Archaeologie de la lumière

Archaeologie de la lumière

Archaeologie de la lumière

Sylvain L’Espérance

71 minutes | 2024
Documentary

Supported by PRIM as part of the
Creative Assistance Program

Prayer for a Lost Mitten - Jean-François Lesage

Synopsis

Far from a picture-perfect postcard, this film offers a personal view of the Minganie landscapes in Quebec’s Côte-Nord region. Following the rhythm imposed by the elements, Sylvain L’Espérance patiently observes the sea, plants, rocks, and clouds cohabitate and their interactions with the contrasting sunlight. Through visual and sound research of great aesthetic precision, asserts a natural reality that exists only through the artistic gaze cast with the help of a technique that imposes its presence and that of the filmmaker. This feature film embodies the potential and limits of its digital source in an approach that at times turns the material abstract. Archéologie de la lumière is a film of infinite detail and is part of the experimental approach of a filmmaker with an infectious curiosity and unique point of view. (RIDM)

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Eastern Anthems

Eastern Anthems

Eastern Anthems

Matthew Wolkow & Jean-Jaques Martinod

76 minutes | 2024
Documentary

Supported by PRIM as part of the
Creative Assistance Program

Prayer for a Lost Mitten - Jean-François Lesage

Synopsis

An unfinished film is passed along from one friend to another. The dialog between them is a journey crossed by the swarming of the Great Eastern Brood X of periodical cicadas that prophetically emerge every 17 years in the United States, invoking a reflection of a post-pandemic present and our shared futures.
A road movie composed of a chorus of voices (both human and non-human), the warnings of history, the power of nature and rebirth. (Kino Rebelde)

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Insecta Mundi

Insecta Mundi

Insecta Mundi

Frédéric Lavoie

45 minutes | 2025
Documentary

Supported by PRIM as part of the
Programme d’Aide à la Création

Prayer for a Lost Mitten - Jean-François Lesage

Synopsis

This film is an exploration of the unsuspected world of insects and their relationship to the rest of the living world (including humans). Neither a purely scientific document, nor simply made up of anecdotes and curiosities, the aim is to create a narrative based on subjects associated with insects. The story is sometimes dramatic, sometimes comic. The aim is to raise public awareness of the collapse of insect biodiversity. Neither a didactic documentary nor a formalist work, the story unfolds through detailed video footage of insects. A telescoping on a scale too small for the eye, to reveal the invisible and the unsuspected.

Biosphère , Canada
World premiere – 2025

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The weather

The weather

WAITING FOR THE STORMS

François Delisle

94 minutes | 2025
Experimental Fiction

Supported by PRIM as part of the
Programme d’Aide à la Création

Prayer for a Lost Mitten - Jean-François Lesage

Synopsis

Through time and varied landscapes, four characters weave a web of stories exploring human resilience in the face of environmental upheaval.Marie, grappling with a young mother’s obsessive and heartbreaking questioning of a dead-end future for her child, transforms her anxiety into passionate activism. Terence, a climate refugee, entrusts his fate to strangers, hoping to find asylum in the north. McKenzie, a state security agent, breaks the shackles of the system to regain control of her destiny and finally feel alive. Then Kira, a soldier, deserts the army to join a nomadic tribe, guardians of humanist values. A fable about the climate crisis, Time transcends artistic boundaries to engage in a necessary dialogue between our past, present and future.

International festival on Films on Art , Canada
World premiere – 2025

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False fir trees

False fir trees

Les faux sapins

Justine Martin

15 minutes | 2025
Fiction

Distributor: Travelling Distribution

Supported by PRIM as part of the
Programme d’Aide à la Création

Prayer for a Lost Mitten - Jean-François Lesage

Synopsis

Florence (8) accompanies her sister Simone (6) to meet Santa Claus at the local market. The magic is at its height when, a few moments later, a traumatic incident occurs: Santa Claus jolts violently and falls to his death. Shocked, Florence will do anything to protect her little sister’s imagination.

Regard , Canada
World premiere – 2025

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