MOTHERS & MONSTERS
A FILM BY EDITH JORISCH
*CANADIEN SCREEN AWARD NOMINEE 2024 - BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM *
Short Film – Québec – 2023 – 15 min
Color | No dialogue | 1.56 | 5.1
SYNOPSIS
For a very special celebration, a host-mother has gathered mothers and their perfect children for a great banquet. Orchestrated by the host-mother, the banquet is suddenly disrupted by strange disturbances. What is hiding behind the scenes of this perfect ideal world? Mothers and Monsters is a surrealist satire about modern-day maternity and the ideal of the family at a time where capitalism has reached its apex.
Cast
Mylène Mackay, Aline Winant, Juliette Gariépy, Sarah Ouimet, Ines Defossé, Noémie Lanoix, Arielle Fournier
Crew
DIRECTOR : Edith Jorisch
WRITER : Edith Jorisch
PRODUCERS : Patrick Francke-Sirois and Isabelle Grignon-Francke (Club Vidéo)
CINEMATOGRAPHY : Olivier Gossot
PRODUCTION DESIGN : Frédérique B Ste-Marie
SOUND DESIGN : Samuel Thibodeau
EDITING : Louis Chevalier-Dagenais
DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY
Edith Jorisch is a Montreal-based screenwriter and director who practices her craft in film and television, both documentary and fiction. Her work offers a human, bittersweet perspective on the vices of our contemporary society.
In 2017, Jorisch’s short film AWE, stood out for its hybrid style, skilfully flirting between fiction and documentary. Tibbits Hill, is an allegorical tale about music as an anti-militarist weapon. Mothers & Monsters is her newest tale on our modern society.
FILMOGRAPHY
MOTHERS & MONSTERS I 2023
PLASTISAPIENS I 2021 (virtual reality)
TIBBITS HILL I 2021
AWE I 2017
L’HÉRITIER I 2017
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), 2023
Sitges Film Festival, 2023
Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF), 2023
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (FNC), 2023 *AUDIENCE AWARD
Durham Region Film Festival, 2023
El Gouna International Film Festival, 2023
FIFF de Tübingen Stuttgart, 2023 *SPECIAL JURY MENTION
Chiliwack Independent Film Festival, 2023
BOGOSHORTS Film Festival, 2023
Festival International du Cinéma francophone en Acadie (FICFA), 2023
Melbourne Underground Film Festival, 2023
Festival International du Film de Baie-Comeau, 2024
Festival REGARD, 2024 *SPECIAL MENTION – FIPRESCI INTERNATIONAL CRITICS’ AWARD
Festival Court d’un Soir, 2024 *COUP DE COEUR – QUEBEC SHORT FILM
Rendez-Vous Québec Cinéma (RVQC), 2024 *BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Grand Tournoi du Court Métrage – Québec Cinéma, 2024 *SODEC PRIX DES PAIRS AWARD *TELEFILM CANADA AWARD
FlickerFest International Film Festival, 2024
Glasgow Short Film Festival, 2024
Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, 2024
Costa Rica International Film Festival, 2024
Durban International Film Festival, 2024
Vienna Shorts, 2024
Palm Springs ShortFest, 2024
Vaughan International Film Festival, 2024
Festival du Film Maudit 2.0, 2024
Fantastic Zagreb Film Festival, 2024
HollyShorts, 2024
Galician Freaky Film Festival, 2024
L’Étrange Festival, 2024
Festival Court Métrange, 2024
Filmoramax, 2024
Festival du Film de Knowlton, 2024
FestiFilm de la Beauce, 2024
Off-Courts Trouville, 2024
Fantasy FilmFest, 2024
Edmonton International Film Festival, 2024
Calgary International Film Festival, 2024
MOTELX – Lisbon International Horror Film Festival, 2024
Ottawa Film Festival, 2024
Shorts México, 2024