Completed - FRENCH - Family, First film, Drama - 35 minutes
Suffering, physically diminished, Luc, a retired pediatrician, has decided to end his life. He asks his son to end his days in privacy.
Year of production : 2021 Director(s) : Benoit Brière BRIÈRE Writer(s) : Jean-françois CHICOINE Cast : Benoit BRIÈRE, Marcel SABOURIN, Élise GUIBAULT, Dorothée BERRYMAN Producer(s) : Paul CADIEUX, Benoit BRIÈRE, Jean-françois CHICOINE, Jean-martin BISSON
Montreal, a multigenerational house loaded with books, paintings and knick-knacks, so many memories revived on the evening of one last Christmas Eve. Luc, a retired pediatrician and teacher in his eighties, lives with his son François, a pediatrician like his father, and François' wife Esther. Suffering and physically diminished, the old man has now decided to end his life. In a corrosive and sensitive verbal joust, he asks his son to end his days in privacy. The son then takes him on an existential and circus-like journey through the streets of Montreal where the father is supposed to go to his final destination, a hospital where he will be confronted with his ultimate wish: the choice between the finality of medical aid to die or a return to square one, the small pleasures of what remains of his life, alive.
Country(ies) : CANADA
Les Percéides 2021 (Official Selection)Festival du Cinéma International en Abitibi-Témiscamingue 2021 (Official Selection)Festival Images en vues 2021 (Official Selection)Niagara Falls International Short Film Festival 2021 (Best Canadian Short Award)Festival cinéma du monde de Sherbrooke 2022 (Official Selection)Rendez-Vous Québec Cinéma 2022 (Official Selection)Festival du Film de l'Outaouais 2022 (Official Selection)Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec 2022 (Official Selection)Festival du cinéma québécois de Biscarrosse 2022 (Official Selection)