Cinema On The Bayou Film Festival

Schedule:

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM: Paris Lost And Found - ST. LANDRY CINEMA OPELOUSAS

Film-lover Curtis, 22, leaves his home in the Midwest USA for the first time, arriving in Paris with a single goal in mind: meet his favorite filmmaker, Pierre Bertrand, a once-great cineaste. What follows is a scavenger hunt through Paris that brings unexpected treasure.

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8:00 PM - 9:45 PM: Ababooned - ST. LANDRY CINEMA OPELOUSAS

Set in the Faubourg à mélasse district of Montreal, Quebec, in the 1950s, the film centres on a conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and a young team of baseball players.

Michel Paquette, 12, born with polio, misses Sunday mass to read poetry at St-Amour et fille publishing house. His old companion, Archange St-Amour, who suffers from Parkinson's, needs Michel to help him type "Vive le Québec Laïque", an anti-clerical pamphlet written in the midst of Quebec's of Great Darkness era. The pamphlet scandalizes the clergy. The Church's vengeance is nothing compared to that of Michel and his friends. These young people will go to great lengths to defy the clerical order, risking everything in their quest for a secular, egalitarian Quebec.

Montreal-based Filmmaker André Forcier, along with co-screenwriter and producer Linda Pinet, will attend the film screening and participate in a Q&A afterwards. Several actors in the film are also expected to attend the screening.

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