Polytechnique

*With the presentation of Kitty Aal

A stark dramatization of a real-life mass shooting in Montreal, Canada told from the point of view of two students. In 1989 a disturbed young man, believing feminism was his enemy, murdered several female engineering students. The film coolly shows the act as it unfolds as well as the philosophical and psychological effects on survivors and witnesses. The story is more about the heartbreak and agony in the face of senseless slaughter than with trying to understand such a crime. The luminous black and white in which the film is shot is sobering, but also accentuates the stirring gestures of human dignity.

Kitty Aal