Catherine Hébert and Yanick Letourneau honored

MONTREAL – The Quebec filmmaker Catherine Hébert and the director and producer Yanick Létourneau were honored at the 14th annual International Documentary Montreal (RIDM).
 
Catherine Hébert was awarded the Grand Prize of the national competition feature films with a wide detour Books for” cinematic approach and the mainland within the director that are of great sensitivity. “

The price of the criticism and the Cinémathèque québécoise was awarded to the film The United States of Africa, Yanick Létourneau, which addresses the issue of political commitment, especially through music.
 
The Belgian Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd and its lost territory, Western Sahara, received the Grand Prize and the price of mounting international competition feature films, while Natalia Almada and El Velador was the price picture in the same competition.

A jury of five inmates at the prison in Joliette has chosen as the blow of heart filmThe Tiniest Place (El lugar más pequeño) of director Tatiana Huezo, including “using them to travel with its stunning visuals and for the courage and determination of the inhabitants of a village caught in a civil war, who have a burning desire to survive” .
 
Between 9 and 20 November, nearly 200 films were shown during this revamped edition of RIDM.
 
Tahrir Place of release, the Italian director Stefano Savona closed the Meeting.
The film about the famous Parisian cabaret Crazy Horse, the American filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, opened the meeting, sparking a controversy in the choice of a” work complacent and sexist, “we noted in a letter signed by a twenty filmmakers.
 
“Given that one third of signatories have not seen the film of Wiseman, it seems that the criticism is proposed from the beginning to a position closer to a disturbing dogma that the area of ​​freedom and exchange that are RIDM “reacted the RIDM.

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