Death to the bikini!

a fiction by Justine Gauthier
15 min. | 2023

With

Mia GARNIER
Étienne CARDIN
Aksel LEBLANC
Olivier LEBLANC
Johnnovan JOBIN
Ève PRESSAULT
Éric ROBIDOUX

Writer & Director

Justine GAUTHIER

PRODUCTION

Léonie HURTUBISE

DISTRIBUTION

Travelling Distribution

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SYNOPSIS

Lili, a feisty 10-year-old girl, has always swam topless. When her parents force her to wear a bikini top for a trip to the water park, she rebels: why should she hide her flat chest when her friends, all boys, don’t have to?

Credits

Casting director: Tania ARANA
Director of photography: Gabrielle BERGERON-LEDUC
Set designer: Yola VAN LEEUWENKAMP
Costumes designer: Kelly-Anne BONIEUX
Makeup and hair artists: Josiane PROVENCHER and Chanty TREMBLAY
Sound recordist: Jacob MARCOUX
Editor: Marie-Pier GRIGNON
Sound designer: Ilyaa GHAFOURI
Sound mixer: Joey SIMAS
Music composers: Viviane AUDET and Robin-Joël COOL

AWARDS & FESTIVALS LIST

Death to the bikini!

LIST OF AWARDS AND FESTIVALS

  • *PREMIERE: Regard sur le court métrage, 2023
  • *Nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama, Canadian Screen Awards, 2024
  • *Audience Award, Festival Plein(s) Écran(s), 2024
  • *Honorable Mention for Narrative Short Award, Fargo Film Festival, 2024
  • *Special mention by the Canal+ Kids jury, Festival du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand, 2024
  • *Impact Award, IndieJúnior - International Children’s and Youth Film Festival of Porto, 2024
  • *Audience Award, Par-Court Plein(s) Écran(s), 2024
  • *Children's Jury Best Short Award, Kinolub Film Festival, 2024
  • *Finalist, Japan Prize, 2024
  • *Honorable Jury Mention - Int’ Short Film, International Film Festival SCHLiNGEL, 2024
  • *Best Short Film for Youth, Regard sur le court métrage, 2023
  • *Audience Award (Best Live Action), Palm Springs Shortfest and Market, 2023
  • *Grand Jury Prize Live action Short film, Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF), 2023
  • *5 Prizes, Gala Prends Ça Court, 2023
  • *Special mention to Mia Garnier, Gala Prends Ça Court, 2023
  • *Audience Choice (Best Short), Cinefest Sudbury International Film Festival, 2023
  • *Audience Favourite Award, Festival de courts métrages Images en Vues (FIEV), 2023
  • *Audience Award, Festival du cinéma international en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (FCIAT), 2023
  • *Best Canadian Short Film, Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie (FICFA), 2023
  • *Youth Film Festival Antwerp, 2025
  • *Athena Film Festival team, 2025
  • *Busan International Kids & Youth Film Festival (BIKY), 2024
  • *Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, 2024
  • *Festival Courts en Champagne, 2024
  • *Festival international du film court et itinérant dans les Pyrénées-Orientales, 2024
  • *Internationales Frauen Film Fest Dortmund+Köln, 2024
  • *Short Film Competition BUFF Malmö Film Festival, 2024
  • *International Film Festival of Uruguay, 2024
  • *PLAY – Lisbon's International Kids Film Festival, 2024
  • *Psaroloco International Children's & Young People’s Film Festival, 2024
  • *JEF Festival, 2024
  • *Ciné-Jeune de l'Aisne, 2024
  • *Festival de courts-métrages "Courts-Bouillon", 2024
  • *Dawson City International Short Film Festival, 2024
  • *MAMI Mumbai Film Festival, 2024
  • *Junges Kurzfilm Festival à Hamburg Mo&Friese, 2024
  • *Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, 2024
  • *Le Cri du Court, 2024
  • *Show Me Shorts Film Festival, 2024
  • *Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival , 2024
  • *Filmfest München, 2024
  • *Filmets Badalona Film Festival, 2024
  • *NEW Moon Fest - Nantucket Empowering Women, 2024
  • *Festival Court Sur Place, 2024
  • *Festival CineComedies, 2024
  • *Festival Bazar, 2024
  • *Festival Séquence Court-Métrage, 2024
  • *Andaras Travelling Film Festival, 2024
  • *Festival du cinéma québécois de Biscarrosse, 2024
  • *Cinéma en liberté short film festival, 2024
  • *Festival du Film court en Plein air de Grenoble, 2024
  • *ICFF IncluCity Festival, 2024
  • *International Short Film Festival Ljubljana, 2024
  • *Giffoni Film Festival, 2024
  • *OderKurzfilmtag, 2024
  • *International Children's Film Festival, 2024
  • *Festival Silhouette, 2024
  • *Film Fest Malans, 2024
  • *Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival (MNFF), 2024
  • *Fenêtres sur courts, 2024
  • *International Comedy Film Festival - FUNCINEMA, 2024
  • *Festival Paysages de cinéastes, 2024
  • *Breakthroughs Film Festival, 2024
  • *Women Make Waves International Film Festival, 2024
  • *Filmfest Osnabrück, 2024
  • *Festifilm de la Beauce à Saint-Séverin, 2024
  • *Curtas Vila do Conde IFF, 2024
  • *Festival du Film de La Roche sur Yon, 2024
  • *Festival Court c’est court - Cinambules, 2024
  • *Healdsburg International Short Film Festival, 2024
  • *Breakthroughs Film Festival, 2024
  • *Festival Silhouette, 2024
  • *HaHaArt Film Festival, 2024
  • *Ciné-Festival en Pays de Fayence, 2024
  • *Festival Cinéma Jeune Public, 2024
  • *Pink Screens Film Festival, 2024
  • *Women Make Waves Int'l Film Festival, 2024
  • *Filmets Badalona Film Festival, 2024
  • *Mirada Corta, 2024
  • *Festival francophone de Tubing, 2024
  • *Festival Cinémental, 2024
  • *KINEKO International Film Festival, 2024
  • *Corto Dorico Film Festival, 2024
  • *Festival Int. Du Film Francophone de Namur, 2023
  • *OFF-Courts de Trouville et Marché, 2023
  • *Festival du film de la Ville de Québec, 2023
  • *Les Percéides - Festival International de Cinéma et d’art de Percé, 2023
  • *Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec (FCVQ), 2023
  • *Cinekid Festival, 2023
  • *International Young Audience Film Festival Ale Kino!, 2023
  • *Festival international du film d’éducation (FIFE), 2023
  • *Short Not Pants - Toronto Short Film Festival, 2023
  • *The Academy of Death Racers Festival, 2023
  • *Kino Athens, International Independent Film Festival, 2023