Synopsis
Featuring indigenous women of various generations, Pidikwe integrates traditional and contemporary dance in an audiovisual whirlwind that straddles the border between film and performance, somewhere between the past and the future.
Festivals
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Tenk Canada X Show Me Shorts Film Festival - New Zealand, 2025
Cinéma Beaumont X Ahkwayaonhkeh - Canada, 2025
NAational Gallery of Singapour x FIFA - Singapore, 2025
FIFA X Caixa Forum - Spain, 2025
Cinéma Beaumont X Ahkwayaonhkeh (Caroline Monnet Retrospective) - Canada, 2025
White Frame X Kunstmuseum Thun - Switzerland, 2025
SELECTIONS
Berlinale - Forum Expanded, Germany, 2025 (World Premiere)
Festival Regard, Canada, 2025
Festival International du Film sur l'Art, Canada, 2025
Maoriland Film Festival, New Zealand, 2025
DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Canada, 2025
Segal Center Film Festival on Theater and Performances, USA, 2025
Festival Tendresse, Canada, 2025
Vienna Shorts, Austria, 2025
Leiden Shorts, Netherlands, 2025
ImagineNATIVE, Canada, 2025
Kurtzfilm Festival Hamburg, Germany, 2025
FuoriFormato - Stories We Dance, Italy, 2025
Curtas Vila do Conde, Portugal, 2025
Pollino International Film Fest, Italy, 2025
Boom Festival, Portugal, 2025
Fantasia Film Festival, Canada, 2025
aCinema Space, USA, 2025
Gimli Film Festival, Canada, 2025
Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico, 2025
Festival Présence autochtone, Canada, 2025
Festival Quartiers Danses, Canada, 2025
Atlantic International Film Festival - FIN, Canada, 2025
Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec, Canada, 2025
.MOV, Italy, 2025
Asinabka Film & Media Arts Festival, Canada, 2025
Calgary International Film Festival, Canada, 2025
25 FPS, Croatia, 2025
Lumiere Art at Night Festival, Canada, 2025
FilmFest Sundsvall, Sweden, 2025
WNDX, Canada, 2025
Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada, 2025
Uppsala Short Film Festival, Sweden, 2025
San Francisco Dance Film Festival, USA, 2025
UNERHÖRT! Music Film Festival Hamburg, Germany, 2025
MICAR SOS Racismo, Portugal, 2025
Interfilm Berlin, Germany, 2025
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland, 2025
Festival images en vue, Canada, 2025
Gimme Some Truth Documentary Festival, Canada, 2025
Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Australia, 2025
Du grain à démoudre, France, 2025
InShadow, Portugal, 2025
Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie - FICFA, Canada, 2025
Festival Fotogenia, Mexico, 2025
Festival Tous Courts, France, 2025
ONLINE
Regard en prolongation X La Fabrique Culturelle / Télé-Québec, Web, 2025
Labocine - Mindfulness Issue - September, USA, Web, 2025
FIFA X Caixa Forum, Spain, Web, 2025
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INSTALLATION VERSION (MULTIPLE SCREENS)
Festival du nouveau cinéma, Canada, 2025 (World Premiere)
Directed by: Caroline Monnet
Written by: Caroline Monnet
Cast: Joséphine Bacon, Aïcha Bastien N'Diaye, Catherine Boivin, Catherine Dagenais-Savard, Emilie Monnet, Caroline Monnet
DOP: Nicolas Canniccioni
Editing: Marc Boucrot
Sound: Ilyaa Ghafouri
Set design: Caroline Monnet
Music: Alessandro Cortini
Production: Chantier Monnet & Coop Vidéo de Montréal
The Pidikwe creation benefited from a creation and shooting residency at USINE C with the support of the Conseil des Arts de Montréal.
Version
No dialogue
Format
2.35 / Surround 5.1
Shot on 16 mm
ProRes, DCP 4K
Caroline Monnet is an award winning multidisciplinary artist based in Montréal. Her work has been programmed extensively in Festivals and Museums around the world, including Toronto International Film Festival, Sundance, Berlinale, Göteborg and Rotterdam, as well as the Whitney Biennale, Frankfurt Kunsthalle, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the National Gallery of Canada. She was selected for the Cannes Festival’s Cinéfondation residency in Paris. She received the Sundance Institute's Merata Mita Fellowship and was named compagne des Arts et des Lettres du Québec.
