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friend of a friend

a film by Simon Gualtieri

2023 - Quebec - Drama

Jules is bi. Bi as in bisexual. Bi, even though he’s only slept with women. Bi and ready to try his first experience with Samuel, a friend of friend.

15

minutes

16/9

DCP / QuickTime

Couleur

Numérique

Stéréo

5.1

Français

sous-titré EN

CAST

Jules Ronfard, Samuel Brassard, Maxime Genois, Laurence Gagné-Frégeau

CREW

DIRECTION : Simon Gualtieri / SCREENPLAY : Simon Gualtieri & Anne-Marie Soucy / PRODUCTION : Mérédith Gonzalez-Bayard / DIRECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY : Etienne Dagenais / ART DIRECTION : Marie-Pier Desfossés / EDITING : Philippe Chagnon / SOUND DESIGN : Marc Rémillard / SOUND MIXING : Marc Rémillard / ORIGINAL SCORE : Gabriel Ledoux

FESTIVALS

  • Fantasia International Film Festival (2023) * UDA AWARD for Best Performance (Jules Ronfard & Samuel Brassard) 

  • DC Shorts (2023)

  • Oslo/Fusion International Film Festival (2023)

  • Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival (2023)

  • Festival International du cinéma francophone d'Acadie (2023)

  • Sulmona International Film Festival (2023)

  • Shorts Not Pants (2023)

  • Pride Film Fest (2024)

  • Rendez-Vous Québec Cinéma (2024)

  • Vues dans la tête de ... (2024)

  • Carrousel International du Film de Rimouski (2024)

  • New Orleans French Film Festival (2024)

  • Pink Apple Queer Film Festival (2024)

  • Lovers Film Festival (2024)

  • Flicker Roving Eye Film Festival (2024)

  • Made Here Film Festival (2024)

  • Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival * Best Canadian Short Award (2024)

  • KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival (2024)

  • Korea Queer Film Festival (2024)

  • Rooftop Films (2024)

  • Stamped Film Festival (2024)

  • Queer-Streifen Regensburg (2024)

  • PRIDE PICTURES | Queer Film Festival Karlsruhe (2024)

  • PERLEN Queer Film Festival (2024)

  • Images+Nation. Festival Film LGBTQueer de Montreal * Audience Award(2024)

  • PROUD! Filmfestival - LesbianBiGayTransQueer Film Festival (2024)

  • Queer Film Festival Oldenburg * Audience Award (2024)

  • Way OUT West Film Fest (2024)

  • Interfilm Berlin / KUKI (2024)

  • Slovak Queer Film Festival (2024)

  • Pink Panorama Film Festival (2024)

  • ZeFestival (2024)

  • Courts Mais Trash (2025) 

  • Pink Life QueerFest (2025) 

  • Queer Screen's 32nd Mardi Gras Film Festival (2025) 

  • Chennai Rainbow Film Festival (2025) 

  • Americana Film Fest (2025) 

  • RAINBOW VISIONS Film Festival (2025) 

Simon Gualtieri

Simon Gualtieri grew up on Île Saint-Jean. After obtaining his bachelor's degree in cinema, he directed clips, corporate videos and video-poems. Friend of a Friend is his first film since he finished university. Strongly inspired by personal narratives, he is currently writing an autofiction short film script.

FILMOGRAPHIE
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2023

ami d'ami  ● COURT-MÉTRAGE FICTION

  • Réalisation, scénarisation

Stéphanie Demers-Hébert

Directrice générale

direction@wlcmaboard.com

Marc-Olivier Blackburn

Responsable de la distribution

distribution@wlcmaboard.com

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