Faggot (2017)

Original title

Tapette

Directed by

Olivier Perrier

Genre

drama

Country

Canada

Runtime

10 min

Rating

2.7 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage hockey player in rural Quebec grapples with whether to tell his teammates he is gay. The film follows his internal struggle as he navigates fear and the desire for acceptance.

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What happens

Faggot (French: Tapette) is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Olivier Perrier and released in 2016. The film centres on Alex Girard (Robin L'Houmeau), a young junior hockey player in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec who is struggling with whether to come out as gay to his teammates. Perrier, a film student at Concordia University at the time of making the film, won the Emerging Canadian Artist award at the 2017 Inside Out Film and Video Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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