{"id":5616,"date":"2026-10-11T12:25:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T16:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/les-ombres-lumineuses-de-nicolas-dufour-laperriere-en-premiere-au-festival-du-nouveau-cinema\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T12:10:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T16:10:32","slug":"les-ombres-lumineuses-de-nicolas-dufour-laperriere-en-premiere-au-festival-du-nouveau-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/les-ombres-lumineuses-de-nicolas-dufour-laperriere-en-premiere-au-festival-du-nouveau-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"THE LUMINOUS SHADOWS by Nicolas Dufour-Laperri\u00e8re premieres at the Festival du nouveau cin\u00e9ma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/?attachment_id=90892\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-90892 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/LES-OMBRES-LUMINEUSES-de-Nicolas-Dufour-Laperriere.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600px\" height=\"900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>La Distributrice de films and Embuscade Films are proud to present The Shimmering Shadows (Les ombres lumineuses), the first feature documentary written and directed by Nicolas Dufour-Laperri\u00e8re, who also co-produced the film alongside Rosalie Chicoine Perreault. The film will have its World Premiere at the Festival du nouveau cin\u00e9ma (FNC), in national competition, on October 10 and 12, in the presence of the director and the film crew.<\/p>\n<p>In the heart of the Haute-Gatineau forest, in the middle of moose hunting season, humans and animals cross paths, and seek each other out. The Shimmering Shadows captures the gestures, silences, desires, and tensions that inhabit these Quebecois and Algonquin hunters as they become the protagonists of a ritual with profound ramifications, where nature still reigns supreme.<\/p>\n<p>Through sensory and immersive staging, the film evokes the tenuous boundary between the visible and the invisible, between light and shadow, between memory, transmission, and oblivion. The film is thus a meditation on the fragile coexistence between humans and their environment, but also between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in a world undergoing profound change.<\/p><div id=\"linit-4268620194\" class=\"linit-dans-le-contenu linit-entity-placement\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Publicit\u00e9s\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-8992136571741975\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><insclass=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8992136571741975\" data-ad-slot=\"6185130430\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trailer. LES OMBRES LUMINEUSES (The Shimmering Shadows) by Nicolas Dufour-Laperri\u00e8re\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1233131261?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>About the filmmaker<br \/>\nBorn in Saguenay and living in Montreal, Nicolas Dufour-Laperri\u00e8re has been working as an artist and film producer for over 15 years. For more than a decade, he has been producing animated films and auteur documentaries at Embuscade Films, the studio he co-founded. These include Death Does Not Exist (Cannes Directors&rsquo; Fortnight 2025), Archipelago and Transatlantic by F\u00e9lix Dufour-Laperri\u00e8re, and Hibiscus Season by \u00c9l\u00e9onore Goldberg (Iris Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2021). The Shimmering Shadows is his first feature documentary.<\/p>\n<p>THE SHIMMERING SHADOWS by Nicolas Dufour-Laperri\u00e8re<br \/>\nDocumentary. Quebec\/Canada. 2026. 90 minutes.<br \/>\nOriginal French, English and Anishinabemowin version with French or English subtitles.<br \/>\nDirected by: Nicolas Dufour-Laperri\u00e8re | Script: Nicolas Dufour-Laperri\u00e8re | Cinematography: \u00c9tienne Roussy, Isabelle Stachtchenko, Glauco Bermudez | Editing: Xi Feng | Sound Design: Olivier Calvert | Music: Gabriel Dufour-Laperri\u00e8re | Production: Nicolas Dufour-Laperri\u00e8re, Rosalie Chicoine Perreault (Embuscade Films) | Distribution: La Distributrice de films<\/p>\n<p>SCREENINGS AT FNC (55th edition &#8211; from October 8 to 18, 2026) &#8211; with the filmmaker in attendance<br \/>\nSaturday, October 10 at 5:45 p.m. at Cin\u00e9ma du Mus\u00e9e (in its original version with English subtitles)<br \/>\nMonday, October 12 at 5:45 p.m. at Cineplex Odeon Quartier Latin (in its original version with English subtitles)<\/p>\n<p>Distributed by La Distributrice de films, The Shimmering Shadows will be released in Spring 2027.<\/p>\n<div id=\"linit-186701842\" class=\"linit-apres-contenu linit-entity-placement\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Publicit\u00e9s\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-8992136571741975\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><insclass=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8992136571741975\" data-ad-slot=\"6185130430\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Distributrice de films and Embuscade Films are proud to present The Shimmering Shadows (Les ombres lumineuses), the first feature documentary written and directed by Nicolas Dufour-Laperri\u00e8re, who also co-produced the film alongside Rosalie Chicoine Perreault. The film will have its World Premiere at the Festival du nouveau cin\u00e9ma (FNC), in national competition, on October [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/LES-OMBRES-LUMINEUSES-de-Nicolas-Dufour-Laperriere.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"LES OMBRES LUMINEUSES de Nicolas Dufour-Laperri\u00e8re en premi\u00e8re au Festival du nouveau cin\u00e9ma","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-communiques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5616"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5912,"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5616\/revisions\/5912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}