Finalists for the Prix Iris 2023
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Finalists for the Prix Iris 2023

Can. 2022. Dramatic comedy by Stéphane Lafleur with Steve Laplante, Larissa Corriveau, Fabiola N. Aladin. Five men and women form a B-team on Earth to remotely deal with the interpersonal problems of the five astronauts who will soon land on the planet Mars.
Runtime: 104 min.
Can. 2021. Mores comedy by Monia Chokri with Monia Chokri, Patrick Hivon, Nadia Tereszkiewicz. After losing his job because of a sexist joke that has gone viral, an engineer wants to cure himself of his supposed misogyny while his wife is in the throes of postpartum depression.
Runtime: 87 min.
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Red Rooms

V.O.: Les Chambres rouges
Can. 2023. Thriller by Pascal Plante with Juliette Gariépy, Laurie Babin-Fortin, Elisabeth Locas. In Montreal, a thirty-something tech-savvy woman has an unbounded fascination for a man accused of kidnapping, raping and killing three teenage girls.
Runtime: 118 min.

Family Game

V.O.: Arsenault et Fils
Can. 2022. Mores drama by Rafaël Ouellet with Guillaume Cyr, Pierre-Paul Alain, Karine Vanasse. In Témiscouata, a journalist sparks a feud between a volunteer fireman and his brother, a notorious hothead, both from a family of poachers.
Runtime: 110 min.
Can. 2022. Mores drama by Geneviève Albert with Kelly Depeault, Emi Chicoine, James-Edward Métayer. After her mother refuses to take her back, a teenager runs away from the youth center where she has been living for three years, and falls under the influence of a seductive pimp.
Runtime: 113 min.

The Dishwasher

V.O.: Le Plongeur
Can. 2022. Mores drama by Francis Leclerc with Henri Picard, Charles-Aubey Houde, Joan Hart. As the holidays approach, a nineteen-year-old from Montreal with no apartment gets a job as a dishwasher in a restaurant to pay off his heavy gambling debts.
Runtime: 127 min.
Parental Guidance

Confessions Of a Hitman

V.O.: Confessions
Can. 2021. Biography by Luc Picard with Luc Picard, Sandrine Bisson, David La Haye. The tumultuous life of Gérald Gallant, one of Quebec’s most prolific hitmen.
Runtime: 109 min.
Can. 2023. Fantasy comedy by Édouard Tremblay with Eric K. Boulianne, Benoit Drouin-Germain, Lucien Ratio. The unexpected return of his sister disrupts the life of an immature young man who is a master of role-playing.
Runtime: 108 min.

Victoire

V.O.: La Cordonnière
Can. 2022. Drama by François Bouvier with Rose-Marie Perreault, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Nicolas Fontaine. At the end of her life, the woman who made the Dufresne family fortune tells her son about the tumultuous relationship she once had with her father-in-law, before marrying his son.
Runtime: 104 min.

One Summer

V.O.: Le Temps d'un été
Can. 2023. Dramatic comedy by Louise Archambault with Patrice Robitaille, Élise Guilbault, Sébastien Ricard. Heir to a vast estate in Gaspésie, a Montreal priest sets off for the summer to live with the itinerants who inhabit his dilapidated church.
Runtime: 126 min.

My Mother's Men

V.O.: Les Hommes de ma mère
Can. 2023. Psychological drama by Anik Jean with Léane Labrèche-Dor, Jean-Simon Leduc, Patrick Huard. Following her mother's last wish, a barmaid sets off to ask her five ex-husbands to scatter her ashes in the place most meaningful to each of them.
Runtime: 120 min.
Can. 2023. Drama by Bernard Émond with Hélène Florent, Martin Dubreuil, Paul Savoie. In the 1930s in Trois-Rivières, a widower is taken in with his children by his first wife, whom he had left eleven years earlier.
Runtime: 103 min.

Two Days Before Christmas

V.O.: 23 décembre
Can. 2022. Dramatic comedy by Miryam Bouchard with Virginie Fortin, Bianca Gervais, Guylaine Tremblay. Two days before Christmas, various men and women from Montreal, Quebec City and Charlevoix experience dramas and mishaps that compromise their holiday gatherings.
Runtime: 100 min.
Can. 2022. Dramatic comedy by Lawrence Côté-Collins with Sonia Cordeau, Guillaume Cyr, Geneviève Schmidt. A young couple buys a dilapidated house to transform it into their dream home, but the renovations turn into a nightmare.
Runtime: 102 min.

Katak, the brave beluga

V.O.: Katak, le brave béluga
Can. 2022. Animation by Nicola Lemay, Christine Dallaire-Dupont. A young beluga whale, unique in size and color, travels to the Arctic to fulfill the last wish of his dying grandmother: to find his childhood sweetheart.
Runtime: 80 min.
Can. 2020. Drama by Éric Tessier with Rémy Girard, Julie Le Breton, Karelle Tremblay. A history teacher, who is losing his memory, is placed under the care of a rebellious and somewhat lost young girl.
Runtime: 108 min.

Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo

V.O.: Dounia et la princesse d'Alep
Fr. 2023. Animation by Marya Zarif, André Kadi. After the death of her mother and the arrest of her father, a young girl is armed with courage and leaves Syria to begin a long journey that will take her to Europe and then to Canada.
Runtime: 72 min.
Can. 2022. Dramatic comedy by Marc-Antoine Lemire with Samuel Brassard, Catherine-Audrey Lachapelle, Alex Trahan. A young man regains consciousness after passing out on the street and wonders if he was struck by lightning after a recent breakup or if he was abducted by aliens.
Runtime: 102 min.
Can. 2022. Dramatic comedy by Guillaume Lambert with François Pérusse, Éric Bernier, Guy Jodoin.
Runtime: 100 min.

Stampede

V.O.: Rodéo
Can. 2022. Dramatic comedy by Joëlle Desjardins-Paquette with Maxime LeFlaguais, Lilou Roy-Lanouette, Whitney Lafleur. A trucker travels to the other side of Canada to participate in a famous motorized rodeo with his 9-year-old daughter, whom he has kidnapped after losing custody.
Runtime: 80 min.
Can. 2022. Sentimental drama by Charlotte Le Bon with Joseph Engel, Sara Montpetit, Anthony Therrien. On vacation in Quebec, a French teenager experiences his first love with the daughter of a friend of his mother.
Runtime: 100 min.

Chère Audrey

V.O.: Dear Audrey
Can. 2021. Documentary by Jeremiah Hayes. Activist filmmaker Martin Duckworth put down his camera to fight for the most important cause he's ever faced-caring for his wife, Audrey Schirmer, through the final stages of Alzheimer's.
Runtime: 89 min.
Can. 2021. Documentary by Joannie Lafrenière with Gabor Szilasi. Dialogue between the director and the Hungarian-born photographer Gabor Szilasi.
Runtime: 101 min.
Can. 2022. Documentary by Jacquelyn Mills. The only resident of Sable Island, located south of the coast of Nova Scotia in the Atlantic Ocean, a naturalist has been analyzing the flora and fauna of the island for over 40 years.
Runtime: 103 min.
Can. 2021. Documentary by Maude Plante-Husaruk, Maxime Lacoste-Lebuis. A young mother from a Himalayan village joins a caravan bound for the highlands of Nepal, where "yarsagumba" (mountain viagra) grows and is sold at a premium in China.
Runtime: 84 min
Can. 2021. Documentary by Zayne Akyol. Interviews with some members of the Islamic State armed group in captivity in Syrian Kurdistan.
Runtime: 128 min.

Beyond Paper

V.O.: Au-delà du papier
Can. 2022. Documentary by Oana Suteu Khintirian. Daughter of a librarian and a filmmaker, the director travels the world to understand, in the digital age, the future of the preservation and transmission of the memory of peoples.
Runtime: 131 min.
Can. 2022. Documentary by Maxime-Claude L’Écuyer. Contemporary artists open the doors of their studios, located in a former industrial building in Montreal, recently purchased by real estate developers.
Runtime: 104 min.
Can. 2022. Docufiction by Miryam Charles with Schelby Jean-Baptiste, Florence Blain Mbaye, Ève Duranceau. The director evokes the memory of her teenage cousin, murdered in the United States in 2008, while imagining what might have become of her.
Runtime: 75 min.

Backlash: Misogyny in the Digital Age

V.O.: Je vous salue salope
Can. 2022. Documentary by Léa Clermont-Dion, Guylaine Maroist. Misogynistic online harassment, as experienced by a Quebec teacher, an Italian parliamentarian, an African-American congresswoman and a French blogger.
Runtime: 80 min.
Can. 2023. Documentary by Lin Alluna. An Inuit lawyer from Greenland sets out to take to court Denmark and Canada, the two colonizing countries that have done so much damage to the indigenous people of the Arctic.
Runtime: 92 min.
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