Losing your home

The housing crisis is multifaceted. The harsh reality of eviction. The struggle against forced homelessness, a growing phenomenon. 

SYNOPSIS

The housing crisis has many faces. Those of Jeannette and Frances plunge us into the difficult experience of eviction. During long months of anguish, brief hopes and uprooting, Jeannette and Frances struggle, alone and surrounded, against a phenomenon that is accentuated: the forced loss of her home.

Theme(s): , Human Rights, Precarity, Social struggle, Urbanity

DETAILS

Director | , Emmanuel Rioux
Year | , 2024
Country | , Québec
Duration | 19 minutes
Original language | , English, French
Subtitles | , French
Image | Thomas Fontaine
Sound | Christophe Voyer, Jacob Marcoux
Music | Benjamin Duplantie Grenier
Editing | Jérémie Mazan

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Emmanuel Rioux

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Emmanuel directed his first fiction short film, Cendres, in 2022, which toured several festivals. He also directed the second season of the web series Moi, j’habite nulle part last year, nominated for three awards at the 2023 Gémeaux Awards. Juste un toit is his first documentary short film.

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SCREENING 1

22 July 2024 at 20h45

Parc des Faubourgs

This film is included in screening Short film competition – Programme #1