FME, L’EXPÉRIENCE D’UNE VIE

With its lakes and northern lights, minerals, and forest delights, Abitibi, Quebec is known as a land of pioneers, a vast expanse where stripped-down nature can extend to the poetry of the lone balladeer Richard Desjardins. It’s also here in Abitibi, at the end of the known world where the FME – the Festival de musique émergente, the bad boy of Quebec festivals, blasts off. Outlandish and funked-out to perfection, this documentary drops dead centre into the heat of the night with local yokels and more acts you can shake a mic at, including Antoine Bertrand, Koriass, Les Hay Babies, Hubert Lenoir, Fred Fortin, Olivier Langevin, Medicine Singers, Lisa LeBlanc, Lydia Képinski, and Les Louanges.