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''Dust Bowl Ha! Ha!'' is a Canadian short film, directed by Sébastien Pilote and released in 2007. The film stars André Bouchard as a man in the
Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean (, ) is a region in Quebec, Canada on the Labrador Peninsula. It contains the Saguenay Fjord, the estuary of the Saguenay River, stretching through much of the region. It is also known as Sagamie in French, from the fi ...
region who has just lost his job after the closure of his employer, as he goes about his first day without the stable and predictable structure of a normal work day.Anabelle Nicoud
"Portrait: Sébastien Pilote"
''
La Presse is a French-language online newspaper published daily in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1884, it is now owned by an independent nonprofit trust. ' was formerly a broadsheet daily, considered a newspaper of record in Canada. Its Sunday edi ...
'', August 5, 2007.
The cast also includes Gérald Pilote and Jean Wauthier. The film premiered at the 2007
Locarno Film Festival The Locarno International Film Festival is a major international film festival, held annually in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narr ...
, and had its Canadian premiere at the
2007 Toronto International Film Festival The 2007 Toronto International Film Festival was a 32nd annual film festival held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It ran from September 6, 2007 to September 15, 2007. The lineup consisted of 349 films from 55 countries, selected from 4156 submissio ...
. The film was named to the
Toronto International Film Festival The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the most prestigious and largest publicly attended film festivals in the world. Founded in 1976, the festival takes place every year in early September. The organi ...
's year-end
Canada's Top Ten Canada's Top Ten is an annual honour, compiled by the Toronto International Film Festival to identify and promote the year's best Canadian films."Canada's Top Ten awards will honour excellence in Canadian cinema". ''Welland Tribune'', November 23, ...
list for short films in 2007. It won the awards for best short film at the 2007 Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de Barcelona, the 2007
Festival du nouveau cinéma The Festival du nouveau cinéma or FNC (English: ''Festival of New Cinema'') is an annual independent film festival held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, featuring independent films from around the world. Over 160,000 people attend each year. One of ...
, and the 2008
Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois Rendezvous or rendez-vous may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''The Rendezvous'' (1923 film), a silent film adventure melodrama * ''Rendezvous'' (1930 film), a German musical directed by Carl Boese * ''Rendezvous ...
, and was a
Jutra Award Jutras may have several meanings : * Claude Jutra: an award-winning French Canadian filmmaker **Jutra Award: Film awards formerly given in the Canadian province of Quebec, named after the filmmaker and now known as Prix Iris **The Claude Jutra Awa ...
nominee for Best Live Action Short Film at the 10th Jutra Awards in 2008."La 10e soirée des Jutra"
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, March 9, 2008.


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* 2007 films 2007 short films Canadian drama short films Films directed by Sébastien Pilote French-language Canadian films 2000s Canadian films {{2000s-Canada-film-stub