Les filles du roi
Friday, August 9 - 6 pm
Cinéma du Musée
Les Filles du Roi
Directed by Corey Payette
2023
Canada
1 h 42
Musical
French, English, Kanien’kéha with English subtitles
Copresented with the International Festival of Films on Art
Synopsis
A young Mohawk girl, Kateri, and her brother Jean-Baptiste, have their lives disrupted upon the arrival of Les Filles du Roi in 1665 ‘New France’, forge an unlikely relationship with young fille Marie-Jean Lespérance – whose dream of a new life is more complicated than she could have imagined.
Screening with Rieban – the Fox, Sara Margrethe Oskal, Norway, 8 minutes