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Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: The Fireflies Are Gone (La disparition des lucioles)

Published on September 25, 2018

An official selection at the Karlovy Vary, Sébastien Pilote‘s The Fireflies Are Gone (La disparition des lucioles) would receive its North American showcase at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival (it won TIFF’s Best Canadian Film) a week prior to premiering domestically in Quebec. We’ve come to know the filmmaker via his previous pair in the Sundance selected The Salesman (2011) and Cannes selected The Auction (2013) and with his third film inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Where have all the Fireflies Gone? text, we receive small town ennui broadly represented by the quotidian witnessed in Karelle Tremblay (2015 TIFF Rising Star) and Pierre-Luc Brillant‘s characters. Here is our photo shoot with the filmmaker and his players.

Sébastien Pilote, THE FIREFLIES ARE GONE / Photo © Marie France L’Ecuyer IONCINEMA

Karelle Tremblay, THE FIREFLIES ARE GONE / Photo © Marie France L’Ecuyer IONCINEMA

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: The Fireflies Are Gone (La disparition des lucioles)