Five French-speaking Belgian documentaries selected at RIDM 2024!
No fewer than five French-speaking Belgian productions have been selected for the 2024 edition of the Montreal International Documentary Festival!
The Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) is one of North America’s leading documentary film festivals. Each year, the RIDM presents more than 150 Canadian and international documentaries. Its industry event, Forum RIDM, is Quebec’s only documentary forum.
For its 20th edition, the RIDM programmers have selected Listen To The Voices by Maxime Jean-Baptiste for the New Visions Competition. Created within the SoundImageCulture program, the film is produced by Twenty Nine Studio & Production, co-produced by Atelier Graphoui, and distributed internationally by MoreThan Films. This debut feature by Maxime Jean-Baptiste had its world premiere at Locarno 2024, where it won two awards.
Melrick, a 13-year-old boy, spends his summer vacation with his grandmother Nicole in Cayenne, Guyana. His presence and his desire to learn how to play the drum brings back the specter of Lucas, Nicole's son, also a drummer, who died in tragic conditions 11 years earlier. Faced with the grief that haunts his family and Lucas's best friend's desire for revenge, Melrick seeks his own path to forgiveness.
Also competing in the New Visions Competition is (Y)our Mother by Samira EL Mouzghibati. The film is produced by Michigan Films and internationally sold by Hors du Bocal. It recently won the Ulysse Prize at the 2024 Cinemed Festival.
As the youngest among my five sisters, I am aware that I carry a dark legacy from their past. In response to a tragic incident that was kept quiet, my sisters formed a clan with a tight-knit bond from which our mother was excluded. Thus, we began referring to her as "your mother," as if she was no longer ours. You are about to hear what she has to say for the very first time.
The New Man, directed by Carlos Yuri Ceuninck and produced by Néon Rouge Production, is featured in the International Feature Competition. The film was recently selected for the São Paulo International Film Festival.
QUIRINO, 76, has lived for more than 30 years in an abandoned village, at the bottom of a deep valley, between the sea and the mountains. Feeling the effects of old age, Quirino faces the dilemma of having to leave the only place he has ever known or end his days there.
Loveboard by Felipe Casanova (self-produced) is included in the International Short and Medium-Length Competition at the Canadian festival. The short film is distributed internationally by Kino Rebelde.
A broken phone. Inside it, all the digital correspondence of two boys who once loved each other. Messages, photos, and videos. Evidence of their brief history. As it resists fading away, how does this obsolete object reveal the mourning of a first love?
Finally, Who cares? by Alexe Poukine is selected in the Panorama - Essentials section. Produced by Wrong Men and the CBA, the film had its world premiere at Cinéma du Réel 2024, where it received an award and a special mention.
In the small arena of the training center, « fake » patients and « real » caregivers simulate medical consultations. The premise of these simulation sessions is that caring is a quality that can be acquired and cultivated.
Also noteworthy is the presence of French-speaking Belgian co-productions: Rising Up At Night by Nelson Makengo (Twenty Nine Studio & Production, New Visions Competition) and The Flats by Alessandra Celesia (Thank You & Good Night, International Feature Competition).
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