Festival 2011
President's Message
Welcome to Cinémental!
This year, we are celebrating our 20th anniversary. What a wonderful age to be! And it's all thanks to you! We are grateful to you, and proudly so, for encouraging cinema from here and abroad. Thank you for joining us in acknowledging talents of our film artisans and the remarkable quality of our French-language productions.
Cinémental is rolling out the red carpet for you. It will be an exciting festival! Come and view the best French-language films of the year, with English subtitles. Enjoy!
Featured are some comedies:
- Le mec idéal with Emma Lohoues et Serge Abessolo;
- Le sens de l’humour with Louis-José Houde, Michel Côté, Benoît Brière;
- Potiche with Catherine Deneuve et Gérard Depardieu;
- Le nom des gens with Sara Forestier et Jacques Gamblin;
- Starbuck with Patrick Huard et Antoine Bertrand;
- Frisson des collines with Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge et Antoine Pilon;
- Les femmes du 6e étage with Fabrice Luchini et Carmen Maura;
- French Immersion with Karine Vanasse, Pascale Bussières, Rita Lafontaine, Robert Charlebois.
And some dramas:
- Gerry with Mario St-Amand et Éric Bruneau;
- Omar m’a tuer with Sami Bouajila, Denys Podalydès ;
- Sur le rythme with Nico Archambault et Mylène St-Sauveur;
- Marécages with Pascale Bussières et Luc Picard;
- 2 Frogs dans l’Ouest with Mirianne Brûlé et Diane Lavallée.
It took hours and hours of hard work to plan and organize this exciting festival. For their dedication and volunteer work, I would like to thank our Board members, namely:
- Fathi Khezzane, Vice-President
- Danielle Parent, Treasurer
- Lucille Levy, secrétaire
- Léo Dufault, Johanne Jubinville, Nicole Massé, Advisers
- Gilbert Michaud, Danièle Dubois-Jacques, Christelle Dorn-Thierry, Denise Lécuyer, Béatrice Gaudet, Joanne Deniset, Julie Mongeon-Ferré, Laurence Véron, Observers
- Norma Michaud, Co-ordinator for the School Program
- Jocelyne Baribeau, Festival Co-ordinator.
Merci également à Joanne Michaud, membre sortant.
Cinémental wishes to thank our backers and sponsors for their generous support. A tip of our hat to those in charge of film distribution, to artists' agents, the technicians involved, and the staff of the CCFM and Globe Theatre. Special thanks to La Liberté for the remarkable art graphic work. Many, many thanks to our guests and to all the volunteers* who had a hand, big or small, in the success of Manitoba's 20th French Film Festival.
Marc-François Tremblay
Président de Cinémental
*Manitoba Lotteries proud volunteer sponsor