We first took note of Quebecois filmmaker Alexandre Dostie with his back to back shorts in the TIFF-premiered short ‘Mutants’ (2016) and the Sundance-showcased ‘I’ll End Up in Jail’ (2019). While awaiting his feature film debut, the hyphenate filmmaker—a poet and now a playwright with a project (Kiki et la colère) launching in early 2026 —has returned to the short format with ‘Boa.’ A radical departure from his last feature yet retaining his signature twisted noir humor, Boa stars Dimitri Doré (Bruno Reidal, Confessions of a Murderer). Dostie ventures to France for a tale that explores a grotesque physical transformation, where a body morphs into something almost non-human.… Read the rest
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