The River's Lazy Flow (2013)

Directed by

Joël Vaudreuil

Country

Canada

Runtime

9 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An older man at a family river cabin remembers his first teenage crush. The film shows him thinking back on that youthful experience.

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What happens

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. 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. The film premiered at the 2013 Annecy International Animation Film Festival, and was screened at the 2013 Sommets du cinéma d'animation. The film won the Jutra Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 16th Jutra Awards in 2014. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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