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Junior opens the RIDM
Selection of NFB films
Films that benefited from ACIC or the NFB/INIS partnership
The 10th RIDM dedicated to Pierre Perrault
Screening of Jacques Leduc's Chronique de la vie quotidienne
Special events
Doc Circuit Montréal

Junior opens the RIDM

For the 10th Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal, November 8 to 18, the National Film Board of Canada is premiering several eagerly awaited works, including the opening film Junior, the first documentary feature by Isabelle Lavigne and Stéphane Thibault about the behind-the-scenes world of junior hockey.

Selection of NFB films

This year, the NFB is offering a powerful selection of auteur documentaries: Le peuple invisible by Richard Desjardins and Robert Monderie; Au pays des colons by Denys Desjardins; Des nouvelles du Nord by Benoit Pilon (Amazone Film/NFB); Radiant City by Gary Burns and Jim Brown (Burns Film Ltd./NFB); and Gene Boy Came Home (Gene Boy revient chez lui) by Alanis Obomsawin.

Films that benefited from ACIC or the NFB /INIS partnership

The NFB's ACIC program (Aide au cinéma indépendant - Canada) supported these RIDM films: Americano by Carlos Ferrand; Pont de verre by Anne Barth; Bombes à retardement by Guylaine Maroist and Éric Ruel; Le doigt dans l'oeil by Julien Fréchette; Comme à Cuba by Fernand Bélanger, Louise Dugal and Yves Angrignon; and Bernard Gosselin, cinéaste by Serge Beauchemin, Geoffroy Beauchemin and Pierre Mignot (screened as part of the Image Workshop). The NFB/INIS partnership provided NFB post-production services to six student shorts, which will screen at the INIS Documentary Workshop.
Details on screenings and workshops: www.ridm.qc.ca.

The 10th RIDM dedicated to Pierre Perrault

The great Pierre Perrault would have been 80 this year. The RIDM is dedicating its 10th edition to him with the special screening of Un pays sans bon sens!, about the still relevant issue of nationhood.

Screening of Jacques Leduc's Chronique de la vie quotidienne

This important NFB collective film from the 1970s is composed of eight works of variable lengths, made by Jacques Leduc and various other directors. Workshop and special screening.

Special events

• The NFB is participating in the Open Door Day on Thursday, November 8, which gives you access to our wide collection at the CineRobotheque! Participants in the "NFB favourites" contest could win a Pierre Perrault DVD box set.
• Also at the NFB CineRobotheque, a beginner's video production workshop for teens will take place on Saturday, November 10, from 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm. It's free!
• Don't miss the very first Wapi Cabaret, which will twin five young Aboriginal filmmakers trained by the Wapikoni Mobile with five Kino members to direct six films in six days! Screening on November 15 at 10:30 pm at Agora Hydro-Québec at UQAM's Coeur des sciences. Admission is free.

Doc Circuit Montréal

The NFB is a chief partner in the third edition of Doc Circuit Montréal, the documentary market, on November 12 and 13. Tom Perlmutter, Government Film Commissioner and NFB Chairperson, will moderate the round table entitled Documentaire et nouvelles plateformes : quel avenir? (Documentary on new platforms: The future) on November 13 from 2 pm to 5 pm. We're also offering grants to participate in the event to six emerging film and video creators from groups targeted by our equity program.

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