Madeleine (2023 film)

2023 Canadian film

Madeleine

Directed by| Raquel Sancinetti
Cinematography| Stéphanie Weber Biron
Edited by| Sharron Mirsky
Raquel Sancinetti
Music by| Sacha Ratcliffe
Distributed by| La Distributrice de films

Release date

* March 25, 2023 (2023-03-25) (Regard)

Running time

| 15 minutes
Country| Canada
Language| French

Madeleine is a 2023 Canadian short animated film, directed by Raquel Sancinetti. Based on Sancinetti's own real-life friendship with Madeleine, a centenarian woman, the film blends documentary and fictional elements, and both live-action and puppet animation, to depict a story about her taking Madeleine on a road trip.[1]

According to Sancinetti, Madeleine was a woman she first met in 2017 through a friend who taught fitness classes at the retirement home where Madeleine lived, whom she built a friendship with and began to visit regularly; however, being of advanced age, Madeleine was reluctant to leave the home as she needed to conserve her limited energy for regular daily life activities, so Sancinetti decided to take her friend on one last life adventure through animation.[2]

The film premiered at the 2023 Saguenay International Short Film Festival.[1] It was later added to Op-Docs, the film streaming platform of The New York Times.[2]

The film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual Canada's Top Ten list for 2023.[3]

## Awards

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Saguenay International Short Film Festival | March 27, 2023  | FIPRESCI Prize  | Raquel Sancinetti  | Won  | [4]
Sommets du cinéma d'animation | May 16, 2023  | Public Prize  | Won  | [5]
Best Performance  | Won
Gimli Film Festival | August 11, 2023  | Best Canadian Short Film  | Madeleine | Won  |
Les Percéides | August 22, 2023  | Best Quebec Short Film  | Won  | [6]
Edmonton International Film Festival | October 1, 2023  | Best Short Documentary  | Won  |
Uppsala International Short Film Festival | October 28, 2023  | Best International Film  | Won  | [7]
Audience Award, International Competition  | Won
Prix Iris | December 10, 2023 | Best Animated Short Film | Raquel Sancinetti  | Won  | [8]
Prix collégial du cinéma québécois | April 5, 2024  | Best Short Film  | Won  | [9]
Canadian Screen Awards | May 2024 | Best Short Documentary | Won  | [10]

## References

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1. ^ a b Pat Mullen, "Documentaries Stand Tallest at Regard – Saguenay Short Film Festival". Point of View, April 4, 2023.
2. ^ a b Raquel Sancinetti, "The Wisdom of Living in the Present, According to My 107-Year-Old Best Friend". The New York Times, November 14, 2023.
3. ^ Pat Mullen, "TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten Includes BlackBerry, Solo, Humanist Vampire". That Shelf, December 6, 2023.
4. ^ Constance Cazzaniga, "Regard se poursuit en ligne et dévoile les films gagnants". Métro, March 27, 2023.
5. ^ "Les 21es Sommets du cinéma d’animation décernent leurs prix". Lien Multimédia, May 16, 2023.
6. ^ "Record de cinéphiles aux Percéides". Gaspésie Nouvelles, August 22, 2023.
7. ^ "Vinnarna korade på Uppsala kortfilmsfestival". Helsingborgs Dagblad, October 28, 2023.
8. ^ Florence Morin-Martel, "«Viking» triomphe au Gala Artisans Québec Cinéma". Le Devoir, December 7, 2023.
9. ^ Marie-France-Lou Lemay, "Les films Les chambres rouges et Madeleine récompensés". La Presse, April 6, 2024.
10. ^ Connie Thiessen, "Canadian Screen Awards winners: Cinematic Arts". Broadcast Dialogue, May 30, 2024.

## External links

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* Madeleine at IMDb

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Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television for Best Feature Length Documentary and Best Short Documentary

Canadian Film Awards
1968–1978|

* Never a Backward Step (1968)
* Good Times, Bad Times (1969)
* Wild Africa (1970)
* Les Philharmonistes (1971)
* Coming Home (1973)
* Janis (1975)
* Ahô: The Forest People (1976)
* The Inquiry Film: A Report on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline (1977)
* The Champions (1978)

Genie Awards
1980–2011|

* Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed (1980)
* Plusieurs tombent en amour (1981)
* P4W: Prison for Women (1982)
* The Devil at Your Heels (1983)
* Pourquoi l'étrange Monsieur Zolock s'intéressait-il tant à la bande dessinée? (1984)
* Raoul Wallenberg: Buried Alive (1985)
* Final Offer (1986)
* Dads and Kids (1987)
* God Rides a Harley (1988)
* Comic Book Confidential (1989)
* Strand: Under the Dark Cloth (1990)
* The Famine Within (1991)
* Deadly Currents (1992)
* Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (1993)
* In the Gutter and Other Good Places (1994)
* The Champagne Safari (1995)
* Bones of the Forest (1996)
* Tu as crié: Let Me Go (1997)
* A Place Called Chiapas (1998)
* Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the '70s Generation (1999)
* Grass (2000)
* Westray (2001)
* Gambling, Gods and LSD (2002)
* FIX: The Story of an Addicted City (2003)
* The Corporation (2004)
* Scared Sacred (2005)
* Manufactured Landscapes (2006)
* Radiant City (2007)
* Up the Yangtze (2008)
* A Hard Name (2009)
* Last Train Home (2010)
* At Night, They Dance (2011)

Canadian Screen Awards
2012–present|

* Stories We Tell (2012)
* Watermark (2013)
* Super Duper Alice Cooper (2014)
* Hurt (2015)
* I Am the Blues (2016)
* Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017)
* Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2018)
* Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up (2019)
* Wandering: A Rohingya Story (2020)
* Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy (2021)
* To Kill a Tiger (2022)
* Twice Colonized (2023)

Short Documentary|

* Avec tambours et trompettes (1968)
* Juggernaut (1969)
* KW+ (1970)
* The Sea (1971)
* Selling Out (1972)
* Grierson and Faire hurler les murs (1973)
* At 99: A Portrait of Louise Tandy Murch and Cree Hunters of Mistassini (1975)
* Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry (1976)
* Greenpeace: Voyages to Save the Whales (1977)
* The Hottest Show on Earth (1978)
* Priory: The Only Home I've Got (1980)
* No More Hiroshima (1986)
* The World Is Watching (1989)
* Stunt People (1990)
* The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein (1991)
* A Song for Tibet (1992)
* Le singe bleu (1993)
* Fiction and Other Truths: A Film About Jane Rule (1995)
* Maman et Ève (1996)
* Unveiled: The Mother/Daughter Relationship (1997)
* Shadow Maker: Gwendolyn MacEwen, Poet (1998)
* Hemingway: A Portrait (1999)
* The Delian Mode (2009)
* Sirmilik (2011)
* The Boxing Girls of Kabul (2012)
* Chi (2013)
* Jutra (2014)
* Bacon and God's Wrath (2015)
* This River (2016)
* Take a Walk on the Wildside (2017)
* My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes (2018)
* Take Me to Prom (2019)
* Sing Me a Lullaby (2020)
* Nalujuk Night (2021)
* Patty vs. Patty (2022)
* Madeleine (2023)

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