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Pre-Drink (2017)

Pre-Drink poster
Directed by
Marc-Antoine Lemire
Genre
drama film
Country
Canada
Runtime
23 min
Rating
4.9 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A gay man and a transgender woman have been close friends for a long time. One night they get drunk and decide to have sex, which complicates their relationship.

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What happens

Pre-Drink is a Canadian dramatic short film by Marc-Antoine Lemire, which won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. The film stars Alex Trahan as Carl and Pascale Drevillon as Alexe, a gay man and a transgender woman whose longtime friendship is complicated when they drunkenly decide to have sex. In December, TIFF named the film to its annual Canada's Top Ten list of the ten best Canadian short films. The film received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards, and won the Prix Iris for Best Short Film at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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