Little Brother (2014 film)

Little Brother (French: Petit frère) is a Canadian short comedy film, directed by Rémi St-Michel and released in 2014.[1] The film stars Étienne Galloy as Antoine, a troubled teenager who is spending the day having fun around the city with his Big Brother Julian (Éric K. Boulianne) before the latter's departure for Russia.

Little Brother
Petit frère
Directed by	Rémi St-Michel
Produced by	Jean-Sébastien Beaudoin Gagnon Rémi St-Michel Éric K. Boulianne
Written by	Éric K. Boulianne
Starring	Étienne Galloy Éric K. Boulianne
Music by	Peter Venne
Cinematography	François Messier-Rheault
Edited by	Sophie B. Sylvestre
Production company	Klaus Kinky Romance Polanski
Distributed by	Traveling Distribution
Release date	May 24, 2014 (Cannes)
Running time	14 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French

The film premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, in the International Critics' Week stream.[2] It later won the Audience Choice award for best short film at the 2014 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival.[3]

The film was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards in 2015.[4]

Galloy was also cast in St-Michel's 2019 feature film debut Before We Explode (Avant qu'on explose), which addressed some similar themes but was not intended as a literal sequel to Little Brother.[5]

References

1. "Entrevue avec les artistes derrière l’hilarant court métrage Petit frère". Voir, March 14, 2015.
2. "Le diplômé de l’UQAM Rémi St-Michel en voie de s’illustrer à la Semaine de la Critique à Cannes". Nightlife.ca, May 14, 2014.
3. "Cinéfest Sudbury hands out hardware". Northern Life. Laurentian Media Group. September 24, 2014. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
4. "Canadian Screen Awards ’15: Theatrical documentary & short film". Playback, February 16, 2015.
5. "Rémi St-Michel: au pays des hormones". Le Droit, February 22, 2019.

External links

• Little Brother at IMDb