Saguenay international
short film festival

Synopsis

Bad Seeds takes us to a bizarre world populated by carnivorous plants that can shapeshift the way a chameleon changes colour. The director deftly connects growth with rivalry and evolution with competition, crafting an increasingly shocking duel peppered with allusions to the western, the Cold War, board games, and much more.

Production :
Office national du film du Canada and Unité Centrale
Distribution :
Office national du film du Canada
Contact :
Music :
Robert-Marcel Lepage
Sound designer :
Olivier Calvert
Screenplay :
Claude Cloutier
Editing :
Guillaume Fortin

In competition for :


Jury award

Best animation short

Public award

FIPRESCI award

Direction
  • Claude Cloutier

    Claude Cloutier originally gained fame as a comic-book artist and cartoonist, penning the celebrated series La légende des Jean-Guy and Gilles la Jungle contre Méchant-Man. He went on to make several animation films produced by the NFB: The Persistent Peddler (1988, in competition at the Cannes Film Festival), Overdose (1994), From the Big Bang to Tuesday Morning (2000), Sleeping Betty (2007, winner of several Canadian and international awards), The Trenches (2010), Interférence (2014) and Carface (2015, winner of the Guy L. Coté award for best animation) and Bad Seeds (2020).