Synopsis
Lena, a 7-year-old black girl receives a drawing mocking her hair. With the help of her big sister, they will spend the evening trying to make her beautiful like her classmates.
Technical details
- Category
- Fiction
- Genre
- Drama
- Year
- 2022
- Country
- Quebec
- Running time
- 9 min
- Picture
- Colour
- Sound
- Stéréo, 5.1
Cast
Vanina Epassy Michmahel Aubourg Anaya Neiderer Julia Lavoie
Crew
- Direction
- Nadia Louis-Desmarchais
- Screenplay
- Nadia Louis-Desmarchais
- Production
- Laura Kamugisha
- Direction of photography
- Clémentine Martin
- Art direction
- Alexia Roc
- Editing
- Miryam Charles
- Sound design
- Miryam Charles
- Sound mixing
- Christophe Voyer
- Original score
- Miryam Charles & Didier Archmbault
Stills
Festivals and awards
- 2022
- Atlantic International Film Festival
- Tirana International Film Festival
- Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
Filmmaker
Nadia Louis-Desmarchais
Nadia Louis-Desmarchais is a young afro descendant director who aspires to give a voice to those we too often refuse to hear. She directed the short films “Tell me all about my body” and the controversial “Rated X”, official selection of the Regard festival, RVQC Festival as well as the Filministes Festival. Her first fiction short film "Troubled Water" showcased at the FNC Film Festival, VGIK International Student Film Festival. She is currently writing her first medium-length documentary" Black and White", which is supported by SODEC. Nadia is also developing her first fiction webserie ‘’The adoption constellation’’ in collaboration with TOU.TV. Putting forward a unique and deep sensitivity in her artistic approach, Nadia is eager to get into the professional sphere to write and carry out intimate scenarios which, according to her, give the cinema its universal power.
Filmography
- 2022nid d'oiseauShort film
- 2021Dors-tuShort film
- 2021urbanShort film
- 2019rated xShort film
- 2019raconte-moi mon corpsShort film
