Director
Hervé Demers
Production
Hervé Demers (HDCM)
Language
French
21 min, fiction, Quebec, Canada, 2007
Synopsis
When his loving wife passes away, a retired 82-year-old farmer is relegated to a retirement home. The looks of those around him seem to silently condemn him to an imminent death, but with the aid of his unfailing memory and with hope still alive in his heart, the old man resolves to defend his right to go on living till his very last breath.
Credits
Directing, Photography : Hervé Demers
Scipt : Hervé Demers, Xavier Lechasseur
Production Design : Charles Fortin
Editing : Hervé Demers
Sound Mixing : Hervé Demers
Sound : Charles Fortin, Michael Gravel
Sound Design : Hervé Demers
Production : Hervé Demers (HDCM)
With: Paul Hébert
Financial Partners
ONF
Hervé Demers
Hervé Demers is a photographer and a filmmaker living in Montreal, Canada. His first shorts have been selected by over 60 international festivals, gathering honours such as the Tamashii (“Soul”) Award at the CON-CAN Movie Festival in Japan and the award for Best Emerging Filmmaker at the 61st Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival in Canada. Since 2011, he is a member and administrator of Les Films de l’Autre, a production company owned by 28 directors who also act as producers of their own films. His latest short film The Name you Carry (2016) won several awards in film festivals. The International Short Films Festival of Lviv in Ukraine organised in 2016 a retrospective of his work.
The Name you Carry, 15 min, Fiction, 2016
A Shade of Grey, 14 min, Fiction 2013
The Grand Falls, 15 min, Fiction 2009
On Earth As It Is On Heaven, 21 min, Fiction, 2007