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MONTREAL ISRAELI FILM FESTIVAL
– PRE-FESTIVAL LITERARY SELECTION – PASSEPORT TO ALL SELECTION $20
• ONLINE •
THE FOURTH WINDOW: AMOS OZ
Amos Oz, born in 1939 in Jerusalem and died in 2018 in Tel Aviv, is one of the greatest Israeli writers of our time. A poet, novelist and essayist, he taught literature at Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva. Co-founder of the Peace Now movement, he was a staunch supporter of a dual state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Following his death in 2018, the film unveils the double tragedy of the Israeli writer, Amos Oz, in a sensitive portrait of darkness, peace, trauma and stardom.
Director: Yair Qedar. 2021. Documentary. Israel. V.O. Hebrew, S.T. English.
In partnership with the Montreal Israeli Film Festival, under the aegis of the Communauté sépharade unifiée du Québec.
Information and tickets: fcim.ca
MOVIE _ 86 minutes
Participants: Amos Oz, Yair Qedar
PASSEPORT TO ALL SELECTION: $20 / ENGLISH, HEBREW
• ONLINE •
THE CHAPTER OF A.B. YEHOSHUA
Avraham ‘Boolie’ Yehoshua, also known as A. B. Yehoshua, is an Israeli novelist born in 1936 in Jerusalem. He belongs to the fifth generation of Sephardic Jews living in Israel. Avraham Yehoshua embraced the career of a writer upon the end of his military service. He writes numerous novels and is considered one of the most brilliant contemporary authors in Israel and beyond. His books, translated into 28 languages, have won him numerous literary awards, including the prestigious Israel Literature Grand Prize for Lifetime Achievement in 1995. He received the 2012 Foreign Medici Prize for his novel Retrospective. Avraham Yehoshua is also committed to the Israeli Palestinian peace process, and participated in the Geneva Initiative. This documentary tells the story of A.B. Yehoshua, the greatest Israeli writer living today – who is dealing with a serious illness, widowhood and loneliness, but chooses love as he embarks on his final journey.
Director: Yair Qedar. 2021. Documentary. Israel. V.O. Hebrew, S.T. English.
With an exclusive videoconference interview with Avraham Yehoshua in Tel Aviv, conducted from Montreal by the journalist Elias Levy.
In partnership with the Montreal Israeli Film Festival, under the aegis of the Communauté sépharade unifiée du Québec
Informations and tickets: fcim.ca
MOVIE _ 57 minutes
Participants: Avraham Yehoshua, Yair Qedar
PASSEPORT TO ALL SELECTION: $20 / ENGLISH, HEBREW
• EN LIGNE •
ENTRETIEN AVEC L’ÉCRIVAIN AVRAHAM B. YEHOSHUA
Au soir de sa vie, le romancier israélien Avraham B. Yehoshua, 86 ans, s’entretient en français, depuis Tel Aviv, avec le journaliste Élias Lévy, basé à Montréal. Littérature, engagement en faveur de la paix, rapports d’Israël avec les Palestiniens sont au cœur de cette conversation menée spécifiquement dans le cadre du Festival du cinéma israélien de Montréal et qui apparaît comme un contre-point émouvant et généreux au documentaire The Last Chapter of A.B. Yehoshua.
ENTREVUE _ 20 minutes
Participants: Avraham Yehoshua, Elias Levy
PASSEPORT POUR TOUTE LA SÉLECTION : 20 $ / FRANÇAIS
• ONLINE •
THE ADVENTURE OF SAUL BELLOW
The film traces the American writer Saul Bellow’s rise to eminence: born in Lachine (Quebec) in 1915, son of Jewish-Russian immigrants, raised in street school but a career university (notably in Chicago), Nobel Prize of Literature in 1976, among others awards. The documentary examines his many identities: reluctant public intellectual, ‘serial husband’, father, Chicagoan, Jew and American. Interviews with the novelist’s family and friends will shed new light on Bellow’s personality and the way he turned life into art.
Director: Assaf Galay. 2021. Documentary. USA/Israel. V.O. English.
In partnership with the Montreal Israeli Film Festival, under the aegis of the Communauté sépharade unifiée du Québec.
Informations and tickets: fcim.ca
MOVIE _ 85 minutes
Participants: Saul Bellow, Assaf Galay
PASSEPORT TO ALL SELECTION: $20 / ENGLISH
• ONLINE •
DAVID GROSSMAN
Born in 1954 in Jerusalem, David Grossman is an Israeli author known for Mishehu Larutz (2006), Hiuch Hagdi (1986) and La grammaire intérieure (2010). His books have been translated into more than 30 languages. In 2018, he was awarded the Israel Prize for literature. ‘What I search for in my writing are the moments that I’m able to touch both life and death’ says the writer whose novels have touched many hearts. In this documentary, Grossman reveals a close and intimate side of himself and shares personal stories alongside great novels.
Director: Adi Arbel. 2021. Documentary. Israel. V.O. Hebrew, S.T. English.
In partnership with the Montreal Israeli Film Festival, under the aegis of the Communauté sépharade unifiée du Québec.
Informations and tickets: fcim.ca
MOVIE _ 54 minutes
Participants: David Grossman, Adi Arbel
PASSEPORT TO ALL SELECTION: $20 / ENGLISH, HEBREW
• ONLINE •
LIFE… AS A SONG / LA VIE… COMME DANS LES CHANSONS
Les décennies 1960-1980 ont littéralement révolutionné le monde la musique québécoise et canadienne. Plus de cinquante ans après, Metropolis bleu a invité des poètes contemporains, francophones et anglophones, à écrire un poème inédit inspiré par dix de ces chansons. Le résultat est un spectacle qui rend hommage à cet âge d’or de la musique et qui a été rendu possible grâce au soutien financier de Patrimoine canadien.
Balados et autres conteus : rendez-vous ici.
Poets: Hugo Beauchemin-Lachapelle, Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay, Maya Cousineau Mollen, Stéphane Despatie, Lorrie Jean-Louis, Rachel McCrum, Emné Nasereddine, Gillian Sze, William Vallières, Derek Webster
FREE / ENGLISH, FRENCH
• HOTEL 10 (Espace Godin) •
BOLD / AUDACIEUSE
A literary benefit show that brings women of influence together on stage to lend their voices and talents to present a selection of the most audacious texts authored by women from every era and every field. Health, research, philosophy, literature, politics, journalism, show business —women have proven their daring, sometimes even putting their lives on the line.
Presided over by Louise Ann Maziak, President of the Blue Metropolis Foundation Board of Directors.
Proceeds will benefit the educational and social programs of Blue Metropolis.
BENEFIT EVENT _ 150 minutes
Participants: Louise Ann Maziak, Dominique Bélisle, Mélanie Bernier, Mai-Kim Gervais, Julie Girard, Julie Godin, Katherine Nikidis, Gurveen Chadha, Clémentine Sallée, Silvana Travaglini, Brigitte Goulet, Judith Gorog, Catherine Martel, Frédéric Maget
Host: Sylvain Massé, William St-Hilaire
$175 (tax receipt: 150 $) / ENGLISH, FRENCH
• HOTEL 10 (Espace Godin) •
OPENING CEREMONY AND BLUE MET TALKS: WHAT AGE ARE WE?
We’re living in a time of upheavals. Climate-wise, we may have entered the Anthropocene, an epoch marked by human activity’s reshaping of the planet — and not always for the better. How old is our planet? Do ecology and the human species have a common future?
Avec le soutien du Consulat général de France à Québec, du Consulat général d’Israël, du Consulat général du Brésil et de l’Institut culturel italien de Montréal
COCKTAIL _ 90 minutes
Participants: Oksana Lutshyshyna, Andrea Bajani, Yishaï Sarid, Carmen Rodrigues, Julián Fuks, David Diop, Rosemary Sullivan
Host: Marie-Andrée Lamontagne
$20 (including a glass of wine) / ENGLISH, FRENCH
• Café Cléopâtre (1230 boulevard St-Laurent) •
DIAL-A-POEM READING / LECTURE ALLÔ-POÈMES
Expozine celebrate its twenty years and, for the occasion, is presenting new poets to participate in Dial-A-Poem / Allô-poèmes! Come meet us and hear the latest voices from the community or save 514-558-8649 in your contact list, to hear a poem in the language of your choice, any time, any place.
Doors at 6:30PM!
READINGS _ 60 minutes
Participants : Claudie Bellemare, Marcela Huerta, Chloé Savoie-Bernard, Lucile de Pesloüan, Symon Henry, H. Nigel Thomas, Polyplotte, David Bradford
FREE / ENGLISH, FRENCH
• HOTEL 10 (Espace Godin) •
ORAL/TRANS/MISSIONS: A PERFORMANCE RETROSPECTIVE BY DUBZZ/POET/AT-LARGE CLIFTON JOSEPH
In partnership with SpokenWeb, the Atwater Poetry Project presents Clifton Joseph, Juno Award finalist and winner of Best Dub Poet at the Canadian Reggae Music Awards. A founder of the Canadian dub tradition, Joseph will perform work from throughout his forty-year career before joining APP curator Faith Paré in conversation.
POETRY PERFORMANCE _ 90 minutes
Participant: Clifton Joseph
Host: Faith Paré, Jason Camlot
FREE / ENGLISH
• HOTEL 10 (Hall) •
POETRY BY MEMORY: A RECORDING BOOTH
SpokenWeb, a research program that preserves literary sound recordings, will run a booth on site where festival attendees will be invited to recite lines from a poem they know by heart into a microphone for preservation on a reel to reel tape. This will contribute to a project that records the poems we carry around with us, sometimes since childhood, and reflects on why we memorize poems. All languages welcome.
WORKSHOP _ 120 minutes
Participants: members of SpokenWeb’s research team
Host: Jason Camlot, Katherine McLeod
FREE / ENGLISH, FRENCH
• HOTEL 10 (salle Executive) •
SPOKENWEB LISTENING PRATICE
Working with Spokenweb’s digital archives of historical litearary sound recordings, this session will introduce ideas and methods of listening to sound archives, and will lead participants in listening to and discussion of a selection of clips of recordings that document Montreal poetry readings from 1960s to the present.
WORKSHOP _ 75 minutes
Participants: Deanna Fong, Klara du Plessis, Frances-Grace Fyfe, Salena Wiener
Host: Jason Camlot, Katherine McLeod
FREE / ENGLISH
• HOTEL 10 (Espace Godin) •
BABEL BLUE / BABEL BLEU
Writers from the world over read excerpts from their work in its original language. In addition to these readings, five writers participating in the Festival will present dedications to five imprisoned writers around the world.
In partnership with Amnistie Internationale Canada francophone.
Avec le soutien du Consulat général de France à Québec, du Consulat général d’Israël à Montréal, de l’Institut culturel italien à Montréal, du Consulat général du Brésil à Montréal, du Consulat du Mexique à Montréal
READINGS _ 90 minutes
Participants: Andrea Bajani, Yishaï Sarid, Cecilia Fuentes, Fflur Dafydd, Julián Fuks, Sofiane Hadjadj, Carmen Rodriguez, Oksana Lutsyshyna
Participants for Amnisty International: Christopher DiRaddo, Myriam Vincent, Josh Freed, Nicholas Dawson, Rosemary Sullivan
Host : Mélanie Loisel
FREE / MULTILINGUAL (Spanish, Italian, Welsh, Portuguese, Hebrew, Arabic, Ukrainian)
• GRANDE BIBLIOTHÈQUE (Auditorium) •
CABARET LITTÉRAIRE DE L’AUTRE MONDE
Six artistes LGBTQ+ vont livrer sur scène de courts textes de science-fiction, de fantasy et de réalisme magique qui mettent en lumière des enjeux et des personnages queers. Quoi de plus naturel que de marier la diversité sexuelle et de genres à des littératures réputées pour leur ouverture? Non seulement les personnes queers ont l’habitude de redéfinir le monde au quotidien, mais elles ont aussi la capacité de faire vibrer le public avec leurs voix singulières.
SPECTACLE _ 90 minutes
Participants: Jeanne A. Debats, Chris Bergeron, Peter Dubé, Su J. Sokol, Ayavi Lake, Neil Smith
Host: Samuel Larochelle
FREE / ENGLISH, FRENCH
• HOTEL 10 (Espace Godin) •
UKRAINE/ Україна
Literary performance in support of Ukraine, combining interviews, music, reading of poems and texts.
En partenariat avec le Centre québécois du P.E.N. International.
L’ensemble des textes d’appui disponibles sur le site: https://penquebec.org/soutenir-lukraine/
Proceeds from the sale of tickets for this event will be donated to the Ukrainian National Federation of Canada – Montreal Branch.
BENEFIT EVENT _ 90 minutes
Participants: Oksana Lutsyshyna, Rostyslav Niemtsev
Texts: Nora Atalla, Germaine Beaulieu, France Boucher, Louise Cotnoir, Louise Dupré, Benjamin Goron, Kateri Lemmens, Hélène Lépine, Annie Molin-Vasseur, Sylvie Poisson, Monique Proulx, Diane Régimbald, Sherry Simon, Félix Villeneuve, Pauline Michel
Readers: Pauline Michel, Félix Villeneuve
Musician: Katherine Palyga, violonist (OSM)
Host: Marie-Andrée Lamontagne
$15 / ENGLISH, FRENCH, UKRAINIAN
• HOTEL 10 (Salle Jardin) •
EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT UKRAINIAN LITERATURE BUT NEVER ASKED
Who says Ukrainian literature doesn’t exist? Novelist and translator Oksana Lutsyshyna (Ivan and Phoebe, 2019, Lviv City of Literature UNESCO Prize and Taras Shevchenko Prize in fiction), Lecturer at the Department of Slavic & Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, offers an overview of Ukrainian literature from its origins to the present day. For the common reader. Very common. And benevolent. Places are limited.
Proceeds from the sale of tickets for this event will be donated to the Ukrainian National Federation of Canada – Montreal Branch.
WORKSHOP _ 90 minutes
Participant: Oksana Lutsyshyna
Host: Melanie Loisel
$20 / ENGLISH
• À L’HÔTEL 10 (Espace Godin) •
LES NOUVEAUX COURANTS DE LA LITTÉRATURE QUÉBÉCOISE
La revue L’Inconvénient souligne la parution de son numéro 88 en invitant des écrivaines et des écrivains à lire des extraits de leurs ouvrages emblématiques des nouveaux courants de la littérature québécoise.
LECTURES _ 75 minutes
Participants : Patrick Nicol, Audrée Wilhelmy, Patrice Lessard
Animateur : Mathieu Belisle
GRATUIT / FRANÇAIS
• HOTEL 10 (Hall) •
POETRY BY MEMORY: A RECORDING BOOTH
SpokenWeb, a research program that preserves literary sound recordings, will run a booth on site where festival attendees will be invited to recite lines from a poem they know by heart into a microphone for preservation on a reel to reel tape. This will contribute to a project that records the poems we carry around with us, sometimes since childhood, and reflects on why we memorize poems. All languages welcome.
WORKSHOP _ 120 minutes
Participants: members of SpokenWeb’s research team
Host: Jason Camlot, Katherine McLeod
FREE / ENGLISH, FRENCH
• À LA GRANDE BIBLIOTHÈQUE (Auditorium) •
LA LIGUE D’IMPROVISATION LITTÉRAIRE S’EMPARE DU PRIX DES HORIZONS IMAGINAIRES
À l’occasion du dévoilement des œuvres finalistes de la 7e édition du Prix, la Fondation Lire pour réussir et le Festival littéraire international Metropolis bleu vous convient à un spectacle étonnant qui mêle les littératures de l’imaginaire à l’improvisation théâtrale ! Mireille Gagné, lauréate du Prix des Horizons imaginaires 2021, et l’écrivain Sylvain Neuvel liront sur scène des extraits de leurs œuvres. Trois comédiens (Réal Bossé, Diane Lefrançois et Brigitte Soucy) et un musicien (Yves Morin) s’en inspireront, joueront avec leur style et leurs mots pour livrer leur improvisation. Seront ensuite dévoilés les trois titres finalistes qui seront lus par le jury étudiant à l’automne 2022, pour être à leur tour matière à improvisation par la troupe ! Vivez un moment privilégié avec des artistes virtuoses des mots et de la langue. Le savoir-faire des uns sert le savoir-faire des autres, créant ainsi une riche parenté.
Une coproduction de la Fondation Lire pour réussir et de l’Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois (UNEQ). Avec le soutien financier du Conseil des arts du Canada (CAC).
SPECTACLE _ 60 minutes
Participants : 3 finalistes (noms rendus publics le soir même), Sylvain Neuvel, Mireille Gagné
Musicien : Yves Morin
Comédiens : Diane Lefrançois, Réal Bossé, Brigitte Soucy
Conception : Fondation Lire pour réussir
Animation et direction artistique : Laurent Dubois
10 $ / FRANÇAIS
• HOTEL 10 (Terrasse) •
SOUNDING UNDERNAMES, A SPOKENWEB POETRY READING AND CONVERSATION
How does poetry sound undernames, the words forgotten or overwritten by colonialism and diaspora? Languages are often superimposed, overdubbed, or remapped, but deep listening in writing may help unearth what has been silenced. This reading and discussion with three poets who write across languages and cultures brings the marginal to the forefront of poetics.
READING _ 75 minutes
Participants: Carlos A. Pittella, Faith Paré, Klara du Plessis
Host: Katherine McLeod
FREE / ENGLISH
• HOTEL 10 (Espace Godin) •
CLOSING CEREMONY / CÉRÉMONIE DE CLÔTURE DU FESTIVAL
Please join us for a drink to celebrate the final moments of the 24th edition of Blue Metropolis Festival.
COCKTAIL _ 60 minutes
Host: Marie-Andrée Lamontagne
$15 (including a glass of wine) / ENGLISH, FRENCH
• ESPACE CIDIHCA (430 rue Sainte-Hélène, suite 405 ) •
GESTES, REGARDS ET PAROLES DE JEUNES DE QUARTIERS MARGINALISÉS
L’exposition réunit des photographies, dessins et propos de jeunes de quartiers marginalisés issus de quatre villes du monde : il s’agit ici des quartiers nord de Montréal, de Grigny (Paris, France), Delmas 2 (Port-au-Prince, Haïti) et enfin, de Rocinha (Rio de Janeiro, Brésil). De jeunes qui vivent la précarité, le racisme, la violence et la discrimination. Bien que marqués par leurs origines et leurs quartiers, ils s’engagent pour la transformation du monde qui les a vus grandir. Par les images qu’ils ont produit lors de marches et d’ateliers, ils montrent la beauté de ce qu’ils sont et de leur milieu, leur désir de justice et leur droit à la beauté du monde qui est aussi la leur. Leurs regards et leurs paroles évoquent les méfaits des préjugés qui blessent et la recherche d’une cohabitation nouvelle entre les villes-centre et les « villes d’à côté ».
Une exposition présentée par le CIDIHCA.
EXHIBITION
Commissariat : Francine Saillant, Sarah Bourdages Duclot, Frantz Voltaire
FREE
May 5 to June 5, 2022
THANKS TO THE BLUE METROPOLIS FOUNDATION’S MAJOR PARTNERS WHO SUPPORT THE 2022 FESTIVAL AND OUR 2021-2022 EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL PROGRAMS
MERCI AUX PARTENAIRES MAJEURS DE LA FONDATION METROPOLIS BLEU QUI SOUTIENNENT LE FESTIVAL 2022 ET NOS PROGRAMMES ÉDUCATIFS ET SOCIAUX 2021-2022
