Mutants (2016 film)

2016 Canadian film

Mutants

Directed by| Alexandre Dostie
Written by| Alexandre Dostie
Produced by| Hany Ouichou
Gabrielle Tougas-Fréchette
Starring| Joseph DeLorey
Francis La Haye
Sandrine Bisson
Cinematography| Vincent Biron
Edited by| Stéphane Lafleur
Music by| Christophe Lamarche-Ledoux

Production
company

Art & Essai

Distributed by| Travelling Distribution

Release date

* September 12, 2016 (2016-09-12) (TIFF)

Running time

| 17 minutes
Country| Canada
Language| French

Mutants is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Alexandre Dostie and released in 2016.[1] The film stars Joseph DeLorey as Keven, a teenager who, after being injured at baseball practice, is sent on an unexpected emotional journey of discovery.

The film's cast also includes Francis La Haye and Sandrine Bisson.

## Awards

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At TIFF, the film won the award for Best Canadian Short Film.[2] It was subsequently named to the festival's year-end Canada's Top Ten list of the year's best short films.[3]

At the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017, the film won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Action Short Drama,[4] and at the 19th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2017, the film won the award for Best Short Film.[5]

## References

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1. ^ "Le premier court-métrage d'Alexandre Dostie sera présenté au TIFF". L'Hebdo Journal (in French). August 10, 2016. Archived from the original on 2017-03-13.
2. ^ "TIFF People's Choice Award cements La La Land's place in Oscar race". Entertainment Weekly. 18 September 2016.
3. ^ "Canada's Top Ten goes for quality over legacy". Now. December 7, 2016.
4. ^ "Écrans canadiens 2017 : Xavier Dolan triomphe". Le Devoir. March 12, 2017.
5. ^ Helen Faradji (June 15, 2017). "Alexandre Dostie, un cinéaste et poète anticonformiste, que ça plaise ou non". Ici Radio-Canada.

## External links

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* Mutants at IMDb

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Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television for Best Animated Short, Best Live Action Short and Best Theatrical Short

Theatrical Short
(1949–1996)|

* Who Will Teach Your Child? (1949)
* North Shore (1950)
* After Prison, What? (1951)
* Opera School (1952)
* L'Homme aux oiseaux (1953)
* Farewell Oak Street (1954)
* High Tide in Newfoundland1 (1955)
* Gold (1956)
* The Sceptre and the Mace (1958)
* Money Minters, The Quest and The Tall Country (1959)
* Royal River (1960)
* Universe (1961)
* Morning on the Lièvre (1962)
* Nahanni (1963)
* Anniversary (1964)
* Do Not Fold, Staple, Spindle or Mutilate and Ça n'est pas le temps des romans (1968)
* Vertige and At Home (1969)
* A Matter of Fat and Blake (1970)
* Don't Knock the Ox (1971)
* This Is a Photograph (1972)
* Goodbye Sousa (1973)
* Along These Lines (1975)
* Cooperage (1976)
* Spartree (1977)
* L'Affaire Bronswik (1978)
* Nails (1980)
* The Strongest Man in the World (1981)
* Zea (1982)
* Elvis Gratton (1983)
* Ted Baryluk's Grocery (1984)
* Charade (1985)
* George and Rosemary (1988)
* Saeed (1991)
* Arrowhead (1994)
* Les fleurs magiques (1995)
* The Home for Blind Women (1996)

Live Action Short
(1986–present)|

* The Edit (1986)
* I Need a Man Like You to Make My Dreams Come True (1987)
* The Mysterious Moon Men of Canada (1989)
* In Search of the Last Good Man (1990)
* Battle of the Bulge (1992)
* The Fairy Who Didn't Want to Be a Fairy Anymore (1993)
* The Hangman's Bride (1997)
* When Ponds Freeze Over (1998)
* Moving Day (1999)
* Le P'tit Varius (2000)
* The Heart of the World (2001)
* I Shout Love (2002)
* Noël Blank (2003)
* Capacité 11 personnes (2004)
* Milo 55160 (2005)
* Le rouge au sol (2006)
* Après tout (2007)
* Next Floor (2008)
* Danse Macabre (2009)
* Savage (2010)
* Doubles with Slight Pepper (2011)
* Throat Song (2012)
* Noah (2013)
* Hole (2014)
* She Stoops to Conquer (2015)
* Mutants (2016)
* Fluffy (2017)
* Fauve (2018)
* Pick (2019)
* Black Bodies (2020)
* Girls Shouldn't Walk Alone at Night (2021)
* Simo (2022)
* Motherland (2023)
* On a Sunday at Eleven (2024)

Animated Short
(1968–present)|

* Un enfant...un pays1 (1968)
* Walking (1969)
* To See or Not to See (1970)
* Evolution (1971)
* Dans la vie... (1972)
* The Family That Dwelt Apart (1973)
* The Owl Who Married a Goose (1975)
* The Street (1976)
* Spinnolio (1977)
* Afterlife (1978)
* Every Child (1980)
* The Big Snit (1986)
* Get a Job (1987)
* The Cat Came Back (1989)
* Juke-Bar (1990)
* Strings (1992)
* Pearl's Diner (1993)
* La vieille dame et les pigeons (1997)
* Bingo (1998)
* When the Day Breaks (1999)
* Village of Idiots (2000)
* The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg (2001)
* The Hungry Squid (2002)
* Falling in Love Again (2003)
* Ryan (2004)
* cNote (2005)
* The Danish Poet (2006)
* Madame Tutli-Putli (2007)
* Isabelle au bois dormant (2008)
* Runaway (2009)
* Lipsett Diaries (2010)
* Romance (2011)
* Paula (2012)
* Subconscious Password (2013)
* Me and My Moulton (2014)
* The Ballad of Immortal Joe (2015)
* Blind Vaysha (2016)
* The Tesla World Light (2017)
* Animal Behaviour (2018)
* Giant Bear (2019)
* Hot Flash (2020)
* Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman's Apprentice (2021)
* The Flying Sailor (2022)
* Where Rabbits Come From (2023)
* Maybe Elephants (2024)

1 These two films were given honorable mentions rather than officially winning the award, but are included here as no other winner was named above them.

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Prix Iris for Best Live Action Short Film

* Magical Words (1999)
* Atomic Saké (2000)
* Inséparables (2001)
* Remembrance (2002)
* Hit and Run (2003)
* Mammouth (2004)
* Papa (2005)
* The White Chapel (2006)
* The Dead Water (2007)
* Our Jail Is a Kingdom (2008)
* Next Floor (2009)
* Danse Macabre (2010)
* Opening Up (2011)
* Trotteur (2012)
* Where I Am (2013)
* An Extraordinary Person (2014)
* Life's a Bitch (2015)
* Maurice (2016)
* Mutants (2017)
* Pre-Drink (2018)
* Brotherhood (2019)
* Just Me and You (2020)
* Foam (2021)
* Like the Ones I Used to Know (2022)
* Invincible (2023)
* Summer of 2000 (2024)

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Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film

* Stealing Images (1989)
* Shaggie: Letters from Prison (1990)
* The Making of Monsters (1991)
* Letters of Transit (1992)
* Save My Lost Nigga Soul (1993)
* Frank's Cock (1994)
* Reconstruction (1995)
* Letters from Home (1996)
* Cotton Candy (1997)
* When Ponds Freeze Over (1998)
* Discharge (1999)
* The Hat (2000)
* FILM(dzama) (2001)
* Blue Skies (2002)
* Aspiration (2003)
* Man. Feel. Pain. (2004)
* Big Girl (2005)
* The Days (2006)
* Pool (2007)
* Block B (2008)
* Danse Macabre (2009)
* Little Flowers (2010)
* Doubles with Slight Pepper (2011)
* Keep a Modest Head (2012)
* Noah (2013)
* The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer (2014)
* Overpass (2015)
* Mutants (2016)
* Pre-Drink (2017)
* Brotherhood (2018)
* Delphine (2019)
* Benjamin, Benny, Ben (2020)
* Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman's Apprentice (2021)
* Simo (2022)
* Motherland (2023)
* Are You Scared to Be Yourself Because You Think That You Might Fail? (2024)

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