Alors que sa journée de travail s'achève, un employé de bureau de 45 ans croise le regard énigmatique d'un chimpanzé, initiant un échange silencieux qui le pousse à prendre une décision irréversible.

Director: Vincent René-Lortie

Written by: Vincent René-Lortie & Charles-Alexis Desgagnés

Cast: Charles-Alexis Desgagnés

DOP: Alexandre Nour

Editing: Thomas Bellefleur

Sound: Nataq Huault

Set design: Geneviève Boiteau

Music: Wilhelm Brandl

Choreography: Charles-Alexis Desgagnés

Production: Samuel Caron - Telescope Films

AWARDS

Best Director - FuoriFormato - Stories We Dance, Italy, 2025

Audience Award - FuoriFormato - Stories We Dance, Italy, 2025

Audience Award - ZED Festival Internazionale Videodanza, Italy, 2025

Jury Special Mention - LES PERCÉIDES - Festival international de cinéma et d'art de Percé, Canada, 2025

Best Quebec Short Film - Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec, Canada, 2025

Best of the Fest - Mignolo International Screendance Film Festival, USA, 2025

La Vague Award for Best Canadian Short Film- Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie - FICFA, Canada, 2025

Best Dance Film - Riurau Dansa Film Festival, Spain, 2025

Best Costumes / Characterization- Riurau Dansa Film Festival, Spain, 2025

Baleària Audience Award (ex aequo) - Riurau Dansa Film Festival, Spain, 2025

Best Interpretation - Schools Jury - InShadow, Portugal, 2025

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SPECIAL SCREENINGS

Regard en prolongation X La Fabrique Culturelle / Télé-Québec, web, 2025

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SELECTIONS

Slamdance, USA, 2025 (World Premiere)

Festival Regard, Canada, 2025

Busan International Short Film Festival, South Korea, 2025

Flatpack Festival, United Kingdom, 2025

FuoriFormato - Stories We Dance, Italy, 2025

ZED Festival Internazionale Videodanza, Italy, 2025

Fantasia Film Festival, Canada, 2025

RIFF – R.E.D. International Dance Art & Film Festival, Norway, 2025

LES PERCÉIDES - Festival international de cinéma et d'art de Percé, Canada, 2025

Festival du Film de Knowlton, Canada, 2025

Off Courts Trouville, France, 2025

Festival Quartiers Danses, Canada, 2025

Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec, Canada, 2025

.MOV, Italy, 2025

Calgary International Film Festival, Canada, 2025

Thessaloniki Cinedance International, Greece, 2025

Fine Line Film Fest, Serbia, 2025

IndieCork Film Festival, Ireland, 2025

Mignolo International Screendance Film Festival, USA, 2025

Chilliwack Independent Film Festival, Canada, 2025

Civitanova Film Festival, Italy, 2025

Festival {te}che, Italy, 2025

Interfilm Berlin, Germany, 2025

IMMAGI]NA Film Festival, Italy, 2025

Dance on Screen Film Festival, Austria, 2025

InShadow, Portugal, 2025

Grain Urbain, France, 2025

Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie - FICFA, Canada, 2025

Choreoscope Barcelona Dance Film Festival, Spain, 2025

Riurau Dansa Film Festival, Spain, 2025

Leuven International Short Film Festival, Belgium, 2025