A beautiful fall in perspective for Quebec filmmakers. While Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette will be a member of the jury at the Namur International Francophone Film Festival (FIFF), in France, the film The red roomsby Montreal filmmaker Pascal Plante, will be presented in Namur, but also in Mannheim, Germany.
The organization of the 28e edition of the FIFF unveiled its complete program on Thursday as well as the members of its juries, and director Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette will be part of the Feature Films jury, chaired this year by French actress Mélanie Doutey. It is therefore a return to Namur for the Quebec filmmaker who presented her film there The Goddess of Fire Flies in 2020.
Two Quebec feature films were selected in the competition this year: the psychological thriller The red roomsby Montreal filmmaker Pascal Plante, and SOLOby Sophie Dupuis. A hole in the chestby Jean-Sébastien Hamel and Alexandra Myotte, and The hot summer, by Marie-Pier Dupuis, will compete for the Best Short Film awards. The FIFF takes place from September 29 to October 6.
The red rooms will also be presented this November at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival, Germany, in the Pushing the Boundaries section, dedicated to works by established directors who push the boundaries of their medium in original ways.
The festival organization writes that, in his thriller, Pascal Plante “attacks the dark underside of the human condition and fully immerses himself in the point of view of his female protagonist”. In The red rooms, released in theaters this summer and still in theaters, a young woman attends the trial of a man accused of the murder of three girls, and her resemblance to one of them pushes her to look for the last piece of the puzzle. head. This film earned Pascal Plante (Nadia Butterfly, Fake tattoos And The porn generation) four awards at Fantasia, including the Cheval Noir for best feature film.
Finally, the movie Slush heartdirected by Mariloup Wolfe based on the eponymous novel by Sarah-Maude Beauchesne, will be presented in Germany, at the Schlingel International Youth Film Festival and at the LUCAS International Festival of Young Cinema Lovers, in the United States, at the Film Festival in Newport Beach, and in Estonia, at the Black Nights Festival in Tallinn.
Remember that Quebecer Ariane Louis-Seize won first prize last week in the Giornate degli Autori section of the 80e Venice International Film Festival, which has just ended. The Best Director Award in this parallel section of the Mostra, also called Venice Days, went to his first feature film, Humanist vampire seeking consenting suicide. The film will be released on October 13 in Quebec. Leave the night by Belgian-Québécoise Delphine Girard, for her part, won the Giornate degli Autori Public Prize.