Les Percéides is a
film festival
A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theater, cinemas or screening venues, usually annually and in a single city or region. Some film festivals show films outdoors or online.
Films may be of recent ...
, staged annually in
Percé,
Quebec
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, Canada. The festival's name blends the town's name with the
Perseids
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meteor shower (''perséides'' in French), reflecting both the event's timing in August right around the time that the Perseids normally appear, and the fact that the festival's centrepiece event is a gala screening under the night sky at the town's public beach.
Other than the outdoor gala, films at the festival are normally screened at the Centre d'art de Percé and the La Vieille Usine arts centre. Due to the
COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
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, the 2020 festival was staged entirely outdoors, taking place at the Paradiso de Petit-Pabos
drive-in
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theatre in nearby
Petit-Pabos, although all films screened at the festival were also made available online from the festival's website for 24 hours after the screening.
The festival was launched in 2009.
Beginning in its second year, the festival presents a number of annual awards.
["Xavier Dolan remporte le premier prix du public du festival Les Percéides". ]Canadian Press
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, August 23, 2010. Winners of its grand prize have included
Xavier Dolan
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's ''
Heartbeats (Les amours imaginaires)'' in 2010,
[ ]Rebecca Zlotowski
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Zlotowski is of Poland, Polish-Morocco, Moroccan descent. Her father, Michel Zlotowski, is an English-French interpreter, while her Moroccan (born in ...
's ''Dear Prudence
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(Belle Épine)'' in 2011, Simon Lavoie
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's ''Laurentia
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(Laurentie)'' in 2012, Chloé Zhao
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'' in 2018, Benedikt Erlingsson's ''Woman at War
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'' in 2019, and Hlynur Pálmason
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He studied film at the National Film School of Denmark ...
's ''A White, White Day
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'' in 2020.[André Duchesne]
"Les Rose obtient le prix du meilleur documentaire au festival Les Percéides"
''La Presse
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'', August 20, 2020.
References
External links
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Film festivals in Quebec
Tourist attractions in Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine
Film festivals established in 2009