''Heat Spell'' (french: L'Été des chaleurs) is a Canadian short drama film, written and directed by Marie-Pier Dupuis and released in 2023. The film dramatizes a true story from Dupuis's own childhood, when her mother accidentally left her sister locked in the car on a hot summer day, and Dupuis herself didn't do or say anything about it because she was mad at her sister for other reasons.
The film stars Gabrielle Poulin as the mother, and real-life sisters Agathe Ledoux and Simone Ledoux as the sisters Maxime and Fred.
The film premiered at the 2023
Brussels Short Film Festival, where it was the winner of the ARTE Award in the international competition. It was later screened at the 2023
Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival, where it won the Prix Unis for short films.
The film received a
Canadian Screen Award
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nomination for
Best Live Action Short Drama, and Agathe Ledoux was nominated for
Best Performance in a Live Action Short Drama, at the
12th Canadian Screen Awards
The 12th Canadian Screen Awards is an upcoming ceremony, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television and digital media production in 2023. They are scheduled to be held at the Can ...
in 2024.
"BlackBerry Leads CSA Nominations"
''Northern Stars'', March 6, 2024.
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2023 films
2023 short films
Canadian drama short films
2020s Canadian films
French-language Canadian films
2020s French-language films
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