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HÔTEL SILENCE

Directed by Léa Pool

Feature film | Fiction

Adaptation of the novel Ör by Audur Ava Ólafsdóttir

Co-production with Canada

Synopsis

Jean, in his fifties, has lost his lust for life. He leaves Canada for a faraway country, somewhere in Europe. A beautiful place to end his days, he thought. But that was without counting on the formidable resilience of the inhabitants and residents of the Silence Hotel.

At 52, Jean Létourneau is a man in crisis. Haunted by his wife's departure and consumed by his mother's old age, he bids farewell to his daughter and travels to the other side of the world, to a country ruined by war, with the secret aim of ending his life. But little by little, his discovery of the region and the stories of the war survivors help him to put his problems into perspective. As a result, his stay at the Hôtel Silence - where he has undertaken to do some minor repairs - allows him to reconnect with a part of his humanity. And, against all the odds, he rediscovers a taste for life.

Trailer

Festivals & Screenings

Festival de film de l’Outaouais (Opening movie) March 2024

Festival Les Percéides, Gaspé Peninsula – 19 – 25 August 2024

Festival du Film Francophone d’Angoulême - 27 août – 1 September 2024

Reykjavik International Film Festival, Islande - 26 septembre - 6 October

Festival du cinéma québécois de Bicarosse, France - 10-16 November

Rencontres cinématographiques de Cerbère-Collioure, France - 5 October

Hof International Film Festival, Germany 22-27 October

Press

Radio

Ici Radio Canada - Canada : https://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premiere/emissions/il-restera-toujours-culture/segments/rattrapage/487580/subpoena-culturel-de-jacques-beauchamp-le-film-hotel-silence-de-lea-pool