À la vie à l’amor
A FILM BY EMILIE MANNERING
Short Film – Québec – 2022 – 20 min
Color | French with English subtitles | 3:2 | 5.1
SYNOPSIS
Following a hard break up, Cesar feels nothing. On the day of his 30th birthday, he asks one thing and one thing only, from the people he meets: their testimonial on unconditional love in front of his camera. Throughout his interviews the young artist tries to understand a question that haunts him: how to love?
Cast
Lex Garcia, Magally Andrion Del Carmen, Sami Hamzaoui, Taha Hamzaoui, Myriam Magri, Wasiu, Alex Miron Dauphin, Nicole Musoni, Eloisa Cervantes, Horacio Bedoya, Agadir Vazquez, Marco Ledezma, Viviana Medina
Crew
DIRECTOR : Emilie Mannering
WRITER : Lex Garcia and Emilie Mannering
PRODUCERS : Léonie Hurtubise (Colonelle films)
CINEMATOGRAPHY : Simran Dewan
PRODUCTION DESIGN : Geneviève Boiteau
SOUND DESIGN : Ilyaa Ghafouri
EDITING : Myriam Magassouba
MUSIC : Samuel Gougoux
DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY
Emilie Mannering is a self-taught filmmaker from Montreal, Canada. Her award-winning short films have been screened in more than a hundred international film competitions. She was selected by the TIFF Talent Lab and was nominated twice for the Canadian Screen Awards for best Canadian live action short film. Her latest short film Jarvik won the Region Skåne Short Film Award, in Sweden.
FILMOGRAPHY
À LA VIE À L’AMOR I 2022
BRASIER I 2022
JARVIK I 2019
MAHALIA MELTS IN THE RAIN I 2018
STAR I 2016
PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT
TOUS MES PREMIERS AMOURS I Fiction feature film
GAËLLE, LA BELLE I Fiction feature film
LA DYNAMIQUE I Fiction webseries
ÇA PREND PAS LA TCHIASS À PAPINEAU I Fiction webseries
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
NOMINATION CANADIAN SCREEN AWARDS – Best Live Action Short Film, 2023
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), 2022
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (FNC), 2022
Whistler Film Festival, 2022
Festival International du cinéma francophone en Acadie, 2022
Santa Barbara International Film Festival, 2023
Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma (RVQC), 2023
Festival Fondu au Noir, 2023
Festival REGARD, 2023
Gala Prends Ça Court !, 2023 *BELL FUND AND FIP AWARD *REAL BY FAKE AWARD *INTIMACY COORDINATION QUEBEC (ICCQ) AWARD
Aspen ShortFest, 2023
Festival Courts d’un Soir, 2023
Palm Springs ShortFest, 2023
New Directors New Films, 2023
Psarokokalo International Short Film Festival, 2023
CineFest Miskolc, 2023
Short Out Film Festival, 2023
HollyShorts Film Festival, 2023
Off-Courts Trouville, 2023