IT WILL ALWAYS END IN THE END
A film directed by Nancy Pettinicchio
Short Documentary | 2025 | Canada, QC | 16 min | French | English subtitles | 1.85 | Color | Stereo, 5.1
Gabriel Drolet-Maguire, a queer fashion designer living in Montréal, takes us into their artistic world to speak vulnerably about their HIV diagnosis and the process of acceptance that led them to reach out to the HIV-positive community. IT WILL ALWAYS END IN THE END is a timely and hopeful look at past and present day HIV activism in Quebec.
CAST
Gabriel Drolet-Maguire, Jacques Gélinas, Guillaume Tremblay-Gallant, Sisi Superstar
CREW
DIRECTING : Nancy Pettinicchio
PRODUCTION : Nancy Pettinicchio (Portail VIH/SIDA du Québec)
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY : Catherine Lefebvre
EDITING : Jessie Posthumus
ANIMATION : Jessie Posthumus
ART DIRECTION : Yucca
SOUND DESIGN : Paloma Daris
SOUND MIXING : Émilie Blaise
SOUND : Paloma Daris
MUSIC : Paloma Daris
FESTIVALS
- - 2025 -
Festival REGARD
Courts d'un soir
RAINBOW VISIONS Film Festival
Palm Springs International Shortfest *Honorable Mention - Best LGBTQ+ Short
Cinema sous les étoiles
Lunenburg Doc Fest
Calgary International Film Festival
Oslo/Fusion International Film Festival
Court & Queer
- 2026 -
Rendez-vous Québec cinéma
Porto Femme - International Film Festival
KASHISH Pride Film Festival
Made Here Film Festival
Festival Émergence de Montréal
Nancy Pettinicchio
Nancy Pettinicchio is an Italian-Canadian non-binary filmmaker from Tiohtià:ke/Montréal exploring topics surrounding gender, mental and physical health, and coming of age. Their first short film FALENA (2022) premiered internationally at the Palm Springs ShortFest, screened in festivals across Canada, the United States, and Europe, and won the image+nation 2022 Best Québec Short Film award. Nancy's second short film and first documentary, IT WILL ALWAYS END IN THE END (2024), explores HIV art activism in Québec. Thanks to support from the Canada Council for the Arts, Nancy is currently writing their debut feature film, PER LA GRAZIA DI DIO.
FILMOGRAPHIE
- It Will Always End in the End (2025)
- Falena (2022)
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