L’Humour gagnant
Ciné Alter'Natif Festival

The Canadian Cultural Centre is hosting the Festival Ciné Alter’Natif on December 3 at 8 p.m., the only one in France entirely dedicated to films directed and/or produced by Indigenous artists.

This 10th edition entitled “Sports. Autochthony. Pride” highlights the important contributions of Indigenous athletes and their ancestral and more recent sporting practices that are still too often forgotten in our collective memory and largely absent from our screens.

During this “L’humour gagnant” screening, discover the French premiere of “Run Woman Run” by Zoe Leigh Hopkins, a journey that is funny, moving and inspiring. The feature film will be preceded by the screening of the short film “Mohawk Midnight Runners”.

The screening will be followed by a meeting with filmmaker Zoe Leigh Hopkins.

Programme –  113 min

MOHAWK MIDNIGHT RUNNERS
by Zoe Leigh Hopkins (Kanien’keha:ka/Heiltsuk)
Canada, 2013, 13 min – VOSTFR ‐ French Premiere

In this dramatic comedy, three men find a way to honour the memory of their lost friend. At midnight, they engage in an unusual ritual in the streets of their Six Nations reserve (Ontario).

RUN WOMAN RUN
by Zoe Leigh Hopkins (Kanien’keha:ka/Heiltsuk)
Canada, 2021, 1h40 – VOSTFR ‐ French premiere

After her mother’s death, Beck abandons her dream of becoming a Mohawk language teacher and lets herself be caught up in an unhealthy lifestyle that leads to a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. When the ghost of Tom Longboat, a Kanien’keha:ka long-distance runner and sports legend from the early 1900s, appears to her, she decides to run a marathon and prove to her loved ones ‐ and to herself ‐ that she is capable of change.

Don’t hesitate to discover the entire programme of the Ciné Alter’Natif festival in Paris from December 2 to 4, then in Nantes from December 5 to 8: 2024 Programme – De la Plume à l’Ecran