Mesnak


Feature, Drama

Les Films de l’isle © 2011

 

Director

Yves Sioui Durand

 

Writers

Robert Morin, Louis Hamelin, Yves Sioui Durand

 

Actors

Victor Andrés Trelles Turgeon

Ève Ringuette

Marco Collin Kathia Rock

Marco Poulin Charles Buckell

Florent Vollant Shauit

 

Producers

Ian Boyd, Reginald Vollant

 

Director of Photography

Stefan Ivanov

 

Music

Bertrand Chénier

 

Festivals – Prizes

BEST FILM, BEST PHOTOGRAPHY

SWAIA Sante Fe Native Cinema Showcase

BEST FILM, BEST ACTOR, BEST ACTRESS

American Indian Film Festival, San Francisco

BEST ACTRESS, Dreamspeakers Film Festival, Edmonton

 

Selections - Competitions

ImagineNATIVE Film Festival, Toronto

Festival du film en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Nomination Meilleure comédienne – JUTRA 2014

 

Special invitations

MoMA - Canadian Front (NYC)

Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC

Festival international de D’Amiens (France )

Sept-Iles & Baie-Comeau Festival

Skábmagovat Festival – (Finland )

Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois

Festival international de Mons (Belgium)

Glasgow Film Festival (U.K.)

CINERGIE Festival (Saskatchewan)

Nepal International Film Festival (Népal)

Présence Autochtone (Montreal )


Dave, an urban aboriginal in his early twenties, is a Montreal actor. His adoption at the age of 3 has erased all memory of his Native culture. When he receives his first-ever contact with his biological mother through a photo in the mail, Dave leaves for Kinogamish, the reserve where he was born. And where his biological mother, Gertrude, still lives.