Chloé Robichaud : 2013
Sarah Prefers to Run
Sarah is a gifted young middle-distance runner. On the running track she is driven and determined, unquestionably sure of who she is and where she is going. Off the track, it's a different story, with her private life demonstrating no such direction. Her life changes when she's offered admission to Québec's best university athletics programme, in Montréal – far from her suburban Québec City home. Sarah doesn't have her mother's financial support for the move, or any support at all: her mother worries that leaving will be bad for Sarah's health and life. But Sarah is stubborn, and moves to Montréal anyway, with her friend, Antoine. Though barely out of their teens, they enter into a marriage of convenience because they want the best scholarships and loans. Marriage turns out to be completely different from what the naïve 20-year-olds expected, and new relationships lead Sarah to start understanding what she truly wants. She doesn't want to hurt anyone with the choices she makes, it's just that she loves running more than anything else. Chloé Robichaud's feature debut is an effortless and honest study of a young woman trying to understand exactly who she is. Her film premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at Festival de Cannes 2013.
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