THE FIFEQ IS BACK IN MONTREAL!
19TH EDITION – MAY 4 TO 11
Unveiling of the opening films and poster
The Festival international du film ethnographique du Québec (FIFEQ) is back in Montreal for a 19th edition! The only ethnographic film festival in Canada will take place from May 4 to May 11, 2023, in several cinemas in the city.
All the programming will be offered free of charge, with the exception of the opening night. The festival invites moviegoers to Cinéma Moderne, the Cinémathèque québécoise, Cinéma du Parc, and Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts’ cinema. An outdoor screening will also take place on the roof of the Rialto Theatre on the occasion of the closing night.
The festival will establish its headquarters at URSA, an intimate community and performance hall in the heart of Mile-End (5589, du Parc Ave.). There will be various activities, including performances and meetings with the public.
OPENING NIGHT
The opening night of the 19th edition of FIFEQ-MTL will take place on Thursday, May 4. It will begin at 6:30 p.m. with a screening of two films at Cinéma Moderne. Festival-goers will first be able to see the short film Inuktitut Languages in the 21st Century, produced and distributed by Wapikoni, in which director Ulivia Uviluk explores what is accessible on the Internet in Inuktitut, and how technologies can become allies of endangered languages. This will be followed by the presentation of the feature film Huahua’s Dazzling World and its Myriad Temptations by Daphne Xu, produced by Harvard University’s Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL), which focuses on Huahua, an eccentric and exuberant woman from Xiong’an New Area who records herself live on the social network Kuaishou, creating a world with her own image.
The festivities will continue at Headquarters starting at 8:30 p.m. A meal will be offered to those present, who will then be able to enjoy an artistic performance and a DJ set. The only paid event of the festival, admission to this evening will cost $15 with film screening, or $12 without screening.
ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS
A cinematic genre in its own right, the ethnographic film aims to apprehend reality and human experiences. It is not intended to explain a reality factually, but rather to illustrate it, or to make it felt. It can thus take the form of a documentary, fiction or an experimental work. The films carefully curated by the FIFEQ-MTL present everyday experiences from a fresh perspective: humanity, in all its diversity and universality.
Since its creation in 2003, the festival has been happy to give pride of place to Indigenous, Quebec, Canadian, and non-Western film productions. Through the discussions that follow the screenings, the festival team builds bridges between different backgrounds: academic, cultural and associative.
The complete program for the 19th edition of FIFEQ-MTL will be unveiled on Thursday, April 20, 2023.
About FIFEQ-MTL
The only festival of its kind in Canada, the FIFEQ-MTL aims to give a place to ethnographic film, a cinematic genre still little known, in the cultural sphere of Montreal, Quebec and Canada. The FIFEQ-MTL wishes to become a benchmark festival for auteur ethnographic cinema in North America and internationally.
The 19th edition of FIFEQ-MTL will take place from May 4 to 11, 2023.
Information: fifeq.ca / [email protected]
