in 2013. Adapted from the novel ''Quatre soldats'' by Hubert Mingarelli, the film centres on Dominique (Camille Mongeau), Mateo (Christian de la Cortina), Max (Antoine Bertrand) and Kevin (Aliocha Schneider), four soldiers in a civil war who find a secluded pond that becomes a refuge from the stresses and horrors of fighting. The cast also includes Antoine L'Écuyer, Gaston Caron, Rémy Ouellet, Jean-Pierre Bergeron, Richard Lalancette, Lizandra Rodriguez-Olano, Pete White, Christopher Kinsella, Derek Lanni and Charles S. Métellus. The film premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival on August 5, 2013, before going into theatrical release on August 16. At Fantasia, it won the Prix Public for Best Canadian Film. The film received two Jutra Award nominations at the 16th Jutra Awards in 2014, for Best Hairstyling (Denis Parent) and Best Makeup (Kathryn Casault).Manon Dumais"Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabrielle (2013 Film)
''Gabrielle'' is a 2013 Canadian drama film directed by Louise Archambault and starring Gabrielle Marion-Rivard as Gabrielle, a young woman with Williams syndrome who participates in a choir of developmentally disabled adults, and begins a romantic relationship with her choirmate Martin (Alexandre Landry). It features a cast from a real choir for people with disabilities, with Marion-Rivard being an actress who actually has Williams syndrome. The film premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival on 12 August 2013. It garnered six Canadian Screen Awards nominations and won two, including Best Motion Picture. Plot In Montreal, Gabrielle is a 22-year-old woman with Williams syndrome and diabetes, handling her own insulin injections but not living independently. She is a member of The Muses of Montreal, a musical choir for people with disabilities, at the Recreational Centre, and meets a fellow singer named Martin, with whom she develops a relationship. Her sister, Sophi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dismantling
''The Dismantling'' (french: Le Démantèlement), also released in the United States under the title ''The Auction'', is a 2013 Canadian drama film written and directed by Sébastien Pilote. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was a shortlisted nominee for Best Picture at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards."Canadian Screen Awards: Orphan Black, Less Than Kind, Enemy nominated" , 13 January 2014. It was also shortlisted for the |
All That You Possess
''All That You Possess'' (french: Tout ce que tu possèdes) is a Canadian drama film, released in 2012. Written and directed by Bernard Émond, the film stars Patrick Drolet as Pierre Leduc, a doctoral student and university lecturer in Quebec City who dreams of abandoning his academic career to translate the poetry of Edward Stachura.''All That You Possess'' at the . The film garnered three nominations at the , including Best Director and Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inch'Allah (2012 Film)
''Inch'Allah'' is a Canadian drama film, released in 2012. Written and directed by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, the film stars Evelyne Brochu as Chloé, a Canadian medical doctor with the Red Crescent. Splitting her time between her clinic in Ramallah, West Bank and Jerusalem, Chloé finds her loyalties torn as she witnesses the effects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on her friends, colleagues and patients on both sides of the border. At the 1st Canadian Screen Awards, ''Inch'Allah'' received five nominations, including Best Motion Picture. Plot A street cafe in Israel is bombed. Chloé (Evelyne Brochu) is a young Canadian obstetrician who works at a Red Crescent clinic in Ramallah, West Bank, but lives in Jerusalem. Her Israeli friend Ava, who is a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces, lives in the same building. While commuting by bus between her apartment and Ramallah, Chloé passes through checkpoints on a daily basis. One of Chloé's patients is a pregnant Palestinian woman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Salesman (2011 Film)
''The Salesman'' (french: Le vendeur) is a 2011 Canadian drama film directed by Sébastien Pilote. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and had a theatrical release in Quebec on 11 November 2011. Shot in the small city Dolbeau-Mistassini, in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of the province of Quebec, the film looks at the effects of a declining economy on a sexagenarian car salesman. Distinctions The film was included in the list of "Canada's Top Ten" feature films of 2011, selected by a panel of experts organized by TIFF. The film won the FIPRESCI Prize at the San Francisco International Film Festival and two prizes (the Silver Gateway and the prize for best actor) at the Mumbai Film Festival. The film had five Jutra Award nominations, winning in the Best Actor category (Gilbert Sicotte) At the 2011 International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, ''The Salesman'' won the FIPRESCI international film critics' prize, as well as a special jury prize. At the 2011 T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Familiar Grounds in 2012.
''Familiar Grounds'' (french: En terrains connus) is a 2011 Canadian drama film directed by Stéphane Lafleur. Cast * Francis La Haye as Benoit * Fanny Mallette as Maryse * Michel Daigle as André * Sylvain Marcel as Alain * Denis Houle as L'Homme du futur * Suzanne Lemoine as Nathalie Awards The film was the winner of the inaugural Prix collégial du cinéma québécois in 2012.Charles-Henri Ramond"En terrains connus: premier Prix collégial du cinéma québécois" ''Films du Québec'', March 13, 2012. Sylvain Bellemare, Pierre Bertrand and Bernard Gariépy Strobl received a Jutra Award nomination for Best Sound at the 14th Jutra Awards The 14th Jutra Awards were held on March 11, 2012 to honour films made with the participation of the Quebec film industry in 2011. References External links< ...
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Coteau Rouge
''Coteau Rouge'' is a 2011 French-Canadian (Quebec) film written and directed by André Forcier and produced by Les Films du Paria. Synopsis Another offbeat comedy from André Forcier about the Blanchard family, a tightknit group living in Coteau Rouge on the south shore of St. Lawrence (the film was shot in Longueuil). The grandfather of the clan (Paolo Noël) was once a fisherman who used to get rid of bodies for the mob. His son (Lepage) runs the local gas station and he has two children, Hélène (Céline Bonnier) and Henri. Hélène is childless, so her mother (Louise Laparé) is carrying her baby; meanwhile, her husband (Roy Dupuis), an unscrupulous entrepreneur, wants to buy up the land to build an up-scale condo. The film won Best Canadian Film at the Montreal World Film Festival The Montreal World Film Festival (WFF; french: le Festival des Films du Monde) was one of Canada's oldest international film festivals and the only competitive film festival in North America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Incendies
''Incendies'' (; "Fires") is a 2010 Canadian drama film directed by Denis Villeneuve, who co-wrote the screenplay with Valérie Beaugrand-Champagne. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's play of the same name, ''Incendies'' stars Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, and Rémy Girard. The story concerns Canadian twins who travel to their mother's native country in the Middle East to uncover her hidden past amidst a bloody civil war. While the country is unnamed, the events in the film are heavily influenced by the Lebanese Civil War and particularly the story of prisoner Souha Bechara. The film was shot mainly in Montreal, with a few days spent in Jordan. It premiered at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals in September 2010 and was released in Quebec on 17 September 2010. It met with critical acclaim in Canada and abroad and won numerous awards. In 2011, it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. ''Incendies'' also won eight Genie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Timekeeper (2009 Film)
''The Timekeeper'' (french: L’Heure de vérité) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Louis Bélanger and released in 2009. Adapted from the novel of the same name by Trevor Ferguson, the film stars Craig Olejnik as Martin Bishop, a young man who takes a job on a railway construction crew in the Northwest Territories, but struggles under the harsh cruelty of crew foreman Fisk (Stephen McHattie).Brendan Kelly, "Time waits for Louis Bélanger's The Timekeeper". ''Montreal Gazette'', August 20, 2009. The cast also includes Roy Dupuis, Gary Farmer, Julian Richings and Wayne Robson.D. E. Seguin"Louis Belanger starts shooting The Timekeeper" ''Screen Daily'', August 8, 2007. Bélanger's first English-language feature film, it was shot in 2007 in the Port-Cartier and Sept-Îles regions of Quebec. Due to financial problems at distributor Christal Films, the film was not commercially released until it was picked up by Les Films Séville in 2009. The film received five Jutra Award nomina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
