Les monteurs à l'affiche: Family stories
Since 2016, Les monteurs à l’affiche festival has presented an annual event aimed at highlighting the work of editors and sharing with the public some of the challenges met at this crucial step in a cinematographic creation.
This year, in partnership with the labdoc, Les monteurs à l'affiche is organizing a seminar on the theme of the family bond, during which five guest editors will discuss their work on documentary films about one or more members of the director's family. This event is a unique opportunity to reflect on this particular bond and how it shapes the creative intimacy between the editor and the filmmaker.
To complement the event, Tënk offers you a programming layover highlighting the films that will be at the center of the discussions during this seminar.
The documentaries chosen by the committee illustrate the different forms that these family stories can take and, above all, the multiple editing processes possible to achieve them. Two films examine the filmmakers' relationship with their mothers: Serge Giguère's My Mother's Letters, edited by Catherine Legault, is composed of a multitude of materials and points of view, while Claude Demers' A Woman, My Mother, edited by Natalie Lamoureux, offers a streamlined form, narrated by the director. Kristina Wagenbauer's Babushka, edited by Xi Feng, explores the director's relationship with her grandmother in everyday scenes. André-Line Beauparlant's Le petit Jésus and Pinocchio, edited by Sophie Leblond and about the director's two brothers, resonate with each other and reflect a long-standing collaboration. Les Rose de Félix Rose, edited by Michel Giroux, focuses on a well-known public figure and is a real tour de force in the assembly of archives. In all cases, these films are undeniably the result of a sensitive editing process and a necessary relationship of trust between the filmmakers and the editors.
We invite you to this free event for all film lovers, documentary enthusiasts and those curious about the art of editing! It will be held on November 5th 2022 at 1pm at Cinéma Moderne. It will be an opportunity to meet and exchange with the editors Xi Feng, Natalie Lamoureux, Sophie Leblond and Catherine Legault as well as the editor Michel Giroux. We look forward to seeing you there!
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Babushka
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A Canadian director visits her grandmother in Russia after 25 years of separation. The reunion reveals the influence of important historical events on their past and the magnitude of their relationship. From the Second World War to the fall of the Soviet Union, their journey allows us to uncover the layers of their personal stories and family traumas, not unlike a Russian doll. Armed with humor...
Le petit Jésus
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On August 30th, 1977, my brother was born. I was eleven years old. It was the first time that I saw my father cry. We had to be pray and above all, we had to behave ourselves. It was that day that my father stopped talking and my mother stopped laughing.
My Mother's Letters
Director Serge Giguère got his hands on a hundred letters written by his mother at the turn of the 1950s. While these letters recount the difficult, but often comical, daily life of a working-class family of sixteen children, Serge Giguère undertakes to cobble together his own memories to bring out so many heterogeneous moments, like an echo of his mother who sews, upholster and invents her lif...
A Woman, My Mother
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\*A Woman, My Mother\* tells the story of a woman who did not want to have children. This woman is the mother of filmmaker Claude Demers, who sets out to find her. A poetic work at the frontier of documentary and the imaginary, carried by the urgency of exorcising the past to better embrace the future.
Pinocchio
Eric is working his way around the world crewing on ships. He seems to be living the life he’s always dreamed of until he gets arrested in Brazil, awaiting deportation to Canada. Éric’s sister, filmmaker André-Line Beauparlant, gradually pierces the mystery surrounding her brother, a man of prodigious imagination, who has mastered the art of deception as the ultimate way of life.
Babushka
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A Canadian director visits her grandmother in Russia after 25 years of separation. The reunion reveals the influence of important historical events on their past and the magnitude of their relationship. From the Second World War to the fall of the Soviet Union, their journey allows us to uncover the layers of their personal stories and family traumas, not unlike a Russian doll. Armed with humor...
Le petit Jésus
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On August 30th, 1977, my brother was born. I was eleven years old. It was the first time that I saw my father cry. We had to be pray and above all, we had to behave ourselves. It was that day that my father stopped talking and my mother stopped laughing.
My Mother's Letters
Director Serge Giguère got his hands on a hundred letters written by his mother at the turn of the 1950s. While these letters recount the difficult, but often comical, daily life of a working-class family of sixteen children, Serge Giguère undertakes to cobble together his own memories to bring out so many heterogeneous moments, like an echo of his mother who sews, upholster and invents her lif...
A Woman, My Mother
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\*A Woman, My Mother\* tells the story of a woman who did not want to have children. This woman is the mother of filmmaker Claude Demers, who sets out to find her. A poetic work at the frontier of documentary and the imaginary, carried by the urgency of exorcising the past to better embrace the future.
Pinocchio
Eric is working his way around the world crewing on ships. He seems to be living the life he’s always dreamed of until he gets arrested in Brazil, awaiting deportation to Canada. Éric’s sister, filmmaker André-Line Beauparlant, gradually pierces the mystery surrounding her brother, a man of prodigious imagination, who has mastered the art of deception as the ultimate way of life.
