Canada
2022
No Dialogue
Animal Cruelty
Featured in:
VIFF Short Forum: Program 5
Missing VIFF? Check out what's playing at the VIFF Centre
The Plague
At a water polo camp, Ben is plunged into the deep end of toxic peer pressure. Terrified of incurring his campmates’ wrath, he joins them in tormenting a kid whose skin rash has been branded “the plague”. But then he experiences a breakout of his own...
Saturn Return
This fascinating, highly acclaimed movie is a thinly disguised history of 90s indie rockers Los Planetas, a Granada grunge outfit who cited the Velvet Underground as inspiration. It's one of the best rock movies in years.
The Mother and the Bear
Johnny Ma’s film stars Kim Ho-jung as a Korean woman who flies to Winnipeg when her immigrant daughter is hospitalized there. This crowd-pleaser plays up cultural differences to hilarious effect and offers a touching take on mother-daughter tension.
The Secret Agent
Having run afoul of an influential bureaucrat in Brazil’s military dictatorship circa 1977, Marcelo decamps to Recife to live under an assumed name — but he’ll soon come to understand precisely how rampant the country’s corruption has become.
Credits
Producer
Arnaud Beaudoux
Screenwriter
Arnaud Beaudoux
Cinematography
Arnaud Beaudoux
Editor
Manon Testud
Original Music
Éric Normand
Director
Arnaud Beaudoux
Born in the French countryside, Arnaud Beaudoux landed in Bas-Saint-Laurent, Quebec in 2019 after studying and working in film in France. He works as a sound technician while developing and directing his own short film projects.


