LE DOCTORAT (THE PhD) / CANADA / SOUTHERN U.S. PREMIERE

A romantic dinner turns into a ludicrous disaster when Bruno, an anxious psychology student, has to lie to his control-freak boyfriend about what really happened during his PhD’s entrance interview earlier that day.

French with English subtitles.

Cast: Félix Emmanuel, Charles-Aubey Houde, Zoé Lajeunesse-Guy.

Director Biography

Born in 1996, Maxime S Girard is an up and coming Quebec filmmaker. A recent graduate of Concordia University in Film Production, he notably directed the award-winning horror short CULS-DE-SACS (2018) and produced the short comedy A MAN SNEEZES AND DIES (2019). In-between directing films, he regularly works as script supervisor.