LES MONSTRES (MONSTERS) / CANADA / INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

For as long as 8-year-old Jimmy can remember, his overprotective mother has kept him safe inside their barricaded home, away from the monsters roaming outside. But Jimmy gets increasingly inquisitive, desperate to see what's out there — despite the danger.

French with English subtitles.

Director's Biography:

Frank Tremblay is a bilingual award-winning writer-director from Montreal, Canada. He co-wrote the short film Seven Seas (Les Sept Mers), which won the Best French-Canadian short film prize at RVQC 2020. In 2017, his feature-film script Harold Sometimes Rings Twice placed in the top 5% of the Nicholls competition (organized by The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Monsters (Les Monstres), filmed from his script that won the 2020 Cours Écrire Ton Court short film incubator, is Tremblay’s directorial debut, starring Caroline Dhavernas.