Monday, February 23, noon to 1:45 p.m.

Lunch and learn with filmmakers Wylem Decaille (Jireh Gospel: Hearts in Chorus) and Maryse Legagneur (The Last Meal)

The NFB Space – free – bring your own lunch, co-presented by Coalition M.É.D.I.A.

Listen to a compelling conversation between Wylem Decaille, an emerging filmmaker of Martinican descent, and accomplished Afro-Quebec filmmaker Maryse Legagneur.

Wylem Decaille is a young filmmaker whose work explores memory, spirituality and the strength of community. With roots in writing and literature, he crafts sensitive, poetic films where reality takes on a lyrical form. His first professional film, Jireh Gospel: Hearts in Chorus (NFB, 2025), offers an immersive and heartfelt look at faith and music as spaces of communion, resilience and shared light.

Deeply attuned to the social struggles of Afro-descendant communities, Maryse Legagneur trains her lens on themes of injustice, racism and oppression. Her work includes In the Name of the Mother and the Son (NFB, 2005) and, more recently, The Last Meal (ACPAV), a multiple award winner and her first fiction feature. She is currently completing the feature-length NFB documentary Konbit, a film that explores Afro-descendant people’s relationship to the land.

A specialty online channel available across Canada

The Black Communities in Canada channel was recently expanded with new additions that explore themes ranging from systemic violence (the subject of Night Watches Us, directed by Stefan Verna, and reXistence, by Will Prosper) to the joys of music (as seen in Jireh Gospel: Hearts in Chorus, by Wylem Decaille).

Getting to the NFB’s Alanis Obomsawin Theatre and the NFB Space:

 Îlot Balmoral, on Place des Festivals

1500 Balmoral St.

Montreal

Place-des-Arts Metro

Accessible to persons with reduced mobility.