Léa Pool’s Quebec period comedy Maman est chez le coiffeur (Mommy Is at the Hairdresser’s) has been invited to official competition at the San Sebastian International Film Festival later this month and at South Korea’s Pusan International Film Festival in October. Released in May in Quebec, the film is on track to pass $650,000 at the box office by this weekend. It screens at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Contemporary World Cinema program.

The film has also received invitations to screen at the Vancouver International Film Festival, the Mill Valley Film Festival in California, the Namur festival in Belgium and the Lausanne fest in Switzerland. The story follows one summer in the life of a teenage girl who is coming to grips with the dissolution of her parents’ marriage and her idealization of adulthood.

Written by Isabelle Hébert and produced by Lyse Lafontaine and Michael Mosca of Equinoxe Productions, the film stars Céline Bonnier, Laurent Lucas, Marianne Fortier and Gabriel Arcand. The Swiss-born Pool’s previous titles include Mouvements du désir (1993), Emporte-moi (1999), Lost and Delirious (2001) and The Blue Butterfly (2004).