79 minutes – Drama
Language: French, English subtitles
Festival release date: September 2021 (San Sebastian Film Festival, Spain)
Release date: February 25, 2022 (Montréal)
Production company: g11c
Canadian distributor: FunFilm
International sales: h264

Alexandre, un formateur pour l’armement des douaniers canadiens, retourne à son village natal après avoir été diagnostiqué par son employeur pour sexualité compulsive. Alors qu’il se lied’amitié avec une pilote de course islandaise, le protagoniste se voit placé sous surveillance par des enquéteurs de la police qui travaillent à faire la lumière sur une affaire de dessins caractère sexuel qui trouble la paix au village.

Alexandre, an instructor at the Canadian customs college, returns home to his small town after his employer places him on compulsory leave. As he forms a new friendship with a female Icelandic drag racer, he finds himself under surveillance by police investigators trying to get to the bottom of the sexually explicit drawings that have been troubling the town.

Le bruit des moteurs (The noise of engines) was made with the financial participation of Telefilm Canada, the Talent Fund, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Quebec Film and Television Tax Credit Program – SODEC management as well as the support of Main Film, Deux Huit Huit and Aspartame Jack.