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NADIA, BUTTERFLY
Pascal PLANTE
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2020
106
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CANADA
In this second film by Pascal Plante, a former top-level swimmer, he trains his camera on a champion swimmer in early retirement. A melancholy film that looks at what comes next, at what happens to the athletes once they’ve hung up their swimming trunks. The main role is played by a Quebec swimmer and bronze medallist in the Rio Olympics, Katerine Savard, who carries the film on her shoulders in every sense of the word.
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While young and in her prime, Nadia decides to retire from professional swimming after the Olympic Games; to escape a rigid life of sacrifice. After her very last race, Nadia drifts into nights of excess punctuated by episodes of self-doubt. But even this transitional numbness cannot conceal her true inner quest: defining her identity outside the world of elite sports.
CASTING
Katerine SAVARD
Nadia
Ariane MAINVILLE
Marie-Pierre
Hilary CALDWELL
Karen
Pierre-Yves CARDINAL
Sébastien
CREDITS
Pascal PLANTE
Realisation
Pascal PLANTE
Screenplay
Stéphanie Weber Biron
Cinematography
Amélie Labrèche
Editing
Martyne Morin, Stéphanie Bergeron
Sound
PRODUCTION
NEMESIS FILMS
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CANADA
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SALES
WAZABI FILMS
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