Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2024)
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Director: Ariane Louis-Seize Run Time: 90 min. Release Year: 2023
Starring: Félix-Antoine Bénard, Noémie O'Farrell, Sara Montpetit, Sophie Cadieux, Steve Laplante
Country: Canada
Language: French
About the film:
World premiere, Venice Film Festival. Young Cineastes Award winner, Palm Springs International Film Festival.
Sasha is a teenage vampire — well, “teenage” is relative in their world — with an empathy problem. Unlike the rest of her clan, Sasha’s fangs don’t come out when she’s hungry or sensing fear; she needs to feel a personal connection to her prey. And then Sasha meets Paul, an actual teenager convinced he’ll never enjoy anything in life. She befriends him, introduces him to her world and its secrets, and he happily volunteers to be her next meal. Which would be great, except for the whole empathy thing.
“‘What We Do In The Shadows’ for people who grew up loving the soft goth girl vibes of Emily The Strange and Lydia Deetz.”
—Marya E. Gates, RogerEbert
About the filmmaker:
Ariane Louis-Seize is a filmmaker from Quebec. Her award-winning debut short film, Wild Skin (2016), premiered at TIFF and traveled to more than 50 festivals worldwide. Her follow-up short film, Little Waves (2018), had its European premiere at Berlinale and made the TIFF Canada’s Top Ten list in 2018. Her next short, The Depths (2019) also premiered at TIFF in 2019 and went on to screen at the Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival, where it won the Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film. Louis-Seize’s most recent short film, Shooting Star (2020), had its world premiere at TIFF 2020 and won the Audience Award at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma and the Prix Télébec at the Festival du cinéma international in Abitibi-Témiscamingue. Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2024) is Louis-Seize’s debut feature film.
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