La déesse des mouches à feu

Name: La déesse des mouches à feu
Start: 2021-11-03
Location: La Cinémathèque québécoise

Location

Main screening room

Date

November 3rd, 2021

Admission

13 +

Duration

105 min

Cycle

With CINEMANIA

In collaboration with the Festival CINEMANIA, we are showcasing four fiction films that delve into France's rich history and heritage. Each film also features a female protagonist at the heart of its narrative.

Winner of the Best Movie and Best Director awards at the 2021 Gala Québec Cinéma

Goddess of the Fireflies

Directed by

Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette

Language

VOF

Actors

Kelly Depeault, Caroline Néron, Normand D’Amour

Origins

Quebec

Year

2021

Duration

105 min

Genre

Drama, Coming-of-Age

Rating

13 +

Format

Digital

Synopsis

As her parents are divorcing, a shy teenager falls in with the delinquents at her high school and gets a taste of artificial paradise. Based on the novel by Geneviève Pettersen.

Trailer in original french version

Awards

Quebec City International Film Festival - 2020

Grand Jury Prize - Official Competition - Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette

Gala Québec Cinema - 2021

Best movie
Best Director
Best Supporting Actress
Young Newcomer of the Year
Best casting
Best editing
Best Hairstyling

Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette

Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette is a director and writer, known for* **Inch'Allah*** (2012), ***Prends-moi ***(2014) and ***La déesse des mouches à feu*** (2020). IMDb.

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About the movie

Full Cast

Kelly Depeault : Catherine
Caroline Néron : Mother
Normand D'Amour : Father
Éléonore Loiselle : Marie-Ève
Robin L'Houmeau : Keven Bilodeau
Antoine DesRochers : Pascal
Noah Parker : Fred
Marine Johnson : Mélanie Belley
Zeneb Blanchet : Nadine
Ambre Jabrane : Vanessa
Laurence Deschênes : Véronique Dubois
Maxime Gibeault : Jean-Simon
Philippe Hartmann : Condo's owner
Michael Kelly : Mélanie's father
Emmanuel Schwartz : Martial

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Filmography

2022 Chien blanc
2021 La déesse des mouches à feu
2017 Je me souviens - Le micro
2017 Ma fille n'est pas à vendre
2015 Le Plancher des vaches
2014 Prends-moi
2012 Sept heures trois fois par année
2012 Inch'Allah
2012 Ina Litovski
2010 Se souvenir des cendres - Regards sur Incendies
2010 Les Voix Humaines
2009 Les petits géants
2007 Tap-Tap
2007 Le ring
2006 Nikan (1 episode)
2004Les mains du monde

À propos de l'autrice

Biography

Geneviève Pettersen is a Canadian writer from Quebec. Her debut novel La déesse des mouches à feu was published in 2014. The novel won the Grand Prix littéraire Archambault in 2015, and its English translation by Neil Smith, The Goddess of Fireflies, was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for French to English translation at the 2016 Governor General's Awards. Prior to the publication of La déesse des mouches à feu, she was known for "Madame Chose", a lifestyle and food blog and column she wrote for La Presse. In 2014, she published Vie et mort du couple : du dating au divorce, de Madame Chose, a collection of her Madame Chose writing about relationships. Wikipedia.

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