DOCUMENTARIES
THE COST OF FREE WATER
A film by Jérémie Battaglia
Medium-length documentary film, 2021
In Quebec, drinking water is an unlimited resource, right? No way! The documentary breaks down the myth that led us to become one of world’s major water consumers. This waste costs billions and is endangering our precious resource.
Broadcasted on Télé Québec in October 2021
THE BROTHER
A film by Jérémie Battaglia
Short animated documentary, 2020
Living with an illness that is causing him to lose the use of his body, Kaïs is awoken every morning by a different member of his family. While his body is paralyzed, at night he dreams that he is the hero of his favorite manga, along with his brothers: Fehd the bodybuilder and Zaïd the ninja.
Festivals and prizes
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Gala Québec Cinéma /// Prix Iris du court métrage documentaire Sydney Short Film Festival Sydney /// Best Documentary Short RVQC Rendez vous Québec Cinéma Montréal
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Regard / Saguenay International Short Film Festival Saguenay
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HOT DOCS 2020 Toronto
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Belleville Downtown Doc Festival Belleville
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Norwegian Short Film Festival Grimstag
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Palm Springs International ShortFest Palm Springs
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The Extraordinary Film Festival Namur 2021
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Athens Short Film Festival
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AFI DOCS Films Festival Silver Spring
A FRENCH YOUTH
A film by Jérémie Battaglia
Feature and medium-length documentary film, in post-production (86' and 52')
Co-production Canada and France (Les Productions du Lagon) with the participation of France 3 Occitanie and Al Jazeera
In the heart of the Camargue region, in the south of France, Jawad and Belka find freedom in their love of Camargue races. For these young Maghrebi men, the event is more than a simple tradition. Facing off with a bull is an opportunity to establish their place in the arena—and in French society. But at what cost?
THE NATASHQUAN PUNK
A film by Nicola Lachapelle
Documentary short film, in production
In 1976, a young punk lands in Natashquan. It’s the beginning of an unlikely love story between a small fishing community and this new arrival. Yet the relationship meets a brutal end when, three years later, the punk disappears without a trace. Forty years have now gone by, and the village of Natashquan is experiencing a slow, irreversible devitalization—one by one, villagers have been going missing. Those who tell the tale of the punk today see it as the story of a small community’s symbolic survival.
BABBO
A film by Benjamin Schiavi-Paris
Documentary short film, in development
My father, Elio, is an Italian septuagenarian who has lived in Quebec for some fifty years. He’s decided to close his restaurant, after devoting 37 years of his life to the business. As he turns over a new leaf, I see an opportunity to get closer to him. I make a plan to set out on an initiatory journey together, a trip that will take us through his immigration story. In search of a common identity, we’ll travel from Quebec to Monte Cerignone, a tiny village in northern Italy, where we’ll search for traces of his former life. While he is eager to make peace with a difficult past, I hope to better understand where I come from. Our travels will lead us, as immigrants, to question the concept of belonging to a country, a culture, and an identity.