PROJECTION CONFERENCE | EMPATHIE

In partnership with the SERIES MANIA festival To mark the 2026 National Mental Health Weeks, whose theme will be ‘Let’s open up to the arts’, CAPSO’s Culture Department is joining forces with CAPSO’s Social Development Department and the SERIES MANIA festival to present a special programme. Screening and talk on mental health, featuring an episode of the series EMPATHIE – winner of the SERIES MANIA 2025 Audience Award – with Perrine Quenesson, a freelance journalist, and a local healthcare professional in attendance. EMPATHIE 🏆 Audience Award, SERIES MANIA 2025 Suzanne, a former criminologist now working as a psychiatrist, arrives at the Mont-Royal Psychiatric Institute, where she meets Mortimer, an intriguing crisis intervention officer with whom she strikes up a friendship, and patients who leave no one indifferent. A word from Séries Mania *Empathie* marks the debut of Quebec fiction in the International Competition. Florence Longpré (*Le temps des framboises*, *M’entends-tu ?*) turns her sensitive and unique gaze upon the patients and medical staff of a prison psychiatric hospital. A psychological drama that sheds light on mental illness, enhanced by the direction of her long-time collaborator Guillaume Lonergan and the warm performance of Thomas Ngijol in an unexpected role. Created & Written by: Florence LONGPRE - Directed by Guillaume LONERGAN - Music: Simon LEOZA Starring Florence LONGPRE, Thomas NGIJOL, Josée DESCHÊNES, Benoît BRIÈRE, Brigitte LAFLEUR, Denis BERNARD, Linda MALO, Lamia BENHACINE, Adrien BLETTON, Sofia BLONDIN, Lyraël DAUPHIN, Danielle FICHAUD, Geneviève ALARIE, Etienne BELAND, Martin-David PETERS Production: Trio Orange PRACTICAL INFORMATION: Salle Jacques Durand – 16 Place Victor Hugo – Saint-Omer Approximate duration: 2 hours **Ages 16 and over** Free admission, booking required Capacity: 60 people