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Heat Spell (2023)

14m

Running Time

Heat Spell (2023)

Name: Heat Spell
Genre: Drama
Released: 2023-04-28

14m

Running Time

April 28, 2023
Release Date

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Plot.

A hot summer day. A half-unpacked house. A mother who needs room to breathe, and a child who needs space to truly exist. As the afternoon heat turns oppressive, time seems to move entirely differently for each person.

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Cast & Crew.

Agathe Ledoux

Maxime

Gabrielle Poulin

Mère

Simone Bellemare Ledoux

Frédérique

Marie-Pier Dupuis

Screenplay / Director

Amélie Tremblay

Producer

Renée Sawtelle

Costume Designer

Amelie Tremblay

Producer

Simran Dewan

Director of Photography

Dominique Dussault

Executive Producer

Peter Venne

Composer

Ilyaa Ghafouri

Sound Designer

Peter Venne

Compositor

Mathieu Bouchard-Malo

Editor

Marilou Richer

CastingDirector

Martyne Morin

Sound Recordist

Catherine White

Art Direction

Santiago Menghini

Special Effects Supervisor

Media.

Details.

Release Date
April 28, 2023

Original Name
L'été des chaleurs

Status
Released

Running Time
14m

Genres
Drama

Last updated: 2025-03-01

Wiki.

Heat Spell (French: L'Été des chaleurs) is a Canadian short drama film, written and directed by Marie-Pier Dupuis and released in 2023. The film dramatizes a true story from Dupuis's own childhood, when her mother accidentally left her sister locked in the car on a hot summer day, and Dupuis herself didn't do or say anything about it because she was mad at her sister for other reasons.

The film stars Gabrielle Poulin as the mother, and real-life sisters Agathe Ledoux and Simone Ledoux as the sisters Maxime and Fred.

The film premiered at the 2023 Brussels Short Film Festival, where it was the winner of the ARTE Award in the international competition. It was later screened at the 2023 Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival, where it won the Prix Unis for short films.

The film received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Drama, and Agathe Ledoux was nominated for Best Performance in a Live Action Short Drama, at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards in 2024.