THE NAME YOU CARRY

Hervé Demers

Subjects: Family , Youth

Directed by

Hervé Demers

Languages

French, Ukrainian

Produced by

Hervé Demers

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17 min, Short film, Québec, Canada, 2015

When Vlace is suspended for hitting a classmate, Sasha is called to come get his son at school and has no choice but to take him along on his delivery route.

Synopsis
When Vlace is suspended for hitting a classmate, Sasha is called to come get his son at school and has no choice but to take him along on his delivery route. During this intimate journey, we discover what provoked Vlace’s uncharacteristic act, as father and son find their way toward a new understanding.

 

Credits
Direction : Hervé Demers

Screenplay : Jean-Philippe Boudreau
Image : Hong An Nguyen

Art direction : Louisa Schabas
Editing : Hervé Demers

Sound conception : Olivier Calvert

Sound recording : Mélanie Gauthier

Production : Hervé Demers (Les Films de l’autre)

 

With : Sasha Samar, Vlace Samar, Gregory Hlady, Annette Garant, Guy-Daniel Tremblay

 

Financial partners

Conseil des Arts et des lettres du Québec

SODEC

ONF

Hervé Demers

Hervé Demers is a photographer and a filmmaker living in Montreal, Canada. His first shorts have been selected by over 60 international festivals, gathering honours such as the Tamashii (“Soul”) Award at the CON-CAN Movie Festival in Japan and the award for Best Emerging Filmmaker at the 61st Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival in Canada. Since 2011, he is a member and administrator of Les Films de l'Autre, a production company owned by 28 directors who also act as producers of their own films. His latest short film The Name you Carry (2016) won several awards in film festivals. The International Short Films Festival of Lviv in Ukraine organised in 2016 a retrospective of his work.   Filmography   The Name you Carry (2016 / 15 min) A Shade of Grey (2013 / 14 min) The Grand Falls (2009 / 15 min) On Earth as ITt Is on Heaven (2007 / 21 min)