Soif

20148 min 49 secFilm: Animation

PG

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.

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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 producer
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