On Monday the Main Competition is featuring the world première of the Canadian film The Sound of Trees. The film deals with the inexhaustible topic of strained relations between father and son. Seventeen-year-old Jérémie's mind is filled more with girls and hip hop than the problems of the family sawmill his father is dealing with. The feeling of alienation between the two grows, captured brilliantly by co-writer Sarah Lévesque. At the press conference she responded to the question of how a woman can understand the world of men: "I don't think we women are only supposed to write about female protagonists. If a person is a writer or scriptwriter by profession, they must know how to put themselves in the other's place."
An important aspect of the film is where it takes place. The lonely Canadian "backwater" surrounded by forests illustrates the interior of the adolescent boy. "The place means the end of the world. It's like seeing a river, but not being able to see the other side. You think that there is nothing beyond it, that there is no escape," director François Péloquin, who is also at the festival, added.
Screenings of The Sound of Trees:
6 July 17:00 Velký sál
7 July 10:00 Pupp
9 July 11:30 Kino Drahomíra
