A Colony

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A Colony
Une colonie
Directed by Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
Produced by Fanny Drew
Sarah Mannering
Written by Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
Starring Émilie Bierre
Cassandra Gosselin-Pelletier
Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie
Irlande Côté
Robin Aubert
Music by Mathieu Charbonneau
Cinematography Léna Mill-Reuillard
Étienne Roussy
Edited by Stéphane Lafleur
Release dates
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  • September 15, 2018 (2018-09-15) (FCVQ)
Running time
102 minutes
Country Canada
Language French

A Colony (French: Une colonie) is a Canadian drama film from Quebec, directed by Geneviève Dulude-De Celles and released in 2018.[1] The film centres on Mylia (Émilie Bierre), a young girl starting high school who is torn between her new friendships with Jacinthe (Cassandra Gosselin-Pelletier), a bad influence who encourages her to experiment with sex and alcohol, and Jimmy (Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie), an artistic First Nations student.[2] The film's cast also includes Irlande Côté as Mylia's younger sister Camille, and Noémie Godin-Vigneau and Robin Aubert as their parents.

The film premiered at the 2018 Quebec City Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix for best film in the festival.[3] It went into general theatrical release in early 2019,[4] It was screened at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival in the Generation Kplus program.[5]

Awards

The film received seven Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019, for Best Picture, Best Actress (Bierre), Best Supporting Actor (Whiteduck-Lavoie), Best Supporting Actress (Côté), Best Director (Dulude-De Celles), Best Costume Design (Eugénie Clermont) and the John Dunning Best First Feature Award.[6]

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