30 Sep Talk with director Jean-François Lesage
30
Sep
Talk with director Jean-François Lesage
Rencontre - Documentary Cinema - Fall 2025
Tuesday September 30, 2025
6 pm - 9 pm
Main Film Atelier
2025 Rue Parthenais #304-A, Montréal, Quebec, H2K 3T2
With Jean-François Lesage (Among Mountains and Streams, Prayer for a Lost Mitten)
Moderated by: XXX
Free upon registration
Come celebrate the power of documentary cinema!
Main Film invites you to kick off the documentary cycle with Jean-François Lesage, a filmmaker who has mastered the art of capturing reality with subtlety and humanity. During this talk, Lesage will reflect on his filmography and documentarian approach, his creative vision, and the paths that inspire his creative process.
An opportunity to step into the world of a filmmaker who knows how to truly listen to the world.
For further information, please send an e-mail to : services@mainfilm.qc.ca
After studying law, Jean-François Lesage began his career as a journalist for Radio-Canada television in Alberta and British Columbia. In 1998, moved by his discovery of Chinese cinema, he relocated to Beijing, where he lived for six years. During that time, he directed his first creative documentary, A Night in China (2004), followed by How Can You Tell If the Little Fish Are Happy? (2009), co-directed with his brother Philippe Lesage.
Back in Montreal, he directed A Mile End Tale (2013), which closed the 2014 edition of Visions du Réel. His next film, A Summer Love (2015), won the Grand Prize for Best Canadian Feature at the RIDM. His fourth feature, The Hidden River (2017), received the Special Jury Prize at the same festival. In 2020, Prayer for a Lost Mitten won Best Canadian Documentary at Hot Docs.
Among Mountains and Streams is his most recent film.
Moderated by Rachel Samson
Rachel Samson is an animation filmmaker interested in traditional, digital, and camera animation. She writes for the film magazine Hors Champ, occasionally contributes to the film magazine 24 images podcast, and is an associate programmer at Cinéma Moderne.
Our documentary cycle continues this fall! See the full schedule here.