Synopsis
Jules is bi. Bi as in bisexual. Bi, even though he’s only slept with women. Bi and ready to try his first experience with Samuel, a friend of friend.
Technical details
- Category
- Fiction
- Genre
- Drama
- Year
- 2023
- Country
- Quebec
- Running time
- 15 min
- Aspect ratio
- 16/9
- Picture
- Colour
- Sound
- Stéréo, 5.1
Cast
Jules Ronfard Samuel Brassard Maxime Genois Laurence Gagné-Frégeau
Crew
- Direction
- Simon Gualtieri
- Screenplay
- Simon gualtieri & Anne-Marie Soucy
- Production
- Mérédith Gonzalez-Bayard
- Direction of photography
- Étienne Dagenais
- Art direction
- Marie-Pier Desfossés
- Editing
- Philippe Chagnon
- Sound design
- Marc Rémillard
- Sound mixing
- Marc Rémillard
- Original score
- Gabriel Ledoux
Stills
Festivals and awards
- 2025
- Courts Mais Trash
- Pink Life QueerFest
- Queer Screen's Mardi Gras Film Festival
- Chennai Rainbow Film Festival
- Americana Film Fest
- RAINBOW VISIONS Film Festival
- 2024
- Pride Film Fest
- Les Rendez-Vous Québec Cinéma
- Vues dans la tête de ...
- Carrousel international du film de Rimouski
- New Orleans French Film Festival
- Pink Apple Queer Film Festival
- Lovers Film Festival
- Flicker Roving Eye Film Festival
- Made Here Film Festival
- Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film FestivalBest Canadian Short Award
- KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival
- Korea Queer Film Festival
- Rooftop Films
- Stamped Film Festival
- Queer-Streifen Regensburg
- PRIDE PICTURES | Queer Film Festival Karlsruhe
- PERLEN Queer Film Festival
- image+nation festival lgbtqueer de montréalAudience Award
- PROUD! Filmfestival - LesbianBiGayTransQueer Film Festival
- Queer Film Festival OldenburgAudience Award
- Way OUT West Film Fest
- Interfilm Berlin – KUKI
- Slovak Queer Film Festival
- Pink Panorama Film Festival
- ZeFestival
- 2023
- Fantasia International Film FestivalUDA AWARD for Best Performance (Jules Ronfard & Samuel Brassard)
- DC Shorts
- Oslo - Fusion International Film Festival
- Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival
- Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie
- Sulmona International Film Festival
- Shorts Not Pants
Filmmaker
Simon Gualtieri
Simon Gualtieri grew up on Île Saint-Jean. After obtaining his bachelor's degree in cinema, he directed clips, corporate videos and video-poems. Friend of a Friend is his first film since he finished university. Strongly inspired by personal narratives, he is currently writing an autofiction short film script.
Filmography
- 2023ami d'amiShort film