Pre-Drink

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Pre-Drink
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Directed by Marc-Antoine Lemire
Produced byMaria Gracia Turgeon
Marc-Antoine Lemire
StarringAlex Trahan
Pascale Drevillon
Cinematography Léna Mill-Reuillard
Edited by Anouk Deschênes
Production
companies
Les films de la Méduse
Midi la Nuit
Release date
  • September 17, 2017 (2017-09-17)(TIFF)
Running time
23 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Pre-Drink is a Canadian dramatic short film by Marc-Antoine Lemire, which won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. [1]

The film stars Alex Trahan as Carl and Pascale Drevillon as Alexe, a gay man and a transgender woman whose longtime friendship is complicated when they decide to have sex. [2]

In December, TIFF named the film to its annual Canada's Top Ten list of the ten best Canadian short films. [3] The film received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards, [4] and won the Prix Iris for Best Short Film at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards. [5]

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