Do all sorrows become bearable when turned into a story or when narrated? French director Karine Birgé offers a touching narrative on her grandmother’s decision to leave France to receive medical assistance in dying in Belgium at the age of 102. Using the sound traces she kept, she summons a small theater of dolls and objects, brings together her loved ones, her friends, Dr. Frankenstein, and Chantal Goya, and reweaves a world around her grandmother who left in a strange tranquility. An ingenious work of great poetry, embodied by animation editing, combining modesty and emotion.
Other festivals:
FIPADOC, Prix des jeunes européens, France (2024)
Les escales documentaires, France (2023)
FIPADOC, Prix des jeunes européens, France (2024)
Les escales documentaires, France (2023)
| Director | Karine Birgé |
| Production | Michel Steyaert |
| Line Producer | Cyril Bibas |
| Camera | Choqueux Pierre |
| Cinematography | Pierre Choqueux, Tom Gineyts |
Sessions
• Musée McCord Stewart
Sunday, march 17, 2024, 02:00 p.m. — 03:30 p.m.
• Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec - Auditorium Sandra et Alain Bouchard du Pavillon Pierre Lassonde
Saturday, march 23, 2024, 01:30 p.m. — 02:45 p.m.
Production
Karine Birgé
Karine Birgé was born in the mists of Lorraine, in a land that still bears the scars of war. As a child, she played along the railway and in the bunkers, collecting helmets and still buried shells, or walking Lola her goat along the road.
She grows up, just a little, and goes off to university. She dreams of being a hard rocker. One night she takes a train to Paris. She then frequents bars and restaurants, but behind the counter, not in front, or only sometimes. Another night she migrates to Belgium to study for a few years at the Conservatoire royal de Liège. After all that, she arrives in Brussels, sells sushis, plays in several shows and directs documentaries. Finally she starts a gang with Marie Delhaye: the Karyatides company. And together they make object theatre.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
She grows up, just a little, and goes off to university. She dreams of being a hard rocker. One night she takes a train to Paris. She then frequents bars and restaurants, but behind the counter, not in front, or only sometimes. Another night she migrates to Belgium to study for a few years at the Conservatoire royal de Liège. After all that, she arrives in Brussels, sells sushis, plays in several shows and directs documentaries. Finally she starts a gang with Marie Delhaye: the Karyatides company. And together they make object theatre.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
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Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec - Auditorium Sandra et Alain Bouchard du Pavillon Pierre Lassonde
Saturday, march 23, 2024, 01:30 p.m.
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