Nadia, Butterfly
After retiring from swimming, Nadia struggles to define her identity outside of sports.
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Nadia, 23, decides to retire from professional swimming after the Olympic Games in order to escape a life of sacrifice. After her final race, she drifts out of control with nights of excess, but this momentary elation is unable to hide her inner struggle: defining her identity outside of sports.
"Selected to compete at the eventually cancelled 2020 Cannes Film Festival, 'Nadia, Butterfly' is a Canadian drama with duality. It is a fiction set, curiously, in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics -- which did not take place that year -- but plays a bit with reality: its protagonist is played by Canadian Katerine Savard, who is not actually an actress, but a professional butterfly swimmer with several records to her name. The film, with interventions from swimmers Ariane Mainville and Hilary Caldwell, deals with the life of sacrifice that high-performance athletes lead, capturing the motivations and contradictions of this journey."