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Soif
20148 min 49 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Michèle Cournoyer
Production: Marcel Jean (L'Unité centrale)Galilé Marion-Gauvin (L'Unité centrale)René Chénier (National Film Board of Canada)
Script: Michèle Cournoyer
Produced by Unité centrale in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada.
A woman plays out her existence on the screen of her life. Alcohol is the essence of her being. She imbibes her youth and becomes completely absorbed by the desire to satisfy her thirst. Moving from parties to binge drinking, pleasure to distress, joy to delirium, she lets herself be lulled by the undulating waves of bottles. She floats in the intoxicating liquid, sees her childhood re-emerge, and feels as if she is a tiny fish lost in an ocean of madness. Her craving for alcohol engenders a burning passion. Drinking becomes a fatal embrace... On the verge of drowning in the torrent of this insane obsession, will she find the strength to rise to the surface?
Soif is a tragedy in five acts centered on a woman who must confront the fate of her existence. Michèle Cournoyer (The Hat) has created another hard-hitting film. She broaches a sensitive topic in her inimitable style, using black ink on paper to render dazzling metamorphoses.
Subject categories
- Health and Medicine > Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco
- Psychology and Psychiatry > Emotional LifeSubstance Abuse
- Women > Substance Abuse
Credits
- director
- Michèle Cournoyer
- script
- Michèle Cournoyer
- animation
- Michèle Cournoyer
- editing
- Jacques Drouin
- music
- Jean-Phi Goncalves
- sound design
- Olivier Calvert
- string arrangement
- Guido Del Fabbro
- musician
- Annie Gadbois
- Ariane Lajoie
- Ligia Paquin
- Mélanie Vaugeois
- voice
- Émilie Laforest
- foley
- Lise Wedlock
- string recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- Luc Léger
- foley recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- Luc Léger
- re-recording
- Serge Boivin
- digital imaging specialist
- Pierre Plouffe
- animation camera
- Philippe Vaucher
- computer graphics support
- Benoît Chagnon
- online editing
- Yannick Carrier
- computer graphics designer
- Mélanie Bouchard
- technical coordination
- Mélanie Boudreau-Blanchard
- Daniel Lord
- credits
- Ottoblix
- marketing manager
- Christine Noël
- production manager
- Dominique Noujeim
- line production
- Francine Langdeau
- Jocelyne Perrier
- administration
- Diane Régimbald
- accounting
- Nadia Palmer
- certified accountant
- Isabelle Côté
- administrative team
- Diane Ayotte
- Karine Desmeules
- Michèle Labelle
- production
- Marcel Jean
- Galilé Marion-Gauvin
- René Chénier
Awards
- Honourable Mention for the Canadian Film Institute Award for Best Canadian AnimationInternational Animation Festival