Synopsis
As the day ends for a 45-year-old office worker, he encounters the mysterious gaze of a chimpanzee, sparking a silent exchange that prompts him to make an irreversible decision.
Festivals
AWARDS
Best Director - FuoriFormato - Stories We Dance, Italy, 2025
Audience Award - FuoriFormato - Stories We Dance, Italy, 2025
Audience Award - ZED Festival Internazionale Videodanza, Italy, 2025
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Regard en prolongation X La Fabrique Culturelle / Télé-Québec, web, 2025
SELECTIONS
Slamdance, USA, 2025 (World Premiere)
Festival Regard, Canada, 2025
Busan International Short Film Festival, South Korea, 2025
Flatpack Festival, United Kingdom, 2025
FuoriFormato - Stories We Dance, Italy, 2025
ZED Festival Internazionale Videodanza, Italy, 2025
Fantasia Film Festival, Canada, 2025
RIFF – R.E.D. International Dance Art & Film Festival, Norway, 2025
Director: Vincent René-Lortie
Written by: Vincent René-Lortie & Charles-Alexis Desgagnés
Cast: Charles-Alexis Desgagnés
DOP: Akexandre Nour
Editing: Thomas Bellefleur
Sound: Nataq Huault
Set design: Geneviève Boiteau
Music: Wilhelm Brandl
Choreography: Charles-Alexis Desgagnés
Production: Samuel Caron - Telescope Films
Version
Original: No dialogues
Format
1:.66 / stereo or 5.1
16mm, ProRes, DCP
Vincent René-Lortie is a Canadian film director and screenwriter known for his grounded, dreamlike narratives. His work is a testament to purposeful and deeply personal storytelling, intended to make his audience reflect on themes such as mental health and childhood. He is a graduate of Montreal’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, and is a member of the Young Guns ’20 class, an award ceremony dedicated to creatives under 30 from across the globe. Invincible (2022), his debut narrative short, has been nominated at the 96th Academy Awards® for Best Live Action Short Film and won the Special Jury Prize at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival. Most recently, Vincent has been focusing on bringing to life the experimental film A Dying Tree (2024), and is developing his first feature film, You Were Always An Island.
