[FREE] Seagrass & Été 2000 | FNC x Canadian Film Day

The Festival du nouveau cinéma invites you to Canadian Film Day, with free screenings by reservation. Discover the short film Été 2000 by Virginie Nolin and Laurence Olivier (FNC 2023 Grand Prize) and Seagrass by Meredith Hama-Brown (FNC 2023 Prix de la diffusion Québecor) in a double bill.

ÉTÉ 2000 | Virginie Nolin, Laurence Olivier | Canada (Quebec) | 2023 | 20 min | VOSTA
9 year-old Sarah loves skateboarding and chilling out with her half-sister. As she quietly discovers love, an abusive event derails her sexual awakening. By playfully mixing different mediums, this intimate and delicate coming-of-age film offers an insight into gender performativity and consent.

SEAGRASS | Meredith Hama-Brown | Canada | 2023 | 115 min | VOSTF
Judith is at a crossroads. Mourning the recent death of her mother, she defines herself through her family, living in denial of her Japanese roots. During a retreat with her emotionally stilted husband and two sensitive daughters on a remote island in British Columbia, her encounter with an ostensibly happy couple shatters the veneer of her carefully constructed life, triggering the need to face her own demons. Hama-Brown’s tense, superlatively restrained drama set in a perfectly rendered 90s charts the ups and downs of a marriage on the verge of collapse, with the children’s roles as nuanced as those of the parents. Delicate and masterful.