{"id":54574,"date":"2025-08-21T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lepetitseptieme.ca\/?p=54574"},"modified":"2025-08-21T07:00:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T11:00:58","slug":"ridm-2025-opening-and-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lepetitseptieme.ca\/en\/2025\/08\/21\/ridm-2025-opening-and-closing\/","title":{"rendered":"RIDM 2025 | Opening and Closing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Les Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montr\u00e9al (RIDM) viennent d\u2019annoncer les films d\u2019ouverture et de cl\u00f4ture de leur 28<sup>e<\/sup> \u00e9dition qui se d\u00e9roulera du 20 au 30 novembre 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>Pour inaugurer le festival, l\u2019\u00e9quipe de programmation a choisi <em>Letters from Wolf Street<\/em> du cin\u00e9aste Arjun Talwar. Remarqu\u00e9 \u00e0 la Berlinale et \u00e0 CPH:DOX, ce documentaire brosse un portrait tendre et nuanc\u00e9 d\u2019un quartier de Varsovie, port\u00e9 par le regard d\u2019un r\u00e9alisateur issu de l\u2019immigration et en qu\u00eate d\u2019appartenance.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>En cl\u00f4ture, les RIDM pr\u00e9senteront <em>Les blues du bleuet<\/em>, un film choral profond\u00e9ment enracin\u00e9 dans le territoire du Lac-Saint-Jean. Pour ce troisi\u00e8me long m\u00e9trage, le cin\u00e9aste Andr\u00e9s Livov oriente sa cam\u00e9ra vers une communaut\u00e9 rassembl\u00e9e autour du l\u00e9gendaire petit fruit durant la belle saison.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Film d\u2019ouverture \u2013 LETTERS FROM WOLF STREET de Arjun Talwar<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>Int\u00e9ress\u00e9 par le cin\u00e9ma polonais, Arjun Talwar quitte l\u2019Inde pour suivre des \u00e9tudes de cin\u00e9ma en Pologne. Une d\u00e9cennie plus tard, son int\u00e9gration dans ce pays s\u2019av\u00e8re plus lente et plus complexe qu\u2019anticip\u00e9e. Anim\u00e9 par une v\u00e9ritable envie de connexion, cam\u00e9ra \u00e0 la main, il pose un regard empreint de tendresse et de bienveillance sur ses voisins de la rue Wolf, \u00e0 Varsovie. Avec l\u2019amusante collaboration de son amie Mo Tan, immigrante chinoise avec qui il a \u00e9tudi\u00e9, le cin\u00e9aste r\u00e9v\u00e8le les banalit\u00e9s du quotidien de son quartier, ses contradictions, les relations qui se forgent ou se refusent, le racisme latent ou affirm\u00e9, les divisions ou l\u2019acceptation. Il brosse ainsi un portrait nuanc\u00e9 de ce microcosme auquel se greffe une salutaire dose d\u2019humour. Abordant plusieurs r\u00e9flexions sur l\u2019immigration, le racisme et l\u2019appartenance, ce sinc\u00e8re antidote \u00e0 la haine permet d\u2019observer que le pr\u00e9sent tra\u00eene un lourd pass\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" src=\"https:\/\/lepetitseptieme.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Letters-from-Wolf-Street.jpg\" alt=\"Letters from Wolf Street\" class=\"wp-image-54559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lepetitseptieme.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Letters-from-Wolf-Street.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/lepetitseptieme.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Letters-from-Wolf-Street-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lepetitseptieme.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Letters-from-Wolf-Street-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lepetitseptieme.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Letters-from-Wolf-Street-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lepetitseptieme.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Letters-from-Wolf-Street-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lepetitseptieme.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Letters-from-Wolf-Street-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Letters from Wolf Street<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>Produit par Uni-Solo Studio et inselfilm produktion, <em>Letters from Wolf Street<\/em> sera projet\u00e9 en premi\u00e8re nord-am\u00e9ricaine, en ouverture du festival, le jeudi 20 novembre au Monument-National, en pr\u00e9sence du cin\u00e9aste Arjun Talwar. Une deuxi\u00e8me projection du film, ouverte au public, aura lieu pendant le festival.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Film de cl\u00f4ture \u2013 LES BLUES DU BLEUET de Andr\u00e9s Livov<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>Au Lac-Saint-Jean, il y a plus d\u2019un si\u00e8cle et demi, d\u2019importants feux de for\u00eat ont particip\u00e9 \u00e0 cr\u00e9er un terreau propice \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sence l\u00e9gendaire du bleuet. Aujourd\u2019hui, la r\u00e9gion fait face \u00e0 de multiples d\u00e9fis, dont les changements climatiques, la modernisation des mod\u00e8les agricoles et les conditions \u00e9conomiques. Par le biais de diff\u00e9rents r\u00e9cits et diff\u00e9rentes aspirations qui se combinent et entrent en dialogue, ce film choral r\u00e9v\u00e8le l\u2019entrelacement d\u2019une communaut\u00e9 diverse, r\u00e9unie autour de ce fruit embl\u00e9matique de la r\u00e9gion. Gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une conception sonore riche, dans laquelle la musique appara\u00eet comme un point de rencontre, ce film sensible et habilement construit infuse une note d\u2019optimisme, sans nier les \u00e9preuves actuelles et \u00e0 venir.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1078\" src=\"https:\/\/lepetitseptieme.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Les-blues-du-bleuet.jpg\" alt=\"Les blues du bleuet\" class=\"wp-image-54557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lepetitseptieme.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Les-blues-du-bleuet.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/lepetitseptieme.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Les-blues-du-bleuet-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lepetitseptieme.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Les-blues-du-bleuet-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lepetitseptieme.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Les-blues-du-bleuet-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lepetitseptieme.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Les-blues-du-bleuet-1536x862.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lepetitseptieme.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Les-blues-du-bleuet-600x337.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Les blues du bleuet<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p><em>Les blues du bleuet<\/em> sera projet\u00e9 en premi\u00e8re canadienne, en cl\u00f4ture du festival, le samedi 29 novembre au Cin\u00e9plex Od\u00e9on Quartier Latin, en pr\u00e9sence du cin\u00e9aste Andr\u00e9s Livov (sur invitation seulement). Une deuxi\u00e8me projection du film, ouverte au public, aura lieu le dimanche 30 novembre. Produit par Les Glaneuses et distribu\u00e9 par SPIRA, le documentaire prendra l\u2019affiche au Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 l\u2019hiver 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>La programmation compl\u00e8te des RIDM sera d\u00e9voil\u00e9e le mercredi 29 octobre 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Les Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montr\u00e9al (RIDM) viennent d\u2019annoncer les films d\u2019ouverture et de cl\u00f4ture de leur 28e \u00e9dition qui se d\u00e9roulera du 20 au 30 novembre 2025.\u00a0 Pour inaugurer le festival, l\u2019\u00e9quipe de programmation a choisi Letters from Wolf Street du cin\u00e9aste Arjun Talwar. 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