Far from the Sun
Pierre Jutras worked at the Cinémathèque québécoise for 33 years, first as curator of Quebec and Canadian cinema, then as director of programming. He recently passed away, and to honor his memory, we were fortunate enough to prepare a carte blanche with him, reflecting on his highlights as a programmer and film-lover (the rediscovery of Jean Epstein and Ivan the Terrible, the revelation of Wang Bing and the extraordinary retrospective devoted to Manoel de Oliveira...).
« Une traversée oblique de notre cinéma. » – Pierre Jutras
This feature film is inspired by the life of Brother André. Based on a short biography of this great mystic and thaumaturgist from Quebec, famous throughout North America, characters evolve to the rhythm of daily life. Each character embodies an aspect of Brother André, revealing the intimate connection between him and society that made the phenomenon he represents possible.
Jacques Leduc
Jacques Leduc is a Quebec cinematographer, director, screenwriter, actor and editor. Leduc continued to work on critically acclaimed films throughout the 70s and 80s. In 1990, he left the National Film Board of Canada to become an independent filmmaker. Since then, he has worked mainly with other directors as director of photography and, in 2008, was awarded the Prix Albert-Tessier.
Pierre Jutras
Born in 1945 in Saint-Marcel-de-Richelieu, Pierre Jutras studied filmmaking at the Institut des arts de diffusion in Brussels in the 1970s, where he was introduced to documentary, fiction and experimental cinema. In 1978, he was hired by the Cinémathèque québécoise as Head of Quebec and Canadian Cinema and co-director of the Copie Zéro from 1979 to 1988. He was also behind the first restoration of the film Kamouraska, by Claude Jutra. In 1997, he became Director of Conversation and Programming at the Cinémathèque, a position he held until his retirement in 2011. Parallel to his professional activities, he directed Lamento pour un homme de lettres in 1988 and Petites chroniques cannibales 1 in 1997, the first segment of a trilogy that was never completed. He died in Montreal on June 22, 2023.
