Documentary essay filmed during an ocean crossing aboard a freighter, Transatlantic reveals the ship as a microcosm and a metaphor: a human island in the heart of a great elsewhere.
AWARD
Prix Pierre et Yolande Perreault du meilleur premier ou long métrage documentaire - Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, Canada, 2015
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Cinémathèque québécoise, Canada, 2018
SELECTIONS
Festival du nouveau cinéma, Canada, 2014 (World Premiere)
Rotterdam International Film Festival, Netherlands, 2015 (International Premiere)
Rendez-Vous du cinéma Québécois, Canada, 2015
Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA, 2015
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Canada, 2015
DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Canada, 2015
Edinburgh International Film Festival, UK, 2015
Festival International du documentaire en Cévennes, France 2015
Art Film Fest, Slovakia, 2015
Yerevan International Film Festival, Armenia, 2015
Syros International Film Festival, Greece, 2015
Avvantura Film Festival, Croatia, 2015
Festival du cinéma de la ville de Québec, Canada, 2015
Filmfest Hamburg, Germany, 2015
FIFF Namur, Belgium, 2015
Gijon International Film Festival, Spain, 2015
Vues dans la tête de, Canada, 2016
New Horizons Film Festival, Poland, 2019
Bildrausch - FilmFest Basel, Switzerland, 2021
Director: Félix Dufour-Laperrière
Script: Félix Dufour-Laperrière
DOP: Nicolas Dufour-Laperrière/Felix Dufour-Laperrière
Sound: Gabriel Dufour-Laperrière
Sound design: Olivier Calvert
Editing: Félix Dufour-Laperrière
Producers: Nicolas Dufour-Laperrière and Felix Dufour-Laperrière
Production: Embuscade Films
Version
No dialogue
Format
DCP, 1:85, 2K, 5.1 sound
Félix Dufour-Laperrière is a Quebec animator, director and screenwriter born in 1981 in Chicoutimi, Quebec. His productions oscillate between documentary, animation and experimental short films. His work is also marked by the great importance he attaches to poetry and language.