ENDORPHINE
Genre
Drama
Language
VOSTA
Duration
83
Rating
Synopsis
SURREALIST SATURDAYS
Twelve-year-old Simone feels painfully disconnected from the world after witnessing the brutal death of her mother. Simone, a solitary multimedia artist in her twenties, is struggling to control her crushing panic attacks and keep her day job in an underground parking lot. And Simone, a sixty-year-old physicist, is giving a conference on the nature of time. The three Simones’ lives are intertwined in a labyrinthine meta-world where timeframes overlap, characters multiply, and storylines repeat and expand. But, for all its shuttling forward and back through time, ENDORPHINE remains grounded in the Simones’ inner lives — it’s an artistic examination of scientific phenomena that also poignantly explores how people deal with trauma.
PROGRAMMER’S NOTE: André Turpin, best known as a cinematographer on Maelström, Incendies, and Mommy, turns to directing with ENDORPHINE, a vivid ode to the surrealist visions of René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, and Luis Buñuel. Featuring standout performances from Sophie Nélisse and Théodore Pellerin, the film extends the tradition of Québécois surrealist cinema
Release year
2015
Release date
May 09, 2026
Directed by
André Turpin
Country
Canada (Québec)
Actors
Sophie Nélisse, Mylène Mackay, Lise Roy, Guy Thauvette, Monia Chokri