Claude Demers
Claude Demers directed his first feature, The Invention of Love, in 2000, which was followed by a documentary trilogy: Barbers, A Men's Story (2006), The Ladies in Blue (2009) and Where I'm From (2014). In 2016, he directed My Last Summer (2016), a short fiction film which received 17 awards in several country. Poetic and humane, his films have received awards and been selected in internationals festivals, such as Rotterdam, São Paulo, Palm Springs, Hot Docs, La Rochelle, RIDM, Vancouver, Hot Docs Interfilm-Berlin and European Independant festival. His latest film, A Woman, My Mother, won an Award in the National Competition at the Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (2019).
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Where I'm From
This feature documentary represents a quest that is both personal and universal. Director Claude Demers revisits the working-class neighbourhood of Verdun where he grew up and asks questions about the mysteries of his origins and his formative years, which were marked by abandonment. Bastien and Cédric, two young boys who are discovering the world around them, serve as the narrator’s alter egos...
A Woman, My Mother
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\*A Woman, My Mother\* tells the story of a woman who did not want to have children. This woman is the mother of filmmaker Claude Demers, who sets out to find her. A poetic work at the frontier of documentary and the imaginary, carried by the urgency of exorcising the past to better embrace the future.
Where I'm From
This feature documentary represents a quest that is both personal and universal. Director Claude Demers revisits the working-class neighbourhood of Verdun where he grew up and asks questions about the mysteries of his origins and his formative years, which were marked by abandonment. Bastien and Cédric, two young boys who are discovering the world around them, serve as the narrator’s alter egos...
A Woman, My Mother
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\*A Woman, My Mother\* tells the story of a woman who did not want to have children. This woman is the mother of filmmaker Claude Demers, who sets out to find her. A poetic work at the frontier of documentary and the imaginary, carried by the urgency of exorcising the past to better embrace the future.
