“Indian Summers”
Vincent, a junior contractor for hydro-electric dam extensions, is on a professional trip to northern Quebec in the fall. Instead of doing this new work, he decides to find this lake, "a great surface of water, which reflects our souls"...
Director Biography
Trained as a French editor, Nicolas Houver became a young director & scriptwriter with a first experience of fiction filmed in Quebec. Living in Paris, he edited several award-winning shorts from 2005 to 2021, one of which received The Silver Crane for Best Lithuanian Short Film 2013 (The Swimmer by Gabriele Urbonaite) and another one was part of the La Quinzaine en Action 2019 programme (La Hachouma by Achraf Ajraoui). Nicolas has also been editing feature films since 2009, one of which was selected at ACID 2010 (Flowers of Evil by David Dusa) as well as in many other renowned international festivals.
As a young director Nicolas is inspired by real life situations through his passion for documentaries to transpose them into fictional forms more comfortable to follow a fictional narrative. In 2012 he was part of the Berlinal Talents selection at the Berlin International Film Festival. In 2018 he followed a screenplay training course, and today Nicolas is developing new projects.