Sophie Goyette is an award-winning Québécois screenwriter and director. Her short films En parallèle (2008), À l’état sauvage (2009), and Manèges (2010) garnered attention in the festival circuit. Premiering at the Locarno Film Festival, her fourth short film, La ronde (2011), was selected for the Top Ten Canada and won the Best Fiction Short Film Award at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois. Her fifth short film, Le futur proche (2012), also received several accolades, including the Grand National Prize at the Festival Regard during its world premiere, and it was selected for international competition at Sundance in 2013. Mes nuits feront écho (2017) is her first feature film, which won the Bright Future Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
_The Seven Last Words_ sounds out experiential states and rituals particular to humanity, based on the seven themes expressed in a musical composition: forgiveness, salvation, relationship, abandonment, distress, triumph, and reunion. Seven award-winning Canadian filmmakers of diverse origins and art practices explore a wealth of human experience and feeling, based on the seven phrases at the o...
_The Seven Last Words_ sounds out experiential states and rituals particular to humanity, based on the seven themes expressed in a musical composition: forgiveness, salvation, relationship, abandonment, distress, triumph, and reunion. Seven award-winning Canadian filmmakers of diverse origins and art practices explore a wealth of human experience and feeling, based on the seven phrases at the o...