Graduation Short Film Competition
Awakening Night
Directed by Julie-Ann Déry
Country Canada
Year 2025
Runtime 3′
Suspended between annoyance and surrender, the protagonist ultimately gives in, diving into her sleepless night as one enters a forest. It is a forced odyssey she would have gladly done without.
Julie-Ann Déry
Julie-Ann Déry graduated from the Film Animation program at Concordia University in Montréal. Straddling fiction and experimental cinema, her films seek to evoke intimate emotions through allegory. She favors analog techniques, drawn to the tactile and irresistible charm of natural media.
