Audio y el Caimán

Audio y el Caimán

Andres l.
Estrada

16 minutes | 2024

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

Prayer for a Lost Mitten - Jean-François Lesage

Synopsis

Audio Caña is a charming grandfather and farmer who spends his days entertaining friends and family with fantastic stories.
Yet when he boldly claims that a 19-foot alligator lives in his pond, no one believes him.
Against the backdrop of the Venezuelan plains, Audio embarks on a quest to hunt the alligator and prove its existence to his friends, with the help of his family and 6-year-old granddaughter.

Festival Regard
Special Mention Grand Prix and Audience Award – Canada, 2024 (World Premiere)

Miami Film Festival
Short Documentary Film Award – United States, 2024

Sheffield DocFest – United Kingdom, 2024

Festival del Cine Venezolano – Venezuela, 2024

Festival les Percéides – Canada, 2024

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Bodies of water

Bodies of water

Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin

10 minutes | 2024

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

Prayer for a Lost Mitten - Jean-François Lesage

Synopsis

BODIES OF WATER invites you to hold your breath and let yourself be transported and transformed by water in the company of curious individuals. As night falls, they take over a public swimming pool. These bodies of water, immersed in the aquatic mass, transgress the limits of their natural environment and metamorphose. They then engage in a contemporary dance that reveals them in a new light. The aquatic environment makes them supple and light, but also vulnerable and combative. This poetic mass, enveloping and suffocating, unites, separates and constitutes them.

BODIES OF WATER explores the transformation of human bodies as they interact with water – a fluid, adaptable medium that simultaneously presents resistance. It plunges you underwater for an immersive experience that unveils a rare and otherwise inaccessible contemporary dance.

Venice Biennale
Venice Immersive – 2024

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Le temps des orages

Le temps des orages

Gabrielle Gingras

11 minutes | 2024

Vital Productions

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

Prayer for a Lost Mitten - Jean-François Lesage

Synopsis

Gabrielle, an imaginative but timid child, spends the summer at the cottage with her family.
While her brother and sisters enjoy the last swims of the summer, the youngest closes herself indoors, accompanied by her dog and her many toys, too afraid of the sun and thunderstorms.
In spite of herself, Gabrielle finds herself exposed to the elements.
Under the watchful eye of her family, the young child gradually finds the courage to face her fears.

43rd Festival de cinéma international en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Prix Jeunesse Fonderie Horne – 2023

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Au lendemain de l’Odyssée

Au lendemain de l’Odyssée

Helen Doyle

85 minutes | 2024

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

Distribution SPIRA

Prayer for a Lost Mitten - Jean-François Lesage

Synopsis

After a harrowing journey, women from Nigeria arrive alone and increasingly young in Italy in search of a better life.
From human trafficking to the sexual slavery that awaits them, this choral film offers poignant accounts whose modesty spares us the unbearable.
These stories of welcome lead to a broader reflection on migration and otherness, that true encounter with the Other.
Prayer for a Lost Mitten - Jean-François Lesage

Jean Rouch International Festival
Rencontres Images de migrations (France) – 2024

Créteil International Women’s Film Festival
(France) 2024

Outaouais Film Festival
(Gatineau – Canada) 2024

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The hearing

The hearing

Émilie Beaulieu-Guérette and Peggy Nkunga Ndona

93 minutes | 2023

Colonelle films

Dostribution Les Films du 3 Mars

Prayer for a Lost Mitten - Jean-François Lesage

Synopsis

After crossing 11 countries illegally, Peggy, Simon and their three children await the hearing that will determine whether they will be accepted as refugees in Canada.
Having fled political repression in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the family is trying to rebuild its life in Montreal, in the comfort of a daily life weakened by the omnipresent threat of having to leave.
Between ghosts of the past, hopes for the future and legal mazes, the film plunges into the heart of the Nkunga Mbala family’s struggle to stay in Canada.
Offering unprecedented access to their hearing before the Immigration and Refugee Board, the film lifts the veil on the complex process of claiming asylum in Canada.

Dieppe Canadian Film Festival – Canada, 2024

Festival Reflets du Cinema – France, 2024

Sept-Îles Film Festival – Canada, 2024
Best Documentary Award

Festival Fondu au Noir – Canada, 2024

Rendez-Vous Quebec Cinema Festival – Canada, 2024

Festival International du Cinéma Francophone en Acadie – Canada, 2024

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