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WALK TO THE REAL COUNTRY

un film de Marie France L'Ecuyer

Documentaire | 100 minutes | 2024

NORTH OF OURSELVES

Language: French, English, Inuktitut with French ST

filming: 4k - color

ratio scope | 5.1 sound

DCP - ProRes - H264

filming country: Canada (Quebec)

country of action: Canada (Quebec)

#expedition #quebec #firstnations #inuit #encounter #north #territory

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Synopsis

By attempting to travel 2,960 km from southern Quebec to its northernmost point, by bike and skis, in the middle of winter, adventurers Samuel Lalande-Markon and Simon-Pierre Goneau want to reinvest the territory and reflect on the identity and collective relationship that Quebecers have with it. Their journey begins at kilometer marker 720, an obelisk-shaped monument located on the border with the United States, and ends at Cape Anaulirvik, north of Ivujivik, the northernmost point of the Ungava Peninsula.

Over the course of a 91-day expedition, they set out to discover the country in all its immensity, splendor and impetuosity, a country that suddenly reveals itself to be less abstract, less distant, more real.

Key speakers

Samuel Lalande-Markon and Simon-Pierre Goneau

FESTIVALS: Awards and official selections

30th CINEMANIA Francophone Film Festival - Montreal, Canada / November 2024

DIRECTOR - BIO

Photographer and documentary filmmaker Marie-France L'Ecuyer is particularly interested in the relationship between humans and their environment. Sensitive to the beauty of wide open spaces in the wild, her work questions our relationship to the land and explores the inner dimension of adventure. She produced and directed the short films Territoire intérieur (2021) and Uapishka (2023), selected in several film festivals, in addition to having directed and directed the documentary web series La Virée du Saint-Laurent (2022). She is currently working on her first feature film, Marche au pays réel, scheduled for release in 2024.