Dreamspeakers Film Festival: Best Director (Yves Sioui Durand) and Best Leading Actress (Eve Ringuette) 2012

SWAIA - Santa Fe Native Cinema Showcase: Best Feature and Best Photography 2012

American Indian Film Festival: Best Film, Best Leading Actor (Victor Andres Trelles Turgeon) and Best Leading Actress (Eve Ringuette) 2012

Gala Québec Cinéma: Nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Eve Ringuette 2013

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Mesnak

An urban indigenous man in his early twenties, Dave is an actor in Montreal. Adopted at the age of three, he grew up knowing nothing about his native culture. When he receives a photo of his birth mother in the mail - who he has never known - he sets out for Kinogamish, the community where he was born and where his mother Gertrude still lives.

The reunion does not go as planned and Dave, who has lost his bearings, is confronted with a hostile and foreign world. Deprived of his native culture, can Dave reclaim it? Like Hamlet, the Shakespearean hero he explores in his acting classes, Dave embarks on a true quest. His impromptu return to this devastated community will provoke upheavals and chain reactions, reviving a painful past marked by lies and secrecy.

  • With Victor Andrés Trelles Turgeon, Eve Ringuette, Marco Collin, Kathia Rock, Marco Poulin, Charles Buckell, Luc Morissette, Manon Nolin, Florent Vollant, Shauit 

  • Scriptwriters Robert Morin, Louis Hamelin, Yves Sioui Durand

  • Director Yves Sioui Durand

  • Director of photography Stefan Ivanov, B.A.C.

  • Set designer Suzanne Cloutier

  • Costumes Hélène Schneider

  • Editor Louise Côté

  • Sound Claudde Beaugrand, Pierre Blain, Hans Laitres

  • Musique Bertrand Chénier

  • Producers Ian Boyd, Reginald Vollant

  • Year 2011

LENGTH

96 minutes

BROADCAST

APTN / Radio-Canada

DiSTRIBUTion

K FILM AMÉRIQUE (Canada) FILMS 2.0 (International)