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Director
  
Laura Bari

Music director
  
Ramachandra Borcar

Duration
  

Country
  
Canada

7/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Documentary

Screenplay
  
Laura Bari

Writer
  
Laura Bari

Language
  
French

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Release date
  
November 15, 2008 (2008-11-15) (Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montreal)

Cast
  
Maelle Thomas-Traore, Antoine Houang, Julietta Bari

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Antoine is an 82-minutes 2008 Canadian documentary film directed by Laura Bari. The film features a 5-year old blind kid named Antoine Houang. living in Montreal, Quebec. It tells the real and imaginary life of Antoine, a boy detective who runs, drives, makes decisions, hosts radio shows and adores simultaneous telephone conversations. Over the course of two years, he uses a mini-boom microphone to discover and capture the sounds surrounding him. In this manner he also co-created the sound track of this film.

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Synopsis

The film opens with a shot of a five-year-old using a braille typewriter to describe in great detail how he became blind at birth. The next scene is Antoine receiving a phone call from Madame Rouski, who dissolved into the water while taking a shower. Antoine's mission is to find Madame Rouski. Equipped with his two best friends and a mini boom microphone to help him find clues, Antoine spends two years of his life locating her. Is she in the yellow daffodils, in the air, in Vietnam, or has she turned into a monster?

Festivals

  • Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greece (March 2009)
  • Festival Internationale de Films de Femmes, France (Mars 2009)
  • Tribeca Film Festival, New York, USA (April 2009)
  • Salt Lake City Film Festival, Salt Lake City, USA, (August 2009)
  • Chungmuro International Festival, Seoul, South Korea (August 2009)
  • Kos International Health Film festival, Greece (September 2009)
  • EBS International Documentary Fest, Seoul, South Korea (Septembre 2009)
  • Reykjavík International Film Festival, Iceland (September 2009)
  • Docupolis, Barcelona, Spain (September 2009)
  • Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (October 2009)
  • San Diego Asian Film Festival, San Diego, USA (October 2009)
  • DOK, Leipzig, Germany (November 2009)
  • Sheffield Doc/Fest, Sheffield, United Kingdom (November 2009)
  • Mar del Plata Film Festival, Argentina (November 2009)
  • Gothenburg Film Festival, Sweden (February 2010)

    • Awards

  • Special jury mention in the "doctape award" category Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montreal (RIDM), Montreal, (November 2008)
  • Prix Lindalee Tracey, Hot Docs, Toronto (May 2009)
  • First Special Jury Prize, for Emotions Pictures, Athens, Greece (June 2009)
  • Honor Prize for Best Experimental Documentary, Docupolis, Barcelona (September 2009)

    • References

    Antoine (film) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Antoine (film) IMDb