Mini-Cinema
Off-Courts Trouville started out on the 1st floor of a small wine bar in the rue des Bains with a 12-seat cinema! As a tribute to our beginnings, we’ve decided to return to the mini-screening room to bring you even more films in 8 different programmes.
Special 75th anniversary program: 25 + 25 + 25
This year, two structures of Quebec friends are celebrating, just like us, their 25ᵉ anniversaries! All three of us born in the last days of the 20ᵉ century, we have grown up together and it seems important to us to get together and celebrate this quarter of a century (or this ¾ of a century!). We know how hard it is to last, that you have to be a bit utopian, punk and tenacious, and we will take this opportunity to give each other a nice pat on the back. The 75ᵉ programmes feature retrospectives of landmark films from the last 25 years. Long live them all!
VIVE PRENDS ÇA COURT ! LIBRE
Prends ça court! is a programming machine and institutional brainteaser run by Danny Lennon since 1999. Born in the mode of a ‘cinematographic cabaret’ that celebrated the best of Quebec short film every month, PCC also developed the Prends ça court! Gala, which rewards Quebec short film every year in Montreal with various prizes totalling over $322,000 in bursaries and services awarded to film teams, a model unequalled in the short film sector. As Basta would say: ‘My thuggish feet are made for trampling kings’.
Sunday 8 September at 5.30pm | Wednesday 11 September at 6pm
The films:
Un mot pour Kevin | Craig Leroux
Le temps des bouffons | Pierre Falardeau
Opasatica | Éric Morin
Nostradamos | Maxence Bradley, Élizabeth Olga Tremblay, Alexandre Lampron
The Chaperone | Fraser Munden
25th Kino Montreal
Off-Courts’ collaboration with Kino Montréal began in 2004, but the movement that began in Montreal in 1999 has since gone global. Offering moments to exchange, explore and create remains a core value of the movement, and this creative ‘layer’ added to Off-Courts gives it its creative and human flavour. The programming for the three programmes, featuring some forty films, was concocted by our friend Rémi Fréchette, a seasoned Montreal kinoïte.
The films :
The must-sees
Sunday 8 September at 3:30pm
Le commencement, Christian Laurence | L’esprit d’escalier, Catherine Villeminot et Tiphaine Dereyer | Guide du petit terrorisme, PM Fortin | Steve Pouliot, Hugo Matte | Le bonheur, Eza Paventi | Les enfants de l’avenir , Benoit Rodrigue | Sophie, Alex Roy | Honteuse, Julie De Lafrenière | Duo, Jéricho Jeudy | Le reflet , Louis-David Jutras | Requiem, Martine Asselin et François Mercier | Vie Pourrie 4, Patrick Péris et Charles-Louis Thibault | Nuit Blanche, David Baril
Superstar filmmakers
Tuesday 10 September at 7pm
Bande-annonce 2012, David Émond-Ferrat | Ce n’était qu’un rêve, Eric Gravel | Les royaumes de Kromaki, Eric K Boulianne | Soleil Carton, Henry Bernadet | Finger Night, Mara Joly | I Morkret , Rafaël Ouellet | Vérités conséquences, Anaïs Favron | Shower Party, PL Gosselin | Inventaire, Stéphane Lafleur | Rituel, Ariane Louis-Seize | L’éducation nautique -Film, Christian Laurence | L’éducation nautique -Numérique, Christian Laurence | Crudités, Lawrence Côté-Collins | Jean Laliberté, Philippe Falardeau | Drum de Marde, Pascal Plante
Anything is possible
Wednesday 11 September at 8pm
Bande-annonce 2018, Quentin Fabiani | Nonante, David Émond-Ferrat et Juliette Guérin | Mémé carabine, Xavier Beauchesne-Rondeau | Ma voisine, Anastasia Bourlakova| Hypocondriac, Carnior I Les insensibles partie 1, Kevin Landry | Particules, Kristina Wagenbauer | Best Bitches Forever, Valérie Leclair | Bout de souffle, Olivier Gilbert | Le défi des défis, Robin Anctil | Les insensibles partie 2, Kevin Landry | Le jet, Max Dufaud | Tastovule, Frédéric Dompierre | A Night of Sweats, Rémi Fréchette | Patte bonheur, Sonia Frickx et Dominique Caron | Les insensibles partie 3, Kevin Landry | Loup-Garou, Isabelle Giroux | Mise en échec, Jules Saulnier | Retour au Mont Noshaq, Simon Beaupré
25th Off-Courts Trouville
We’re back with the mini-cinema, a tribute to the start of the festival, to show you some of the films made as part of two key projects of our festival and of the Studio Off-Courts: the Import/Export projects and the Audience Prize creation grants.
Monday 9 September at 2:30pm | Tuesday 10 September at 4:30pm
The films :
L’aîné de mes soucis | Carine Tardieu | 2003
The Astronaut | Christian Laurence | 2006
King Crab Attack | Grégoire Sivan | 2008
Super Ordinary | Vincent Wilson | 2010
Le point Godwin | Thomas Lesourd | 2013
Mini-moi | Jeanne Signé | 2018
Marc Andreoni retrospective
Marc Andreoni won the Off-Courts Public’s Award, benefited from the associated grant, took part in the Import/Export programme, produced a number of special projects in association with Off and also worked on a great many projects in our Labs, often accompanied by his friend Jean-Pierre Lazzerini. So this year we’re devoting a special retrospective to him.
Saturday 7 September at 1:30pm | Thursday 12 September at 2:30pm
The films :
Balibalo – 2001
Trouville – 2002
Colin Maillard – 2002
Douce nuit – 2003
Pépère à Trouville – 2003
Le droit d’aimer – 2004
C’est quoi l’amour – 2007
Pépère a Trouville 2 – 2005
Sauveurs d’âmes – 2005
No pasaran – 2010
Sticky Fingers – 2009
Résistance – 2009
Life is courts – 2012
The bearded mermaid, the movie
To tie in with the cabaret presented on Sunday evening, we present a film inspired by the life of the Dieppe cabaret and its bearded mermaids.
Directed by Nicolas Bellenchombre and Arthur Delamotte
Saturday 7 September at 3pm| Monday 9 September at 5pm
Synopsis :
The drag queens from the La Sirène à Barbe cabaret put on a spectacular show, with singing, circus and dance – something the town of Dieppe has never seen before. Erwan, a local fisherman, is spellbound. He ventures into their world of joy and celebration and discovers, behind the costumes of the stage characters, tormented, lonely, over-sensitive human beings who are prepared to do anything to take this project as far as it can go. It’s a portrait of a small port town inhabited as much by gloomy daily lives as by extraordinary destinies.
Court mais trash
For the first 10 years of Off-Courts, a special programme was presented in the evening at midnight, with a simple editorial line: films you wouldn’t want your children or grandmothers to see!
To mark this 25th edition, the famous Short but trashy programme is back in the evening, live from the village, in our mini-cinema room.
Saturday 7 | Sunday 8 | Monday 9 September at 11pm
The films :
Gender Reveal | Mo Matton
Sagah | Gaël Maleux et Maïté Lønne
Coléoptère | Martin Gouzou
Stuffed | Louise Labrousse
5 balles | Anoük Tikoudane-Trégan
Cultes | David Padilla
To find out more about the films in this programme, clic here
