Official Selection - Out of Competition
Cartes Blanches

White Dog (Chien Blanc)

Anais Barbeau-Lavalette
Festival Pops Female Director Human Rights & Society 2022 95 min Canada (Quebec)
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Synopsis

Based on a novel by writer and humanist Romain Gary, Chien Blanc tells the story of how he and his wife, the actress and civil rights activist Jean Seberg, welcome an abandoned dog into their home. They don’t at first realise that it has been trained to attack black people. Set amid the social tensions in the aftermath of the assassination of Martin Luther King, the film delivers some harsh truths about racial equality in the United States.

Screening of CHIEN BLANCH, the Carte Blanche Orange, and with the support of the Délégation Générale du Québec à Bruxelles

Cast/Avec

  • K.C. Collins
  • Denis Ménochet
  • Kacey Rohl

Screenplay

  • Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
  • Valérie Beaugrand-Champagne (based on the novel by Romain Gary)

Cinematographer

  • Jonathan Decoste

Sound

  • Paul Lucien Col

Production

  • Go Films

Screenings

Thursday 09 March 2023 18:30
Lieux : Ciné Utopia
Audio : French
Subtitles : English
Screening : Public Screening
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Anais Barbeau-Lavalette

Anais Barbeau-Lavalette
Anais Barbeau-Lavalette

Born in 1979 in Montreal, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette is the daughter of filmmaker Manon Barbeau and cinematographer Philippe Lavalette. A graduate in International Studies from the Université de Montréal, she went on to study Film Production at the Institut national de l’image et du son in the same city. She also studied at Birzeit University in Palestine. Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette started out making documentaries before moving into feature films.

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Filmography

  • Les Petits princes des bidonvilles (documentaire) 2000
  • Si j'avais un chapeau (documentaire) 2005
  • The Fight 2007
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