La Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC) has selected five short films and four short-format digital projects for support under its production assistance program.

The shorts include three fiction and two documentary films, while the digital projects include two fiction and two doc titles.

Alexandre Dostie’s Jour de colère, Juan-Sébastien Hernandez-Francoeur’s La plantation, and Lorraine Price’s The Break are the three selected fiction shorts.

Writer-director Dostie’s Jour de colère, produced by Punchline Cinema, centres on a young monk who ventures out of his community to a big city where he discovers the world of bodybuilders. The film is distributed by Travelling.

La plantation is directed by Hernandez-Francoeur, who is also a co-writer with Vincent Labelle. The Dominican Republic-set film, produced by Les Films Camera Oscura, follows the story of two brothers of Haitian origin who face a daily battle for survival, when one night they come face to face with a werewolf. Les Films du 3 Mars is the distributor.

The Break, written and directed by Price and produced by Parabola Films, centres on a single mother who goes into an emergency therapy session hiding a secret. H264 is distributing.

The two short docs include writer-director Mathieu Boudreau’s Chasser le naturel and writer-director Amélie Hardy’s Trajectoires.

Chasser le naturel, produced by Franc doc, follows hunters in Gaspésie who cut themselves off from the digital world every fall. The film is distributed by Paraloeil.

Produced by Les Productions Club Vidéo, Trajectoires follows a group of youths as they explore what lies ahead for them in their careers.

Three VR projects are among the digital selections. The two fiction selections are writer-director Michel Lam’s La mer de l’Est and writer-director Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory’s Tartupaluk, followed by writer-director Vali Fugulin’s doc Traces, le processeur de peine.

La mer de l’Est, produced by Productions Figure 55, takes audiences on a journey from Vietnam to Canada focusing on three generations of a family. Hubblo is attached as distributor.

Hubblo is also distributing the Canada/Denmark/Greenland coproduction Tartupaluk. The project is a single-user VR experience which takes viewers into an imaginary Inuit nation established on the island of Tartupaluk. Tartupaluk is produced by Montreal’s Scintilla and Anorak Film Denmark.

Traces, le processeur de peine is produced by Studio Couzin and composed of seven interactive chapters exploring the subject of grief.

Rounding out the digital projects is director François Blouin’s docuseries Luc Langevin, l’art du risque. Luc Langevin and Claude Veillet are the writers and Téléfiction Productions is the prodco. The project follows illusionist Langevin as he designs an original illusion. Téléfiction Distribution is the distributor.

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