Semaine de la critique de Mtl - Lost Chapters + Merman + UNDR Programme Albums de famille - Cinéma Moderne

Family Albums program - January 15
19h00 - Lost Chapters
20h20 - Merman
21h45 - UNDR (short film)
A ticket gives access to the 3 films in the program

Lost Chapters by Lorena Alvarado
After years living abroad, Ena returns to Venezuela with a fragmented sense of self. At home, she finds her grandmother losing her grasp of reality. Meanwhile, her father spends his days looking for rare books in an attempt to safeguard the country's literary past. When Ena discovers a mysterious postcard inside a book, she embarks on a search across Caracas to uncover a forgotten writer, in this familial ballad and remarkable debut reminiscent at once of the intimacy of Akerman and the labyrinthine qualities of Borges.

Merman by Ana Lungu
A female voice haunts a male gaze in this archival documentary about three men who capture images of women, in Romania, from WWII until the Revolution: an engineer filming his daughter, a music professor documenting his family and an aristocrat capturing the summer spent with his wife during wartime. Through an obsessively researched portrait of an obsessive person, Merman paints a picture of a country in the era of totalitarianism as inextricable from the gaze of men, and the everyday gestures of people seeking to escape from both.

UNDR by Kamal Aljafari
In Kamal Aljafari's companion piece to A Fidai Film, archival footage show a landscape at once modern and ancient, imagined but painfully real, where toiling farmers and playful children are interrupted by dynamite blasts meant to reshape the territory and appropriate Palestinian history.

Semaine de la critique de Mtl - Lost Chapters + Merman + UNDR
Programme Albums de famille