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Claude McKay, errances d'un poète révolté // Answer

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At the crossroads of Black literary consciousness and political struggle, the ideas of Claude McKay, Jamaican poet and novelist, laid the foundations for major literary movements, including Négritude. Proudly wandering, both bohemian and politically committed, a chameleon with a magnetic personality, he traveled across the globe: New York’s literary scene, Parisian aristocracy, Communist intelligentsia in Russia, and Black diasporas in the port of Marseille.

Using archival materials and texts read in voice-over by Gaël Faye and Manon Azem, the film traces McKay’s journey as he crosses paths with major figures of his time, from George Bernard Shaw to W.E.B. Du Bois, Trotski, and many others.

Première nord-américaine

Sélection officielle - longs-métrages

Opening act: short film Answer

Short film

Première québécoise
Sélection officielle - courts-métrages
Canada / 2022 / 4 minutes / Sans dialogue 

 

Réalisation Mary-Lee Brunet Production Mary-Lee Brunet

 

Answer is a short dance film exploring identity, belonging, and self-understanding through the experiences of three young interracial Asian adopted women. Using movement as its primary language, the film examines the emotional complexities of adoption, cultural duality, and the search for personal identity.

 

Directed by Mary-Lee Brunet, Answer brings forward stories that are often overlooked, creating space for reflection, connection, and visibility. Authentic and intimate, it bears witness to a process of searching — sometimes marked by the absence of clear answers about who we are and where we belong.

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Matthieu Verdeil

In French only

Mary-Lee Brunet

Mary-Lee Brunet is an artist who explores storytelling through movement, primarily popping and strutting,and visual arts. Over the past few years, she has been honing her artistic skills under the tutelage of several renowned artists, including Rashaad Hasani. Since 2025, she has represented the Los Angeles’s Funny Bones Crew collective. 

She is involved in her community by participating in various initiatives such as the JOAT International Street Dance Festival, Claudia Chan Tak’s La nostalgie du papillon malgache, and more. Her artistic practice now leads her to explore the quest for identity as seen through the lens of a Chinese-born Québécoise who was adopted.

Biographical notes provided by the film production team 

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