WAITING FOR THE STORMS
A FILM BY FRANÇOIS DELISLE
Drama – Quebec – 2024 – 1h34
Color | French, English et Russian | 16:9 | Dolby Atmos
SYNOPSIS
Across various timelines and locations, four characters weave a web of stories that explore human resilience in the face of environmental upheaval. Marie, gripped by obsessive, heart-wrenching questions as a young mother whose child faces a dead-end future, channels her anxiety into passionate activism. Terence, a climate refugee, tells strangers his story in the hopes of finding asylum in the North. McKenzie, a state security officer, breaks the chains of the system to take control of his fate and feel alive at last. Then Kira, a soldier, deserts the army to join a nomadic tribe who are the guardians of humanist values. Waiting for the Storms is a fable about the climate crisis that transcends artistic boundaries to spark a dialogue between our past, present and future.
CAST
Emmanuelle Lussier-Martinez, Victoria Diamond, Dominick Rustam, Robert Naylor, Laurent Lucas, Julian Casey, Rose-Marie Perreault, Masha Bashmakova
CREW
DIRECTOR : François Delisle
SCREENPLAY : François Delisle
PRODUCTION : François Delisle (Films 53/12 inc.)
CINEMATOGRAPHY: François Delisle
PRODUCTION DESIGN : Geneviève Lizotte
SOUND DESIGN : Simon Gervais, Arial Harrod
EDITING : François Delisle
MUSIC : Robert Marcel Lepage
BIOGRAPHIE
Born in Montreal in 1967, François Delisle began his career by making short films between 1987 and 1991. His first feature, Ruth (1994), had critics raving and made a name for the director in Canada and Europe. In 2003, after founding his production company Films 53/12, he produced his second film, Happiness is a Sad Song (2004), which won several awards and brought him international acclaim. His next two films, You (2007) and Twice a Woman (2010), had a similar reception. The Meteor (2013) and Chorus (2015) screened at the Sundance and Berlin festivals. Both films were major international hits, screening at festivals and theaters in many countries around the world. In 2019 and 2020, Delisle directed Cash Nexus, his seventh feature, and then CHSLD, a documentary short about his mother in her twilight years. For over 30 years, François Delisle has been exploring the human condition through a personal, uncompromising cinema.
FILMOGRAPHIE
LE TEMPS I 2024
CHSLD I 2020
CASH NEXUS I 2019
CHORUS I 2015
LE MÉTÉOREI 2013
2 FOIS UNE FEMMEI 2010
TOI I 2007
LE BONHEUR C’EST UNE CHANSON TRISTE I 2004
RUTH I 1994
BEEBE-PLAIN I 1991
DU COUTEAU AU FUSILI 1990
LA MER ON S’EN FOUT! I 1989