awards
Prix la Vague ACIC / ONF – Best Acadian Short Film
Festival international de cinéma en Acadie
2020 – Une façon d’être ensemble
2016 – Cafétéria
Prix UnisTV – Best Franco-Canadian Film
Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma
2019 – Noah, 18 ans
2016 – Cafétéria
Les Éloizes
2022 – ‘Artist of the Year’ Finalist, Media arts – Une façon d’être ensemble
2016 Prix du public Radio-Canada – Cafétéria
2020 – Festival international de cinéma francophone en Acadie
The La vague ACIC / ONF prize for Best Acadian Short Film is awarded to UNE FAÇON D’ÊTRE ENSEMBLE by Francine Hébert (Acadie). The jury was won over by this intimate portrait of a family striving to share its music and acadian traditions with the entire world. The jury was particularly touched by the honest representation of parents overcoming obstacles related to education in this modern world, as well as the inspiration that transpires by their determination to instill independence, discipline and appreciation of the arts in their three young girls.
Members of the jury : Meryam Joobeur, Ara Ball, Marc-André Charron
2019 – Rendez-vous Québec cinéma
The Franco-Canadian jury awards this prize to a film with a fair and benevolent tone about a young adult in the making who assumes his identity with an assurance loaded with freshness and sincerity.
The universal characteristics of this non-judgmental and non-biased portrait makes us question the acceptance of others, regardless of their origins and choices. The film’s artistic choices corresponds with that of its main character: the framing and staging highlights this atypical and assertive human.
The fundamental word given to visible and invisible minorities, the directing quality as well as the finesse of the narrative have convinced us that the the Best Franco-Canadian Film award should be given to the intimate and optimistic look of… NOAH, 18 ANS by Francine Hébert.
Members of the jury : Marcelle Lean, Guillaume Sapin, Marie Franchin
2015 – Festival international de cinéma francophone en Acadie
For its human and intimate approach with the characters, their communities and the issues they face; for the importance of the subject matter here in Acadie, but across the country as well; for the quality of the entire project, all the more seeing as it is a first film; the prize for the La Vague ACIC / ONF Best Acadian Short film is awarded to CAFÉTÉRIA by Francine Hébert.
Members of the jury : Mélanie Léger, Guy Édouin, Maxence Bradley
2016 – Rendez-vous Québec cinéma
It is a pleasure to award the Best Franco-Canadian Film prize to a filmmaker of great talent that directed a truly well crafted first film in terms of both substance and form. The theme, that draws us into a community that is keen for change, shares an inspiring message on many fronts for the whole of Canada’s francophonie.
Members of the jury : Marc-François Tremblay, Julia Lauzon, Julie Demers
Photo : Louis-Philippe Chiasson / FICFA
Photo : Rachel Allain
with Maryse Chapdelaine, Producer, ONF
Photo : Benoît Bourque
screenings / official selections
A Way of Being Together
| Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma | Montréal |
| Festival acadien de Caraquet / Cinéma du Centre | Caraquet |
| Festival international de cinéma francophone en Acadie | Moncton |
| Cinema on the Bayou | Louisiane |
| FIN Atlantic International Film Festival | Halifax |
| FIN Kids – AIFF | Maritimes |
| Cinémental | Winnipeg |
| Cinéfranco | Toronto |
| Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois et francophone | Vancouver |
| Ahmedabad International Children’s Festival | Inde |
| Älvsbyn Film Festival | Sweden |
Noah, 18 years old
| REGARD Festival international du court-métrage | Saguenay |
| Festival international de cinéma francophone en Acadie | Moncton |
| FIN Atlantic international film festival | Halifax |
| FIN Kids – AIFF | Maritimes |
| Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec | Québec |
| Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma | Montréal |
| Tournée Québec Cinéma | Calgary |
| Iqaluit | |
| Toronto | |
| Festival 48 images seconde | France |
| MALMO International LGBTQ+ Film Festival | Suisse |
| Älvsbyn Film Festival | Suède |
| CinéFranco | Toronto |
| Cinémental | Winnipeg |
| Festival Filministes | Montréal |
| Festival de cinéma sous les étoiles | Montréal |
| Festival Rivière de la Fierté | Moncton |
| Acadie Love | Caraquet |
| Sommet Affiche tes couleurs | Bathurst |
| Festival Cinémacadie | Barachois |
| Far Out East Cinema | Moncton |
| Charlottetown Film Festival | Charlottetown |
| Silver Wave Film Festival | Fredericton |
| CBC Reel East Coast – Atlantic television broadcast | |
| UnisTV – national television broadcast |
Cafeteria
| Festival international de cinéma francophone en Acadie | Moncton |
| Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma | Montréal |