Night Falls
Synopsis
A historian with a gift of clairvoyance roams in streets of an old City of Lights. He sees in the Falls of Shawinigan a meditation on the human history and it’s loss of meaning.
Festivals
SELECTIONS
RVQC, Canada, 2021 (Première mondiale)
Festival International du film d'Histoire de Montreal, Canada, 2021
Gimli Film Festival, Canada, 2021
ONLINE
Tënk Canada - Web (Canada), December 2024
Labocine, Mindfulness issue - Web (USA), September 2025
Director: Ariane Bilodeau
Script: Ariane Bilodeau
Cast: Christian Morissonneau; Alex Goldrich; Joachim Bordeleau
DOP: Isabelle Stachchenko Sirois; Miryam Charles
Sound: Gaël Poisson Lemay
Editing: Ariane Bilodeau
Music: Gaël Poisson-Lemay
Additional music: Richard Wagner, Carl M. Von Weber, Maurice Ravel
Production: Miryam Charles
Version
Original: French
Subtitles: English
Format
1:85/5.1
DCP, Pro Res
Ariane Bilodeau is a director living in Montreal. She has collaborated on several film and television projects as an editor. To My Mother is her first short film as a director and was selected in 2015 by Talent Tout Court to represent Canada at the Cannes Film Market, in addition to winning the INIS-Prends ça court award! and the Air Canada enRoute award. In addition to her cinematographic practice, she is pursuing studies in archival science and is interested in the links between archives and memory.
