Summer Vampires

A road trip through rural Québec unites Mathilde and a teen searching for his mother, leading to friendship and blurred lines between past and present.

The homies are back from a camping trip and wonder if they've missed out on the end of the world. Mixing animation and live action, the film, shot during confinement in February 2021, witnesses the stillness of a dead city and the pursuit of normality despite unfavourable odds.

Following a traumatic event at her grandparents' house, 10-year-old Rose embarks on an obsessive quest to see and understand the forbidden world of adults by herself.

Mist. Dust. A bowling alley in the crosshair of a thunderstorm. A pregnant woman, a businessman and a widower find shelter in its midst. Pins are knocked down until gloomy moths kindle an outage.

Since she has witnessed a conflagration, Adèle cannot stop playing with matches. The day after, while walking to school, she's caught on the act by a strange firefighter-dressed figure which starts following her. Unable to beat the figure away, the schooler resigns herself to revisit the still fuming ashes of a painful end of high school day.

The grief of a man, Felix, following the death of his mother. Church, a family meeting, childhood memories, — then the brothel : Felix takes refuge in the arms of a prostitute, for a night that sheds a new light on his mother's death.