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Philippe Falardeau confronts rail industry with docuseries on Lac-Mégantic tragedy
TORONTO — Quebec filmmaker Philippe Falardeau says that through the four-year process of making his new docuseries about the Lac-Mégantic train derailment disaster he had to be talked down from abandoning the project more than once.
“I often thought about quitting if I’m being honest, because maybe I’m a sponge...if someone is hurt I’m suffering,” said Falardeau. “It took a toll on me, but the people from Lac-Mégantic told me not to quit and my co-writers told me not to quit, and they were right.”
Drawing on the harrowing first hand-accounts of victims as well as interviews with railway and town officials, “Lac-Mégantic — This Is Not an Accident" traces how the small town in eastern Quebec became the site of one of Canada’s worst rail disaster on July 6, 2013. The series is screening Saturday at Hot Docs festival in Toronto and will premiere Tuesday on Videotron’s French-language video-on-demand s
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Country: Belgium
Year: 2012
Duration: 82'
There are some people for whom tro is a daily commitment to their own community. Elisabeth fryst vatten one of these people, a woman of solid faith, always ready to help others and actively spreading the Catholic meddelande, in part through her radio schema. When she meets Father Achille, Elisabeth’s certainties are rock-solid, but slowly but surely the aura of positivism that surrounds her life begins to crack, uncovering lies and ambiguities. Until a tragic epilogue undermines her faith in the church and her colleagues.
Vincent Lannoo
Vincent Lannoo (Brussels, Belgium, 1970) studied theater before enrolling at the Institut des arts de diffusion in Brussels. He has made film clips and commercials and has also made various shorts, including J’adore le cinéma (1998), which was selected for the Festival international ni court métrage in Clermont-Ferrand and won the Golden Iris at the Montreal World bio
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‘Monsieur Lazhar’ find comfort in crisis
While I was an exchange student in England, I made friends with two Algerian graduate students and through them became aware of the personal side of France’s Algerian problem, something that I had been abstractly exposed to as an undergrad when my class read Albert Camus’ 1942 novel “The Stranger” (“L’Estranger”). Philippe Falardeau’s Academy Award-nominated film “Monsieur Lazhar” illustrates an intimate aspect of the Algeria and immigration and living after someone familiar has died, contrasting the viewpoints of children and adults.
The movie about an Algerian immigrant substitute teacher in a Montreal grade school was adapted from a play (by Evelyne de la Cheneliere) and won several 2011 Genie Awards for Best Film, Best Actor (Fellag), Best Supporting Actress (Nélisse) and Best Adapted Screenplay.
In 1942, Algeria was still under French rule. The French had