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FALCON LAKE

• Director: Charlotte Le Bon
• CANADA, FRANCE / 2022 / DCP / Colour / 100’ / French, English; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Charlotte Le Bon
• Original Work: "A Sister", Bastien Vivès
• Director of Photography: Kristof Brandl
• Editing: Julie Léna
• Music: Shida Shahabi
• Cast: Joseph Engel, Sara Montpetit, Monia Chokri, Arthur Igual, Karine Gonthier-Hyndman, Thomas Laperrière, Anthony Therrien
• Producer: David Gauquié, Julien Deris, Sylvain Corbeil, Nancy Grant, Jalil Lespert, Dany Boon, Jean-Luc Ormières
• Production Co.: Cinefrance Studios, Metafilms, Onzecinq
• World Sales: Memento International

2022 Prix Louis Delluc (France) Best First Film
2022 Vancouver Emerging Canadian Director
2022 Chicago Best New Director
2022 Bucharest Grand Prize

A love story, a ghost story, Charlotte Le Bon’s feature debut is a sensitive coming-of-age film, a touching account of first love which premiered at Cannes within the Directors’ Fortnight section. Inspired by the graphic novel Une sœur / A sister by Bastien Vivès, and shot on 16 mm film, Falcon Lake is set in Quebec by a lake near Laurentides, north-west of Montreal. The film follows Bastien and Chloé, spending their summer vacation with their families at a lake cabin in Quebec, haunted by a ghost legend. Despite the age gap between them, the two teenagers form a singular bond. The feeling of deja-vu, melancholy, and the obscure waters of lakes is quite worrying and ambiguous, says Le Bon, and adds: ‘To say it a bit more solemnly, Falcon Lake is a little investigation into desire. There’s fire on the lake!’

This film is screened with the generous support of the Embassy of Canada.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.