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2021 Canadian film
Archipelago
FrenchArchipel
Directed byFélix Dufour-Laperrière
Written byFélix Dufour-Laperrière
Produced byFélix Dufour-Laperrière
Nicolas Dufour-Laperrière
Narrated byFlorence Blain Mbaye
Mattis Savard-Verhoeven
Edited byFélix Dufour-Laperrière
Music byStéphane Lafleur
Christophe Lamarche-Ledoux
Production
company		L'Embuscade Films
Distributed byLa Distributrices de Films
Miyu Distribution
Release date
  • February 4, 2021 (2021-02-04) (IFFR)
Running time72 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguagesFrench
Innu-aimun

Archipelago (French: Archipel) is a 2021 Canadian animated documentary film, directed by Félix Dufour-Laperrière. A poetic essay film that blends diverse styles of animation, the film is a psychogeographic meditation on the islands in the St. Lawrence River, forming a metaphor for Quebec's status as an "uncertain country" defined by the tensions between its status as a province of Canada and the Québécois people's conception of themselves as a distinct nation.

The film is narrated principally by Florence Blain Mbaye and Mattis Savard-Verhoeven, with a shorter narration by Joséphine Bacon of one of her own poems in Innu-aimun. The animation team included Malcolm Sutherland, Philip Lockerby, Jens Hahn, and Eva Cvijanović.

The film premiered in February 2021 at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and had its Canadian premiere at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in April. It was released commercially on October 19.

Awards

The film won a jury prize at the 2021 Annecy International Animation Film Festival.

It received four Prix Iris nominations at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2022, for Best Documentary Film, Best Editing in a Documentary (Dufour-Laperrière), Best Sound in a Documentary (Olivier Calvert) and Best Original Music in a Documentary (Stéphane Lafleur, Christophe Lamarche-Ledoux).

It was named the winner of the Prix Luc-Perreault from the Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma at the 2022 Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma.

References

  1. ^ Wendy Ide, "‘Archipelago’: Rotterdam Review". Screen Daily, February 5, 2021.
  2. Martin Gignac, "Poésie animée". La Presse, October 29, 2021.
  3. ^ Chris Robinson, "Enter The Impossible Province: Félix Dufour-Laperrière On His Québec-Set Feature ‘Archipelago’". Cartoon Brew, February 3, 2021.
  4. Mercedes Milligan, "Félix Dufour-Laperrière’s ‘Archipelago’ to Premiere at Rotterdam". Animation Magazine, January 12, 2021.
  5. Patrick Mullen, "Mystic River: Félix Dufour-Laperrière’s Archipelago". Point of View, May 4, 2021.
  6. François Lévesque, "Félix Dufour-Laperrière et la femme aux grandes eaux". Le Devoir, October 22, 2021.
  7. Brandon Choe, "‘Flee’, ‘My Sunny Maad’, ‘The Crossing’ Win Top Distinctions At 2021 Annency (sic) Animation Festival – Winners List". Deadline Hollywood, June 19, 2021.
  8. "Dévoilement des finalistes aux Prix Iris 2022". CTVM, April 14, 2022.
  9. "RENDEZ-VOUS QUÉBEC CINÉMA : Les lauréats et lauréates des PRIX RVQC 2022". CTVM, May 2, 2022.

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