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Bigfoot

Jeanne Carrière / 2026 / 21 min. / Canada

Synopsis

The early hours of the morning are precious for Rémi and his livestock.

He shares his life with his buffalos that roam across his farmland. Inexplicably, Hugo appears before him at dawn, alone and barefoot in the autumn cold. Hugo is searching for his father among the animals, convinced he’s hiding there. In Rémi’s solitary and orderly life, Hugo’s vivid and peculiar imagination strikes a complex chord.

In a world where beasts and humans coexist, old wounds resurface.

Cast & Crew

  • Written and Directed by : Jeanne Carrière
  • Cast : Antoine Bertrand, Ludovic Michaud, Marie-Claude Hénault
  • Production : Félix Roberge
  • Cinematography : Xavier Bossé
  • Music : Mathieu-David Chagnon
  • Production design : Rebecca Döry
  • Costumes : Flavie Lechat
  • Editing : Justine Gauthier
  • Sound design : Simon Gervais

Genre

Fiction

Topics

Animals, Childhood, Family, Women and feminism, Death, Mental Health, Violence

Biography

Jeanne Carrière graduated from INIS in 2020. After studying social work, she focused her writing on social issues. Her career path was interrupted in 2021 following a serious accident that left her quadraplegic. After a year of hospitalization, she resumed her work where she had left off and won the Cours Écrire Ton Court 2023 competition - regional edition. Jeanne now dreams of making films differently, in a wheelchair.

Festivals

Director's statement

What is Bigfoot? They say he lives in the woods. Enormous. Elusive. Covered in fur. A myth, a beast. Or maybe just a man. Wild. Half-animal, half-human. He screams, growls, destroys everything in his path.
A car cuts through the night and leaves a child at the edge of a farm row, near a wind-beaten land populated by buffalos. Rémi, a man of imposing stature, finds him wandering among the massive silhouettes of the beasts, as if he had fallen from another world. Hugo’s strange imagination strikes a deep chord in Remi, slowly cracking through his silence. The day that follows becomes an open-air standoff between a man and the embodied memory of what he destroyed.

Bigfoot is a social fable about violence against women, told through the eyes of the man who perpetrated it. A film that believes in awareness, in confronting one’s inner beast, and in the possibility of change. A slow, rough metamorphosis toward becoming a better man.

It’s the story of a strong body and a broken voice. The cry of a man who, for the first time, dares to look at himself. Dares to face what he has destroyed. And imagines—perhaps—a different path.

Because there is no legend without a creature. And without introspection, one cannot free their demons.

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