Cinema On The Bayou 2025 Opens With The U.S. Premiere Of Pat Mire's Narrative Feature Film "Pointe Noire"
The 20th Cinema On The Bayou Film Festival, An Annual Eight-Day Juried International Film Festival.
Schedule Of Events
Mar Moussa - 4:30 Pm at St. Landry Cinema Opelousas
In 1982 Paolo Dall'Oglio, an italian Jesuit, decides to bring back to life the ruined syrian monastery of Mar Moussa and make it a place of dialog between Christians and Muslims. Mar Moussa became a symbol of peace in a region devasted by war. In 2013, during the war, Paolo disappeared. What would become of Mar Moussa?
Paris Lost And Found - 6:00 Pm at St. Landry Cinema Opelousas
Film-lover Curtis, 22, leaves his home in the Midwest USA for the first time, arriving in Paris with a single goal in mind: meet his favorite filmmaker, Pierre Bertrand, a once-great cineaste. What follows is a scavenger hunt through Paris that brings unexpected treasure.
Kartik Singh, a Paris-based filmmaker, will attend the film screening and participate in a Q&A afterwards.
Ababooned - 8:00 Pm at St. Landry Cinema Opelousas
Set in the Faubourg à mélasse district of Montreal, Quebec, in the 1950s, the film centres on a conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and a young team of baseball players.
Michel Paquette, 12, born with polio, misses Sunday mass to read poetry at St-Amour et fille publishing house. His old companion, Archange St-Amour, who suffers from Parkinson's, needs Michel to help him type "Vive le Québec Laïque", an anti-clerical pamphlet written in the midst of Quebec's of Great Darkness era. The pamphlet scandalizes the clergy. The Church's vengeance is nothing compared to that of Michel and his friends. These young people will go to great lengths to defy the clerical order, risking everything in their quest for a secular, egalitarian Quebec.
