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Magical Flowers

French	Les Fleurs magiques

Directed by	Jean-Marc Vallée
Written by	Jean-Marc Vallée
Produced by	Jean-Marc Vallée
Starring	Marc-André Grondin André Champagne Geneviève Angers Geneviève Rioux
Cinematography	Pierre Gill
Edited by	Jean-Marc Vallée
Music by	Serge Arcuri Luc Aubry
Production company	J.M. Films
Release date	1995 (1995)
Running time	21 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	French

Magical Flowers (French: Les Fleurs magiques) is a Canadian dramatic short film, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée and released in 1995.^[1] The film stars Marc-André Grondin as DJ, a young boy struggling to cope with his father's alcoholism.^[1]

The film won the Genie Award for Best Theatrical Short Film at the 16th Genie Awards.^[2]

A sequel, Magical Words (Les Mots magiques), was released in 1998.^[1] At the time, the two films were planned as part of a trilogy, with the third film to be titled Les Temps magiques ("Magical Times"), but the third film was never completed.^[1]

References

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Marie-Claude Dionne, "Les Fleurs magiques". Séquences, September/October 1995.
^ "Three Genies for Le Confessionnal: Margaret's Museum wins six". Calgary Herald, January 15, 1996.

External links

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Magical Flowers at IMDb

v t e Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television for Best Animated Short, Best Live Action Short and Best Theatrical Short
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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.

v t e Jean-Marc Vallée
Feature films	Black List (1995) Los Locos (1997) Loser Love (1999) C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) The Young Victoria (2009) Café de Flore (2011) Dallas Buyers Club (2013) Wild (2014) Demolition (2015)
Short films	Stereotypes (1991) Magical Flowers (1995) Magical Words (1998)
Television	Big Little Lies (2017) Sharp Objects (2018)

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