US Premiere
14:52 m / Live Action Short / Canada

Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Laemmle Music Hall | 4:30pm to 5:30pm  | Program 

Matéo, a Métis teenager, is losing his bearings following the suicide of his father. In denial and anger, he will do anything to deny his native origins.

Director: William Mazzoleni-Valin
Cast: Alexis Plante, Marco Collin, Jacques Newashish, Bénédicte Decary
Screenwriter: William Mazzoleni-Valin
Producers: Benoit Desjardins, Vuk Stojanovic
Cinematographer: Nathalie Moliavko-Visotzky

Includes a post screening Q&A with the director (s)

Director (s)

Director of Aboriginal and Italian origin, he aspired long time ago to the realization of a cinematographic work inspired by a reality of first nations in the Quebec region. Hence his third short film Powwow, a fiction filled with hope and for a culture that is his own. It was presented at “Not short on talent” at the Cannes Film festival in 2018.

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