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Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Youth
Cross My Heart (2017)
Montreal, 1970. The radical left-wing nationalist group ‘Front de libération du Québec’ has forced the province into a state of emergency, and meanwhile twelve-year-old Manon looks on helplessly as her family falls apart. Her father is ill and because her mother is unable to cope, she is forced to give up her children to separate foster families. However, Manon has sworn to her younger brother Mimi that she will never leave him alone, so she hatches a daring plan. She forms a revolutionary group with her cousins and kidnaps an unsuspecting grandma. They demand home-made cakes, bedtime stories and, above all, that they are allowed to live the way they want to. In a remote cabin, they spend their days enjoying their new-found freedom – far from the ignorance of the grown-up world.
| Country | Canada |
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| Year | 2017 |
| Duration | 102 min |
| Rating | 14 |
| Language | French |
| Subtitle | English, Czech |
| Directed by | Luc Picard |
| Screenplay | Nicole Bélanger |
| Director of Photography | François Dutil |
| Music | Viviane Audet, Robin Joël Cool, Alexis Martin |
| Edited by | Carmen Mélanie Pépin |
| Contact | Téléfiction Distribution and Marketing |
Biography
A French-Canadian director and actor. He graduated from a performing arts conservatory and established himself as a theater, TV and film actor. He has appeared in, e.g. Streetheart (Le coeur au poing, 1998), The Collector (Le collectionneur, 2002) and 20H17 Rue Darling (2003). He began as a director with the drama Audition (L’Audition, 2005), and continued with the fantasy Babine (2008), and the comedy Esimésac (2012).
Friendship, Family, Crime, Drama, Growing Up, Teamwork, Politics, Action + Adventure, Freedom