ATANARJUAT – THE FAST RUNNER

Canada, 2001, 178 min.

Director
Zacharias Kunuk
Producer
Paul Apak Angilirq, Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk, Germaine Ying Gee Wong
Production Companies
Igloolik Isuma Productions
National Film Board of Canada

Summary
On the polar ice a long time ago, an Inuit community finds itself under the spell of a curse cast by a malevolent shaman. Hatred, jealousy and rivalries threaten the survival of the clan. Inspired by an ancient tale, this Shakespearean drama of fury, rivalry, adultery, betrayal and vengeance is the first film ever to have been produced, filmed and performed entirely by Inuit.

Biography
A filmmaker with some 30 films to his credit, Zacharias Kunuk is also president of Igloolik Isuma Productions Inc., Canada’s first Inuit-owned independent film production house, and a firm committed to the preservation of Inuit culture.

Awards
Golden Camera - Best first film, Cannes, 2001
Genie Awards - Best motion picture, best director, best screenplay, best music and best editing, Claude Jutra Award, 2001
Best Canadian feature film - Toronto International Film Festival, 2001
Golden Spur - Flanders International Film Festival, 2001
Best feature film - San Diego International Festival, 2001

Contact
http://www.atanarjuat.com
http://www.isuma.ca/home

A TRIP TO THE MOON

France, 1902, 14 min.

Director
Georges Méliès
Producer
Georges Méliès
Production Company
Star Films

Summary
Six scientists, all members of an astronomy club, journey to the moon. They build a space capsule that is fired from a cannon and lands in the eye of the Man in the Moon.

A Trip to the Moon is considered the first science-fiction movie in the history of cinema. Méliès wrote the script, inspired by the novel by Jules Verne From the Earth to the Moon.

Biography
Like the Lumière brothers, Georges Méliès was a cinema pioneer. He made more than 500 short fiction films, making full use of his talents as an illusionist and magician.

HOW TO BUILD AN IGLOO

Canada, 1949, 10.30 min.

Director
Douglas Wilkinson
Producers
Michael Spencer
Jacques Bbobet
Production Company
National Film Board of Canada

Summary
The film shows two Inuit building an igloo in less than 90 minutes. The architecture of the igloo nonetheless calls for adherence to precise rules regarding choice of site, the cutting and assembly of snow blocks and proper ventilation.

Can you resist the temptation to build your own?

Biography
Between 1945 and 1953, the outstanding cinematographer Douglas Wilkinson made several films for the NFB on the Arctic, the Inuit and their traditions. He also wrote a number of books on the Arctic and its people.

Contact
www.onf.ca

NEXT FLOOR

Quebec, 2008, 15 min.

Director
Denis Villeneuve
Producers
Phoebe Greenberg et Karen Murphy
Production Company
Phi Group

Summary
During the course of an opulent, extravagant banquet, eleven dinner guests, served non-stop by attentive waiters and servants, take part in a strange ritual of gastronomic overindulgence. In this absurd, grotesque universe, a series of events shakes and shatters the smooth progression of this symphony of excess.

Biography
Denis Villeneuve was a participant in the Radio-Canada film competition Course destination monde, and his 20 short films made in 17 countries won first prize. His two feature-length films, Un 32 août sur terre and Maelström won several awards in a number of film festivals.

Awards
Best short film (Grand Prix Canal+), International Critics’ Week 2008, Cannes
Best short film (Prix Télébec), Festival du Cinéma International en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec
Best International Fiction, Izmir International Short Film Festival, Izmir, Turkey
Best short film, Whistler Film Festival 08, Whistler, B.C., Canada

Contact
http://www.nextfloor-film.com/

MIRRORS

Québec, 2007, 14 min.

Director
Etienne Desrosiers
Producer
Etienne Desrosiers, Nicola Minotti
Production Company
P7v inc

Summary
Julien is a melancholy adolescent on vacation at the family cottage. His parents, his brother, the lake and a strange sexual awakening form the backdrop to this intimate and entrancing tale of transition to adulthood. Based on a short story by My Lan To.

Biography
Since 1995, Étienne Desrosiers has made 9 short films that have been broadcast on television and presented at many international festivals. His documentary Portrait de l’artiste en muse (2005) won a number of prestigious awards, including being named Best Film at the Festival del Palazzo Venetia in Rome.

Awards
Presented at the 35th Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, 2006, Montreal
36th Festival Molodist, Kiev, 2006, Ukraine

Contact:
http://www.kfilmsamerique.com

LES JOURS

Quebec, 2006, 24 min.

Director
Maxime Giroux
Producers
Paul Barbeau et Maxime Giroux
Production Company
Nu Films

Summary
A girl dies tragically in the forest. Driven by the torments of mourning and grief, her father seeks vengeance, but that proves to be futile. It leads nowhere, providing only a fleeting satisfaction. A look at the dark side of nature, the men who exploit it and the precariousness of life.

Biography
Maxime Giroux has made more than a hundred video clips, as well as commercials and short films. His first feature-length film, Demain, was presented at the 2008 Festival du Nouveau Cinéma in Montreal.

Awards
Best Short Film, Toronto International Film Festival, 2006
NFB Award, Festival du Nouveau cinéma, Montreal, 2006

Contact
www.nufilms.ca

LA FUITE

Quebec, 2008, 1 min.

Director
Julien Lablanc

Summary
Le film LA FUITE a été scénarisé, tourné et monté la même journée, pour le compte d'une soirée Kino 132 en Gaspésie et pour laquelle le réalisateur se fait un devoir d'être rigoureux dans le "dernière minute". Le manque de temps, donc, combiné au manque de comédiens deviennent la trame de fond de ce thriller typiquement gaspésien.

Biography
Caméraman-monteur à Télé-Québec Gaspésie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine depuis 6 ans, Julien Leblanc est également membre fondateur de la cellule Kino 132 de la Gaspésie, qui se veut le véhicule de diffusion du court métrage dans la Baie-des-Chaleurs. Outre le cinéma, il aime les montagnes, les chats et les choses qui goûtent bon.

NOCTURNE

Denmark, 1980, 10 min.

Director
Lars Von Trier
Producer
Lars Von Trier
Production Company
Det Danske Filmskole

Summary
On a hot summer night, a young woman wakes up from a nightmare. Her feelings of anxiety are well-founded, as she discovers that she is suffering from a degenerative eye disease that may leave her blind.

Biography
Lars Von Trier studied at the National Film School of Denmark, where he made Nocturne in 1980. It foreshadowed his first feature film The Element of Crime (1984).

Awards
Primé au Festival du film étudiant de Munich, 1980

OBSERVANDO EL CIELO

United States, 2007, 19 min.

Director
Jeanne Liotta
Producer
Jeanne Liotta

Summary
Featuring more than seven years’ worth of field recordings of the heavens and the sounds of the universe made in over a dozen locations around the world, the film is enriched by its soundtrack, an ultra high frequency collage that gives voice to the universe itself.

Biography
Jeanne Liotta makes films, photos, works on paper and performances based on observations of the skies. Her work has been presented in many prestigious venues, from the Museum of Modern Art in New York to the Biennale Kunstfilm in Cologne.

Awards :
Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

ALL THAT RISES

Quebec, 2007, 7 min.

Director
Daïchi Saïto
Producer
Daïchi Saïto

Summary
“…Filmed in Super 8 in a back lane in Montreal’s Mile End district. The space is fragmented and the image manipulated so as to force the spectator to mentally recompose a comprehensive space based on fleeting luminous impressions. (…) Saïto has constructed his film like a duet, a striking collaboration with the violin of Malcolm Goldstein…” (Marcel Jean)

Biography
Born and raised in Japan, Daïchi Saïto lives in Montreal. He is a founding member of the collective Double Négatif, a group of experimental film artists. His films have been presented in New York, Rotterdam, London, Toronto and Hong Kong.

Contact
http://doublenegativecollective.blogspot.com/
http://www.lightcone.org/

ACTION:STUDY

Quebec, 2008, 5 min.

Director
Richard Kerr
Producer
Richard Kerr

Summary
A visual study of accelerating and decelerating light in time and space. A tribute to the formal characteristics of the film medium.

Biography
Richard Kerr is a leading figure in Canadian experimental cinema. Since the 1970s his work has evolved from the poetic documentary to the political essay, the landscape film, autobiography and collages of found film. After a brief incursion into fiction with The Willing Voyeur (1996), Kerr currently devotes his energies to art film and installations of film stock in illuminated light boxes that create coloured geometric abstractions.

Contact
http://www.synoptique.ca/industry/

PENSER EN AMONT

Quebec, 2008, 14min.

As part of the Génération Documentaire project organized by Paraloeil in Esprit-Saint in 2007, seven young filmmakers from the Lower St. Lawrence focused their lenses on rural life, providing their vision of a world rooted in the cycle of the seasons in three short original and intimate documentaries.

Directors
Geneviève B. Genest and Nicolas Martel
Producer
Paraloeil

Summary
A portrait of Daniel St-Pierre, a proud inhabitant of Bic on the shores of the St. Lawrence River. Longboat builder, artisan, a farmer, thinker, a talker and a lover, he presents the rural world with intelligence, lucidity and lots of poetry.

Biography
Geneviève B. Genest studied visual arts at Rimouski College, and dance at Drummondville College. She approaches movement through video art.
Nicolas Martel is an arts and media student at Rimouski College. Penser en amont is his first film.

Contact
www.paraloeil.com

SASKASHTEU USSINUN

Quebec, 2007, 13 min.

Directors
Melysa Pinette et Kanapeush Vollant
Producers
National Film Board of Canada, en collaboration avec le projet Wapikoni Mobile

Summary
An encounter with young Amerindians in Quebec, presented in intimate portraits that reveal their spirituality, their attachment to nature and their awareness of the world they live in. The film offers a ray of hope, an antidote to distress and disenchantment. The ethereal musical accompaniment contributes to the success of this stellar film.

Biography
Melysa Pinette was the coordinator of the Wapikoni project in the Innu community of Maliotenam Uashat.

THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA

Canada, Japan, Russia, 1999, 22 min.

Director
Alexandre Petrov
Producers
Bernard Lajoie, Jean-Yves Martel, Shizuo Ohashi, Tatsuo Shimamura
Production Companies
Producers Pascal Blais, Imagica Corporation, Panorama Film Studio

Summary
Santiago is an elderly Cuban fisherman who has not managed to catch a single fish for the past 84 days. Leaving behind his young friend Manolin, the only person who still believes in him, he heads out to sea in search of a catch that will earn the respect of his peers. Based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Hemingway, it consists of some 29,000 pastel oil paintings on glass.

Biography
After studying at the famous Russian film school VGIK and with the renowned animator Yuri Norstein, Alexander Petrov made three short animated films in Russia before filming The Old Man and the Sea – The Cow (1989), The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1992) and Mermaid (1997).

Awards 
Oscar for best animated short film, 2000
Grand Prix + Prix du Public, Annecy International Animated Film Festival, 2000
Jutra for best animated film, 2008
Grand Prix at the Leipzig Dok Festival, Germany, 2008
Grand Prix at the Zagreb World Festival of Animated Films, 1998.

Contact
http://www.filmoption.com

SKHIZEIN, LOIN DE MOI

France, 2008, 13 min.

Director
Jérémy Clapin
Production Company
Dark Prince

Summary
What happens if you are hit by a 150-tonne meteorite? That’s what happens to Henri, yet he is still there, or maybe not quite “there”, for he is 91 cm out of sync. If he wants to open a door or answer the phone, he has to move 91 cm farther. And what if madness were measured in centimetres?

Biography
A director of animated films, Jérémy Clapin has also been working since 2000 as an illustrator for the press and for book publishers. In 2004 his first short film, Une histoire vertébrale, 9', received a number of awards at international festivals.

Awards 
Prix Découverte at International Critics’ Week, Cannes, 2008
Prix du Public at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, 2008
Bayard d’Or for best short film at the Festival du Film Francophone in Namur, Belgium, 2008
Grand Prix at the Leipzig Dok Festival, Germany, 2008
Prix du Public at the Sommets de l’Animation 2008 at the Cinémathèque québécoise plus some twenty other awards!

Contact
http://skhizein.com/

SAINTE BARBE

Canada/Switzerland, 2008, 7 min.

Directors
Cédric Louis and Claude Barras
Producer
Claude Barras
Michael Fukushima
Production Companies
Hélium Films , TSR/SSR idée suisse, Cinémagination
National Film Board of Canada

Summary
Léon is a bald little boy who loves his grandfather and the latter’s bushy black beard, which seems to be endowed with magical powers! One morning his grandfather doesn’t wake up. Léon is sad as his grandmother shaves the deceased. To assuage his grief, Léon has an idea. He will bury the hairs of Grandpa’s beard. The next morning a bush appears at the site where the hair is buried, as thick and black as his grandfather’s beard.

Biography
After studies in computer graphics Claude Barras made puppets for Max & Co., a feature-length animated film by the Guillaume brothers.

Cédric Louis, who studied history, film aesthetics and directing, is also an illustrator whose work was exhibited in 2001 and 2004 at the Grange de Dorigny.

Awards 
Winner of a “Best of Sessions” audience award in Australia at the Melbourne International Animation Festival in 2008.

Contact
www.onf.ca

THE TOURISTS

Canada, 2007, 3 min.

Director
Malcolm Sutherland
Producer
Malcolm Sutherland
Production Company
Malcolm Sutherland

Summary
A day like any other day at the beach under the hot sun. And yet…

Biography
Malcom Sutherland is a very talented up-and-coming director of animated films. Born and raised in Calgary, he moved to Montreal in 2002 to take part in an NFB program for young filmmakers. An illustrator and comic book artist, his works have been displayed across Canada.

Awards :
Nominated for a Jutra Award for best animated film, 2008.

Patinage, raquettes et randonnées en traineaux à chiens esquimaux
en collaboration avec le comité : Sam’dit de jouer dehors de Percé

Activités plein air pour toute la famille et le public le samedi 17 janvier 2009 en après-midi de 13h à 17h :

La Nuit du Cinéma à Percé collabore cette année avec le comité plein air "Sam'dit de jouer dehors" de Percé afin d’offrir aux visiteurs la tenue d’activités hivernales extérieures : randonnée de raquette au Mont Ste-Anne, patinage libre à la patinoire et randonnées en traineaux de chiens esquimaux gratuites pour les enfants de 13h00 à 15h00. M.Jean-Guy Poirier de l'Anse à Beaufils mettra à la disposition des visiteurs 4 attelages de chiens pour de courtes randonnées sur le terrain de camping au centre du village de Percé.

Le samedi 17 janvier en après-midi – Montée en raquette vers le Mont St-Anne à Percé
5@7 – Promenade en traineaux à chien

Observation des étoiles et du ciel de Percé

En plus de mettre en place une activité d’observation des étoiles avec le club d’astronomie de la Baie des Chaleurs en Gaspésie, LA NUIT DU CINÉMA À PERCÉ innove cette année en présentant plusieurs films qui marqueront le début des festivités de l’Année Mondiale de l’Astronomie (2009), décrétée par l’UNESCO pour l’éducation, la science et la culture et qui vise à rappeler que l'astronomie est une science mondiale et pacifiste, un patrimoine commun de l'humanité et partagé par tous de tout temps.

Avec Gino Audet – Astronome amateur du club d’astronomie de la Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspésie.

LA NUIT DU CINÉMA mettra en place le samedi 17 janvier 2009 une activité d’observation des étoiles sur le site de l’événement près de la NEIGÈRE sur la plage de Percé.

Le public sera alors convié à partager avec Gino Audet une expérience d’observation des étoiles et du ciel de Percé en temps réel avec cet astronome passionné d’étoiles depuis son tout jeune âge :

Enfant, je m'émerveillais devant la splendeur d'une aurore boréale et mon coeur battait plus vite au passage d'une étoile filante.
Je m'émerveille toujours autant devant un magnifique ciel étoilé et rêve encore d'un voyage interstellaire.
Gino Audet

Le public est invité dès 18h à venir vivre cette expérience avec notre guide de la nuit et pour voir autrement le ciel de Percé. Rendre l’art accessible à tous, s’inscrire dans la communauté locale, mettre en valeur le paysage de Percé par la création moderne, créer un moment de convivialité, stimuler l’imaginaire tels sont nos voeux pour cette première nuit du cinéma à Percé.

En cas de ciel nuageux une présentation multimédia sur les étoiles sera projeté sur la Neigère.

http://www.astronomiebdc.ca
http://clubastronomiebdc.over-blog.com/
astrosaturn@yahoo.com

Biography
Gino Audet est originaire de St-Alphonse en Gaspésie et réside actuellement à Bonaventure.
Il travaille dans le milieu forestier depuis 1993 et pratique l’astronomie depuis l’âge de 13 ans. Il a  participé à de nombreuses expositions à caractère scientifique au Québec et a fondé en 1999 le club d’astronomie de la Baie des Chaleurs dont il est aujourd’hui président. Depuis 2005 il pratique la photographie du ciel. Il est depuis 2006 amateur attitré pour la station de radio CHNC de New carlisle.  En 2007 il a reçu le prix ExcÉlan (volet local) dans la catégorie loisir scientifique.