Louis Carrière, Alexis Martin, Sylvie de Morais, Sébastien Rajotte, Oussama Fares, Louis Girard-Bock
Canada
2022
In French with English subtitles
Coarse language; violence
Featured in:
VIFF Short Forum: Program 5
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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
Patrick Francke-Sirois
Screenwriter
Alec Pronovost
Cinematography
Natan B. Foisy
Editor
Louis Chevalier-Dagenais
Original Music
Alex Lefaivre
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).


