— SYNOPSIS —

Pendant son quart de travail dans une station-service éloignée, une employée de bureau s’aventure dans la nuit pour réparer la voiture cassée d’un homme, ne sachant pas si elle aurait dû lui faire confiance.

During her shift at a remote gas station, a female clerk ventures in the night to fix a man’s broken car, unsure if she should have trusted him.

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— ÉQUIPE/CREW —
Interprètes/Cast : Marianne Fortier & Jean-Sébastien Courchesne

Réalisé et écrit par / Directed & written by : Simon Gionet
Direction de la photographie/Cinematographer : François Herquel
Direction artistique/Artistic Direction : Gabrielle Laurendeau-Martin
Montage/Editor : Simon Gionet
Prise de son/Sound : Pierre Cautain
Mixage/Sound mix : Joey Simas
Conception sonore/Sound design : Marianne Boisvert, Joshua Crosby (assistant)
Étalonnage/Color grading : Max Machado
Musique /Music : Paloma B. Daris

— BIO —
EN: Originally from Quebec City, Simon Gionet is a Montreal-based director, screenwriter and co-founder of Littoral Films. After completing his degree in Film Production at Concordia University, where he studied the viewer’s role in fiction filmmaking, he currently dedicates himself to writing and directing stories that are driven by strong narrative frames where characters reveal their contradictions in the circumstances of their environment.

— FESTIVAL & AWARDS —
– 2020 –
In competition | Festival de Clermont-Ferrand, France
Canadian Grand Prize | REGARD – Festival international de court métrage au Saguenay, Canada
In competition | Tampere Film Festival, Finland
In competition | Palm Springs International ShortFest, USA
In competition | The Norwegian Short Film Festival, Norway
In competition | Brussels Short Film Festival, Belgium
In competition | Indy Shorts International Film Festival, USA
In competition | La Guarimba International Film Festival, Italy
Special Mention Best Director | Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, USA
In competition | Molise Cinema, Italy
In competition | Fantasia Film Festival, Canada
In competition | Odense International Film Festival, Danmark
In competition | Busho Film Festival, Hungary
In competition | Off-courts Trouville, France
Best Fiction Short Award | Minikino Film Week, Indonesia
In competition | Wiz-Art, Ukraine
In competition | Leiden International Short Film Festival, The Netherlands
In competition | Figari Film Fest, Italy
Audience Choice Best Short Film Award | Cinefest Sudbury, Canada
In competition | Indie Street Film Fest, USA
In competition | Sedicicorto Forli International Film Festival, Italy
In competition | Schlingel – International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience, Germany
In competition | Filmets Badalona, Spain
In competition | Bolton Film Festival, England
In competition | Asiana International Short Film Festival, South Korea
In competition | Thessaloniki Short Film Fest, Greece
In competition | Cinémania, Canada
In competition | Courts en scène, France
In competition | Festival du Film Francophone de Tübingen-Stuttgart, Germany
In competition | FICFA, Canada
In competition | Festival du court métrage d’Auch, France
In competition | Visioni Corte Short Film Festival, Italy
In competition | Shorts That Are Not Pants, Canada
In competition | Hamilton Film Festival, Canada

– 2021 –
In competition | Vilnius Int. Short Film Festival, Lithuania
In competition | Plein(s) Écran(s), Online
In competition | Un poing c’est court, France
In competition | Cinema on the Bayou, USA
Jury Prize for Best Narrative Short | San Francisco IndieFest, USA
In competition | Vues dans la tête…, Canada
In competition | Rendez-Vous du Cinéma Québécois et Francophone, Canada
In competition | Festival de films féministes – Filministes, Canada
In competition | Dawson City International Short Film, Canada
In competition | Rendez-Vous Québec Cinéma, Canada
In competition | DeadCENTER Film Festival, USA
In competition | ShorTS International Film Festival, Italy
In competition | KO:SH Film Fest, Albania
In competition | Open-Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, Germany
In competition | Portobello Film Festival, United Kingdom
In presentation | Seoul International Extreme – Short Image & Film Festival / Bloody Nights, South Korea
In competition | New West Film Fest, Canada
In competition | 20minmax International Short Film Festival Ingolstadt, Germany
In competition | Kismet Virtual Short Films Festival, USA
In competition | Festival de cinéma de Saint Paul Trois Châteaux, France
In competition | North Bay Film Festival, Canada
In competition | 15th Film Festival for Women’s rights (FIWOM), South Korea