Canadian Premiere
Zoé is a captive zombie, whose vague memories of the past motivate her desire for freedom.
Supported by
Community Partner
Nisha Coleman, Pierre-Luc Fontaine
Canada
2024
No Dialogue
Graphic violence
Indigenous & Community Access
Indigenous Access Tickets Community Access Tickets Ticket Donation Requests
Credits & Director
Producer
Johannie Deschambault, Jean-Sébastien Beaudoin Gagnon
Screenwriter
Rémi St-Michel
Cinematography
François Messier-Rheault
Editor
Rémi St-Michel
Original Music
Peter Venne
Art Director
Clélia Brissaud
Rémi St-Michel
Rémi St-Michel has directed several short films including The Deer (Le Chevreuil), Little Brother (Petit-Frère) and HeartBomb (Une Bombe au Coeur). He released his first feature film, Before We Explode (Avant Qu’on Explose), in 2019. Zoé is his most recent project.
Missing VIFF? Check out what's playing at the VIFF Centre
Dreams
The third installment in the Sex/Dreams/Love trilogy is another rich, absorbing tale. 17-year-old Johanne writes a confessional about her flirtation with a (female) teacher. But the writing is too good to stay private...
Transit
Trust the director of Phoenix and Barbara to re-imagine a WWII romantic intrigue into something unsettlingly contemporary. With occupying forces closing in, a German refugee (Franz Rogowski) assumes a dead writer's identity and flees to Marseille.
Riefenstahl
This fascinating documentary is a complex, sad portrait of Adolf Hitler's favourite filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl, whose 1938 film Olympia is deemed a masterpiece in some circles, and who spent her last half century disowning her Nazi sympathies.
Afire
Christian Petzold (Transit; Phoenix) returns with this multilayered, serio-comic portrait of a sulky writer struggling with his novel at a friend's summer cottage. An impending deadline guarantees he'll be miserable but not that he'll get any work done.
Image: © Marco Krüger-Schramm
Neon Bull
Wild, sensual and utterly transporting, Brazilian writer-director Gabriel Mascaro's second fiction feature unfolds within the world of the vaquejada, a traditional exhibition sport in which cowboys try to pull bulls to the ground by their tails.
August Winds
A film of quietly unfolding sensual pleasure: Shirley (Dandara de Morais), a gorgeous young woman, is in the countryside taking care of her aging grandmother when her diver boyfriend discovers a skull in the ocean. Then a corpse washes ashore...