Noël Blank

2003 film by Jean-François Rivard

2003 (2003)

Running time

24 minutesCountryCanadaLanguageFrench

Noël Blank is a Canadian short film, directed by Jean-François Rivard and released in 2003. The film stars Gilles Pelletier as Eddy, a man with Alzheimer's disease who temporarily leaves his nursing home to experience what is likely to be his last family Christmas.^[1] The cast also includes Sylvain Marcel, Pascale Desrochers and Patrice Dussault.

The film's title is a play on words, blending "Noël blanc", the French-language translation of the phrase "White Christmas", with the English-language word "blank".

The film won the Genie Award for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 24th Genie Awards.^[2]

References

^ "NOËL BLANK". Cinémathèque québécoise.
^ "'Les Invasions' finishes sweep". Regina Leader-Post, May 3, 2004.

External links

Noël Blank at IMDb

Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television for Best Animated Short, Best Live Action Short and Best Theatrical Short

Theatrical Short
(1949–1996)

Who Will Teach Your Child? (1949)
North Shore (1950)
After Prison, What? (1951)
Opera School (1952)
L'Homme aux oiseaux (1953)
Farewell Oak Street (1954)
High Tide in Newfoundland¹ (1955)
Gold (1956)
The Sceptre and the Mace (1958)
Money Minters, The Quest and The Tall Country (1959)
Royal River (1960)
Universe (1961)
Morning on the Lièvre (1962)
Nahanni (1963)
Anniversary (1964)
Do Not Fold, Staple, Spindle or Mutilate and Ça n'est pas le temps des romans (1968)
Vertige and At Home (1969)
A Matter of Fat and Blake (1970)
Don't Knock the Ox (1971)
This Is a Photograph (1972)
Goodbye Sousa (1973)
Along These Lines (1975)
Cooperage (1976)
Spartree (1977)
L'Affaire Bronswik (1978)
Nails (1980)
The Strongest Man in the World (1981)
Zea (1982)
Elvis Gratton (1983)
Ted Baryluk's Grocery (1984)
Charade (1985)
George and Rosemary (1988)
Saeed (1991)
Arrowhead (1994)
Les fleurs magiques (1995)
The Home for Blind Women (1996)

Live Action Short
(1986–present)

The Edit (1986)
I Need a Man Like You to Make My Dreams Come True (1987)
The Mysterious Moon Men of Canada (1989)
In Search of the Last Good Man (1990)
Battle of the Bulge (1992)
The Fairy Who Didn't Want to Be a Fairy Anymore (1993)
The Hangman's Bride (1997)
When Ponds Freeze Over (1998)
Moving Day (1999)
Le P'tit Varius (2000)
The Heart of the World (2001)
I Shout Love (2002)
Noël Blank (2003)
Capacité 11 personnes (2004)
Milo 55160 (2005)
Le rouge au sol (2006)
Après tout (2007)
Next Floor (2008)
Danse Macabre (2009)
Savage (2010)
Doubles with Slight Pepper (2011)
Throat Song (2012)
Noah (2013)
Hole (2014)
She Stoops to Conquer (2015)
Mutants (2016)
Fluffy (2017)
Fauve (2018)
Pick (2019)
Black Bodies (2020)
Girls Shouldn't Walk Alone at Night (2021)
Simo (2022)
Motherland (2023)

Animated Short
(1968–present)

Un enfant...un pays¹ (1968)
Walking (1969)
To See or Not to See (1970)
Evolution (1971)
Dans la vie... (1972)
The Family That Dwelt Apart (1973)
The Owl Who Married a Goose (1975)
The Street (1976)
Spinnolio (1977)
Afterlife (1978)
Every Child (1980)
The Big Snit (1986)
Get a Job (1987)
The Cat Came Back (1989)
Juke-Bar (1990)
Strings (1992)
Pearl's Diner (1993)
La vieille dame et les pigeons (1997)
Bingo (1998)
When the Day Breaks (1999)
Village of Idiots (2000)
The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg (2001)
The Hungry Squid (2002)
Falling in Love Again (2003)
Ryan (2004)
cNote (2005)
The Danish Poet (2006)
Madame Tutli-Putli (2007)
Isabelle au bois dormant (2008)
Runaway (2009)
Lipsett Diaries (2010)
Romance (2011)
Paula (2012)
Subconscious Password (2013)
Me and My Moulton (2014)
The Ballad of Immortal Joe (2015)
Blind Vaysha (2016)
The Tesla World Light (2017)
Animal Behaviour (2018)
Giant Bear (2019)
Hot Flash (2020)
Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman's Apprentice (2021)
The Flying Sailor (2022)
Where Rabbits Come From (2023)

¹ These two films were given honorable mentions rather than officially winning the award, but are included here as no other winner was named above them.