Throughout the summer, the RIDM will present a diverse line-up of documentaries, for free, in unconventional locations. It’s a great way to enjoy the warm season while watching the world’s best documentaries.
All screenings will start at nightfall. Here is the program:
- July 18, 9 p.m., park adjacent to Aréna Saint-Louis
La P’tite Bourgogne (Maurice Bulbulian-1968) / Griffintown (Michel Régnier-1972) / Le beau dérangement (Suzanne Angel-1967) / all in the original French
Presented in collaboration with Marché des possibles / All films produced and distributed by the NFB
Three short portraits of neighbourhoods and their people: a journey back in time to a bygone Montreal.
- July 21, 9:10 p.m., Parc des Faubourgs
À jamais, pour toujours (Alexandra Sicotte-Lévesque) / in the original English and Arabic, with French subtitles
A presentation of Cinéma sous les étoiles in collaboration with the RIDM
A trip to the heart of Sudan. Combining interviews and reflections on a country’s fundamental nature, the film explores a people full of promise but deeply scarred by war. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the film’s director, Alexandra Sicotte-Lévesque.
- July 22, 9:10 p.m., Parc Saint-Gabriel
No Land No Food No Life (Amy Miller) / in the original French, English, Bambara and Khmer, with French subtitles
A presentation of Cinéma sous les étoiles in collaboration with the RIDM
All over the world, large-scale agribusiness is usurping land from local populations. This wrenching new documentary by Amy Miller is narrated by Céline Bonnier. The screening will be followed by a discussion with director Amy Miller.
- July 23, 9:10 p.m., Parc Laurier
Come Worry With Us! (Helene Klodawsky) / in the original English with French subtitles
A presentation of Cinéma sous les étoiles in collaboration with the RIDM
Jessica Moss and Efrim Menuck, the couple behind the successful band Thee Silver Mt. Zion, try to balance their unpredictable lives as working musicians with new parenthood. The screening will be followed by a discussion with director Helene Klodawsky.
-July 31, 9 p.m., Peel Basin, Lachine Canal
The Devil’s Toy Remix / in the original French, English and German, with French subtitles
Presented in collaboration with the ADUQ’s Village Éphémère / Produced and distributed by the NFB
50 years after Claude Jutra’s Rouli-Roulant, 14 directors from four continents made the film their own by reinterpreting it in their own way. The result: 11 films translated into three languages (French, English, German) from eight countries, all inspired by the original film’s narrative structure.
- August 7, 8:30 p.m., Peel Basin, Lachine Canal
Alex marche l’amour (Dominic Leclerc) / in the original French
Presented in collaboration with the ADUQ’s Village Éphémère
Alexandre Castonguay treks 760 kilometres through Abitibi, Gaston Miron’s poem “La marche de l’amour” constantly on his mind, while Dominic Leclerc’s sympathetic camera captures his reflections and encounters.
- August 9, 9 p.m., Park adjacent to Aréna Saint-Louis
My Prairie Home (Chelsea McMullan) / in the original English, with French subtitles
Presented in collaboration with Marché des possibles/ Produced and distributed by the NFB
An earnest, light-hearted, melancholy and touching portrait of Rae Spoon, a transgender electro-country artist who was raised in a fundamentalist Christian household in Western Canada.
- August 18, 8:30 p.m., Habitations Jeanne-Mance
Québékoisie (Mélanie Carrier and Olivier Higgins) / in the original French and English, with French subtitles
A presentation of Cinéma sous les étoiles in collaboration with the RIDM
Mélanie and Olivier take a cycling trek to Quebec’s Côte-Nord, hoping to reach a better understanding of the complex relationships between Quebec’s aboriginal and non-aboriginal peoples.
- August 21, 8:30 p.m., Parc Molson
Le semeur (Julie Perron) / in the original French
A presentation of Cinéma sous les étoiles in collaboration with the RIDM
A fascinating, elegantly made portrait of Patrice Fortier, who lives at the Société des plantes, in Kamouraska, where he conserves and propagates rare and forgotten seeds.
- August 23, 9 p.m., Park adjacent to Aréna Saint-Louis
Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley)/ in the original English, with French subtitles
Presented in collaboration with Marché des possibles/ Produced and distributed by the NFB
In a five-year quest for truth, Sarah Polley meticulously reconstructed her family history using family archives, re-enactments, narration and spontaneously captured moments.
- August 31, 9 p.m., Champ des possibles
Ten Skies (James Benning) / no dialogue
Presented in collaboration with Kabane77
Ten Skies is a portrait of the sky, infused with Benning’s fascination with light. The director set up a camera in his backyard and pointed it skyward, capturing ten radically different vistas.
- September 2, 9 p.m., place de la Paix
Workingman’s Death (Michael Glawogger)/ in the original Pashto, Yoruba, German, English, Igbo, Malay, Mandarin and Russian, with French subtitles
Presented in collaboration with the Society for Arts and Technology, Quartier des Spectacles and the borough of Ville-Marie
From a Ukrainian mine to a Chinese smelter, from an Indonesian volcano to an open-air abattoir in Nigeria and a ship graveyard in Pakistan, Michael Glawogger questions the role of extreme manual labour in the early 21st century. Presented without interviews or commentary, Glawogger’s images are accompanied perfectly by the music of John Zorn.
Quebec’s only film festival dedicated to documentaries, the Montreal International Documentary Festival presents the best reality-based films, including the works of established directors and new talents.
The 17th annual RIDM will take place from November 12 to 23, 2014.
Information: www.ridm.qc.ca / info@ridm.qc.ca
Information: www.ridm.qc.ca / info@ridm.qc.ca
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