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Le huard (The Loon)

Le huard (The Loon)

PAULA BOURGIE | CANADA | 2025 | 20 MIN | FRENCH EST

PAULA BOURGIE | CANADA | 2025 | 20 MIN | FRENCH EST

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Synopsis

When her childhood best friend falls in love, nostalgic teenager Dodo struggles to let go of the past and goes to increasingly dangerous lengths to secure her affections, threatening to spoil their idyllic lakeside holiday.

Filmmaker Bio

Paula Bourgie is a Montreal-born filmmaker and animator combining drama, comedy and mystery. Her bold visual style explores identity, family, secrets and death. A Columbia University MFA graduate, her thesis film The Loon won multiple awards. She is developing a dramedy series and a feature film, alongside her stop-motion short The Undertaker's Daughter.

Producer

Tudor Pislariu, Jeanne Motulsky

Writer

Paula Bourgie

Cast

  • Éléonore Loiselle
  • Marguerite D’Amour
  • Thomas Delorme

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