Antoine (film)
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Antoine is an 82-minutes 2008 Canadian
documentary film
directed by Laura Bari
. The film features a young 5-year old blind
kid named Antoine Houang.
living in Montreal
. It tells the real and imaginary life of Antoine, a boy detective who runs, drives, makes decisions, hosts radio shows and adores simultaneous telephone conversations. Over the course of two years he uses a mini-boom microphone to discover and capture the sounds surrounding him. In this manner he also co-created the sound track of this film.
Antoine is a daring, poetic, and playful docudrama that intimately explores the life of this brilliant and unique boy who is fully integrated into the regular school system in Montreal
. Film is an homage to human resilience, optimism, and creativity.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
directed by Laura Bari
Laura Bari
Laura Bari is Canadian film director and producer of Argentian origin and has been living in Montreal for more than 20 years. She studied pedagogy, specialized in psychopathology of the expression....
. The film features a young 5-year old blind
Blindness
Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define blindness...
kid named Antoine Houang.
living in Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
. It tells the real and imaginary life of Antoine, a boy detective who runs, drives, makes decisions, hosts radio shows and adores simultaneous telephone conversations. Over the course of two years he uses a mini-boom microphone to discover and capture the sounds surrounding him. In this manner he also co-created the sound track of this film.
Synopsis
Film opens with a shot of a five-year-old using a typewriter to describe in great detail how he became blind at birth. The next scene is Antoine receiving a phone call from Madame Rouski, who dissolved into the water while taking a shower. Antoine's mission is to find Madame Rouski. Equipped with his two best friends and a mini boom microphone to help him find clues, Antoine spends two years of his life locating her. Is she in the yellow daffodils, in the air, in Vietnam, or has she turned into a monster?Antoine is a daring, poetic, and playful docudrama that intimately explores the life of this brilliant and unique boy who is fully integrated into the regular school system in Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
. Film is an homage to human resilience, optimism, and creativity.
Festivals
- Thessaloniki Documentary FestivalThessaloniki Documentary FestivalThe Thessaloniki Documentary Festival – Images of the 21st Century is a film festival specialising in documentary films which takes place every March in Thessaloniki and is affiliated with the International Thessaloniki Film Festival.-History:...
, Greece (March 2009) - Festival Internationale de Films de Femmes, France (Mars 2009)
- Tribeca Film FestivalTribeca Film FestivalThe Tribeca Film Festival is a film festival founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff in a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Lower Manhattan.The mission of the festival...
, New York, USA (April 2009) - Salt Lake City Film Festival, Salt Lake City, USA, (August 2009)
- Chungmuro International Festival, Seoul, South Korea (August 2009)
- Kos International Health Film festival, Greece (September 2009)
- EBS International Documentary Fest, Seoul, South Korea (Septembre 2009)
- Reykjavík International Film FestivalReykjavík International Film Festival- The festival :Reykjavík International Film Festival , is an international film festival held in Reykjavík, Iceland annually. The festival lasts 11 days each year and emphasizes young talents...
, Iceland (September 2009) - Docupolis, Barcelona, Spain (September 2009)
- Vancouver International Film FestivalVancouver International Film FestivalThe Vancouver International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for two weeks in late September and early October...
, Vancouver, Canada (October 2009) - San Diego Asian Film Festival, San Diego, USA (October 2009)
- DOK, Leipzig, Germany (November 2009)
- Sheffield Doc/Fest, Sheffield, United Kingdom (November 2009)
- Mar del Plata Film FestivalMar del Plata Film FestivalThe Mar del Plata International Film Festival is an international film festival that takes place every November in the city of Mar del Plata, Argentina...
, Argentina (November 2009) - Gothenburg Film FestivalGothenburg Film FestivalGöteborg International Film Festival is an annual film festival in Gothenburg, Sweden, launched in 1979. The first year the festival showed 17 films on 3 screens, and had 3 000 visitors. Today, the film festival is the biggest in Scandinavia and takes place 10 days every year between January and...
, Sweden (February 2010)
Awards
- Special jury mention in the "doctape award" category Rencontres internationales du documentaire de MontrealRencontres internationales du documentaire de MontréalRencontres internationales du documentaire de Montreal also known by the acronym RIDM is Montreal, Canada's international documentary film festival....
(RIDM), Montreal, (November 2008) - Prix Lindalee Tracey, Hot DocsHot DocsHot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is North America's largest documentary film festival, conference, and market, held annually in Toronto, Ontario, Canada...
, Toronto (May 2009) - First Special Jury Prize, for Emotions Pictures, Athens, Greece (June 2009)
- Honor Prize for Best Experimental Documentary, Docupolis, Barcelona (September 2009)