PORTRAITSFrom today or tomorrow, realistic, often dark portraits attest to distress or bear witness to youth, vulnerability, solitude, oppression or exclusion. Films born of a cry from the heart.
Short film , Fiction
CANADA | 14 minutes | 2015
Under the mischievous eye of Don McKellar, these ruptures are akin to the Surrealists’ game, of “exquisite corpse”, played to break the banality of existence.
CANADA | 13 minutes | 2014
Star follows the path of Tito and Jay, two brothers living in the Montreal neighborhood of Park Extension. Accompanying these young people in their daily life marked by complicity and intimidation, Star tackles themes dear to teenagers: identity and friendship.
CANADA | 15 minutes | 2015
Alone in the depths of a concrete labyrinth, a man patrols the empty alleys of an abandoned underground parking. Fired by the anonymous society that employs him, Hector is forced to leave his workplace that he transformed into a refuge over the years. Crushed by this expulsion, he risks everything and breaks away.
CANADA | 13 minutes | 2015
One night, Mathieu, 17, goes under an overpass to do a graffiti.
CANADA | 19 minutes | 2015
An overworked student becomes entangled in a thorny problem while trying to maintain a caring friendship with a young drug addict.
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