Pre-Drink | |
Director: | Marc-Antoine Lemire |
Producer: | Maria Gracia Turgeon Marc-Antoine Lemire |
Starring: | Alex Trahan Pascale Drevillon |
Cinematography: | Léna Mill-Reuillard |
Editing: | Anouk Deschênes |
Studio: | Les films de la Méduse Midi la Nuit |
Runtime: | 23 minutes |
Country: | Canada |
Language: | French |
Pre-Drink is a Canadian dramatic short film by Marc-Antoine Lemire, which won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.[1]
The film stars Alex Trahan as Carl and Pascale Drevillon as Alexe, a gay man and a transgender woman whose longtime friendship is complicated when they decide to have sex.[2]
In December, TIFF named the film to its annual Canada's Top Ten list of the ten best Canadian short films.[3] The film received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards,[4] and won the Prix Iris for Best Short Film at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards.[5]