Synopsis
June 2010. 11 years old Julia and Raphaëlle are the best at killing time together. Between walking their blind neighbor’s dogs and finishing their music video before Raph returns to Romania, they unconsciously grow apart. This nostalgic semi-autobiographical story recounts the last moments of the inevitable and awkward summer between childhood and adolescence.
Festivals
AWARDS
Youth Award
Festival du film court francophone [Un Poing C'est Court], France, 2024
SELECTIONS
Chicago International Children Film Festival, USA, 2023
FICFA - Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie, Canada, 2023
Festival du film court francophone [Un Poing C'est Court], France, 2024
Rendez-Vous Québec Cinéma, Canada, 2024
Carrousel international du film de Rimouski, Canada, 2024
Festival Filministes, Canada, 2024
FilmFest Dresden, Germany, 2024
Festival Les Percéides, Canada, 2024
Festival Émergence de Montréal, Canada, 2024
Director: Justine Prince
Script: Justine Prince
Cast: Stella Stirano, Paris Maria Farago, Siham Kortas
DOP: Cloé Lafortune
Editing: Alexis Viau
Art direction: Sarah Warren
Sound: Christophe Voyer (Friends of Sound)
Music: Antoine Lamothe
Colorization: William Albu
Delegated production: Ariane Vermeersch
Version
Original: French
Subtitles: English
Format
1:66/5.1 or stereo
DCP, Prores, H264
Justine Prince is a filmmaker from Quebec City whose work mainly explores the representation of genres, nostalgia and childhood. Her approach boils down to deconstructing the codes of femininity in cinema through a language that oscillates between realism and dreaminess. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in cinema from UQAM in 2021, leaving the graduation night with the Grand Prize for her film Charming. A versatile artist, she then directed video clips for artists such as Maryline Léonard, Fredz and Brigitte Boisjoli, and is now working for La Distributrice de Films as a distributor. Justine has just finished her first independent short film, Peaches, funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, and is starting pre-production on her next short film, Lost And Found.
