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QUEBEC © DR

Matthias &
Maxime,
by Xavier Dolan

Facts & QUÉBEC: A GREAT

figures

● Population: 8.39 million VINTAGE AT THE 2019
● GDP per capita US$36,406
● Regulatory body : Ministry
of Culture CANNES FILM FESTIVAL
● Public Film supporting
institutions : SODEC

PRODUCTION QUÉBEC’S PRESENCE AT THE WORLD PREMIER FILM FESTIVAL IS
● Films released from Quebec:
91 (out of 770) EXCEPTIONAL, WITH THREE OF THE FOUR QUEBEC FILMS REPRESENTING
LA BELLE PROVINCE IN OFFICIAL SELECTION. WHILE MORE THAN 220
THEATRICAL MARKET QUEBECOIS ARE ATTENDING THE CANNES FILM MARKET. A TESTAMENT
● Total gross BO: $158m OF THE CONSTANT CREATIVITY OF THE LOCAL INDUSTRY.
(-1% vs 2017)
● Total admissions :
19.1 million By François-Pier Pelinard-Lambert
● Average ticket price: $8.32

● Local films market share: 9.2%
● US majors market share: UÉBEC film maker Xavier Dolan is coming from nowhere in Cannes with his Directors’
78.2% Q returning to the Cannes Film Festival Fortnight premiere of I Killed My Mother. This former
All figures and stats in this feature with his latest Montreal-shot feature, child actor soon became one of most loved young talents
are in Canadian dollar Matthias & Maxime, produced by Sons in the festival, coming back later with Heartbeats and
of Manual. The French-language drama
Laurence Anyways, both showcased in Un Certain Regard.
will make its debut in official
The warmly received Mommy scored him a Best Director
competition for the top prize, the Palme d’Or. Dolan prize, while It’s Only the End of the World in 2016 brought
wrote, directed and stars in the story of two childhood him a Grand Prix that year. Another Québec filmmaker,
friends, now in their late 20s, who find their lives up-ended Monia Chokri, is also at Cannes with the very well received
when they have to kiss while performing in an amateur La Femme de Mon Frere (Metafilms) which she wrote and
film at a party. Dolan’s filmmaking career exploded, directed. The drama was invited to the Un Certain Regard

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