Romane Garant Chartrand
Romane Garant Chartrand is a screenwriter and director. With a bachelor’s degree in cinema and a diploma in screenwriting from UQAM, her graduation film, Love-Me (2021), made a name for itself at festivals and won several awards. Upon graduation, she was selected by the NFB’s Repêchage initiative to direct her first professional short documentary, Afterwards (2023). The film had its world premiere at RIDM and its international premiere at the prestigious Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, and won the Best Documentary Short Film Award at RVQC (2024). It also won the Académie pour la Relève (2022) and the Bourse de démarrage Jean-Marc Vallée (2024). With a sensitive, caring approach, she explores the often unrecognized struggles of women and marginalized groups, giving body and voice to their experiences.
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Afterwards
Duration: 50 minutes
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Inside a shelter, participants in a talking circle share their experiences of intimate partner violence as a way to regain their dignity and strength to act. Powerfully empathetic, _Afterwards_ creates a space of sisterhood and solidarity—a chorus of voices breaking down the walls of silence.
Afterwards
Duration: 50 minutes
Subscription access
Inside a shelter, participants in a talking circle share their experiences of intimate partner violence as a way to regain their dignity and strength to act. Powerfully empathetic, _Afterwards_ creates a space of sisterhood and solidarity—a chorus of voices breaking down the walls of silence.
