
A film by Garance Chagnon-Grégoire
AN AFTERNOON PUNCH-UP
Fiction · 2024 · Canada, QC · 15 min

Synopsis
It's summer of 2002, and moving day is fast approaching for the Bouchard-Beauregard family. While Sophie, a devoted wife and mother, struggles to control the chaos in the house, a televised boxing match creates pandemonium within the already dysfunctional family.
Technical details
- Category
- Fiction
- Year
- 2024
- Country
- Canada, QC
- Running time
- 15 min
- Languages
- French
- Subtitles
- English subtitles
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39:1
- Picture
- Colour
- Sound
- Stéréo, 5.1
Cast
Julie Roussel Louis Champagne Léokim Beaumier-Lépine Simone Laperle Rose-Anne Déry
Crew
- Direction
- Garance Chagnon-Grégoire
- Screenplay
- Grance Chagnon-Grégoire
- Production
- Sophie Ricard-Harvey & Charlotte Beaudoin-Poisson (Ô Films)
- Directoir of photography
- Etienne Dagenais
- Art direction
- Ludovic Dufresne
- Editing
- Aube Foglia
- Sound design
- Sylvain Bellemare
- Sound mixing
- Bernard Gariépy Strobl
- Sound
- Laurent Ouellette
Stills
Festivals and awards
- 2026
- The Lake County Film Festival
- Desertscape International Film Festival
- 2025
- Cinema on the Bayou
- Les Rendez-Vous Québec Cinéma
- Festival Filministes
- Les Percéïdes
- Festival de films de Knowlton
- Festival du film court de Dinan
- Festival du cinéma québécois de Biscarosse
- 2024
- Fantasia International Film Festival
- Festival SPASM
- Cinémental
- Festival Créature de Memphrémagog
- FICFA · Moncton
- Images en vues
Filmmaker

Garance Chagnon-Grégoire
After completing film studies at UQAM, Garance Chagnon-Grégoire directed her first short film, Tequila Grapefruit, and co-directed Leading The Waves, an intimate documentary about her grandfather, André Chagnon, founder of Videotron. She went on to direct two short films, The Weenies and An Afternoon Punch-Up, in 2023. She has also worked as a props master on movie sets.
Filmography
- 2024Un après-midi à se fesser dessus
- 2023Les rotteuses
- 2021En tête de ligne
- 2017Téquila pamplemousse