Rodolphe Saint-Gelais and Thierry Sirois

2024 | Quebec | Animation | 5min 

In a detailed voicemail, a man explains how to use the old lawn tractor to mow the grass on his land without unbalancing the garden.

Rodolphe Saint-Gelais

Thierry Sirois

Raquel Sancinetti

2023 | Quebec | Animation/Documentary | 15 min 

Every week, Raquel (41), a Brazilian immigrant, visits her friend Madeleine (107) in her retirement home in Montreal and tries to convince her to get out of the house. The senior woman refuses: she has nothing else to do outside. Raquel doesn’t give up and finds a way to bring Madeleine with her on a road trip to the sea. The result is a journey that plays with reality and fiction and brings a reflection on life, death and the certainty that there is always something to learn along the way.

Raquel Sancinetti

Raquel is a Brazilian-Canadian filmmaker living in Montreal. With a background in film post-production, she earned her degree in Film Animation at Concordia University in 2013. Since then, she has been working on independent films. Her latest work, the animated documentary short film Madeleine (2023) was selected to 40+ festivals (Hot Docs, Slamdance, Regard) and has won 11 awards, including Best Documentary Short at Edmonton International Film Festival and the Grand Jury Award at Uppsala Short Film Festival, that made the film eligible for the Oscars.

Marielle Dalpé

2023 | Quebec | Animation | 3 min 

Propelled by a jarring, lyrical aesthetic, Aphasia pulls viewers into a disconcerting sensory experience. This striking and unsettling debut professional animated short by Marielle Dalpé is a deeply moving foray into the heart of aphasia—a devastating neurocognitive condition that progressively destroys the ability to speak and understand words, afflicting many people with Alzheimer’s disease.

Marielle Dalpé

A graduate of the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University, Marielle Dalpé has dedicated herself to many different forms of expression, ranging from illustration and animation to multimedia installation and theatrical stage design. Her animation has been shown at a wide array of events in Quebec, France and China. She also created animation based on drawings from two album covers, for the Musical Box’s European and American tour of A Genesis Extravaganza. In 2022, she created projected illustrations and animation for the show Pas perdus | documentaires scéniques by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette and Émile Proulx-Cloutier. Her animated short Aphasia, produced by the NFB in 2023, is her first professional film. Marielle is the daughter of Franco-Ontarian author and actor Jean-Marc Dalpé.

Alexandra Myotte
and Jean-Sébastien Hamel

2023 | Québec | Animation | 11 min 

In an underprivileged suburb, Zoé and her little brother Théo are left to fend for themselves. At the dawn of adolescence, Zoé is a ball of raw anger, haunted by an inner terror. Théo, still a child, flees reality into a fantasy world. On a scorching summer’s day, the two children will have to open up their relationship if they are not to lose each other.

Alexandra Myotte and Jean-Sébastien Hamel

Alexandra Myotte and Jean-Sébastien Hamel are a Montreal-based writer-director duo whose animated shorts have been shown at festivals around the world. Their latest film Pas de titre (2021) won several awards, including Best Canadian Short at EIFF 2021, as well as being nominated for the IRIS 2022 award for Best Animated Short.

Moïa Jobin-Paré

2023 | Quebec | Animation/Experimental | 8 min 

Photographic images, scenes of everyday life. Connected together, a new landscape emerges.

Moïa Jobin-Paré

Filmmaker at the crossroads of animation and photography, she has produced since 2015 a multidisciplinary creation dedicated to the contemporary image and its hybrid forms and which brings together practices she is fond of: moving image, pictorial work, analog and digital technologies and sound. She has developed and honed techniques of scratching silver processed photographs, which she now exhibits and uses to create original short films.

Colin Ludovic Racicot

2023 | Quebec | Animation | 15 min 

In a cold dystopian world, a widowed father defies the authorities trying to instill a sense of wonder into his daughter’s life.

CANADIAN SCREEN AWARDS 2024 WINNER – BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM

Colin Ludovic Racicot

Colin Ludvic Racicot is an animation producer and director. Inspired by his childhood andexperiences as a father, he has been developing “Where the Rabbits Come From” since 2015, makinghis passion for animationflourish. Thefilm’s production, which spans the course of three years,inspired him to start his own animation studio (Studio Niloc) with the desire to create inspiringfilmsthat showcase Quebec artists. Thefilm won the Best Animated Short award at the Canadian ScreenAward in 2024

Alain Fournier

2024 | Quebec | Animation | 8 min

Beaupré the Giant marked his era with his 8’3” height. Gone too young and far from home in 1904, his journey as a phenomenon was only just beginning. In a stunning series of twists and turns, his mummified body will take more than 80 years to find its way home.

Alain Fournier

ALAIN FOURNIER has directed several award-winning short films (fiction and animation) which have been broadcast around the world. His favorite genre is supernatural drama and his films always feature rich atmospheres. GÉANT BEAUPRÉ is his latest animated short, here mixing 3D and stopmotion.