From February 15 to 26, 2012, the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois will be celebrating its 30th anniversary. Between the festival and the retrospective, the RVCQ is the largest annual celebration of Quebec cinema. An exceptional showcase for numerous young filmmakers, a place of encounters, exchanges and new ideas for all professionals working in the industry, a unique opportunity for film buffs and the general public to appreciate the extent of Quebec filmmaking: the Rendez-vous is incontestably the panorama of Quebec film to watch for and an essential date on the Quebec film festival calendar.
This year, thirteen works distributed by Vidéographe will be screened at the event.
On February 16 at 8:00 p.m., Simon Plouffe’s L’or des autres (The Gold of Others) will be screened at the Cinémathèque québécoise. This documentary depicts the turbulent arrival of the Osisko mining company in Malartic, a small community in the Abitibi region, forcing many residents to abandon their heritage and to close a chapter of their way of life.
That same day, at 9:30 p.m., the short film L’Homme de glace (Ice Philosophy) by Olivier Higgins and Mélanie Carrier will be shown at the NFB Cinema. Sometimes it is only when something becomes rare that it seems precious in our eyes...
On February 17 at 7:30 p.m. the filmmaker Denis Chouinard will present his latest documentary. In the course of 13 encounters with the residents of an Innu community on Quebec’s north shore, Betsiamites explores the meaning of being indigenous in today’s world. This screening will take place at the NFB Cinema.
On February 18 at 2:30 p.m., Fernand-Philippe Morin-Vargas’ Noeud papillon will be shown at the Cinémathèque québécoise. To date, this fiction film has won the award for Best Short Film at the 42nd Canadian Student Film Festival and an Honourable Mention for best script at the Festival du Cinéma de Lanaudière.
On February 19 at 3:00 p.m., Pierre Hébert’s animated short films Place Carnot-Lyon and Rivière au tonnerre (Thunder River) will be screened at the NFB Cinema. Rivière au tonnerre has been nominated for a 2012 Jutra award in the animation category.
That same day, at 5:15 p.m., Étienne Desrosiers’ experimental film Nexte Haltestelle will be shown at the Cinémathèque québécoise. In Dresden, a young woman receives mysterious letters sent by the ghost of her grandmother.
On February 20 at 9:45 p.m., Jean-Guillaume Bastien’s short film Les Dimanches (Sundays) will be screened at the Cinémathèque québécoise. In a small village in the Lower St. Lawrence region of Quebec, three brief stories unfold one Sunday in an almost surreal atmosphere.
On February 23 at 6:00 p.m., Simon Beaulieu’s documentary Marcel Saint-Pierre, portrait will receive its world premiere at the Cinémathèque québécoise. While creating a work, the painter Marcel Saint-Pierre talks about the essence of his practice of pictorial deconstruction and directs his thoughts to art and its role in society’s evolution.
On February 25 at 4:00 p.m., Caroline St-Laurent’s Papillon/Bacon will be shown at the Cinémathèque québécoise. This short art video explores the physical limits of the body through the presentation of two similar movements.
On the same program, festival-goers can discover Sylvie Laliberté’s Bien sûr. This short art video is a little demonstration of "what is the point of a mountain" with a few small objects, words and a song.
That same day, but at 5:15 p.m., Étienne de Massy’s Héligo will be screened at the Cinémathèque québécoise. In the space of a few minutes, Héligo transports the viewer into outer space: the suburbs of a star and the daydreams of an alter-human in his spacecraft.
Still on February 25 at the Cinémathèque québécoise, Jason Paré’s short film Jeune assassin cherche cadavre fringant pour l’enterrer et peut-être + (Young Assassin Seeks Dashing Corpse to Bury and Maybe More) will be shown at 9:45 p.m. A quite simple murder becomes a real nightmare. It’s difficult for just anyone to be a murderer on their first attempt.
For more information:
http://www.rvcq.com/festival-30e