La maison des folles

  • 8 x 12 min
  • Production Co.: Les Productions St-Laurent Web
  • Producerers: Lou Bélanger, Rafael Perez, Sophie Samson
  • Writer: Mara Joly
  • Director:  Mara Joly
  • Platform/Broadcaster:  TV5.ca, telequebec.tv
  • Location of Principal Photography: Varennes
  • Location of Prod. Co.: Quebec and Montreal

An improbable sisterhood develops in the basement of a home for adolescents where Sahara discovers four stubborn “crazy” adolescents.  It is the year 2000, the internet has barely arrived.  Sahara is a black Quebecoise who grew up with a bourgeois education in Africa. She becomes the unifying link with the “crazies” in the home. Her past as the daughter of a diplomat helps her to unite them and find balance. In return they help her to learn how to be an orphan with living parents.