The River's Lazy Flow

The River's Lazy Flow
FrenchLe courant faible de la rivière
Directed byJoël Vaudreuil
Written byJoël Vaudreuil
Produced byDavid Pierrat
CinematographyJoël Vaudreuil
Edited byJoël Vaudreuil
Music byJoël Vaudreuil
Animation byJoël Vaudreuil
Nicolas Moussette
Distributed byTravelling Distribution
Release date
  • June 2013 (2013-06) (Annecy)
Running time
9 minutes
CountryCanada

The River's Lazy Flow (French: Le courant faible de la rivière) is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Joël Vaudreuil and released in 2013.[1] The film centres on an older man who is at a river cabin with his family, and begins to reminisce about his teenage experience when he had a crush on a girl for the first time.[1]

The film premiered at the 2013 Annecy International Animation Film Festival,[2] and was screened at the 2013 Sommets du cinéma d'animation.[3]

The film won the Jutra Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 16th Jutra Awards in 2014.[4]

  1. ^ a b Nick Wangersky, "Le courant faible de la rivière (Review)". Hollywood North Magazine, January 4, 2016.
  2. ^ André Duchesne, "Cinéma d'animation: le Québec en force à Annecy". La Presse, March 31, 2013.
  3. ^ Odile Tremblay, "Menu éclaté aux 12es Sommets du cinéma d’animation". Le Devoir, November 14, 2013.
  4. ^ Manon Dumais, "Jutra 2014: Le triomphe de Louis Cyr". Voir, March 23, 2014.