KIYUKTA
40 min, Documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2008Directed byAïda Maigre-Touchet
Produced byJean Morisset and Aïda Maigre-Touchet with TESSIMOR
LanguagesEnglish, Inuktitut
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Synopsis
We are in Nunavut, in the great Canadian North, offshore of a calcite mine, a military base, and an evanescent millennial spirit. Between ice and waters, Kiyukta evokes a delicate wandering with the Inuit people, conscious and disquiet, who bring us along as time goes by.
Credits
Direction, Image, Editing : Aïda Maigre-Touchet
Sound : Martin Allard et Éric Tessier
Color Correction : Tomi Grgicevic
Production : Jean Morisset and Aïda Maigre-Touchet with TESSIMOR
Production assistant : Jean-Michel Laprise
Financial Partners
l’Aide au Cinéma indépendant canadien de l’Office National du Film du Canada
Vidéographe Production
Direction
Aïda Maigre-Touchet
Born in Paris, Aïda Maigre-Touchet studied Film at University of Paris and Concordia University in Montreal, on her way to a Master’s in Film Production, graduating with high honours. Working both in France and in Canada, her first film Kiyukta was awarded an honourable mention for best emerging documentary filmmaker. Her first productions allowed her to take part in the 2009 Berlinale Talent Campus in Berlin, Germany. Her second documentary film Elegy for Port-au-Prince was screened internationally in some prestigious documentary film festivals such as Cinema du Reel (Paris) and Visions du Reel (Switzerland). In 2013, Aïda Maigre-Touchet became Laureate of the Louis Lumière Residencies Program. In 2018, she achieves her fist feature film Les flâneries du voyant.
Filmography
Les flâneries du voyant (72 min / 2018)
Elegy for Port-au-Prince (12 min / 2011)
Forests (5 min / 2008)
Kiyoukta (40 min / 2008)