Director
Yan Giroux
Production
micro_scope
Language
French
Year
2022
23 min, Fiction, Canada, 5.1
Anne, 54, takes part in simulated consultations aimed at evaluating medical students. Gradually, the words she has learned by heart ring true and confront her to her own condition.
Anne, 54, shows up at medical school to be part of simulated consultations. As the students question one by one this “standardized patient” in the hopes of making the right diagnosis, the examination room becomes the scene of an absurd routine. Headaches, dizziness, memory loss: we dive with Anne into a process where words lose their meaning. Gradually, the symptoms she has learned by heart ring true, but can she escape?
Writing: Guillaume Corbeil, Yan Giroux
Cinematography: Olivier Laberge
Production Design: Geneviève Huot
Sound Recording: Pablo Villegas
Editing: Elric Robichon
Production Design: Marie-Pierre Grenier
Sound Mix: Bernard Gariépy Strobl
Music: Marie-Hélène H. Delorme
Starring: Céline Bonnier, Andréanne Théberge
Yan Giroux
Yan Giroux independently produced his documentaries between 2007 and 2012, allowing him to develop his vision, which would later grow with more resources and ambition in his fiction short films. In addition to being recognized locally, his shorts have been showcased in several international festivals, including Sundance Film Festival. His first feature film, For Those Who Don’t Read Me (2018), won several awards at the Gala Québec Cinéma.
My Son Came Back to Disappear, 80 min, Fiction, 2025
Standardized Patient Program, 23 min, Fiction, 2022
For Those Who Don’t Read Me, 107 min, Fiction, 2018
Lost Paradise Lost, 25 min, Fiction, 2017
Mi Nina mi Vida, 18 min, Fiction, 2013
Surveillant, 17 min, Fiction, 2011
July 14 in Marseille, 86 min, Documentary, 2012
Elegant, 84 min, Documentary, 2009
Cubanos, Life and Death of a Revolution, 82 min, Documentary, 2007