QUEBEC CITY FILM FESTIVAL: Buster Keaton saves the South and the General Shirley Nadeau shirley@qctonline.com Once again, the annual Quebec City Film Festival (QCFF) chose a historic black-and-white silent film,…
After many harrowing adventures, near the end of The General, Johnny Gray (Buster Keaton – far left), captures a Union officer (centre) and hands him over to the Confederate general (right). Gabriel Thibaudeau, who composed the music that accompanied the film, directs Les Violons du Roy, seated onstage below the screen. (Photo by Shirley Nadeau) 
Vincent L’Hérault explained some of the challenges his team went through to bring Le peuple de la mer to the screen, and how they still hope to make a full-length feature film with all the inspiring material they gathered. (Photo by Myriam Labbé) 
Posters from previous editions of the Quebec City Film Festival are displayed in front of the Sandra & Alain Bouchard Auditorium at the MNBAQ. (Photo by Danielle Burns)