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MEET YOUR EDITOR Bruno Chatelin - Check some of his interviews. Board Member of many filmfestivals and regular partner of a few key film events such as Cannes Market, AFM, Venice Production Bridge, Tallinn Industry and Festival...Check our recent partners. The news in French I English This content and related intellectual property cannot be reproduced without prior consent. FIFEQ unveils the lineup of its 19th edition taking place in Montreal from May 4 to 11Huahua’s Dazzling World and its Myriad Temptations by Daphne Xu will open the 19th edition of FIFEQ-MTL
The Festival International du Film Ethnographique du Québec (FIFEQ) is proud to unveil the lineup of its 19th edition, taking place in Montreal from May 4 to 11, 2023. The only ethnographic film festival in Canada will present over 40 films, including 35 short and medium-length films and 13 feature films — favourites picked from some 300 submissions to FIFEQ by filmmakers and anthropologists.
Screenings will take place at Cinéma Moderne, the Cinémathèque québécoise, Cinéma du Parc, Concordia Cinema (VA-114), and the Rialto Theatre. The festival headquarters located at URSA mtl (5589, avenue du Parc) will host various activities, performances, and meetings with the public.
With programming divided into 12 themes, the FIFEQ-MTL team hopes to present a vast array of contemporary ethnographic films — bold cinematic works featuring innovative storytelling and style, which subvert and deconstruct reality. In addition to the screenings, the public will have the opportunity to attend discussions, panels and workshops. A great way to (re)discover ethnographic cinema in all its diversity and depth.
In keeping with its mission to democratize ethnographic cinema, the festival offers free access to its entire lineup, except the opening night.
Trailer of FIFEQ-MTL 2023: vimeo.com/819547127
OPENING NIGHT: BEING HUMAN IN A DIGITAL WORLD On opening night, FIFEQ-MTL invites us to reflect on being human in the 21st century digital era with a screening of the feature film Huahua’s Dazzling World and its Myriad Temptations by Daphne Xu, produced by the Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL) of Harvard University. This Quebec Premiere will be presented in partnership with the Korean Film Festival Canada and the Asian Art Publication Lab. It will be preceded by the short film Inuktitut Languages in the 21st Century de Ulivia Uviluk, produced and distributed by Wapikoni. This opening night screening will happen on Thursday, May 4 at 6:30 p.m. at Cinéma Moderne.
The festivities will continue at URSA mtl from 8:30 p.m. A Lebanese-inspired meal prepared by Trip de bouffe will be served to the public. There will also be two dance performances by artists Rena Eyamie and Laura Borello-Bellemare, followed by house music played by DJ WASA BIBI. This will be the only paying event of the festival—admission is $15 with the film screening, or $12 without the screening. Information and tickets
A TRIBUTE TO DIANA ALLAN: PAINTING AND SINGING PASTS AND PRESENTS A retrospective showcasing the work of Diana Allan, a filmmaker and anthropologist from McGill University, is scheduled for Saturday, May 6 at 5:45 p.m. at Concordia Cinema (VA-114). Her films, which are characterized by their sensory poetry, have been selected by several festivals. This special event will be an opportunity to discuss her work with Palestinian refugees in Lebanon following the Nakba. Before a screening of the films Terrace of the Sea (2009), Still Life (2013) and So Dear, So Lovely (2018), there will be a reading of Diana Allan’s book Voices of Nakba: A Living History of Palestine (2021) by multidisciplinary artist Hoda Adra. A workshop-type activity will be hosted by the filmmaker, who will show exclusive clips from her latest film, which is currently in post-production.
DANCING IMAGES, RHYTHMIC IMAGES Three films with dancing images that transport into rhythmic cinematic worlds, interspersed by a desire for decolonization. From Cuba to colonial Belgium, via Mexico, this session makes our present vibrate with its historical and political musicality with the screening of La Tumba Mambi by DJ Jigüe and Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, Streams of Silence by Valentina Pelayo Atilano, and Under the White Mask: The Film That Haesaerts Could Have Made by Matthias De Groof. It will be presented on Tuesday, May 9 at 5:50 p.m. at Concordia Cinema (VA-114).
STAGED ENCLOSURES: ON THE THEATRICALITY OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM Between a veiled revelation of the unspoken of cinematic production and an ethnographic spectacle of the everyday, moving films, belonging to different social universes, navigate the form of the “huis clos,” will be screened in three programs. The Grin by Loïc Feinte & Mélinda Feuillepain, and Vaychiletik by Juan Javier Pérez will be presented on Monday, May 8 at 6:05 p.m. at Concordia Cinema (VA-114). Then Perpetual Person by Javier Bellido Valdivia will screen on Wednesday, May 10 at 5 p.m. at Concordia Cinema (VA-114). Echoing current events such as the closing of Roxham Road, Ma vie en papier by Vida Dedan will be presented on Saturday, May 6 at 7 p.m. at Cinéma Moderne. The screening will be followed by a discussion (in English) with Mariangel Betancourt-Diaz, resources coordinator at Welcome Collective (a Montreal organization devoted to asylum seekers), and Adnan Al Mhamied, PhD student at McGill University’s School of Social Work, actively involved in the Syrian community in Montreal and abroad (originally from Syria, Adnan arrived as a refugee in Montreal in 2014). The discussion will be hosted by Jill Hanley, a specialist in migration issues, social work professor at McGill University, and scientific director at SHERPA Scientific Institute.
A CINEMA OF THE EXTRA-ORDINARY From animated illustrations to sensory films, these cinematic works invite viewers in through their great humanity. Touching, funny, experiential, they move us with the richness of their outlook on the daily pleasures and pains that are characteristic of the human experience. This section is divided into two programs: Nosh up by Mafalda Salgueiro, Unwell Mind by Danna Levy, and Domy + Ailucha: Ket Stuff! by Ico Costa will be presented on Friday, May 5 at 9 p.m. at Cinéma Moderne; then Even Asteroids Are Not Alone by Jón Bjarki Magnússon, Silences by César Pedro, and Through Hands of Mine by Koštana Banović will be presented on Tuesday, May 9 at 3:30 p.m. at Concordia Cinema (VA-114).
ACCOMPANYING CAMERAS AND CINEMATIC PROCESSES OF CARE
JOURNEYS THROUGH EMOTIONS These films are dotted with an exacerbated sensitivity that is staged through cinematic experimentation, from animation to the sensoriality of imagined reality. These cinematic works offer an intimate immersion in stories of yesterday and today, personal and shared. These visual travels, these emotional journeys, do not leave one unscathed. Lullaby by Irène-Kimberley Valin-Awashish, On Zenith’s Edge by Natyvel Pontalier, and Awaskinawason (Enfants de la terre) by Anthony Dubé will be presented on May 6 at 8:45 p.m. at the Cinémathèque québécoise. The Place Between Was and Will Be by Theo Panagopoulos and The Porters by Sarah Vanagt will screen on Monday, May 8 at 5:15 p.m. at Concordia Cinema (VA-114).
REFLECTIONS UPON FILM’S MATERIALITY
COLLECTIVE IMAGINARY OF REALITY The festival presents two unsettling, funny and thought-provoking films that tackle the reality, unreality and imaginary of two contemporary national collectivities: Seven Ridges by Antonio Coello on Saturday, May 6 at 10 p.m. at the Cinémathèque québécoise, and Don’t Worry About India by the Nama Filmcollective on Sunday, May 7 at 6:50 p.m. at Cinéma du Parc
TRIBUTE TO THE PROLETARIAN LENGTHS OF EVERYDAY LIFE Workers inhabit an often boring space-time, whose slowness is here magnified by cinematic art. The textures, lengths and poetics of proletarian daily life are praised, and we are allowed to observe and admire them. Rendezvous at the Cinéma Moderne on Saturday, May 6 at 12 p.m. for a contemplative session following the rhythms of daily work with the screening of One corner of a sphere by Théo Zesiger and Astronauts of Feuerbach by Johann Schilling.
CARTE BLANCHE TO TWO INDIGENOUS FILMMAKERS In partnership with the McCord Stewart Museum and Wapikoni, the Indigenous programming of the 19th edition of FIFEQ-MTL will explore the themes “Defending the land in a context of climate change” and “Thinking ethnographic cinema through the lens of Indigenous filmmaking.” The films were selected in collaboration with two Indigenous filmmakers: David Hernandez Palmar, from the Wayuu community (Venezuela/Colombia), who is the co-founder of the If Not Us Then Who? Organization; and Katherine Nequado, an Atikamekw film production student from the Manawan community (Quebec).
On Friday, May 5 at 8:45 p.m. at the Cinémathèque québécoise, there will be a screening of Mothers of the Land by Diego Sarmiento & Alvaro Sarmiento, followed by a panel discussion about Indigenous struggles and resistance in the context of climate change, with Janis Ottawa (Master’s student in Atikamekw Pimatisiwin pedagogy from a decolonization perspective), Naomie Léonard (Phd student at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique) and Melissa Mollen-Dupuis (director, radio host, activist for Indigenous rights, and Forest campaign manager at the David Suzuki Foundation).
On Tuesday, May 9 at 6:30 p.m. at Cinéma Moderne, a short film program will be followed by a discussion on the theme: “Indigenous cinema to defend the planet.” In a North America/South America dialogue, a panel featuring David Hernandez Palmar and filmmakers Amélie Courtois (director of the short films Ilnu aitun au féminin and Aski, mère de tous), and Peregrino Shanocua Chaeta (director of the short film SHA’A), visiting from Peru, will discuss directorial choices and cinematic processes. It will be hosted by Gabrielle Marcoux, a PhD student from the Art History and Film Studies department of Université de Montréal.
CLOSING NIGHT: FILM ECOLOGY The closing night will take place on Thursday, May 11 at 6:30 p.m. It will begin on the roof of the Rialto Theatre with an outdoor screening (with a 360-degree view of Montreal) on the theme “Film Ecology.” Short films directed by Indigenous and non-Indigenous filmmakers will illustrate what author and film professor Scott McDonald calls eco-cinema — films that offer new types of cinematic experiences via unconventional forms, contributing to making us more aware and conscious of the environment. An invitation to rediscover our surroundings and rethink our way of being. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmakers. The festivities will continue at the headquarters of FIFEQ-MTL at URSA mtl, to close this edition with an artistic performance.
For all the details of the 2023 lineup of FIFEQ-MTL, visit: www.fifeq.ca.
Thanks to the partners of this 19th edition FIFEQ-MTL wants to thank its precious partners: le Canada Council for the Arts, the Secrétariat aux relations avec les Premières Nations et les Inuits, the ASEQ Foundation, the Caisse de la Culture Desjardins, the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et Culture, Wapikoni, the McCord Stewart Museum, Cinéma Moderne, URSA mtl, the Rialto Theatre, the Cinémathèque québécoise, Cinéma du Parc, and Concordia Cinema.
About FIFEQ-MTL The only festival of its kind in Canada, FIFEQ-MTL aims to give a place to ethnographic film, a cinematic genre still little known, in the cultural sphere of Montreal, Quebec and Canada. FIFEQ-MTL wishes to become a benchmark festival for auteur ethnographic cinema in North America and internationally.
The 19th edition of FIFEQ-MTL will take place from May 4 to 11, 2023 at Cinéma Moderne, the Cinémathèque québécoise, Cinéma du Parc, Concordia Cinema (VA-114) and the Rialto Theatre. Information: fifeq.ca / ethnographik@gmail.com 23.04.2023 | Editor's blog Cat. : FESTIVALS
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