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    1999

    Poster of the movie 1999
    2018     Documentary    
    Canada/Switzerland
    1h 34min
    Original lang: French, English
    G

    At the Mathieu-Martin High School in Moncton (Canada), a wave of suicides hit the class of 1999. Today, Samara returns to the town where she grew up to question her former classmates who, like her, were strongly marked by this tragic episode. So, in the well-known setting of American TV series and other "Teen Movies", Samara conducts her personal and identity-based investigation. Empty corridors during lessons, rows of metal lockers, and large bay windows that open up onto the snow-covered courtyard on the edge of the forest... A typical high school in a provincial town in which teenage crisis is perhaps more difficult to get through than elsewhere, and perhaps even more so in this French-speaking town not far from the border with the United States. To bring the ghosts of the past back to life, she brings out old diaries and VHS cassettes of singing in the theatre; all these little things, these memories we cling on to, in sorrow and in grief, in order to regain the energy of life.

    Directed bySamara Grace Chadwick
    Written bySamara Grace Chadwick
    CompanyNational Film BoardNational Film BoardNational Film Board

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    Samara Grace Chadwick

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