Ville Neuve
By Félix Dufour-Laperrière
Country: Canada
Language: French
Original title: Ville Neuve
Production year: 2018
Runtime: 01h16
Production company: Unité Centrale
Determined to stop drinking, Joseph moves into a friend’s house and convinces his ex-wife Emma to join him. In the troubled times of Quebec independence referendum, this is the account of their stormy reunion.
Venice Days 2018
Vancouver IFF 2018 – True North Section
Hamburg IFF 2018 – Transatlantic Section
FNC 2018 – International Competition
Animage 2018 – Mostra Special Screening
Anifilm Trebon 2019
Animafest Zagreb 2019
Annecy Festival 2019 – Contrechamps
World Festival of Animated Film Varna 2019 – Best Feature Film
« A striking object, the first feature film by Quebecer Félix Dufour-Laperrière will surely be a milestone, given how radical the visual and narrative audacity is usually in terms of animation, the prerogative of the short form. » - Les Cahiers du Cinéma
« The intimacy of this couple at the edge of the earth unfolds in magnificent paintings dominated by their two figures. Reduced to silhouettes, the rest of the world barely seems to touch them, sliding over them in a game of transparency. » - Libération
« This first film shows that animation too can be an "independent land", of poetry and reflection, where the intimate resonates with politics. » - Télérama
