''Nouveau Québec'' is a Canadian drama film, directed by Sarah Fortin and released in 2021. The film stars
Christine Beaulieu
Christine Beaulieu (born October 14, 1981) is a Canadian actress and playwright.
Career
She received a Canadian Screen Award nomination as Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actress at the 4th Canadian Screen Awar ...
and Jean-Sébastien Courchesne as Sophie and Mathieu, a couple whose relationship is tested by their differing reactions to being exposed to
First Nations
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culture while visiting the remote northern town of
Schefferville
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,
Quebec
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.
The film premiered in October 2021 at the
Festival du nouveau cinéma
The Festival du nouveau cinéma or FNC (English: ''Festival of New Cinema'') is an annual independent film festival held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, featuring independent films from around the world. Over 160,000 people attend each year. One of ...
. It was subsequently screened at the 2021
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, where Fortin won both the
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
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's EDA Award for best narrative feature directed by a woman, and the
Borsos Competition
The Borsos Competition is the main awards program for Canadian feature films screening at the annual Whistler Film Festival. The award is named in memory of Canadian film director Phillip Borsos.
Introduced for the first time in 2004, the juried ...
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'', December 20, 2021.
The film received two
Canadian Screen Award
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Jean-Luc Kanapé Jean-Luc Kanapé is an Innu people, Innu activist and actor from Canada, most prominent as a caribou conservationist. A researcher for the Pessamit Innu Band council, he is involved in efforts to track and monitor the population of caribou in the Pi ...
) and
Best Cinematography
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Best Actor/Best Actress
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