A film by Geneviève Boiteau
THE BLUE GIRLS OF SUMMER
Fiction · 2024 · Canada, QC · 14 min
Synopsis
Together, Chloé and Clara escape to their childhood cottage. Gazing at the lake, time takes on new dimensions as their perseption of themselves begins to shift. The two will spend the summer observing each other, talking and shouting in the woods; as one seeks to inhabit her body and the other to escape it.
Technical details
- Category
- Fiction
- Year
- 2024
- Country
- Canada, QC
- Running time
- 14 min
- Languages
- French
- Subtitles
- English subtitles
- Aspect ratio
- 16:9
- Picture
- Colour
- Sound
- Stereo, 5.1
Cast
Marianne Fortier Léa Roy
Crew
- Director
- Geneviève Boiteau
- Screenplay
- Geneviève Boiteau (D'après le roman de Mikella Nicol)
- Production
- Mérédith Gonzalez-Bayard & Laurence Wells
- Director of photography
- Mathilde Lytwynuk
- Art direction
- Alexandre Lechasseur
- Editing
- Romain Rabasa
- Sound design
- Lola Mael & Paloma Daris
- Sound mixing
- Isabelle Lussier
- Sound
- Lola Mael
- Music
- Lola Mael
Stills
Festivals and awards
- 2025
- Les Rendez-Vous Québec Cinéma
- Vues dans la tête de ...
- Festival Émergence de Montréal
- 2024
- DC Shorts
- Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec
- Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival
- Festival International du Cinéma en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
- Festival CINEMANIA · Montréal
- Yellowknife International Film Festival
Filmmaker
Geneviève Boiteau
A Quebec City native, Geneviève has been working professionally as a production designer since obtaining a bachelor's degree in film production at Concordia University in 2018. As a director, Geneviève devotes herself to fiction, first with Pissenlit (2018) and now with Les filles bleues de l'été (2023).