When Adam Changes (, lit. "Adam Changes Slowly") is a Canadian animated comedy-drama feature film, directed by Joël Vaudreuil and released in 2023.Jamie Lang, "Check Out The Weird And Wonderful World Of Annecy Contrechamp Player ‘Adam Change Lentement’". Cartoon Brew, June 14, 2023. The film centres on Adam (Simon Lacroix), an impressionable teenager growing up in smalltown Quebec who has the unusual quirk that each time somebody makes a comment about his body, whether fair or unfair, his body actually changes to match the comment.
The voice cast also includes Noémie O'Farrell, Sophie Desmarais, Marc Beaupré, Isabelle Brouillette, Antoine Vézina, Julianne Côté, Fabien Cloutier, Alexis Lefebvre, Sophie Cadieux and Gaston Lepage.Charles-Henri Ramond, "Adam change lentement en salle le 7 juin". Films du Québec, May 8, 2024.
Distribution An excerpt from the film was screened as a work in progress at the 2022 Sommets du cinéma d'animation.Jamie Lang, "Montreal’s Sommets Starts Today With Reformatted Canadian Animation Competition". Cartoon Brew, May 10, 2022.
The completed film premiered at the 2023 Annecy International Animation Film Festival.Charles-Henri Ramond, "Adam change lentement: première mondiale à Annecy". Films du Québec, May 12, 2023. It had its Canadian premiere at the 2023 Ottawa International Animation Festival,Mercedes Milligan, "OIAF Spotlights Seven Animated Features in Competition". Animation Magazine, July 10, 2023. and screened in the Northern Lights program at the 2023 Vancouver International Film Festival and the national competition at the 2023 Festival du nouveau cinéma.
The film was commercially released in June 2024.Silvia Galipeau, "La comédie adolescente revue, corrigée et illustrée". La Presse, June 7, 2024.
Awards The film received a Prix Iris nomination for Best First Film at the 26th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2024.Éric Lavallée, "Prix Iris 2024: Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person Leads “Quebec Oscars” Noms". Ioncinema, October 9, 2024.
The film was shortlisted for the 2025 Prix collégial du cinéma québécois.Charles-Henri Ramond, "Les finalistes du 14e PCCQ". Films du Québec, January 16, 2025.
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