Synopsis
On the eve of an important synchronized swimming competition, Mathilde is drowning in glitter and pressure. She must choose between shining for others or blossoming for herself.
Technical details
- Category
- Fiction
- Year
- 2025
- Country
- Canada, QC
- Running time
- 14 min
- Languages
- French
- Subtitles
- English subtitles
- Aspect ratio
- 2:1
- Picture
- Colour
- Sound
- Stereo, 5.1
Cast
Emilie Savaria-Carrière Mia Rose Langevin Dany Placard Caroline Lavigne Rosalie Fortier
Crew
- Direction
- Marilou Caravecchia-Pelletier
- Screenplay
- Marilou Caravecchia-Pelletier
- Production
- Raphaëlle Brissette (Voyelles Films)
- Director of photography
- Emile Desroches-L.
- Montage
- Philippe Lefebvre
- Art direction
- Alex Guèvremont
- Sound design
- Les copains du son
- Sound mixing
- Christophe Voyer
- Sound
- Stephen De Oliveira
- Music
- Marc-Antoine Barbier
Stills
Festivals and awards
- 2026
- Positively Different Short Film Festival
- BCN Sports Film Festival
- BUFF Malmö Film Festival
- The Lake County Film Festival
- Festival Filministes
- Festival du film canadien de Dieppe
- Festival du film francophone de Vienne
- Desertscape International Film Festival
- Cleveland International Film Festival
- RIGA Intenrational Short Film Festival 2ANNAS
- FilmFest Dresden
- Vues du Québec
- Ennesimo Film Festival
- Made Here Film Festival
- IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival
- Festival Émergence de Montréal
- 2025
- Festival REGARD
- Les Percéïdes
- Off-Courts Trouville
- St John's International Women's Film Festival
- Images en vues
- Festival International du Film d'Éducation
Filmmaker
Marilou Caravecchia-Pelletier
Montreal-born, Marilou Caravecchia-Pelletier is a Quebec screenwriter and director whose works explore family dynamics with finesse and sensitivity. Alongside her work as a filmmaker, she has also built a strong career as a first assistant director (Falcon Lake - Charlotte Le Bon, Simo - Aziz Zoromba), a role that continuously shapes and refines her cinematic approach. Her first short film, Harevan, won the Best Screenplay award at UQAM and was screened at various festivals, including the prestigious Camerimage in Poland. In 2022, she explored the complex dynamics of mother-daughter relationships with her short film Rose blanche (Canadian Film Fest, Cinemania, Cinema on the Bayou, RVQC). Marilou is drawn to details, small things, fragile beginnings, first steps and sparks that precede explosion. Today, she releases her third short fiction film, a human, gentle, and sparkling work: Siren.
Filmography
- 2022Rose blancheShort film
- 2017HarevanShort film
