Directed by:
François GirardScreenplay:
François GirardCinematography:
Nicolas BolducComposer:
Terry RileyCast:
Raoul Max Trujillo, Tanaya Beatty, David La Haye, Vincent Perez, Gilles Renaud, Roman Blomme, Paul Doucet, Mark Antony Krupa, Karelle Tremblay (more)VOD (2)
Plots(1)
On a summer night a sinkhole opens during a football game in a downtown Montreal stadium, revealing long-buried artifacts beneath. Archeologist Baptiste Asigny (Samian) and a research team believe they are on the brink of linking the site to the Iroquois village of Hochelaga, the probable location of the meeting between Jacques Cartier and the Iroquois people in 1535. Weaving together past and present, the film visits and revisits Hochelaga through the centuries. Girard takes us back to the village in 1267, centuries before it was colonized; to the arrival of Cartier (Vincent Perez) and its violent disruptions; to a deadly epidemic that hit a young Montreal in 1687; to the turmoil of the Lower Canada Rebellion in 1837; to a pioneering moment in neurology in 1944. (Toronto International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Raoul Max Trujillo
USA
Best movies:
Into the West (2005) (series)
Apocalypto (2006)
Sicario (2015)
Tanaya Beatty
Best movies:
Words and Pictures (2013)
Hochelaga, Land of Souls (2017)
Twilight (2008)
David La Haye
Canada
Best movies:
Life with My Father (2005)
Nuremberg (2000) (TV movie)
Napoléon (2002) (series)
Vincent Perez
Switzerland
Best movies:
Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
Une affaire d'honneur (2023)
Kuchňa v Pariže (2014)
Gilles Renaud
Best movies:
Hochelaga, Land of Souls (2017)
Le Démantèlement (2013)
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Roman Blomme
Best movies:
Little Glory (2011)
Hochelaga, Land of Souls (2017)
Paul Doucet
Best movies:
Maurice Richard (2005)
Wicker Park (2004)
Fear of Water (2011)
Mark Antony Krupa
Best movies:
Human Trafficking (2005) (TV movie)
To Catch a Killer (2023)
Hochelaga, Land of Souls (2017)
Karelle Tremblay
Best movies:
La Disparition des lucioles (2018)
Hochelaga, Land of Souls (2017)
Simple comme Sylvain (2023)
Emmanuel Schwartz
Best movies:
The Twentieth Century (2019)
I'm Not There (2007)
Beau Is Afraid (2023)
Sébastien Ricard
Canada
Best movies:
Chorus (2015)
Les Invasions barbares (2003)
Hochelaga, Land of Souls (2017)
Iannicko N'Doua-Légaré
Best movies:
Starbuck (2011)
Hochelaga, Land of Souls (2017)
Frédéric Cloutier
Best movies:
Hochelaga, Land of Souls (2017)
Linus Roache
UK
Best movies:
Batman Begins (2005)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) - a.f.
Priest (1994)
André Simoneau
Best movies:
Hochelaga, Land of Souls (2017)
The Hummingbird Project (2018)
Brad's Status (2017)
Raphaël Lacaille
Best movies:
Hochelaga, Land of Souls (2017)
Naïade Aoun
Best movies:
Hochelaga, Land of Souls (2017)
Christopher B. MacCabe
Canada
Best movies:
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
Snake Eyes (1998)
Hochelaga, Land of Souls (2017)
Carmen Ferland
Best movies:
Remi, Nobody's Boy (2018)
The Whole Nine Yards (2000)
Hochelaga, Land of Souls (2017)
Vincent Hoss-Desmarais
Best movies:
Hochelaga, Land of Souls (2017)
Whitewash (2013)
Birthmarked (2018)