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Before the Streets

Chloé Leriche / 2015 / 97 min. / Canada / FRENCH, Atikamekw / SUBS FRENCH

Synopsis

Gripping and spiritual, the first film set among the Atikamekw communities of Québec, featuring an indigenous cast speaking in their native tongue, is the redemptive story of a young man who returns to his Native traditions after a robbery ends in tragedy.Gripping and spiritual, the first film set among the Atikamekw communities of Québec, featuring an indigenous cast speaking in their native tongue, is the redemptive story of a young man who returns to his Native traditions after a robbery ends in tragedy.

Cast & Crew

  • Direction and Screenplay : Chloé Leriche
  • Direction of photography : Glauco Bermudez
  • Editing : Chloé Leriche et Natalie Lamoureux
  • Sound : Martyne Morin
  • Music : Robert Marcel Lepage
  • Mixing sound : Sylvain Bellemare
  • Artistic direction : Frédéric Devost
  • Actors : Rykko Bellemare, Kwena Bellemare Boivin, Jacques Newashish, Janis Ottawa, Martin Dubreuil
  • Production : Chloé Leriche / Les films de l'autre

Genre

Fiction

Topics

Drama, Family, Indigenous, Religion and spirituality

Trailer

Biography

Self-taught, Chloé Leriche has been writing, directing, editing and producing several short films since 2001. Her work is presented on television and in many international festivals. His film FRAGMENTS OR LETTER TO A GERMAN (WHOSE I AM LOVE IN SECRET) was awarded in 2004 at the festival VideoForme in France. Her short film LES GRANDS was presented at the Toronto International Festival and was selected in the TOP TEN, the selection of the ten best Canadian films of the year 2008. Since 2004 she has worked with many homeless youth in Montreal as a filmmaker trainer in the video studio Video Paradiso. She then joined the Wapikoni Mobile team to encourage First Nations youth to express themselves through documentary films. It is in this context that she begins the writing of BEFORE THE STREETS, a film that she realizes by involving the forces of the three Atikamekw communities of Quebec.

Festivals

Le film est en langue originale français et atikamekw et est disponible avec sous-titres français ou anglais.

Photos

Before the Streets - Chloé Leriche - 2015
Before the Streets - Chloé Leriche - 2015
Before the Streets - Chloé Leriche - 2015
Before the Streets - Chloé Leriche - 2015

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