Émilienne and the Passage of Time

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THIS FILM IS AVAILABLE ACROSS ALBERTA

 

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     Online:                Link to event will be in your confirmation email from Showpass

     In-Person:           Globe Cinema, 617 – 8 Avenue SW, Calgary, AB

 

FILM SYNOPSIS

Retired after a long career as a flight attendant, Émilienne Belhumeur is fulfilling the dream she had while up in the sky: “Having chickens and coffee while leaning against a fence.” For the last 20 years, she’s been looking after the living with a constant sense of wonderment while patching up her house and barn that are slowly falling into disrepair. From time to time, her granddaughter Daphné drops by for a visit and a chat about the world around them. Through the seasons, Émilienne’s small farm becomes an undeniably chosen setting that acts as a quiet retreat and allows her to resist the various influences of the outside world. As a keeper of forgotten knowledge, she introduces us to her time-based way of life that she might have to give up.

 

Film Trailer

 

SPEAKERS 

Coralie Lemieux-Sabourin holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, a feature-film screenwriting degree from INIS as well as a Master's degree in theater from UQAM. She is passionate about different styles of writing, from poetry to scriptwriting and playwriting. Moving seamlessly between cinema and theater, she is particularly interested in people living outside the norm, and more broadly, in human contradictions and resistance, which she likes to explore through forms that challenge reality. Sensitivity is at the core of her work. In 2020, she presented her creative thesis Partition pour corps ouverts (Script for Open Bodies), a play exploring her experience as a liver transplant recipient that combines documentary theater, autofiction and performance as well as critical and humorous perspectives. She has two short documentaries to her credit, including Processions (2017), which chronicles the daily life of an unusual senior living in a retirement home, and won the 2018 Best Film Award from the L’Âme à l’Écran festival (REGARD Festival). Émilienne et le temps qui passe (Émilienne and the Passage of Time) is her first feature documentary.

Émilienne Belhumeur is fulfilling the dream she had while up in the sky as a flight attendant: “Having chickens and coffee while leaning against a fence.” For the last 20 years, she’s been looking after the living with a constant sense of wonderment while patching up her house and barn that are slowly falling into disrepair. From time to time, her granddaughter Daphné drops by for a visit and a chat about the world around them. Through the seasons, Émilienne’s small farm becomes an undeniably chosen setting that acts as a quiet retreat and allows her to resist the various influences of the outside world. As a keeper of forgotten knowledge, she introduces us to her way of life that she might have to give up

 

REGISTRATION

You will need to have a Showpass account to register for this event.  If you do not, just start registering for the event and creating an account will become part of the process (Showpass has set it up this way).

If you are booking via our partnership with Calgary Public Library, please see https://calgarylibrary.ca/about-the-library/membership-agreement/

 

HOW TO "ATTEND" THE EVENT ONLINE 

Your email confirmation from Showpass (once you have bought your ticket) will contain your unique personalized link to the event. It will be in the body of the email - not in the ticket that is attached to the email. 

Your link should not be shared - once it is used, it cannot be used again to access the screening. Just prior to the start of the event, click that link and you will be taken to a website where you can watch the film, its live introduction and live Q&A/close  after the film.

If you have lost or deleted your confirmation email from Showpass, please email "help@thirdactionfilmfest.ca" AT LEAST 1 HOUR PRIOR TO SHOWTIME.  We will be able to help you.

  

HOW TO ATTEND THE EVENT IN-PERSON

The health & safety of our audience, volunteers and staff is our priority. Although the Alberta government has cancelled the Restrictions Exemption Program (REP) as of February 9, 2022 and lifted the face mask requirement as of March 1, 2022.

Our partner, Globe Cinema, encourages the use of face masks when entering and moving about the facility. Once seated, you are welcome to remove your mask.

• Only Debit, Visa, and Mastercard will be accepted at the concession.

As we move through our monthly screening season, we will adapt to any restrictions/changes related to Covid.

Thank you for helping us get back to in cinema shows and in keeping everyone safe.