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Mommy

Xavier Dolan

2014
Fiction
135 min
35mm
1:1
colour

A feisty widowed single mom finds herself burdened with the full-time custody of her explosive 15-year-old ADHD son. As they try to make ends meet and struggle with their unpredictable ménage, the peculiar, new girl across the street, Kyla, benevolently offers her help.Together, they find a new sense of balance, and hope is regained.

Credits

Diane (Die) O'Connor Després
Anne Dorval: Steve O'Connor Després
Antoine-Olivier Pilon: Kyla
Suzanne Clément: Patrick
Alexandre Goyette: Paul Béliveau
Patrick Huard

Written and directed by
Xavier Dolan: Produced by
Nancy Grant, Xavier Dolan: Associate producers
Sylvain Corbeil, Lyse Lafontaine: Cinematography
André Turpin: Art direction
Colombe Raby: Costumes
Xavier Dolan: Make up departement
Maïna Militza: Hair stylists
Michelle Côté, Colette Martel: Editing
Xavier Dolan: Sound
François Grenon

Prizes
Billet d’Or Cineplex, Canada, 2015 Jutra Award for Best Film, 17th Jutra, Canada, 2015 Jutra Award for Best Director – Xavier Dolan, 17e prix Jutra, Canada, 2015 Jutra Award for Best Actress – Anne Dorval, 17e prix Jutra, Canada, 2015 Jutra Award for Best Actor – Antoine Olivier Pilon, 17e prix Jutra, Canada, 2015 Jutra Award for Best Supporting Actress – Suzanne Clément, 17e prix Jutra, Canada, 2015 Jutra Award for Best Screenplay – Xavier Dolan, 17e prix Jutra, Canada, 2015 Jutra Award for Best Cinematography – André Turpin, 17e prix Jutra, Canada, 2015 Jutra Award for Best Editing – Xavier Dolan, 17e prix Jutra, Canada, 2015 Jutra Award for the Most successful film outside Quebec, 17e prix Jutra, Canada, 2015 Guichet d’or, Canada, 2015 Best Make-up – Maïna Militza, Canadian Screen Awards, Canada 2015 Best Editing – Xavier Dolan, Canadian Screen Awards, Canada 2015 Best Cinematography – André Turpin, Canadian Screen Awards, Canada 2015 Best Supporting Actress – Suzanne Clément, Canadian Screen Awards, Canada 2015 Best Actress – Anne Dorval, Canadian Screen Awards, Canada 2015 Best Actor – Antoine Olivier Pilon, Canadian Screen Awards, Canada 2015 Best Original Screenplay, Canadian Screen Awards, Canada 2015 Best Director, Canadian Screen Awards, Canada, 2015 Best Motion Picture, Canadian Screen Awards, Canada, 2015 Breakthrough Performance pour Antoine Olivier Pilon, Satellite Awards, USA, 2014 GALECA : Dorian Award – Foreign Language Film of the Year, USA, 2014 Best North American Independant Film, 18th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia, 2014 Bronze Frog, 23rd Camerimage Film Festival – Main competition, Poland, 2014 Bayard d’Or for the Best Cinematography pour André Turpin, 28e Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur, France, 2014 Bayard d’Or de la Meilleure actrice pour Anne Dorval et Suzanne Clément, 28e Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur, France, 2014 Bayard d’Or du Meilleur acteur pour Antoine Olivier Pilon, 28e Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur, France, 2014 Fipresci Prize, 11st Miskolc International Film Festival, Hungary, 2014 Palme d’Or, Cannes ICS Awards, France, 2014 César du meilleur film étranger, France, 2014 PRIX DU JURY, 67e Festival de Cannes, France, 2014

Festivals
18th Shanghai International Film Festival, China,2015 14th Cyprus Film Days, Cyprus, 2015 5th Beijing International Film Festival, China, 2015 4th Panama International Film Festival, Panama, 2015 15th Campbell River Festival of Films, Canada, 2015 19th IFFK Regional Film Festival, Kottayam, India, 2015 21st Vilnius International FIlm Festival, Lithuania, 2015 21st Vernon Film Festival, Canada, 2015 16th Kingston Canadian Film Festival, Canada, 2015 10th Available Light Film Festival, Whitehorse, Canada, 2015 14th Powell River Film Festival, Canada, 2015 5th Frankofon Filmnapok, Hungria, 2015 19th Internation Film Festival of Kerala – Nilambur edition, India, 2015 8th Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow, Scotland, 2015 25th Palm Springs International Film Festival, Palm Springs, USA, 2015 19th International Film Festival of Kerala, India, 2014 11th Dubai Film Festival, United Arab Emirates, 2014 6th International Queer Film Festival Merlinka, Serbia, 2014 54th Festival de Cine de Cartagena, Carthagène des Indes, Colombia, 2014 36th International Festival of the New Latin American Cinema, Cuba, 2014 22nd Camerimage Film Festival, Pologne, 2014 25th Carthage Film Festival, Tunisia, 2014 29th Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Argentina, 2014 45th International Film Festival of India, India, 2014 18th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia, 2014 20th Cinemania French Film Festival, Bulgaria, 2014 8th Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival, Portugal, 2014 3rd Los Cabos International Film Festival, Mexico, 2014 25th Ljubljana Film Festival, Slovenia, 2014 20th Kolkata International Film Festival, India, 2014 51st Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, Taiwan, 2014 25th Stockholm International Film Festival, Sweden, 2014 9th Quezon City International Film Festival, Philippines, 2014 43rd AFI Festival, USA, 2014 10th Windsor International Film Festival, Windsor, Canada, 2014 9th Leiden International Film Festival, Leyde, Pays-Pas, 2014 27th Virginia Film Festival, États-Unis, 2014 10th Santiago International Film Festival, Chile, 2014 23rd Philadelphia International Film Festival, USA, 2014 51st Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, Turkey, 2014 12th World Film Festival of Bangkok, Thailand, 2014 16th Mumbai Film Festival, India, 2014 28e Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur, France, 2014 27th Edmonton International Film Festival, Edmonton, Canada, 2014 58th BFI London Film Festival, United Kingdom, 2014 19th Busan International Film Festival, Corée du Sud, 2014 37th Mill Valley Film Festival, USA, 2014 23e Cinemental, Winnipeg, Canada, 2014 16th Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, Brésil, 2014 23th Filmfest Hamburg, Allemagne, 2014 15th Bergen International Film Festival, Norvège, 2014 62th San Sebastian Film festival, Espagne, 2014 11st Miskolc International Film Festival, Hongrie, 2014 35th Manaki Brothers International Cinematographer’s Film Festival, Macedonia, 2014 15th Calgary International Film Festival, Calgary, Canada, 2014 26th Sudbury International Film Festival, Sudbury, Canada, 2014 14th Atlantic Film Festival, Canada 2014 33rd Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada, 2014 38th Toronto International Film Festival, Ontario, Canada, 2014 41th Telluride Film Festival, Colorado, USA, 2014 7e Festival du film francophone, Angoulême, 2014 63th Melbourne International Film Festival, Australie, 2014 49e Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary, République Tchèque, 2014 61th Sydney Film Festival, Sydney, Australia, 2014 67e Festival de Cannes, Sélection officielle, Compétition, France, 2014