The Films of FCVQ
Discover three works that left their mark on recent editions of the Quebec City Film Festival, a unifying event that always gives pride of place to socially engaged cinema.
For 15 years, the Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec (FCVQ) has been offering audiences from the greater Capitale-Nationale region and eastern Quebec a grand celebration of cinema. Bridging fiction and documentary, and showcasing local, national, and international films, the FCVQ is an event that brings together film lovers and the general public for a festive and welcoming gathering.
Year after year, the FCVQ provides a unique human experience with films that reflect the latest trends in world cinema, with a particular focus on films that engage with the major issues of our time. The festival aims to be a place where cinema becomes a vehicle for humanism, dialogue, and transformation, opening windows onto other imaginaries and possible worlds.
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Girls & Gods
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In a taboo-breaking personal journey, Inna Shevchenko, a prominent FEMEN activist, meets extraordinary and inspiring women: some fight against religion, others defend it, and many, surprisingly, are fighting to reform it. They are all united by one belief: women are magnificent. No god — neither in heaven nor on earth — may deprive them of their rights or subordinate them to men.
Abortion Dream Team
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Every third woman in the world will have an abortion. That’s a fact. But in Poland, abortion is almost completely banned, as the government treats the life of a fetus as more important than the life of a woman. Luckily, there is the Abortion Dream Team — a group of four women who run a hotline to support women in need.
Her Scream
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Audrey, a woman in her mid-fifties, has never been able to make peace with her tumultuous family history. She now decides to confront her demons. Supported by her son, the director of the documentary, she revisits a striking scene from her past: the moment when she told her parents that her grandfather had sexually assaulted her. Together, through a year-long production process, they transform ...
To Be Eighteen (The War)
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In this cinematic essay, the filmmaker intertwines imagery from her own daily life with the memories of Lisa (Yelyzaveta), an 18-year-old Ukrainian who lived in Montreal for a few months. Two strangers, so far yet so close.
Zlata
Twelve-year old Zlata has to find her way in Belgium, after she inevitably had to flee the war in home country Ukraine. Her father Petro and Findus, the cat, stayed behind, mother Ira and little brother Martin came along. Step by step the adolescent girl explores not only her new living environment, but also her own identity. Awaiting the uncertain arrival of her father, Zlata slowly opens up.
Château rouge
Goutte d'Or district, Paris, Château Rouge metro station, Georges Clemenceau secondary school. Teenagers, burdened with their carelessness and their wounds, have to grow up. They are shaping their personalities, losing their way, searching for themselves. Adults try to guide them despite the violence of the system.
Joseph Samuel Jacques Julien
Jacques is 59 years old and has spent his entire career as a salesman in Quebec City. The past few months have been especially challenging for him: mourning the loss of his wife, he finds it difficult to regain his footing. Should he change his life? Change his identity? Amidst a growing political turmoil, the narrator remains hopeful, insisting that Jacques still has reason to hope.
Idle Times
Beginning in the late 19th century, the history of baseball tells the story of the transformation of pastures and mindsets in North America. Slow and repetitive, the game makes ample room for daydreaming and boasting. Full-bodied and mannered, it evokes the vastness of a new continent while also recalling its British origins. Filmed at the Victoria Stadium in Quebec and developed with the colla...
Rumba Rules, New Genealogies
Immersing itself in the daily life of one of the great orchestras of the current generation, this film proposes an incursion into the arcanes of a monumental genre of African music. Ya Mayi, Lumumba, Xéna La Guerrière, Pitchou Travolta, Alfred Solo, Soleil Patron and many others: nearly thirty artists feed the creative life of the Brigade Sarbati Orchestra. By entering the group and the city of...
Light Plays
Old footage from 16mm film is scratched, drawn upon, and experimentally animated with a quantum dots solution. The film seems at first about sound, the moon, and exotic birds, but it is more about narration, experimentation, and playfulness.
The Long Wail of a Passing Train Slips into the Heart of the Ghosts and Everything Explodes into Silence
An experimental animated film built around a single sound recording that evokes travel, the need to communicate, solitude, fragility, the desire for freedom, the arrival of fall, and our ephemeral existence.
Girls & Gods
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In a taboo-breaking personal journey, Inna Shevchenko, a prominent FEMEN activist, meets extraordinary and inspiring women: some fight against religion, others defend it, and many, surprisingly, are fighting to reform it. They are all united by one belief: women are magnificent. No god — neither in heaven nor on earth — may deprive them of their rights or subordinate them to men.
Abortion Dream Team
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Every third woman in the world will have an abortion. That’s a fact. But in Poland, abortion is almost completely banned, as the government treats the life of a fetus as more important than the life of a woman. Luckily, there is the Abortion Dream Team — a group of four women who run a hotline to support women in need.
Her Scream
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Audrey, a woman in her mid-fifties, has never been able to make peace with her tumultuous family history. She now decides to confront her demons. Supported by her son, the director of the documentary, she revisits a striking scene from her past: the moment when she told her parents that her grandfather had sexually assaulted her. Together, through a year-long production process, they transform ...
To Be Eighteen (The War)
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In this cinematic essay, the filmmaker intertwines imagery from her own daily life with the memories of Lisa (Yelyzaveta), an 18-year-old Ukrainian who lived in Montreal for a few months. Two strangers, so far yet so close.
Zlata
Twelve-year old Zlata has to find her way in Belgium, after she inevitably had to flee the war in home country Ukraine. Her father Petro and Findus, the cat, stayed behind, mother Ira and little brother Martin came along. Step by step the adolescent girl explores not only her new living environment, but also her own identity. Awaiting the uncertain arrival of her father, Zlata slowly opens up.
Château rouge
Goutte d'Or district, Paris, Château Rouge metro station, Georges Clemenceau secondary school. Teenagers, burdened with their carelessness and their wounds, have to grow up. They are shaping their personalities, losing their way, searching for themselves. Adults try to guide them despite the violence of the system.
Joseph Samuel Jacques Julien
Jacques is 59 years old and has spent his entire career as a salesman in Quebec City. The past few months have been especially challenging for him: mourning the loss of his wife, he finds it difficult to regain his footing. Should he change his life? Change his identity? Amidst a growing political turmoil, the narrator remains hopeful, insisting that Jacques still has reason to hope.
Idle Times
Beginning in the late 19th century, the history of baseball tells the story of the transformation of pastures and mindsets in North America. Slow and repetitive, the game makes ample room for daydreaming and boasting. Full-bodied and mannered, it evokes the vastness of a new continent while also recalling its British origins. Filmed at the Victoria Stadium in Quebec and developed with the colla...
Rumba Rules, New Genealogies
Immersing itself in the daily life of one of the great orchestras of the current generation, this film proposes an incursion into the arcanes of a monumental genre of African music. Ya Mayi, Lumumba, Xéna La Guerrière, Pitchou Travolta, Alfred Solo, Soleil Patron and many others: nearly thirty artists feed the creative life of the Brigade Sarbati Orchestra. By entering the group and the city of...
Light Plays
Old footage from 16mm film is scratched, drawn upon, and experimentally animated with a quantum dots solution. The film seems at first about sound, the moon, and exotic birds, but it is more about narration, experimentation, and playfulness.
The Long Wail of a Passing Train Slips into the Heart of the Ghosts and Everything Explodes into Silence
An experimental animated film built around a single sound recording that evokes travel, the need to communicate, solitude, fragility, the desire for freedom, the arrival of fall, and our ephemeral existence.
