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YEGOLÉ, MY LOVE

a film by Renaud Gélinas

documentary | 11:11 minutes | 2026

YEGOLÉ, MON AMOUR

Language: Spanish + STE

shooting format: 4k, Lomokino - couleur

ratio 16:9 et 1.85 |   Son 5.1  

DCP - ProRes - H264​

country: Mexico 

Specs

Logline

Amid the joy and fatigue of her quinceañera, fifteen-year-old Cecilia begins to question whether her future lies in Yegolé or beyond its borders.

Synopsis - short

In Yegolé, a village in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, Cecilia celebrates her quinceañera — a traditional Mexican coming-of-age celebration for fifteen-year-old girls —surrounded by her family and community. Through the beauty and weariness of both festivity and everyday life, Cecilia feels a growing tension within her: to stay or to leave Yegolé, as she approaches adulthood.

Synopsis - long

After a first stay in Yegolé, where I met the López Sánchez family with my sister, I was deeply moved by Cecilia’s dilemma: remaining in her village, close to nature and her loved ones, or leaving for other urban horizons. Invited to her quinceañera, the traditional Mexican celebration of a young girl’s fifteenth birthday, I felt compelled to film both the daily life of Cecilia and her family, as well as the way they elevate it through celebration. Seeking less to explain than to let something emerge, the film moves between fiction and documentary, dream and reality, the everyday and the festive, allowing the viewer the freedom to interpret Cecilia’s search for balance.

Cast

Charlot    Joey Bélanger        
Maëlle    Florence Gonzalez        
David    Aksel Leblanc        
Benjamin    Jayden Henry        
Audet    Jayden Boyd        
M. Duval    Rémi Goulet        
Mme Lorain    Carolanne Foucher        

FESTIVALS: Awards and official selections

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DIRECTOR - BIO

A native of Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Renaud Gélinas is an emerging filmmaker now based in Montreal. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in cinema from the Université de Montréal in 2023, he directed several short films, including The Wind Will Carry Her (2024) and, more recently, Yégolé, mi amor, a docu-fiction shot in the Oaxaca region of Mexico. His cinema explores the complexity of human relationships, memory, and our connection to the environment, all within an aesthetic that oscillates between mystery and realism.

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

After a first stay in Yegolé, where I met the López Sánchez family with my sister, I was deeply moved by Cecilia’s dilemma: remaining in her village, close to nature and her loved ones, or leaving for other urban horizons. Invited to her quinceañera, the traditional Mexican celebration of a young girl’s fifteenth birthday, I felt compelled to film both the daily life of Cecilia and her family, as well as the way they elevate it through celebration. Seeking less to explain than to let something emerge, the film moves between fiction and documentary, dream and reality, the everyday and the festive, allowing the viewer the freedom to interpret Cecilia’s search for balance.

Director's Filmography

Boreal Tenderness / 15 min. / 2026
Yégolé, mi amor / 12 min. / 2026
The Wind Will Carry Her / 25 min. / 2024 / Reel Out Queer Film Festival, Capital City Film Festival, AVIFF Festival du film d'artistes de Marseille
Antoine by the Sea / 23 min. / 2023
The Collector / 6 min. / 2022 / Concordia Film Festival, Festival du film étudiant de Québec, Iowa Independant Film Festival

Team

Screenplay and direction: Renaud Gélinas
Director of photography: Lucrezia Galli
Art direction: N/A
Editing: Renaud Gélinas
Music and sound design: Michel Robichaud
Sound mixing: Benoît Dame

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Contact

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