Nadia, Butterfly

Nadia, Butterfly (2020)

While young and in her prime, Nadia decides to retire from pro swimming after the Olympic Games; to escape a rigid life of sacrifice. After her very last race, Nadia drifts into nights of excess punctuated by episodes of self-doubt. But even this transitional numbness cannot conceal her true inner quest: defining her identity outside the world of elite sports.

Date of release
2020-09-18
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (22)
Runtime
1h 47m
Genres
Drama
Director
Pascal Plante

Casting

Interesting facts

Nadia, Butterfly is a 2020 Canadian sports drama film, directed by Pascal Plante and released in 2020.

Production and distribution

Plante wrote the film in part based on his own experiences as a competitive swimmer who tried out, but did not qualify, to represent Canada at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He has described the film as "basically a film about the post-Olympic blues, the very tipping point of that transition from being an athlete to having to redefine herself and understanding what it means to leave it all behind".

The film was named as an Official Selection of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival, but was not screened due to the cancellation of the physical festival in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. It instead premiered at the 2020 Quebec City Film Festival, and had its commercial premiere on September 18, 2020.

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