CINEMANIA continues this week and until November 16

The 31st edition of CINEMANIA continues until November 16
Numerous Galas and screenings accompanied by guests

The 31st edition of the CINEMANIA Film Festival in Montreal begins its second week of festivities. Until November 16, the festival will continue to present numerous titles in world, international, North American, Canadian or Quebec premieres, selected from the best of French-speaking cinema of the year. Anticipated films that shone on the international scene or premieres of Quebec films, the 7th French-speaking art, short, medium and long, is celebrated in style at the Cineplex Odeon Quartier latin, at the Cinéma du Musée, at the Cinéma du Parc, at the Monument National, at the Cinémathèque québécoise, at the Cinéma Moderne, at the Studio-Cabaret du Théâtre St-Denis, at the Cinéma Beaubien and at the Maisonneuve Theater at Place des Arts.

The Galas
The 31st edition Gala, presented in collaboration with Crave: Where Souls Go Monday November 10
The film WHERE SOULS GO, first feature-length fiction film directed by Brigitte Poupart, will have its grand premiere this evening during the Gala evening of the 31st edition, Monday, November 10 at 7 p.m. at the Théâtre Maisonneuve at Place des Arts, in the presence of the entire team. Starring Sara Montpetit (Humanist Vampire Seeks Consenting Suicide) alongside Monia Chokri (Falcon Lake) and Julianne Côté (The Night Laurier Gaudreault Woke), in the roles of 3 sisters in search of appeasement. French actress Sylvie Testud (Sagan, Lourdes, Love your father), Micheline Lanctôt (You are not alone, Simple like Sylvain) and Fabiola Nyrva Aladin (Vikings) complete the cast. WHERE THE SOULS GO will then be released in Quebec on November 14.

CRAVE Galas – The Ideal Soul: Thursday November 13
The public will be able to discover L’ÂME IDÉALE, Alice Vial’s first feature film starring Magalie Lépine-Blondeau and Jonathan Cohen, who will both be part of the artistic delegation present in Montreal. The filmmaker follows the journey of Elsa (Magalie Lépine Blondeau), an empathetic doctor in a palliative care service. While she admits to her husband that she has the ability to communicate with the dead, he leaves her. She then decides to keep quiet about her gift but Oscar (Jonathan Cohen) arrives in her life, a dead man who doesn’t know he is. THE IDEAL SOUL will be presented on November 13 at the National Monument.

Closing Gala – The children are well
On Saturday, November 15, LES ENFANTS VONT BIEN by Nathan Ambrosioni will close this 31st edition at the Monument National, an evening during which the winners will also be revealed. Award-winning at the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival, LES ENFANTS VONT BIEN stars Camille Cottin, Juliette Armanet and Monia Chokri. After Toni, with family, Nathan Ambrosioni, who will be present on site, continues his essay on the family by focusing here on voluntary disappearances. It offers Camille Cottin a strong new role. The closing evening is presented in association with Air Canada, in collaboration with CTVM.

International film premieres in the presence of expected guests
All week long, many directors and actors, particularly French, will be visiting theaters in Montreal one after the other to interact with the public.
Thus, the director Jean-Paul Salomé and the actor Reda Kateb will accompany the film THE FAUX-COIN: THE BOJARSKI AFFAIR on the true story of Jan Bojarski, the “Cézanne of counterfeit money” who, without the knowledge of everyone, including his family, made counterfeits in his garden that gave the authorities nightmares. Premiere on Tuesday, November 11 at 8:15 p.m. at the Cinéma du Musée.
Jérémie Rénier and Loury Lagardère will present their documentary FROM ONE WORLD TO ANOTHER on Tuesday, November 11 at 3:30 p.m. at the Cineplex Quartier Latin, a film about reconstruction after a bereavement, over which hovers the memory of the actor Gaspard Ulliel, best friend of Jérémie Rénier.
Member of the jury for this 31st edition, actor Thierry Klifa will also be present to accompany his film, THE RICHEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD, freely inspired by the Bettencourt affair and starring Isabelle Huppert, on Wednesday November 12 at 8 p.m. at the Monument-National.
Pauline Loquès, director of the film NINO, starring Théodore Pellerin, will be in Montreal to present her first feature film on Thursday, November 13 at 8:45 p.m. Cineplex Quartier Latin.
DEUX PIANOS by Arnaud Desplechin, starring François Civil and Charlotte Rampling, will be presented in the presence of the director on Friday, November 14 at 5:30 p.m. at the Monument-National.
Thomas Ngijol, spotted in the Empathy series, will present the film INDOMPTABLES which he directed and in which he plays the leading role on Friday November 14 at 6:30 p.m. at the Cinéma du Parc as well as the animated film ALLAH IS NOT OBLIGED, to which he lends his voice, on Thursday November 13 at 1:30 p.m. at the Cineplex Quartier Latin.
Finally, let us mention that the film I LOVE PERU will have its North American premiere in the presence of directors Raphaël Quenard and Hugo David on Friday November 14 at 8:30 p.m. at the Monument-National, with jubilant cameos from Marina Foïs, Emmanuelle Devos, François Civil…

Outreach of local cinema
The North American premiere of the film NERVURES by Raymond St-Jean in the presence of the director and Marie-Thérèse Fortin, Sylvain Marcel, Richard Fréchette and Romane Denis on Thursday, November 13 at 8:45 p.m. at the Cinéma du Musée.
When Isabelle learns that her father Maurice is ill, she leaves Montreal to join Saint-Étienne, a former forest village isolated and hit by economic decline. When he arrives, the shock is brutal: his mother Thérèse reveals to him that Maurice is in fact deceased. The disturbing circumstances of her death, combined with Thérèse’s unstable behavior, awaken a deep unease in Isabelle. As strange incidents multiply in the village, the young woman discovers a mystery more sinister and terrifying than she could ever have imagined. Raymond St-Jean (Twilight for a Killer) develops an intriguing gothic aesthetic, establishing a climate of anguish where romance, drama and horror mingle.
INVISIBLES by Junna Chif starring Nadia Essadiqi will also have its North American premiere on Friday, November 14 at 8 p.m. at the Cineplex Quartier Latin.
A fully committed sex worker and burlesque dancer, Elizabeth questions her life choices. As she decides to leave this world for a more conventional life, a meeting with a client with a disability confronts her with a new perspective on her own identity. Will Elizabeth connect with her true essence as a sex worker, despite public opinion? With a delicate subject, that of sex work and the sexuality of people with disabilities, Junna Chif offers us a first humanist and raw work, supported by the subtle and nuanced performance of actress Nadia Essadiqi.

The documentary JAMES BAY 1975: LE CHOC DES NATIONS will be presented in the presence of directors Mélanie Lameboy, Myriam Berthelet and Mathieu Fournier on Friday, November 14 at 6 p.m. at the Cinéma du Musée.
Dive into the origins of two revolutions: the meteoric expansion of Hydro-Québec with the construction of the La Grande hydroelectric power station, a project defended by Prime Minister Robert Bourassa, as well as the awakening of indigenous nations. A clash of civilizations where two world views collide. Quebec, carried by the momentum of the Quiet Revolution, takes its destiny in hand. While in the North, young Inuit and Crees are rising up, for the first time, with the aim of protecting what they have most precious: their territory and their culture. At the heart of the conflict, the James Bay shipyard, the largest of its kind in North America.

Finally, let us also mention DELEAU: LE CINÉMA EN LIBERTÉ, a documentary film by Michel La Veaux, a true love letter to cinema in the form of a portrait of Pierre-Henri Deleau, founder and director of the Quinzaine des filmmakers for nearly 30 years, will be presented on Wednesday, November 12 at 6 p.m. at the Cinéma du Musée in the company of the director and Pierre-Henri Deleau himself.
An evocation of the life, passions and influence in the world of cinema of Pierre-Henri Deleau, who for twenty years was responsible for the programming of the Quinzaine des Cinéastes in Cannes. Michel La Veaux recalls through his documentary that Pierre-Henri Deleau was one of the first major architects of the development of French-speaking creation, defending films and filmmakers who would mark their era (and in particular the new Quebec cinema scene). More than a linear and autobiographical story, this is the celebration of a certain vision of cinema and a certain (fallen?) way of doing it.