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Poetry meets the big screen!

As part of the Festival de la poésie de Montréal, attend the screening of the 10 video poems selected for the Rendez-vous vidéopoésie 2022 competition, followed by the crowning of the winning work and a question and answer period.

The selected videos:

BINDING CHESTS, MENDING HEARTS

Text and direction: Raphaëlle Bessette-Viens

FEU

Director: Rosalie Bordeleau

Text : Valérie Forgues

FRAGMENTS

Directed by: Anick Beaulieu and Gigi Perron

Text : Patrice Desbiens

JE SUIS CE FAMEUX CORPS

Director: Maude Archambault-Wakil

Text : Jean-Christophe Leblanc

KO PYHARE, PARA SIEMPRE

Director: Fiorella Boucher and Laura Criollo-Carrillo

Text : Fiorella Boucher

THE REVOLUTION

Directed by: Samuel Boucher and Zoé Rondeau

Text : Alicia Guillotte

THE CRATER

Text and direction: Justine Falardeau and Florence Falgueyret

LULLABY

Text and direction : Marie-Soleil Joyal

SANS ÉCHAPPE

Director and script: Helia Hagh-Doust

WALKING WITH O ME! O LIFE!

Directed by: Paula Dykstra and Patrick Gauvin

Text: Patrick Gauvin

Rodéo

Caught in a volatile separation dispute, a father decides to take his 9-year-old daughter on a road trip in his Kenworth W900 in hopes of participating in the legendary World’s Best Truck Rodeo, the ultimate celebration of trucking held annually in the Badlands of Alberta.

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Le coyote

After reluctantly walking away from his beloved restaurant “Le Coyote”, Camilo, a Mexican-born cook in his fifties who has become a maintenance worker, finds a job opportunity in the region. His plans for the future are challenged, however, when his estranged daughter reappears in his life with her little boy.

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Les insomniaques

Dazed and Confused

1976. It is the last day of school in a small Texas town. After the traditional hazing of the future students, the different protagonists celebrate the beginning of the vacations by drinking, smoking, up to no good… A crazy night follows and between smoke and music, the evening will prove to be revelatory for many.

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Rendez vous vidéo poésie