07 Aug The Main Film community shines in Gaspésie!
Les Percéides, the Percé International Film and Art Festival in Gaspésie, is hosting several films from the Main Film community this year.
This selection highlights the achievements of our members, recipients of our various support programs, as well as instructors and close friends of the organization! These works, each unique in their own way, embody the values of cinematic daring and experimentation that are at the heart of our cooperative and the festival.
Platanero
directed by Yann Frank Hernandez
Canada, Québec | 2025 | 25 mins | V.O.ES.Creole | S.T.F.
Ti-Frè and Gran-Frè, two brothers of Haitian origin, live in a slum in the Dominican Republic. Without papers, they struggle every day against violence and the threat of deportation. Gran-Frè watches over Ti-Frè by working on a banana plantation and committing petty theft. When the plantation refuses to give him work one day, he has no choice but to take Ti-Frè with him to steal enough to survive. But that night, under the light of the full moon, a mysterious beast lurks in the shadows of the banana trees.
Les fougères prédatent les dinosaures
directed by Théo Parent
Canada, Québec | 2025 | 19 mins 39 | V.O.F.
Mathieu is a young surveyor hired by a businesswoman who wants to build a cottage in the Laurentians. While working alone in the forest, Mathieu discovers an abandoned treehouse that makes him imagine the former life around the lake, decades earlier. A brief trip to the nearby village brings him face to face with the locals, who express a certain mistrust of the lake, where properties have been abandoned over time. Returning to the construction site, Mathieu slows down as he passes by the neighboring cottages. He notices that most of them are dilapidated. He lingers at the ruins of a burned-down cottage, where he discovers ashes that are still warm. He feels as if he is being watched by a wild animal that does not reveal itself to him.
Billy
directed by Lawrence Côté-Collins
Canada, Québec | 2024 | 105 mins | V.O.F. | S.T.E.
Filmmaker Lawrence Côté-Collins visits her attacker in prison. She wants to understand, forgive, and support a man in pain. Billy is schizophrenic, and his most serious episode left two people dead. Their prison friendship, conducted through letters, sheds light on the truth about this mental illness, which was neither diagnosed nor treated. Together, they share their stories and rebuild themselves through intimate correspondence and previously unseen video archives.
Le temps
directed by François Delisle
Canada, Québec | 2025 | 94 mins | V.O.F. | S.T.E.
Parmi les montagnes et les ruisseaux
directed by Jean-François Lesage
Canada, Québec | 2024 | 98 mins | V.O.Mandarin | S.T.F.
At dusk, two travelers explore a mysterious forest. Though far from the borders of China they left behind, the landscapes they traverse awaken heartbreaking memories and existential reflections. While the Tiananmen Square massacre transformed their worldview, it is through their creative work that writer Ma Jian and painter Meng Huang find a response to oppression and deception.
Phénix
directed by Jonathan Beaulien-Cyr
Canada, Québec | 2024 | 90 mins | V.O.F. | S.T.E.
In the mid-2000s, Joël Girard, a charismatic and endearing soldier, is about to be deployed to Afghanistan. His wife Michelle and son Jacob must learn to live with this new reality: this time, the mission is risky. With the stated goal of getting closer to Jacob, Joël becomes the coach of his soccer team, the Phénix. Despite his efforts, a rift develops between him and his son.
Phénix is an autobiographical work that plunges us headfirst into the reality of military families. Through an intimate and luminous drama, the director invites us to revisit a troubled period in Canadian history.
R. Roussil, le cul par terre
directed by Maxime-Claude l’Écuyer
Canada, Québec | 2025 | 77 mins | V.O.F. | S.T.E.
La mort n’existe pas
directed by Félix Dufour-Laperrière
Canada, Québec | 2025 | 72 mins | V.O.F.
After a failed attack on wealthy landowners, Hélène abandons her companions and flees into the forest. Manon, her friend and accomplice in the attack, returns to haunt her. Together, they revisit the impossible choice between violence and inaction in a world undergoing profound change.
A Dying Tree
directed by Vincent René-Lortie
Canada, Québec | 2025 | 16 mins | No dialogue
As his workday draws to a close, a 45-year-old office worker catches the enigmatic gaze of a chimpanzee, initiating a silent exchange that prompts him to make an irreversible decision.
Gender Reveal
directed by Mo Matton
Canada, Québec | 2024 | 12 mins | V.O.E. | S.T.F.
Dedicated to pleasing everyone, Rhys brings his two partners to his boss’s gender reveal party for their future baby. The trans threesome quickly realizes the scale of the celebration, where their ability to get through it unscathed will be put to the test. In the shade of the banana trees.
Ibuka, Justice
directed by Justice Rutikara
Canada, Québec | 2024 | 23 mins | V.O.F.Kinyarwanda | S.T.F.
In early April 1994, Valentine and Jean-Claude, two young parents, began a new life in Kigali with their newborn baby, Justice. Their country, already ravaged by racial strife and brutality, finally seemed poised to experience the peace and justice the couple hoped for. However, this hope is brutally shattered when a terrible explosion in the sky triggers a campaign of massacres aimed at quickly wiping out hundreds of thousands of people. Faced with this devastating distress, Jean-Claude and Valentine embark on a frantic race to flee their homeland. Their survival will depend on their ability to trust their loved ones and unlikely allies, but above all, to rely on their unity and mutual courage. “Ibuka, Justice” is a short animated documentary that poetically recreates the miraculous journey of these parents and their baby through the voices of the former and the vision of the latter. This lyrical and moving film sincerely and uniquely reveals the story of a catastrophe that highlights the horrors of colonization and war, but also the bravery and solidarity that emerge in the midst of despair.
Le Punk de Natashquan
directed by Nicolas Lachapelle
Canada, Québec | 2025 | 20 mins | V.O.F. | S.T.E.
In 1981, a strange character arrived in Natashquan. It was the beginning of an unlikely love story between this small Quebec village and the young man nicknamed “Le Punk.” The story came to an abrupt end five years later with his mysterious disappearance, which would forever change the community.
Nuit d’opéra cambodgien
directed by Xu-Ming Lor
Canada, Québec | 2024 | 25 mins | V.O.F.Khmer | S.T.F.E.
A clash between two folk deities in a Cambodian opera will decide the fate of a young teenager in her pursuit of the Paul Gérin-Lajoie dictation.
Salem sur la route
directed by Étienne Galloy
Canada, Québec | 2024 | 19 mins 46 | V.O.F. | S.T.E.
Salem, in the throes of depersonalization, cycles along Route 132. She avoids all human contact until she reaches Douglastown, where she finds the object of her obsession: an old pickup truck bought on Kijiji with the intention of committing suicide in Forillon Park.
Check out the full Percéides program for 2025.