Goddess of the Fireflies (French: La déesse des mouches à feu) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette and released in 2020.
[1] An adaptation of the novel by Geneviève Pettersen,[2] the film centres on the coming of age of Catherine (Kelly Depeault), a teenage girl living in a small town in Quebec in the early 1990s.
[1] The cast includes Caroline Néron and Normand D'Amour as Catherine's parents, Éléonore Loiselle as her best friend Marie-Ève, and Robin L'Houmeau, Noah Parker, Antoine DesRochers and Marine Johnson as her classmates.
Kelly Depeault was 17 years old at the time of filming the movie in which she has some nude and explicit sex scenes.
[1] It was subsequently screened at the 2020 Quebec City Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix.