Champ libre
All our good ideas are based on the same principle: the experience of films is best shared. It is in this spirit that we present Champ Libre, a series of screenings where films are selected by guests. Influence, recent discovery, amused curiosity, dialogue with their work… our guests will have the opportunity to express to the public the reasons for their choice and to share what inspires them in these films.
Champ libre: Alain Farah
24 heures ou plus
This feature film made during an exceptionally feverish period of popular revolt that saw the coming together of Quebec’s 3 main unions (CSN, FTQ, CEQ) is a cinematic tract, propped against the backdrop of the 1970 October Crisis.
Gilles Groulx
Canada (Québec)
language: French
113 min
Champ libre: Lina Rodríguez
À nos amours
Suzanne, a fifteen-year-old Parisian, embarks on a sexual rampage in an effort to separate herself from her overbearing, beloved father, ineffectual mother, and brutish brother.
Maurice Pialat
France
language: French, English
subtitles: English
95 min
Champ Libre: Sylvain L'Espérance
Des racines à la lumière
Montreal artist-director Charles-André Coderre pushes the boundaries of the traditional cinematic experience. His path has led him to experimental analog production and real-time film work. His work will be screened in digital version.
Charles-André Coderre
Québec (Canada)
61 min
Champ libre: Joseph Amenta
Fish Tank
Fifteen-year-old Mia lives with her mother and sister in the Essex housing projects. Mia’s adolescent turmoil and emerging sexuality reach a boiling point when her mother’s new lover enters the picture.
Andrea Arnold
Netherlands, United Kingdom
language: English
subtitles: French
123 min
Champ libre : Émilie B. Guérette
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
An inspired and intimate portrait of two young African-Americans from rural Hale County, Alabama, shot over a five-year period.
RaMell Ross
United States
language: English
subtitles: French
76 min
Champ libre : Laurence Turcotte-Fraser
Harlan County, U.S.A.
A straightforward account of a grueling coal miners’ strike in a small Kentucky town. With unprecedented access, the camera acts as witness to a thirteen-months heartbreaking struggle between a community fighting for survival and a company intent only on profit.
Barbara Kopple
United States
language: English
subtitles: French
103 min
Champ libre: Olivier Godin
Le champignon des Carpathes
A young actress is miraculously rescued from the rubble of a nuclear explosion. Irradiated, she is treated with a curious mushroom discovered during the disaster…
Jean-Claude Biette
France
language: French
100 min
Literary champ libre : Olivia Tapeiro
Les mains négatives + The Wild Blue Yonder
Olivia Tapiero has chosen two films made from scraps of other films, residues used to comment obliquely on the ravages of the West.
Champ libre: Évelyne de la Chenelière
Pather Panchali
A depiction of rural Bengali life in a style inspired by Italian neorealism, this naturalistic but poetic evocation of a number of years in the life of a family introduces us to both little Apu and, just as essentially, the women who will help shape him.
Satyajit Ray
India
language: Bengali
subtitles: French
110 min
Champ libre: Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
Portrait de la jeune fille en feu
Passion brews quietly between an artist and her subject, until together they create a space in which it can briefly flourish, in this sumptuous eighteenth-century romance from Céline Sciamma.
Céline Sciamma
France
language: French
119 min min
Champ libre: Lawrence Côté-Collins
Quiconque meurt, meurt à douleur
With a news cameraman hot on their heels, two police officers raid a crack house. But things go wrong: the junkies are armed. In the stampede, the trio is taken hostage.
Robert Morin
Québec (Canada)
language: French
90 min
Champ Libre: Miryam Charles
Right Near the Beach
After the death of famous runner Jeffrey Jacobs, the Jamaican public becomes enamored with the details of his life and speculates as to the motivation for his murder. Jeffrey’s father struggles to grieve while inundated by the inescapable media coverage.
Gibrey Allen
Jamaica
language: English
80 min
Champ libre: Pablo Alvarez Mesa
Rites of Passage
As part of the Champ libre series, we invited Pablo Alvarez Mesa to create a program around his film Infinite Distances. He selected works by Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Melanie Shatzky and Brian M. Cassidy.
Program of three films
Canada
language: English
62 min
Champ libre: Graham Foy
Streetwise
Seattle, 1983. Taking to the streets of what was supposed to be America’s most livable city, a filmmaker, a photographer and a journalist set out to tell the story of those society had left behind: the homeless and teenage runaways living on the city’s margins.
Martin Bell
United States
language: English
91 min
Champ libre: Antoine Bourges
Tales of Two Who Dreamt
This film pivots on representation and self-representation. Here, a Roma family rehearses the stories of their past for the upcoming hearing on their residency status.
Andrea Bussmann, Nicolás Pereda
Canda, Mexico
language: Hungarian
subtitles: French
87 min
Champ libre: Daphné B.
The films of Sylvie Laliberté
Through Sylvie Laliberté’s films, Daphné B. is interested in self-representation, a form of orchestrated “naiveté” and the codes of femininity.
Sylvie Laliberté
Canada (Québec)
language: français
64 min
Champ libre: Jacquelyn Mills
The Street
Shot over a period of 6 years with an approach devoid of judgment or voyeurism, the film follows the rare ups and all-too-frequent downs in the lives of three homeless men — John Claven, his brother Danny, and their mentor Frank O’Malley — in downtown Montreal.
Daniel Cross
Québec (Canada)
subtitles: French
78 min
