Year
2026
Length
1h30m
Language
French
Regionial premiere (Estrie)
Kaïros
Jennifer Alleyn
After a year of filming abroad, Manu, a once prominent actor, returns to his hometown. But getting back into the business isn't as easy as he thought. After several unsuccessful auditions, he's no longer sure of anything. Against all odds, he lands a job hosting a nighttime call-in radio show. His listeners are mainly newcomers, refugees and exiles with varied life experiences, working graveyard shifts. Manu gradually appropriates this space, this gathering of mixed voices, to launch philosophical questions into the night. His words are engaging. He becomes an anchor for many listeners. His life takes on new meaning.
In attendance: director Jennifer Alleyn and actor Emmanuel Schwartz, on August 22 at Theatre Lac-Brome.
In attendance: Olivia Palacci, on August 18 at Espace Culturel St. John.
Director
Jennifer Alleyn
Composer
Danys Levasseur
Director of photography
Marc Simpson-Threlford
Editor
Emma Bertin
Production
Jennifer Alleyn, Julie Prieur
Screenwriter
Jennifer Alleyn
Cast
Emmanuel Schwartz, Olivia Palacci, Elsa Guedj, Igor Ovadis, Jennifer Alleyn, Phillipe-Audrey Larrue-St-Jacques, François Chénier, Théodore Pellerin, Xenia Sin, Vincent Kim, Henri Chassé, Alex Bergeron, Karelle Girard-Huneault, Ariel Ifergan, Pape Keita, Nicolas Dionne-Simard
Country
Canada
Type
Feature film
Category
Fiction
Subtitle
English
Awards
Audience Award at the Val-Morin Auteur Film Festival – 2026 Canada
Best Screenplay at the Val-Morin Auteur Film Festival – 2026 Canada
19 August 19:00 to 20:30
Centre Culturel St. John
Jennifer Alleyn
Born in Switzerland, Jennifer Alleyn is a Canadian filmmaker, writer and photographer living in Montreal. B.A from Concordia University, she jumped right away into The Race Around the World (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.) to shoot 26 documentaries within 26 weeks on 5 different continents, on her own. Followed the collective feature film Cosmos; winner of the CICEA award in Cannes in 1997 at the Directors' Fortnight. Her 2003 short film Svanok was awarded best short fiction film by the Quebec Films Critics association and NYFF. Her first feature documentary, My Father’s Studio, a vibrant portrait of Canadian artist Edmund Alleyn, her father, was named best Canadian film at the International Festival of Films on Art in Montreal and also received a Gémeaux Award. For Impetus, her first feature, a hybrid drama which blurs the frontier between fiction and Cinema-vérité, she received the Creation Award 2019 for "her outstanding contribution to the development of Québec cinema".