Shake Hands with the Devil will arrive on screens in September via Seville Pictures, which on Friday set the release dates for a series of Quebec-made features, including the highly anticipated retelling of Roméo Dallaire’s adventures in Rwanda, as well as documentaries about the Near North and the South Pole.
Shake Hands, by director Roger Spottiswoode, is set for Sept. 28, putting it in theaters two weeks after the Toronto International Film Festival, where it is expected to debut.
The festival has confirmed only a few titles so far, including Elizabeth: The Golden Age, The Tracey Fragments, No Country for Old Men and the opener, Fugitive Pieces. Organizers say they will name more titles next week.
Contre Toute Espérance (‘Summit Circle’) by Bernard Émond, the second part of a trilogy he started in 2005 with La Neuvaine, will bow on Aug 17, followed on Sept 7 by Bluff, the first effort by directors Marc-André Lavoie and Simon-Olivier Fecteau, starring Rémy Girard and Marc Messier. Bluff is also slated to open Montreal’s World Film Festival on Sept. 3.
Later in the fall, Seville will unspool Le Dernier Continent, about filmmaker Jean Lemire’s schooner voyage to Antarctica (Oct. 19) followed by Des Nouvelles Du Nord, a doc by Benoît Pilon about life in a village on the shores of James Bay. It is slated for November, though a specific date has not been set.