Jean-François Lesage


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After studying law, Jean-François Lesage began working as a journalist for Radio-Canada television in Alberta and British Columbia. In 1998, moved by a close-up of Gong Li in the film Red Sorghum, he flew to Beijing. There he spent six years in contact with independent Chinese filmmakers such as Wang Bing, Zhao Liang and Yang Lina. Inspired by their energy and courage, he directed his first creative documentary, Sweet Nights Sour Nights (2004), and then, with his brother Philippe Lesage, How Can You Tell if the Little Fish are Happy? (2009), a chronicle of the summer of a group of young people in Beijing. Back in Montreal, he directed A Mile End Tale (2013), the closing film of Visions du Réel, then A Summer Love (2015), Grand Prize of the RIDM national feature film competition. This was followed by The Hidden River (2017), Special Jury Prize of the RIDM National Feature Film Competition, and his sixth film, Prayer for a Lost Mitten (2020), Best Canadian Feature Film at Hot Docs.

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