Québec City's Film Festival
This year is the second edition of our Film festival and I wanted to highlight the fact that we have some interesting projections.
Living in a Metropolitan area where we have so few Theaters, an event like this one is a do not miss.
À MOI SEULE
Frédéric Videau
91 MIN
After eight years of capticity by her kidnapper, Gaëlle must face her life without him.
SAT. 15 SEPT.
ALPEIS
Yorgos Lanthimos
93 MIN
A group of people start a business where they impersonate the recently
deceased in order to help their clients through the grieving process.
MON. 17 SEPT.
ANTIVIRAL
Brandon Cronenberg
110 MIN
After becoming infected with the virus that killed superstar Hannah
Geist, Syd March must unravel the mystery surrounding her death to save
his own life.
MON. 17 SEPT.
ANTON CORBIJN INSIDE OUT
Klaartje Quirjns
90 MIN
An intimate portrait of Anton Corbijn as he travels the world as a photographer, film maker and video artist...
TUE. 18 SEPT.
APRÈS LA NEIGE
Paul Barbeau
74 MIN
A music video producer is forced to shut down his production company
(NuFilms) due to the illegal downloading of music. He attempts to
reconnect with his teenage son, but realizes he may have lost more than
he ever imagined.
SAT. 15 SEPT.
AVANT QUE MON COEUR BASCULE
Sébastien Rose
90 MIN
The key moment in a young teenager's life before she commits an act she will regret forever.
FRI. 14 SEPT.
BESTIAIRE
Denis Côté
72 MIN
Animals/People: Along the rhythm of the changing seasons they watch one
another. Bestiary unfolds like a filmed picture book about mutual
observation...
THU. 20 SEPT.
BYE BYE BLONDIE
Virginie Despentes
87 MIN
A sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll tale about two lesbian lovers.
MON. 17 SEPT.
CARNETS D'UN GRAND DÉTOUR
Catherine Hébert
94 MIN
A documentary about Marc Roger who decided to walk from St-Malo to Bamako with only a donkey and some books.
FRI. 21 SEPT.
CHRONIQUES SEXUELLES D'UNE FAMILLE D'AUJOURD'HUI
Pascal Arnold, Jean-Marc Barr
77 MIN
Three generations of a French family open up about their sexual
experiences and desires after young Romain is caught masturbating in his
biology class.
MON. 17 SEPT.
CITADEL
Ciarán Foy
84 MIN
An agoraphobic father teams up with a renegade priest to save his
daughter from the clutches of a gang of twisted feral children.
FRI. 14 SEPT.
CLIENT 9: THE RISE AND FALL OF ELIOT SPITZER
Alex Gibney
117 MIN
An in-depth look at the rise and fall of New York Governor Eliot
Spitzer, including interviews with the scandalized, former politician.
FRI. 21 SEPT.
COLUMBARIUM
Steve Kerr
86 MIN
Following the mysterious death of his dad, Mathew, a Wall Street
financial engineer, has to build a columbarium by the family cottage
with his younger brother Simon.
THU. 20 SEPT.
CRAVE
Charles de Lauzirika
113 MIN
A man struggles to cope with life's annoyances and romances, while trying to distinguish between fantasy and reality.
FRI. 21 SEPT.
CRULIC - DRUMUL SPRE DINCOLO
Anca Damian
73 MIN
The animated documentary feature-length Crulic The Path to Beyond tells the story of the life of Crulic...
TUE. 18 SEPT.
DOOMSDAY BOOK
Kim Jee-woon, Yim Pil-sung
120 MIN
Doomsday Book is an anthology movie, split into 3 different chapters. The first Chapter, entitled Heaven's Creation...
SAT. 15 SEPT.
EL HUASO
Carlo Guillermo Proto
78 MIN
Struggling with short-term memory loss, Gustavo has retired from his
business and finds some solace in his homeland of Chile by pursuing a
childhood dream...
SAT. 15 SEPT.
EL TAAIB
Merzak Allouache
87 MIN
A film about Algeria... - I haven't found much info about this one.
THU. 20 SEPT.
ELEFANTE BLANCO
Pablo Trapero
110 MIN
The "Villa Virgin", a shantytown in the slums of Buenos Aires. Julian and Nicolas, two priests and long-standing friends...
FRI. 21 SEPT.
ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM
Alex Gibney
110 MIN
A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.
TUE. 18 SEPT.
ET SI ON VIVAIT TOUS ENSEMBLE?
Stéphane Robelin
96 MIN
Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternate to living in
a retirement home; joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is
on the aging population.
TUE. 18 SEPT.
FAUST
Aleksandr Sokurov
140 MIN
A version of the German legend in which a man who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge.
SUN. 16 SEPT.
GONZO: LIFE & WORK OF DR HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Alex Gibney
120 MIN
A portrait of the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.
WED. 19 SEPT.
INCH'ALLAH
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
99 MIN
Chloe is a young Canadian doctor who divides her time between Ramallah, where she works with the Red Crescent...
SAT. 22 SEPT.
J'ESPÈRE QUE TU VAS BIEN
David La Haye, Jay Tremblay
87 MIN
A funny film about friendship and lost love. A 100% improvised by the three actors. One take with a steadycam and no cut.
WED. 19 SEPT.
JE SUIS VENU VOUS DIRE, GAINSBOURG PAR GINZBURG
Pierre-Henry Salfati
99 MIN
An autobiography told by Gainsbourg himself and spoke at the first person. Told with his dialogues with people in his life.
TUE. 18 SEPT.
L
Babis Makridis
87 MIN
It's absurd not to trust me.
THU. 20 SEPT.
L'AFFAIRE DUMONT
Podz
120 MIN
Michel Dumont is a delivery boy for a grovery store. Divorced and father of two young children, is accused and condemned for a Sexual agression that he refuses to acknowledge.
THU. 13 SEPT.
LA PIROGUE
Moussa Touré
87 MIN
A fisherman village in the suburbs of Dakar. A vast number of pirogues travel from Dakar to the Canary Islands.
WED. 19 SEPT.
LA VIE D'UNE AUTRE
Sylvie Testud
97 MIN
A young woman falls in love, then wakes up a decade later as the mother of a young boy who is also in the middle of a divorce.
MON. 17 SEPT.
LE 22E RÉGIMENT EN AFGHANISTAN
Claude Guilmain
45 MIN
A documentary that brings us in Afghanistan with the Canadian Army of the 22nd Regiment Troops .
SAT. 22 SEPT.
LES FRAISES DES BOIS
Dominique Choisy
108 MIN
Violette and Gabriel seems to be two normal adults...
SUN. 16 SEPT.
RUDE BOY STORY
Kamir Meridja
85 MIN
Rude Boy Story is a documentary on the atypic musical path of the French band Dub Inc.
SUN. 16 SEPT.
SOMEWHERE TO DISAPPEAR
Laure Flammarion, Arnaud Uyttenhove
57 MIN
A documentary about people living alone out of the conventional societies.
FRI. 14 SEPT.
SONS OF NORWAY
Jens Lien
87 MIN
It's not easy to rebel when your dad wants to join the party... One day
(in 1979), Magnus and his son Nikolaj hit the wall in their new terrace
house in Rykkinn....
THU. 20 SEPT.
STEVE JOBS - THE LOST INTERVIEW
Paul Sen
70 MIN
A conversation with Steve Jobs as he was running NeXT, the company he had founded after leaving Apple.
MON. 17 SEPT.
TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE
Alex Gibney
106 MIN
An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in
Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi
driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.
THU. 20 SEPT.
THE CO(TE)LETTE FILM
Mike Figgis
59 MIN
A cinematographic adaptation of the dance performance by Ann Van den Broek.
FRI. 21 SEPT.
THE KING OF PIGS
Yeun Sang-ho
97 MIN
When Jong-suk and Kyung-min meet up to talk about their high school past, it's been fifteen years since they last talk. It brings up all kinds of memories.
SAT. 15 SEPT.
THE LAST GLADIATORS
Alex Gibney
94 MIN
In Ice Hockey no one is tougher than the "goon". Those players have one mission: to protect the star players at any price.
THU. 20 SEPT.
THE MOST FUN I'VE EVER HAD WITH MY PANTS ON
Drew Denny
95 MIN
The Most Fun I've Ever Had With My Pants On follows two childhood girlfriends Andy and Liv who...
FRI. 14 SEPT.
TURN ME ON, GODDAMMIT!
Jannicke Systad Jacobsen
76 MIN
In Skoddeheimen, Norway, 15-year-old Alma is consumed by her hormones
and fantasies that range from sweetly romantic images of Artur, the
boyfriend she yearns for, to daydreams about practically everybody she
lays eyes on.
SAT. 15 SEPT.
What do you think of the program? Which films would you be attending?
That's a pretty impressive lineup. Which one(s) are you going to?
ReplyDeleteI'll try to catch L'affaire Dumont, Turn Me On Goddammit, L, The Last Gladitors. But the showings are mostly at times that I am at work so I might miss some of these unfortunately.
DeleteThe Last Gladiators looks awesome, sadly that one is not coming to VIFF.
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