2026 Official Selection: Drama – Short

Runtime: 11m
Built like a cadavre exquis, the film assembles dreams, memories, and ruptures into the portrait of a man whose death gives birth to the truth he never dared to live.
- Director(s): Lorenzo Sterzi
- Writer(s): Lorenzo Sterzi
- Producer(s): Aurélien Kik
- Key Cast: Yves Jacques, Mattis Savard-Verhoeven, Émile Auger, Luis Oliva, Danielle Barbeau, Lorraine Pintal, France Castel, Bénédicte Décary
- Editor(s): Yvann Thibaudeau
- Cinematographer(s): Jean-Francois Noël
- Production Designer(s): Élie Arsenault-Boisvert
- Sound Designer(s): Christian Rivest
- Composer(s): Georges Dimitrov
Language: French
Country: Canada
Los Angeles Premiere
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Constructed like a cadavre exquis, the film unfolds in fragments, between dream and reality, revealing the many facets of a fractured identity. A posthumous coming-out where a man’s death becomes the birth of his truth.

