Synopsis
Après avoir fui un rituel d'initiation brutal au cœur de la forêt, un jeune garde-chasse se trouve non seulement traqué par ses collègues, mais aussi par une immense créature de légende.When a rookie forest ranger flees into the Quebec wilderness to escape a brutal hazing ritual, he finds himself hunted not only by his peers, but by a towering creature of folklore stalking him through the woods.
Technical details
- Category
- Fiction
- Year
- 2026
- Country
- Canada, QC
- Running time
- 17 min
- Languages
- French
- Subtitles
- English subtitles
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39
- Picture
- Colour
- Sound
- Stéréo, 5.1
Cast
Lennikim Robert Naylor Pierre-Luc Lafontaine Emmanuel Schwartz
Crew
- Direction
- Frédéric Chalté
- Screenplay
- Rémi Dufresne
- Production
- Irène Bessone et Jeanne-Marie Poulain (art et essai)
- Director of photography
- Gabrielle Bergeron-Leduc
- Art direction
- Sarah Warren
- Editing
- Charles Boisseau
- Sound design
- Les copains du son
- Sound mixing
- Christophe Voyer
- Music
- Victor Pitoiset
Stills
Festivals and awards
- 2026
- Fantasia International Film Festival
- Off-Courts Trouville
Filmmaker
Frédéric Chalté
A 2016 graduate in film from UQÀM, Frédéric Chalté has specialized in short-form horror, drawing inspiration as much from folklore as from the contemporary codes of genre cinema. His films, selected and awarded on the international festival circuit, creatively revisit the figures of the monster, the witch, and ritual, combining cultural grounding with a nightmarish atmosphere. Influenced by European horror cinema from the 1960s to the 1980s, he approaches each project as a sensory exploration of the macabre and the supernatural. Among his notable works are The Babysitter, No One Will Ever Believe You, and Le otto dita della morte. La Hère, his fifth short film, continues this approach by reimagining a myth from Quebec folklore, affirming his commitment to bringing Quebecois genre cinema to the international stage.
Filmography
- 2025La hère
- 2020Vicious Are The Ways of A Witch
- 2018No One Will Ever Believe You
- 2018Le otto dita della morte
- 2016The Babysitter
