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- Meet the Tricycle recipients (2024-2025) - January 14, 2026 - 6 pm - 9 pm
- Application requirements:
- Artistic CV (3 pages max)
- Presentation document including:
- short synopsis
- cinematic treatment and artistic approach (5 pages max)
- screenplay
- List of equipment and facilities required (catalog of our equipment)
- Production schedule
- Optional: supporting materials (2 maximum) – video/audio (internet link) or visuals
14
Jan
Meet the Tricycle recipients (2024-2025)
Meetup, Rencontre - Fiction - Winter 2026
Date / Heure
14 January 2026
6 pm - 9 pm
Lieu
Main Film Atelier
2025 Rue Parthenais #304-A, Montréal, Quebec, H2K 3T2
Guests | Frédéric Chalté (La Hère), Zainab Rabbaa (Malak) and Florelle Del Burgo (Petite Chose)
Free upon registration
Meet three emerging filmmakers who received support from Main Film as part of (tri)Cycle for their short fiction films! From submitting their applications to producing and distributing their films, discover the different stages of the process and the benefits offered by the program through their experiences.
Deadline for the next application: February 1, 2026, at 11:59 p.m.
For more information, please send an email to: services@mainfilm.qc.ca
Frédéric Chalté has been working for several years to develop a filmography proudly rooted in genre cinema. His internationally acclaimed efforts on the festival circuit include The Babysitter, No One Will Ever Believe You, and Le otto dita della morte.
About La Hère :
Loosely based on a Quebec folk legend, La Hère tells the story of Kid, a new recruit to a group of violent gamekeepers who watch over a vast forest territory. In this harsh ecosystem that rejects difference, the young man struggles to find his place. Despite the reassuring presence of his colleague Barniques, he flees into the forest after a night of violent and humiliating initiations. But a fantastical creature, the hère, lurks among the trees… Caught between this monster and the violence of his colleagues, Kid finally chooses to flee the camp to join the forest and become a legendary creature himself.
Known as Zairab, Zainab Rabbaa is a Moroccan filmmaker, emerging producer, and painter based in Montreal. She works in screenwriting, directing, and post-production. With a master’s degree in documentary filmmaking from Morocco, she is currently pursuing a doctorate in cinematographic colorimetry, while also serving as a guest researcher at the University of Montreal and UQAM. Her artistic approach combines theory and practice, with a particular focus on visual composition, color palette, and immersive storytelling. Zairab explores hybrid forms that blend reality, 2D animation, and painting, creating worlds where images breathe, between color and emotion. She has collaborated with production companies in Morocco and Canada and participated in residencies, exhibitions, research projects, as well as international festivals and conferences, where she shares her vision of sensory and experiential cinema.
About Malak :
Malak, a talented 16-year-old swimmer, trains regularly early in the morning at the municipal pool in Montreal. One day, she discovers that the pool water is strangely luminous and peaceful, as if it were hiding a secret.
I have developed myself over time, first through 17 years of competitive sports, then through working with young people, and now on film sets. With a degree in human relations from Concordia University, I initially held management positions in sports and cultural and artistic event planning.
After more than a decade in this field, I decided to change paths and seized the opportunity to apply my skills in the world of film production. I quickly understood how the set worked and had the chance to work as an assistant director on major American productions, then on more intimate projects: short films, dance films, documentaries, music videos, and international films. Each step has contributed to the experience that shapes my perspective today.
My career has been guided by a constant desire for movement, curiosity, and the search for meaning. Cinema still takes me on journeys—through different places and cultures, but also through other people and myself. It allows me to discover other ways of telling stories, other ways of looking at the world. What moves me are the silences, the glances, the details. I am drawn to what is left unsaid. I like to keep moving, learning, reinventing myself.
Today, I develop projects at the crossroads of the intimate and the sensory, exploring childhood, memory, and the plurality of identities through discreet but profound stories, where the body, the setting, and silence speak in a different way.
About Petite Chose :
Soriane, aged seven and a half, waits for her mother to pick her up after school. It’s not the first time she’s been late. To fill the void, Soriane plays, organizes herself, and transforms familiar places into a reassuring world. But a phone call shatters the illusion: she is alone, and her mother may not be coming. Faced with this brutal reality, Soriane finds a fragile but tenacious strength within herself. Inspired by a real memory, Petite chose is a 10-minute dramatic short film. It explores a child’s resilience in the face of abandonment and how imagination becomes a survival mechanism.