Top Cast
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Florence Lacombe-Soucy
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Kevin Tremblay
Overview
A restaurant becomes a nightmarish stage where male bodies morph into pigs—a transformation that embodies the dehumanization experienced by the victim. The familiar veers into the abject, the visual and auditory saturation replicating the traumatic invasion.
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Chaos
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Little Boy Blue
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Houria
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I'm Not Here
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24 Days
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Street Flow 3
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Kompromat
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