International sales house H264 has sold Rodrigue Jeanโs โLabrador โ Autopsy of Silenceโ to TLA Releasing for the U.S. and the U.K. The deal follows the filmโs world premiere at the Tribeca Festival, where it won three awards, including best international narrative feature.
At Tribeca, the film also received the awards for best cinematography, presented to Mathieu Laverdiรจre, and best performance in an international narrative feature, awarded to Christopher Angatookalook.
The film is produced by Patricia Bergeron, Cรฉdric Bourdeau and Rodrigue Jean at Transmar Films.
In the film, a cargo ship embarks on its final voyage of the year to resupply Inuit communities in the far north of Canada. During a storm off the coast of Labrador, the shipโs cook is found murdered in his cabin. With no way to identify the culprit among the 20 crew members, suspicion falls on Alupa, an Inuit mechanic and close friend of the victim.
โAgainst the vast and haunting landscapes of Labrador, the film subverts familiar narrative conventions to explore questions of race, class and sexual identity, revealing a story of remarkable emotional and thematic depth,โ H264 said.
H264 will release the film theatrically in Canada during winter 2027.
In 1989, Jean directed his first short film, โLa Dรฉroute,โ followed by the documentary โLa Voix des riviรจresโ and the short film โLa Mรฉmoire de lโeau.โ Two dramatic feature films came soon after: โFull Blastโ in 1999 and โYellowknifeโ in 2001. Next came the documentaries โLiving on the Edgeโ in 2006 and โMen for Saleโ in 2008. โLost Song,โ his third feature film, won the best Canadian feature film award at Toronto in 2008.
He then spent several years directing documentaries with the film collective Groupe รpopรฉe. In 2014, โLove in the Time of Civil Warโ premiered at Toronto. In 2020, he directed โThe Acrobat,โ his fifth feature film. In 2022, he co-directed โ2012/Through the Heart,โ marking the 10th anniversary of the major 2012 student strike in Quebec.
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