The Train

Magical Realist Film
French
106 minutes
2025

Québec, 1960s. Agathe, an asthmatic child, lives with her mother Thérèse (Larissa Corriveau), a melancholy artist. The whistle of a train passing behind their house fuels Agathe’s fantasy of a parallel world where travellers from a dystopian future voyage outside the laws of time. As a teenager, Agathe meets Frank (Lennikim), a young writer who will help her cross the boundary between present and future.

 

Team

With

Larissa Corriveau, Electra Codina Morelli, Thalie Rhainds, Jacques Nicolini, Lennikim, Christopher Heyerdahl, Luc Proulx, Maxim Gaudette

Written and directed by

Marie Brassard

Cinematography

Mathieu Laverdière

Production Design

Antonin Sorel

Costume Design

Éric Poirier

Editing

Amélie Labrèche

Sound Design

Olivier Calvert

Composer

Alexander Macsween

Executive Producer

Pierre Even

Line Producers

François Reid, Yanick Savard

Produced by

Catherine Chagnon

 

Financing

SODEC, Telefilm Canada

Markets

2025 Telefilm Canada First Look Initiative in Berlin, 2022 Rencontres de coproduction francophone in Marseille, 2022 Telefilm Canada Producers without Borders Initiative in Berlin, 2019 Netflix-BANFF Diversity of Voices Initiative

 

Distribution in Canada

Axia Films