Foam (film)

Foam
Film poster
FrenchÉcume
Directed byOmar Elhamy
Written byOmar Elhamy
Paul Chotel
Jonathan Beaulieu-Cyr
Produced byPaul Chotel
Jonathan Beaulieu-Cyr
StarringHakim Loudyi
Abdelghafour Elaaziz
Papedame Diongue
CinematographyCasper Wolski
Edited byOmar Elhamy
Music byMelody McKiver
Production
company
Les Films Rôdeurs
Distributed byLes Films du 3 mars
Release date
  • February 24, 2020 (2020-02-24) (Berlin)
Running time
28 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Foam (French: Écume) is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Omar Elhamy and released in 2020. The film stars Hakim Loudyi as Hakim, a man whose return to work at a car wash following a stint in jail does not go as expected, when his boss announces that the car wash is closing.

The film premiered at the 70th Berlin Film Festival in February 2020. It had its Canadian premiere at the Festival du nouveau cinéma in October 2020, where it won the National Short Film Competition.

It was subsequently named to the Toronto International Film Festival's year-end Canada's Top Ten list for short films in 2020.

The film won the Prix Iris for Best Live Action Short Film at the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2021.