International Feature Competition
Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
Swiss Premiere
Ariane Louis-Seize
Canada
YES TO NEURODIVERGENT VAMPIRES
2023, 91'
VO. French
ST. English
With
Sarah Montpetit, Félix-Antoine Bénard, Steve Laplante
"You can't feed on words alone! You have your fangs, you can do it!". Sacha is a humanist vampire, too sensitive to kill people. She comes across a lonely young man. How will this unlikely encounter pan out?
"What was this doing in your room? Food is dangerous! It could kill you!". In her first feature, the filmmaker creates a pitch-black comedy with a tender, humanist heart. Sasha is a delightful young vampire who looks much younger than her years. To the dismay of her family, death seems to arouse her compassion rather than her hunger. The only solution is bags of blood! Then, she meets Paul, a sad young man, mocked by everyone at school, with no will to live. An homage to genre films, an ode to neurodiversity, and an absolute gem with its own tailor-made soundtrack.
Gaëlle Vidalie
Gaëlle Vidalie
Direction
Ariane Louis-Seize
Screenplay
Ariane Louis-Seize, Christine Doyon
Image
Shawn Pavlin
Editing
Stéphane Lafleur
Sound
Thierry Bourgault D'Amico, Marie-Pierre Grenier, Simon Gervais, Luc Boudrias
Music
Pierre-Philippe Côté
Production
Art et Essai (Jeanne-marie Poulain, Line Sander Egede)
With
Sarah Montpetit, Félix-Antoine Bénard, Steve Laplante, Sophie Cadieux, Marie Brassard, Marc Beaupré, Noémie O'Farrell, Patrick Hivon
World sales
H264
Ariane Louis-Seize
1986, Canada
Prior works
2022, Rencontres nocturnes silencieuses (short movie) 2020, Comme une comète (short movie)
2019, Les profondeurs (short movie)
2018, Les petites vagues (short movie)
2019, Rituels (short movie)
2016, La peau sauvage (short movie)
2016, D'encre et de sang (screenwriter)
2013, À l'horizon (screenwriter)
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