A secluded cabin in the forest becomes the site of multigenerational tensions and anxieties in this impeccably mounted coming-of-age drama.

A getaway at a secluded log cabin in the forest becomes the site of escalating, multigenerational tensions and anxieties in this disquieting, impeccably mounted coming-of-age drama from Quebecois filmmaker Philippe Lesage (Genesis).

Ostensibly a merry reunion between well-known film director Blake Cadieux (Arieh Worthalter) and his longtime friend and former collaborator Albert Gary (Paul Ahmarani), the vacation gradually becomes something far more complex and less stable, especially with the combustible admixture of Albert's teen son's best friend, Jeff (Noah Parker), and Albert's self-asserting daughter Aliocha (Aurélia Arandi-Longpré). Long-simmering middle-aged resentments surface, set against the anxieties of the young, all captured sensitively by Lesage, who in recent years has proven unparalleled in evoking the psychological contours of teenagers finding their paths through treacherous emotional landscapes.

Featuring thrillingly choreographed dinner sequences of mounting tension, Who by Fire confirms Lesage as a major contemporary filmmaker, with its assured tonal negotiation of the naturalistic and the oneiric, the joyous (especially an epic dance interlude to The B-52s) and the ominous.

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Cast & Crew

Actors:

•       Noah Parker as Jeff
•       Aurelia Arandi-Longpré as Aliocha
•       Antoine Marchand Gagnon as Max
•       Arieh Worthalter as Blake
•       Irène Jacob as Hélène

Director: Philippe Lesage

Producer: Galilé Marion-Gauvin

Additional Details

Label: KimStim

Genre: Drama

Language: French

Run Time: 155 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 06/10/25

UPC: 760137179467