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Synopsis
Kindhearted bookseller, Annie goes to great lengths to make everyone happy, neglecting her well-being. Introverted, and a bit OCD, she's passionate about Leonard Cohen, who even appears to her in the bookstore. And what's more, Annie has the ability to create imaginary worlds around her when reading his poems. Lola, a high-spirited vamp-looking publicist, collects lovers to heal the wounds of a dysfunctional childhood, becomes Annie's new landlord and enemy. One escapes with poetry, the other with love affairs. Opposite sides of the same coin, their difficulty in loving themselves and opening up to others, binds them.
When Lola has a rare illness and Annie is forced to be by her side at the hospital, Annie uses her ability to weave chimerical universes to ease Lola's pain (but above all her own).
Lola needs to let go of the past before it's too late to finally love herself. Annie must unburden her heart to Lola, accept she might die and learn to cope with the real world.
Although tragic, Lola’s illness and death offer both women an opportunity for redemption and mutual healing of the soul.
Bio
Born in Montreal, Canada, Yanie held her first camera at nine and immediately started telling stories with images. Through her lens, she shows the world as she sees it, whether she's directing fiction, commercials, documentaries, TV shows or art films.
She's one of the 8 filmmakers chosen by the Canadian Academy of Cinema to be part of their esteemed "Women Directors Program 2019-2020". Her feature film project "1+1+1" was the only one chosen and recommended by the Academy for Telefilm's Talents to Watch.
She won the Canadian Gemini Multicultural Award for "My brand new life" a youth doc series she wrote and directed, "Facteur Humain", the doc series she created, directed and shot as DOP, was nominated for best documentary series and she received a best director nomination for her doc series "La vie nous arrive".
Her feature script "Lola et moi" was selected by the Cannes Film Festival's Screenwriters Pavillon and her short film "L'été indien" was awarded Best Direction and Best Screenplay at Spain's Kids Film Fest as well as being shortlisted for Iris Awards Best Short. Her poetic short film "Les choses de ma vie" also had a great international festival run and was part of "Women's Views" a short films directed by women program that toured movie theaters in Canada.
Awards History
SODEC 2015 - Screenplay Writing Grant
Cannes Screenwriters Pavilion 2016 - Best Canadian screenplay
Credits
Producer - Annie Blais
Producer - Alexandre Charlet
Actor - Rémy Girard
