Quebec Short Films – Oscars Shortlist 2024

Screening with filmmakers Justine Martin (OASIS), Vincent René-Lortie (INVINCIBLE) and Annie-Claude Caron & Danick Audet (DEAD CAT) in attendance

DEAD CAT (Annie-Claude Caron & Danick Audet, Québec, 13 minutes)
What were Catherine and Louis thinking when they chose a cat with distinctive white spots? It would have been much easier to replace if they had picked the all-back one! Now, they will have to tell their daughter Sophie that Nugget’s dead. Unless…

OASIS (Justine Martin, Québec, 14 minutes)
At the dawn of their teenage years, Raphaël and Rémi are twins who see their fusional attachment crumble while one of them, suffering from an increasingly marked disability, remains a prisoner of childhood. During one last summer surrounded by nature, time seems to want to stand still.

INVINCIBLE (Vincent René-Lortie, Québec, 30 minutes)
Inspired by a true story, Invincible recounts the last 48 hours in the life of Marc-Antoine Bernier, a 14-year-old boy on a desperate quest for freedom.

AN AVOCADO PIT (Ary Zara, Portugal, 19 minutes)
Larissa, a trans woman and Cláudio, a cis man, meet one night, in the streets of Lisbon. Two people, two realities, who dance their differences away till morning light. In challenge, in surprise, in awe and in recognition. An empowering story, free from violence and filled with light and hope for the better days yet to come.