Synopsis
Intrigued and inspired by an unexpected encounter with an older neighbour, Leila spends her last days in the suburbs exploring her identity through nude photography. As she faces her transition to adulthood, Leila is confronted with her changing relationship to her best friend Cassy.
Technical details
- Category
- Fiction
- Genre
- Drama
- Year
- 2022
- Country
- Quebec
- Running time
- 16 min
- Languages
- French
- Aspect ratio
- 16/9
- Picture
- Colour
- Sound
- Stéréo, 5.1
Cast
Nahéma Ricci Chanel Mings Nathalie Gascon
Crew
- Direction
- Nancy Pettinicchio
- Screenplay
- Nancy Pettinicchio
- Production
- Mérédith GonzalezBayard
- Direction of photography
- Alexandre Nour Desjardins
- Art direction
- Paula Bourgie
- Editing
- Myriam Magassouba
- Sound design
- David Stanley Pierre
- Original score
- Ilyaa Ghafouri
Stills
Festivals and awards
- 2023
- Cinema on the Bayou
- Les Rendez-Vous Québec Cinéma
- Carrousel international du film de Rimouski
- Roze Filmdagen : Amsterdam LGBTQ Film Festival
- Italian Contemporary Film Festival Montréal
- Ciné-Quartier Verdun
- accordi@DISACCORDI Naples
- 2022
- Talent tout court de Téléfilm Canada – Clermont-Ferrand
- Festival REGARD
- Gala Prends ça court!
- Festival Filministes
- Palm Springs International Shortfest
- Off-Courts Trouville
- Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec
- Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival
- Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie
- Kyiv International Short Film Festival
- image+nation festival lgbtqueer de montréal
- LemOn Film Festival
- Whistler Film Festival
Filmmaker
Nancy Pettinicchio
Nancy Pettinicchio is an Italian-Canadian non-binary filmmaker from Tiohtià:ke/Montréal exploring topics surrounding gender, mental and physical health, and coming of age. Their first short film FALENA (2022) premiered internationally at the Palm Springs ShortFest, screened in festivals across Canada, the United States, and Europe, and won the image+nation 2022 Best Québec Short Film award. Nancy's second short film and first documentary, IT WILL ALWAYS END IN THE END (2024), explores HIV art activism in Québec. Thanks to support from the Canada Council for the Arts, Nancy is currently writing their debut feature film, PER LA GRAZIA DI DIO.
Filmography
- 2025It Will Always End in the End
- 2022Falena
