Felix, fourteen, starts a relationship with an older boy, hoping to get caught by his conservative father so he can confront him.
Acting
Victor Boudreault's desperate bravado breaks your heart.
Direction
Ayotte packs a feature's worth of tension into fourteen minutes.
Cinematography
Pool scenes that drown you in suburban summer dread.

Director
Zachary Ayotte
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Quebec, the film captures a specific strain of Franco-Catholic conservatism where silence substitutes for acceptance. Ayotte grew up in this world.
The TMDB rating is brutally low because this film circulates in festival contexts where audiences expect feel-good queer stories—not ones that end with the protagonist more trapped than before.
No ratings yet
Sign in to join the discussion — comments are spoiler-gated to your watch progress.
Discussion starters