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8 November 2024 Festival

Local documentaries premiere at RIDM

Montreal, Friday, November 8, 2024 – The Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) is proud to present the premieres of the most recent works by both acclaimed local filmmakers as well as rising new talents. In keeping with its mission to support and promote auteur documentary filmmaking in Quebec and Canada, RIDM is once again setting itself apart as a premiere platform for these works, with a selection of 58 national films presented this year.

 

National Feature Competition

Among Mountains and Streams (Parmi les montagnes et les ruisseaux) by Jean-François Lesage | World Premiere 

Archéologie de la lumière by Sylvain L’Espérance | World Premiere

Billy by Lawrence Côté-Collins | Canadian Premiere

Intercepted by Oksana Karpovych | Quebec Premiere

Le Plein potentiel by Annie St-Pierre | World Premiere

The Soldier’s Lagoon by Pablo Alvarez-Mesa | Quebec Premiere

Tout sur Margo by Yann-Manuel Hernandez and Margaux Latour | World Premiere

 

New Visions Competition

Eastern Anthems by Jean-Jacques Martinod and Matthew Wolkow | Canadian Premiere

Okurimono by Laurence Lévesque | Quebec Premiere

The Treasury of Human Inheritance by Alexis Kyle Mitchell | Canadian Premiere

Up the River with Acid by Harald Hutter | Canadian Premiere

 

Magnus Isacsson Competition

Circo by Lamia Chraibi | World Premiere

Koutkekout by Joseph Hillel | Canadian premiere

LARRY (they/them) by Catherine Legault | Quebec Premiere

Seeing Through the Darkness (Les yeux ne font pas le regard) by Simon Plouffe | World Premiere

Ninan Auassat: We, the Children by Kim O’Bomsawin | Quebec Premiere

Rule of Stone by Danae Elon | Quebec Premiere

Simon & Marianne by Martin Fournier and Pier-Luc Latulippe | Canadian Premiere

Wilfred Buck by Lisa Jackson | Quebec Premiere

 

National Short and Medium-Length Competition

Adieu Ugarit by Samy Benammar and Mohamad Awaad | World Premiere

Après le silence by Matilde-Luna Perotti | World Premiere

Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya by Malena Szlam | Quebec Premiere

A Stone’s Throw by Razan AlSalah | Canadian Premiere

Both, Instrument & Sound by Sharlene Bamboat | Quebec Premiere

Crushed Between Ocean and Sky by Ella Morton | Quebec Premiere

Dans ma tête by Irina Tempea | Quebec Premiere

Entretierra by Emanuel Licha | North American Premiere

lessons on flight by Cecilia Araneda | Canadian Premiere

Like a Spiral (Comme une spirale) by Lamia Chraibi | Quebec Premiere

Msaytbeh, the elevated place by Rawane Nassif | North American Premiere

Six Knots by Ali Vanderkruyk | Quebec Premiere

Sous le soleil exactement by Noa Blanche Beschorner | World Premiere

Traces by Chantal Partamian | Quebec Premiere

With Veiled Intent (Avancer masqué) by Laurence Olivier | World Premiere

 

Panorama - Against the Grain

Just Above the Surface of the Earth (For a Coming Extinction) by Marianna Milhorat | Quebec Premiere

 

Panorama - Horizons

These Wild Cats (Des chats sauvages) by Steve Patry | North American Premiere

Ibuka, Justice
by Justice Rutikara | World Premiere


Panorama - Special Screenings

L’insoumise by Jeannine Gagné

Sans faire d’histoire by Jeannine Gagné and Michel Lamothe

 

Wapikoni 

Awani Na Nokmes? by Tedesso Lachapelle and Isaak Lachapelle Gill

Ilnikueu by the Comité de femmes Puakuteu 

Le voleur de paix by Charles Hervieux-Rock

Madah8do al8miwi nia by Kim Arseneault

Nipi utaiamun by Uapukun Mestokosho McKenzie

Résilience by Mali

Ush by Pierre Gill

 

Soirée de la relève Radio-Canada

Auen tshil, auen nil by Frédérique Picard 

Ce qui se passe sous terre by Raphaëlle Bergeron

Emboîter leurs pas by Manuel Orhy Pirón

Les mains de ma grand-mère by Pascal St-Gelais

Les oiseaux aiment les toits by Charles Warren et Maxence Dumouchel

The Body/transmutationem by Bleue Pronovost-Teyssier

Doc-to-doc

L.A. Tea Time by Sophie Bédard-Marcotte

Le petit Jésus by André-Line Beauparlant

Documentaires d’épouvante that brings together the short films Nalujuk Night by Jennie Williams, Forêts by Simon Plouffe and Bitesized Nightmares by Kyle Edward Ball.

 

Closing the festival

Ninan Auassat: We, the Children by Kim O’Bomsawin | Quebec Premiere

Voltige by Luiza Cocora | World Premiere

 

In collaboration with Télé-Québec, partner of the Doc-to-Doc screenings, RIDM presents five award-winning films from recent years on the telequebec.tv platform: Aswang by Alyx Ayn Arumpac, Veranada by Dominique Chaumont, Une femme, ma mère (A Woman, My Mother) de Claude Demers, Knit’s Island by Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse and Quentin L’helgoualc’h, and Au-delà des hautes vallées (Far Behond the Pasturelands) by Maude Plante-Husaruk and Maxime Lacoste-Lebuis. This is a unique opportunity to discover or revisit these memorable films, now available for free across Quebec until December 1st.

 

The 27th edition of RIDM will take place from November 20 to December 1st, 2024.

at the Cinémathèque québécoise, Cineplex Odéon Quartier Latin, Cinéma du Musée, Cinéma du Parc, Cinéma Moderne, National Film Board of Canada, BAnQ and Théâtre Outremont.

 

For all the information about the 2024 program and to purchase ticket: ridm.ca

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Reminder: Journalists wishing to obtain a media accreditation for the 2024 RIDM must complete the online application prior to November 8 at 6 p.m.: ridm.ca/en/press-accreditation

 

All 2024 Press Releases: ridm.ca/en/press/press-releases

Press screening schedule

Media space / downloads (poster, trailers, photos, etc.): ridm.ca/en/press/downloads

 

Media contact: Caroline Rompré | pixelleX communications | 514-778-9294 | caroline@pixellex.ca

 

 

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