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"Charmante" est le premier adjectif qui nous vient en tête en rencontrant Emeline Michel. La soirée du 16 juillet était chaleureuse. L’amour qu’Emeline illustrait pour son pays d’origine, Haiti, pour sa ville natale, les Gonaives, pour ses admirateurs et sa famille, qui étaient nombreux dans la salle, laissait place à une ambiance enivrante. Il y avait une atmosphère joyeuse pendant qu’Emeline Michel nous racontait des anecdotes reliées à ses chansons, nous faisait part de ses projets futurs, dont un nouvel album qu’elle veut enregistrer en Haïti et qu’elle prévoit de lancer en 2012. Il ne faut surtout pas oublier la danse. Danse folklore haïtienne toujours présente dans ses concerts qu’elle interprète avec beaucoup d’émotions. Les spectateurs n’ont pas tardé à se joindre à elle sur la piste de danse. Les rythmes d’"A.K.I.K.O.", son succès international des années quatre-vingt, clôtura la danse. Nous avons également eu droit à un amalgame de musique sélectionnée parmi ses neuf albums créés pendant ses 25 ans de carrière. Elle est toujours aussi belle et d’une énergie sans pareil. Je suis heureuse d’avoir pu assister à ce concert intime qui m’a permis de revisiter plusieurs souvenirs d’enfance forgés la première fois que j’ai assistée à un concert d’Emeline Michel. Elle m’avait charmé à l’époque et l’a encore fait cette soirée là.

Photo (gauche à droite): Sweet Maxi, Emeline Michel, Kelly B

-Sweet Maxi est occasionnellement co-hôte de Beat The World les samedis de 12h-14h

A fifteen year old boy has been accused of stealing seven cars in ten days.

The boy was arrested after a high-speed chase in Montreal. The chase began with the boy leading the police on Highway forty, across the Charles de Gaule Bridge. The chase ended after the boy crashed into three parked cars near the Place Versailles shopping mall. Fortunately for the Repentigny police, they knew the boy who they chased.

The boy confessed to stealing the cars after he was arrested and faces charges of theft.

Directed by Yudai Yamaguchi
Written by Yudai Yamaguchi, from Tokaji Keita
Cast Tak Sakaguchi, Mari Hoshino, Takamasa Suga, Jhonmyon Pe
Produced by Yoshinori Chiba

This film was unlike anything I had ever seen; it was the first film I saw at this festival. It tells the tale of Jubeh Yakyu, a feared young criminal who killed his father with a baseball to the forehead. The effects were incredible and I’m still thinking of his father’s eyeballs on the side of his head because of the force of the baseball that was thrown at him. Jubeh is sent to Pterodactyl Juvenile Reformatory, which is like a private school that rose from hell. The headmistress is a Nazi and she is very evil.

The prisoners are fisted as they are searched and are fed vomit for every meal. This reformatory is disgusting and probably smells extremely foul. How would one escape from this place? The only way to freedom is through baseball. But this is a different game with very different rules, murderous rules that are completely insane. A tournament is organized and Jubeh must pitch and re-live his horrid past. This game, however, focuses on murdering the other team and the battle is a little hard to believe but is fun and entertaining nonetheless.

Deadball is silly and goofy but remains fun. It is completely insane and ludicrous but no joke is ever extreme enough. If you are a fan of extreme gore and humorous murder then this a film for you.

2 out of 5 Stars

-Andrea Boulet

The mayor of Kandahar is dead after a suicide attack by a member of the Taliban. 

A man with explosives hidden in his turban grabbed Mayor Ghulam Haider Hamidi as he left his office. After seizing the mayor, the man triggered his explosives. Hamidi and a nearby citizen were killed instanstly. 

Hamidi was set to speak to citizens protesting the demolition of 200 illegal houses in the city's slum of lowe-Wala. Lowe-Wala is considered a stronghold for Taliban supporters.