Mathilde Capone

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Documentary filmmaker and popular education facilitator, mathilde capone holds a master's degree in social anthropology. A feminist, anti-colonial, lesbian, and queer activist, they are involved in collective initiatives that provoke thought. Their feature film The Fabrication of Consent: Lesbo-Queer Perspectives, produced independently, was presented at Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma and Image+Nation. EVICTION, their second feature film, which traces the eviction of a queer housing collective, was unveiled at the Montreal International Documentary Festival and received the Audience Award. The House of Rebels, which follows the opening of the first lesbian retirement home in Montreal / Tiohtià.

FILMOGRAPHY

2025, La maison des rebelles - Feature-length documentary about North America's first lesbian retirement home - 80 minutes. In development - Produced by Parabola Films, Marie-Michèle Cyr - With the support of Sodec, winner of the Cineground grant, RIDM Talent Lab 2022. Role: Writer and director.

2024, ÉVICTION - Feature-length documentary on the eviction of a Montreal queer collective - 72 minutes. Selected for the Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (Audience Award), Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma and the Filministes festival. Role: Production, scriptwriting, direction and distribution.

2023, À travers - Super 8 clip of a song by Claude l'Anthrope - 02 minutes. Selected for the Filministes festival. Role: Script, direction, images and image editing.

2023, Amazones d'hier, lesbiennes d'aujourd'hui. 40 ans plus tard - Medium-length documentary about a Quebec collective of radical lesbians in the 1980s - 57 min. Selected by Image+Nation. Role: Images.

2022, Rumeurs - Short film by the Post-Plottes collective - 03 min. Selected for the Filministes festival. Role: Production, direction, images and image editing.

2021, Chatons - Short film by Post-Plottes - 04 minutes. Selected for the Filministes festival. Role: Production, direction, images and image editing.

2020, La fabrique du consentement : regards lesbo-queer - Feature-length documentary on consent in lesbian queer communities - 73 minutes. Selected for Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, Image+Nation and the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. Role: Production, scriptwriting, direction, images, image editing and distribution.

2019, Post-Plottes - Trailer for the collective - 01 minute. Role: Production, direction, images and image editing.

2019, Confession d'une manipulée - Experimental short puppet film - 02 minutes. Selected for the Micro festival de marionnettes inachevées and the Festival international des arts de la marionnette à Saguenay. Role: scriptwriting, directing, images and image editing.

2018, Corps fauniques - Short-form promotional video - 01 minute. Role: Image editing.

2017, Statue - Short-form promotional video - 01 minute. Role: Image editing.

2017, Des-terres-minées - 30 feminist short films exploring the interconnections between genders and territories - 03 to 07 minutes. Selected by Studio XX. Role: Production, scriptwriting, direction, images, image editing and distribution.

2015, Soubresaut - Exploratory short puppet film - 04 minutes. Role: Images and image editing.

2014, Rocks, oil, words! - Documentary short on the traces of the theater-forum project Trous de mémoire - 25 minutes. Selected for the Hors Cadres festival. Role: Production, scriptwriting, directing, image editing.

FILMS SHOWN

Éviction

Since 2010, Parthenais has become home to a queer community in Montreal. They share a triplex, creating memories between the dilapidated walls. Twelve years later, a wealthy family bought the building, marking the end of an era of gentrification.