Skip to main content
No Matter the Weather film image; young woman checking on an elderly woman

No Matter the Weather

Beau temps, mauvais temps

VIFF Short Forum

Lafond documents her relationship with her grandmother Renée, who is recovering from a broken ankle.

Director
Featuring

Renée Lafond Matte, Florence Lafond, Monique Lafond

Credits
Country of Origin

Canada

Year

2025

Language

In French with English subtitles

18+
15 min
Animation Documentary Family Relations Shorts Women Directors
Club vidéo

Credits & Director

Producer

Patrick Francke-Sirois, David Francke-Robitaille, Florence Lafond

Screenwriter

Florence Lafond

Cinematography

Louis Turcotte

ANIM

Francis-William Rhéaume, Simon Meloche

Editor

Alexis Viau

Original Music

Antoine Félix Rochette

Florence Lafond headshot

Florence Lafond

Florence Lafond is a screenwriter and director who graduated in cinema from l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Lafond has directed several short films and co-wrote the series Wipe Me Away (2021), which was showcased at Canneséries. With a background in the community sector, Florence’s work typically delves into social cinema, and is often infused with humour and magical realism. She is currently developing her first feature film.

Missing VIFF? Check out what's playing at the VIFF Centre

I Am the Blues

Dir. Daniel Cross
106 min

A musical journey through the swamps of the Louisiana Bayou, the juke joints of the Mississippi Delta and Moonshine soaked BBQs in the North Mississippi Hill Country. Plus: Visits with the last original blues devils!

VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema

Palestine '36

Dir. Annemarie Jacir
118 min

An epic historical drama from director Annemarie Jacir that follows an ensemble of rural villagers who face off against British colonial forces during the 1936 Palestinian revolt.

VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema

Happy Together

Dir. Wong Kar-Wai
96 min

Buenos Aires, the end of the world, 1997. Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung are lovers trying to hash out their on-off relationship in an alien environment.

VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema

The Lives of Others

Dir. Florian Henkel von Donnesmarck
137 min

This month's Talking Pictures film is a masterly Cold War thriller set in East Berlin. An agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives...

VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema

Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other

Dir. Manon Ouimet & Jacob Perlmutter
100 min

This intimate and candid film by a younger husband and wife artist team is a delicate and immensely moving dual portrait of two artists, husband and wife, together and apart, at that point in life when the end casts a shadow over even the sunniest day.

Image: © Manon et Jacob and Final Cut For Real

VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre

Blue Road - The Edna O'Brien Story

Dir. Sinéad O'Shea
99 min

Judging by this candid, funny, passionate biographical documentary, it would have been a wild ride to have been Irish novelist Edna O'Brien, or even to have been in her circle of friends and lovers. Well, for an hour and a half we can pretend we were.

VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre