Lumen

short film | Fiction | 2024

Claude, 70 years old, lives alone and compulsively buys lamps online, almost daily. An obsession that leads her to want, at all costs, a small Victorian porcelain lamp, a bit kitsch. But just when she thinks the deal is done with the saleswoman and she is about to brave the bad weather to go get it, the unthinkable happens: the object has been sold to someone else. Claude sees red. The lamp is hers and she is determined not to let it fall into the hands of other buyers, and consequently lose her chance to be around people, even briefly, in her dreary day.

Screenplay and Direction

Stéphanie Bélanger

Production

Rocío B. Fuentes
Giacomo Nudi

With

Carmen Sylvestre (Claude)
Caroline Bélanger (Anne-So)
Benoît Arcand (Conjoint)

Cinematographer

Yannick Nolin

1st Assist. Director

Marie Ka

Art Directors

Yza Nouiga
Ribo Buret

Sound

René Portillo

Wardrobe

Carlos Soriano

Make-up and Hairstyle

Guy Hermon

Associate Producer

Ginette Petit (Outsiders Films)

Executive Producer

François Gauvreau

Distribution and World Sales

Spira