The red rooms is the winning feature film of the 13e edition of the Collegial Prize for Quebec Cinema, the results of which were revealed on Saturday. Pascal Plante’s film was chosen “for the effectiveness of this disturbing and current thriller, with ambiguous and confusing characters, which exposes the technological and morbid obsessions of our time”, explain the organizers in a press release.
Madeleineby director Raquel Sancinetti, was elected by young film buffs as best short documentary film, “a film which demonstrated originality in terms of its artistic direction, as well as the themes covered”, underline the representatives of the CEGEPs.
In all, nearly 1,250 students from 55 CEGEPs saw the five finalist feature films, among which we also found Simple like Sylvain (Monia Chokri), Humanist vampire seeks suicidal consenting (Ariane Louis-Seize), Gamma rays (Henry Bernadet), and Geographies of Solitude (Jacquelyn Mills).
A special screening of the two winning films will take place on Friday, April 12 at 5:30 p.m. at the Cinémathèque québécoise.