Creatures of Chance

Feature Film | Fiction | Production | Expected in 2025

8 years old Lucia grows up with her Mexican-born family in a chimerical Montreal’s working-class neighborhood. She navigates this world nimbly, fascinated by insects and always searching for new talismans in wastelands. Between gambling games, that obsess her surroundings, her dissipated mother and her eccentric grandmother, Lucia tries to find her place and identity within this unique family clan.

Based on the story of Lula Carballo, published by Cheval d’août.

Screenwriter and Director

Nadine Gómez

Script Advisors

Meryam Joobeur
Juan Andrés Arango

Production

Rocío B. Fuentes
Giacomo Nudi

Financing

SODEC Emerging Creators Program
Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec

Markets, Labs and Forums

TIFF Filmmaker Lab 2022
SODEC Lab Immersion Cannes 2023

Distribution

H264 Distribution