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Greluche
Synopsis
Greluche is a 64-year-old clown and also happens to be the director's mother. On the verge of retirement, Greluche navigates the intersection of her whimsical stage persona and her real-life identity, revealing how imagination has been her means of coping with aging and preserving her sense of wonder.
Cast & Crew
- Screenplay, editor : Daphnée Côté-Hallé
- Cinematographer : Guillaume Langlois, Raphaël Ouellet
- Music, Sound, Sound mix : Alejandro Magańa Martinez
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Biography
Actress and screenwriter, Daphnée plays the female lead in both seasons of the French series WEEK-END FAMILY, broadcast on Disney +. Trained in screenwriting at UQAM, she collaborated on the script for FAUVE, a short film nominated for an Oscar in 2019. Her first web series SYMPHONIE PATHÉTIQUE, which she co-wrote and starred in with Lysandre Ménard, is broadcast on Noovo. In 2024, she headlined the series DEUX FILLES AUX TOILETTES, broadcast on UnisTv.
Festivals
[2025] Fantasia, Montréal, Canada | Jury's special mention - best cinematography; ARRQ's jury special mention - best directing
[2025] Spasm, Montréal, Canada
[2025] Festival du court métrage d'Auch, France
[2026] Festival Filministes, Canada
[2026] Festival REGARD, Canada | Special mention - Tourner à Tout Prix Competition
[2026] Indy Film Fest, USA
[2026] Festival Émergence, Canada
[2026] Festival Les Percéides, Canada
[2026] Off-Courts Trouville, France
Director's statement
I don’t escape the cliché, my first film is deeply personal and explore my family roots. I wanted to make a film that is sensitive, funny, independent, and handcrafted, just like the way my mother has always practiced her art. More broadly, by constructing a portrait of my mother’s profession, I aim to situate it within a larger issue that inevitably speaks on feminism within a marginalized institution where female clowns embody a rare social specificity as a marginalized subgroup, with the image of the clown in the collective consciousness being inherently masculine. It is important for me to give voice to a woman with an unconventional profession who reclaims and redefines the codes of what some might call "madness."
