As part of its Long Play program, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) will present two films from 21 year-old Quebecois filmmaker, Xavier Dolan. Screening from 7 to 28 April will be Dolan's new feature film, Heartbeats (2010), along with his award-winning directorial debut, I Killed My Mother (2009).

An account of two people's descent into love and all the madness and mixed emotions they experience along the way, Heartbeats was written by Dolan on a train trip to Toronto in 2009. Along with I Killed My Mother, it is the second feature film that he has written, directed and starred in.

A tragi-comedy set within a world of cigarettes, parties and casual sex, Heartbeats is the story of two good friends, Francis (Xavier Dolan) and Marie (Monia Chokri), who fall hopelessly in love with the newest addition to their friendship group, Nicolas (Niels Schneider). As Francis and Marie compete for Nicolas' affections, their infatuation becomes all consuming and their friendship begins to disintegrate.