Montreal, Winter 2002. Stéphane, 19 years old, fan of Metal, student in graphic design, dreams of becoming an illustrator. But for months he has been caught in a threatening spiral: he is addicted to games. Indebted, without an apartment, avoiding his friends to whom he owes money, Stéphane takes a job as a dishwasher in a restaurant in a major Italian restaurant in Montreal in order to get by. There, he will meet Bébert, a cook who burns the candle at both ends, and Greg, a waiter with disreputable actions. Will Stéphane make it through this new job or will he fall into a downward spiral of bad choices?
Charles, Louis, and Guillaume are three friends who live together as roommates in the same house, where they spend all of their free time still playing the same Farador campaign they began as teenagers; their other friend Paul has recently moved out of the house and abandoned the game to live with his girlfriend. When Charles's sister Kim, who has recently broken up with her longtime Belgian boyfriend Tom after realizing that she might be a lesbian, moves into Paul's vacated room, her presence, and her determination to push her brother to finally take the plunge on his unrealized ambition to write and publish an erotic fantasy novel, upset the group dynamics and force them to make one last push to finally reach the Castle of Farador and end the game.
Five people are recruited by the Viking Society to collaborate on the first manned mission to Mars. They were chosen because of the psychological similarities they share with the five astronauts who will travel to the red planet. These volunteers therefore form a B-team of alter egos who will experience the adventure in parallel, behind closed doors on Earth.
Seb, mariachi musician by night and guitar teacher by day, is by all accounts, a failed artist. Like a ghost wandering through his own life, Seb follows outside expectations and comically drifts further away from his dream of becoming a songwriter.
Seb, mariachi musician by night and guitar teacher by day, is by all accounts, a failed artist. Like a ghost wandering through his own life, Seb follows outside expectations and comically drifts further away from his dream of becoming a songwriter.
Eric K. Boulianne is one of the most prolific Canadian screenwriters of his generation. He explores auteur cinema as much as mainstream cinema. He wrote or co-wrote, among others, the short film Little Brother (Petit Frère) (selected at the 53rd Cannes Critics’ Week and screened at more than 60 international festivals), the sequel to the popular success De Père En Flic (bigger Canadian box office in 2017) as well as PRANK (selected for the 31st Venice Film Festival Critics’ Week). Since 2019, no less than 6 feature films scripted or co-scripted by Eric K. Boulianne have been released: Before We Explode (Avant Qu’on Explose) (nominated in the best screenplay category at the Québec Cinéma 2019 gala), Compulsive Liar (Menteur) (biggest box office Canadian in 2019), Les Barbares de la Malbaie, Viking (in competition in the Platform section of TIFF 2022), Farador (in which he also plays the main role) and The Dishwasher (Le Plongeur) (nearly a million at the Quebec box office) . Recently, Making Babies (Faire Un Enfant), a short film he wrote and directed, had its international premiere at the Locarno Film Festival where it won the prize for Best Director in the Pardi di domani section.