Festival to highlight Quebec films

The Quebec Film Tour stops in Sudbury at the Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival Wednesday and Friday, Sept. 20 and 22, with many special guests.

The Quebec Film Tour is an ambitious cultural mediation and distribution project, organized by Les Rendez-vous du cinema québécois.

Over the years it has become the ambassador of Quebec and French-Canadian culture through cinema. Katerine-Lune Rollet, host of the Canadian cultural television show Art Circuit broadcasted on Radio-Canada, will present guests and host the events programmed for the tour in Sudbury.

An impressive program is scheduled for this first visit in Sudbury, including four feature length movies and two presented in premiere.

The screenings for Sept. 20 will begin with Barbers, A Men's Story by Claude Demers. The film will be shown at 4 pm. Demers will attend the showing which will be preceded by a Franco-Ontarian short movie.

At 8 pm, the public will have the opportunity to see, in premiere, The Secret Life of Happy People by director Stéphane Lapointe. The film is an official entry at the Los Angeles American Film Institute Festival in November. A discussion with the director  will follow the screening, and a short movie Les Adieux by Lisa Sfriso will be shown.

On Sept. 22, Forgive Me by Denis Chouinard, a Quebec director who has won many prices and nominations here and abroad, will be presented at 1 pm. The film will be also preceded by a Franco-Ontarian short movie.

At 4 pm, Without Her by well-known director Jean Beaudin, one of the most important directors of Quebec movie history, will makes its premiere. The film will be preceded by the short movie Les Eaux mortes by Guy Édoin, which has already been selected by various festivals, including  Toronto.

All screenings will take place at the Cineplex Galaxy SilverCity.

At every stop, the film tour will organize meetings with young people who share an interest in cinematographic art.  On Friday, Sept. 22, students and the general public will have the opportunity to participate in the practical workshop Filmmaking 101, an overview of the history of film music, accompanied by a practical exercise demonstrating the importance of music in cinema. The workshop will be hosted by director and music composer Michel Lam and is put together with the participation of the Institut National de l'Image et du Son (INIS).