Oasis

Oasis

Directed by Justine Martin

Genre court métrage
Country Canada (Québec)
Year 2022
Length 14m10
Formats DCP
Sound 5.1
Version VOF, STA

Synopsis

At the dawn of their teenage years, Raphaël and Rémi are twins who see their fusional attachment crumble while one of them, suffering from an increasingly marked disability, remains a prisoner of childhood. During one last summer surrounded by nature, time seems to want to stand still.

Themes

adolescence, teenagers, childhood, preteen, brothers, neurodiversity

Biography

Justine Martin is a screenwriter and director based in Montreal. She is a Cinema Graduate from Concordia University. Feminism, environmental awareness, and childhood are themes that inspire her stories. She is currently working on the development of her next fiction film while writing a web series. Oasis is her first documentary. 



Cast

Raphaël Cormier 
Rémi Cormier

Team

Production

Louis-Emmanuel Gagné-Brochu  (Déjà Vu)

Script

Justine Martin

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Myriam Payette

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Kayla Fragman

EDITING Félix Bouffard-Dumas
Sound Christophe Voyer
Music Louis-Joseph Cliche

Awards

RiverRun Film Festival |2023| *Best Documentary Short
Prix collégial du cinéma québécois (PCCQ), Canada |2023| *Best Short Film 
Vues du Québec, France |2023| *Grand Prize, Audience Award
Solveig Anspach, Iceland |2023| *Solveig Anspach Award
L’Art est au 3e, Canada |2023| *Best Documentary Short
Gala Prends ça court!, Canada |2022| *CINELUME award, UNIS TV award, ROMEO award, COLONELLE FILMS award



Festivals

IDFA, Netherlands |2022|
Dok Leipzig, Germany |2022|
Clermont Ferrand International Film Festival, France |2023|

Kurzfilm Hamburg Short Film Festival (Mo & Friese), Germany |2023|
Festival du nouveau cinéma, Canada |2022|
Gala Prends ça court!, Canada |2022|
FIN Kids Festival, Canada |2022|
BUFF Int. Children and Young Film Festival, Sweden |2022|
Krakow Film Festival, Poland |2022|
FIPADOC, France |2022|
DOKKINO - Documentary Film Event for Children and Youth, Finland |2022|
One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic |2022|
Docaviv, Israel |2022|
FICFA, Canada |2022|
Vues du Québec, France |2022|
RiverRun Film Festival, US |2023|
Prix collégial du cinéma québécois (PCCQ), Canada |2023|
Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, Canada |2023|
Vues sur mer, Canada |2023|
Regard sur le court métrage au Saguenay, Canada |2023|
Zagreb Dox Documentary Film Festival, Croatia |2023|
Sehsüchte Filmfestival, Germany |2023|
FIPADOC, France |2023|
The Kids Kino IFF, Poland |2023|
Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth, Canada |2023|
L’Art est au 3e, Canada |2023|
DOC-Cévennes, France |2023|
Docudays, Ukraine |2023|
The Extraordinary Film festival, Belgium |2023|
Zagreb Dox Documentary Film Festival, Croatia |2023|
Indy Shorts Heartland Film Festival, US |2023|
Doc Edge, New Zealand |2023|