''Inner Jellyfishes'' (french: Les Méduses) is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Marc-Antoine Lemire and released in 2015. The film stars Rudi Duperré as a young gay man struggling with feelings of isolation who hooks up with another man (Samuel Brassard) for sex, but finds that the encounter intensifies rather than assuaging his loneliness as he experiences a desire for a deeper emotional connection than the hookup is willing or able to offer. The film's screenings included the 2015

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festival and the 2015 San Francisco International Festival of Short Films, where it won the Vanguard Award. It was screened at BFI Flare in 2016 as part of a program of films about

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, with the website ''

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'' praising it as one of the only films in the program that did not moralize the practice."Chemsex: why is gay sex causing straight panic?"
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* 2015 films Canadian LGBT-related short films LGBT-related drama films Films shot in Quebec Films set in Quebec 2015 LGBT-related films French-language Canadian films Canadian drama short films 2010s Canadian films Films directed by Marc-Antoine Lemire {{2010s-Canada-film-stub