A film by Nancy Pettinicchio
IT WILL ALWAYS END IN THE END
Documentary · 2025 · Canada, QC · 16 min
Synopsis
Gabriel Drolet-Maguire, a queer fashion designer living in Montréal, takes us into their artistic world to speak vulnerably about their HIV diagnosis and the process of acceptance that led them to reach out to the HIV-positive community. IT WILL ALWAYS END IN THE END is a timely and hopeful look at past and present day HIV activism in Quebec.
Technical details
- Category
- Documentary
- Year
- 2025
- Country
- Canada, QC
- Running time
- 16 min
- Languages
- French
- Subtitles
- English subtitles
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85
- Picture
- Colour
- Sound
- Stereo, 5.1
Cast
Gabriel Drolet-Maguire Jacques Gélinas Guillaume Tremblay-Gallant Sisi Superstar
Crew
- Directing
- Nancy Pettinicchio
- Production
- Nancy Pettinicchio (Portail VIH/SIDA du Québec)
- Director of photography
- Catherine Lefebvre
- Editing
- Jessie Posthumus
- Animation
- Jessie Posthumus
- Art direction
- Yucca
- Sound design
- Paloma Daris
- Sound mixing
- Émilie Blaise
- Sound
- Paloma Daris
- Music
- Paloma Daris
Stills
Festivals and awards
- 2026
- Les Rendez-Vous Québec Cinéma
- Porto Femme - International Film Festival
- KASHISH Pride Film Festival
- Made Here Film Festival
- Festival Émergence de Montréal
- 2025
- Festival REGARD
- Festival Courts d'un soir
- RAINBOW VISIONS Film Festival
- Palm Springs International ShortfestHonorable Mention - Best LGBTQ+ Short
- Cinema sous les étoiles
- Lunenburg Doc Fest
- Calgary International Film Festival
- Oslo - Fusion International Film Festival
- Court & Queer
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
