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Pro Pool film image, director Alec Pronovost

Pro Pool

Piscine pro

Charles-Olivier, a recent graduate who had majored in Viking history, begins a new job at a pool shop.

 

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Director
Cast

Louis Carrière, Alexis Martin, Sylvie de Morais, Sébastien Rajotte, Oussama Fares, Louis Girard-Bock

Credits
Country of Origin

Canada

Year

2022

Language

In French with English subtitles

Film Contact
Content Warning

Coarse language; violence

PG
8 min

Featured in:

Heartbeat of a Nation film image

VIFF Short Forum: Program 5

Growing up is hard to do, often harder as we get older.

 

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Agent of Happiness

Dir. Arun Bhattarai & Dorottya Zurbó
94 min

In the Kingdom of Bhutan, the government makes a point of asking citizens about their level of contentment. This droll, poetical doc follows census-taker Amber as he takes villagers through the 148-question survey and contemplates his own life too.

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Bird

Dir. Andrea Arnold
119 min

In Andrea Arnold's latest, 12-year-old Bailey (Nykiya Adams) lives in a squat near the English seaside. Neglected by her chaotic father (Barry Keoghan), she pursues an adventure with a magnetic stranger named Bird (Franz Rogowski).

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Arthur Erickson: Beauty Between the Lines

Dir. Ryan Mah & Danny Berish
80 min

This new documentary offers the most complete account so far of the life and work of Canada's greatest architect, the man responsible for several of the finest buildings in Vancouver -- including the Museum of Anthropology and the SFU Campus.

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Black Box Diaries

Dir. Shiori Ito
104 min

A first person true crime story, Shiori Ito's Black Box Dairies chronicles her long, difficult campaign to hold a veteran journalist (a friend of the Prime Minister) to account for rape.

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Feven Kidane Quartet: Music Inspired by the Film Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat + Film Screening

Dir. Johan Grimonprez
161 min

Trumpeter Feven Kidane, with Quincy Mayes on keys, Bernie Arai on drums, and Milo Johnson on bass, present a special set of original music inspired by Johan Grimonprez's brilliant essay film on the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, Jazz, and the Cold War.

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Ghost Cat Anzu

Dir. Yôko Kuno & Nobuhiro Yamashita
94 min

When fifth grader Karin is deposited with her grandfather for the summer she takes out her unhappiness on his giant talking cat, Anzu -- who looks out for her even so. This wildly original anime riffs on Spirited Away with pleasing irreverence. Rated: PG.

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Credits

Producer

Patrick Francke-Sirois

Screenwriter

Alec Pronovost

Cinematography

Natan B. Foisy

Editor

Louis Chevalier-Dagenais

Original Music

Alex Lefaivre

Director

Alec Pronovost headshot, Pro Pool director

Alec Pronovost

Director and writer Alec Pronovost is the creator behind the series The Killing as well as the short films Jeep Boys (2020), Sainte Marie-Josée part en croisade (2020), and Tony Speed (2018).