Transatlantic

(Transatlantique)

Félix Dufour-Laperrière

Canada

2014

min.

No dialogue

Feature-length

Documentary

Essay

Synopsis

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.

Festivals

FESTIVALS

53rd Gijon International Film Festival - Gijon, Spain, 2015
30th FIFF Namur - Namur, Belgium, 2015
21st Filmfest Hamburg - Hamburg, Germany, 2015
5th Festival du cinéma de la ville de Québec - Québec, Canada, 2015
8th Avvantura Film Festival - Zadar, Croatia, 2015
23rd Art Film Fest -Trencianske Teplice, Slovakia, 2015
12th Yerevan International Film Festival - Yerevan, Armenia, 2015
4th Syros International Film Festivla - Syros, Greece, 2015
69th Edinburgh International Film Festival - Edinburgh, UK, 2015
14th Festival International du documentaire en Cévennes - Cévennes, France 2015
DOXA Documentary Film Festival - Vancouver, Canada, 2015
34th Hot Docs Canadian International documentary festival - Toronto, Canada, 2015
53rd Ann Arbor Film Festival - Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 2015
33e Rendez-Vous du cinéma Québécois - Montréal, Canada, 2015
44th Rotterdam International Film Festival - Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2015 (International Premiere)
43e Festival du nouveau cinéma - Montréal, Canada, 2014

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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

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.