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Z365" or "Festival all year round" is the new strategic point of the Festival in which converge investigation, accompaniment and development of new talents (Ikusmira Berriak, Nest); training and cinematic knowledge transfer (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, Zinemaldia + Plus, Filmmakers' dialogue); and investigation, disclosure and cinematic thought (Z70 project, Thought and Discussion and Research and publications).
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Accompanied by producer Lyse Lafontaine, the Swiss-born Canadian director Léa Pool presented Maman est chez le coiffeur in the Official Section yesterday. Her film shows how over one summer in the mid-1960s a young girl in Quebec has to face up to the drama of suddenly being abandoned by her mother. She explained that the screenplay by Isabelle Hébert was partly autobiographical, as she had been abandoned by her mother like the girl in the film, and that she herself had also been personally affected by the same tragedy. Even now this is a taboo subject, and this was even more so in the 1960s when the action is set, which made it particularly interesting to try and meet the challenge of “justifying on the big screen” a mother’s decision to leave behind her children even though she loves them. In addition it was important for her that it is the mother and not the father who leaves her children as this made it much more striking. She was also interested in highlighting the sense of guilt that the daughter feels regarding the disintegration of the family and in approaching the story from the child’s perspective and not from the adults’ viewpoint.
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