Quebecor and Éléphant: The memory of Québec cinema are pleased to announce that the Québec film Les bons débarras (1980), directed by Francis Mankiewiczand written by the distinguished author Réjean Ducharme, will be shown at the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon in the Splendors of Restoration section, a hand-picked selection of 10 digitized and restored films from the world’s cinematic heritage. Les bons débarras, restored and digitized in HD by Éléphant: The memory of Québec cinema, will be screened along with films such as Jamaica Inn by Alfred Hitchcockand A Special Day Ettore Scola. The Québec film’s inclusion in such distinguished company attests to Éléphant’s expertise and growing recognition in the field of film preservation.

Quebecor is pleased to help bring Québec movies to a wider audience through Éléphant’s presence at Lyon’s prestigious Lumière Film Festival. We salute the outstanding work of the entire Éléphant team, whose mission is to preserve and restore all the fictional feature films from Québec’s cinematic heritage and make them available to the public. This is a colossal job and one that demands the latest technology. Éléphant is a philanthropic project that is particularly close to our hearts at Quebecor because it showcases, at home and abroad, the talent and vision of Québec filmmakers and film professionals, who are responsible for producing world-class cinema of which we can be very proud.