Sofia Bohdanowicz
Sofia Bohdanowicz is an award-winning filmmaker from Toronto and founder of the production company Maison du Bonheur. Retrospectives of her work have been shown at BAFICI, Cinemateca de Bogotà, DocLisboa, and the Festival du nouveau cinéma, among others. In 2017, she was awarded the Jay Scott Award by the Toronto Film Critics Association, and in 2018 she was nominated for the Rogers Award for Best Canadian Film for her documentary Happiness House. Her third feature, MS Slavic 7, premiered at the Berlinale and was exhibited at the Harvard Film Archive. Her fourth feature, A Woman Escapes, co-directed with filmmakers Burak Çevik and Blake Williams, had its world premiere in international competition at FIDMarseille. She was recently named one of the 22 most influential people in Canadian cinema by Barry Hertz in the Globe and Mail. She is currently developing her fifth feature film entitled Opus 28.
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Never Eat Alone
Joan has a dream and shares a secret with her granddaughter: before she met her grandfather, she loved a man with whom she starred in a TV show in the 50s. He almost followed her to the altar. Joan wants Audrey to find this man. Written by the two actresses, Joan Benac and Deragh Campbell, and filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz, \*Never Eat Alone\* is a film that navigates the spaces of loneliness and...
A Drownful Brilliance of Wings
A Drownful Brilliance of Wings
Duration: 16 minutesBased on the poem _Arriving_ by Gillian Sze, the film delves into her family’s history and studies the relationship between her father, grandfather and herself. Through the examining of an inherited stamp collection, the cultivating of plants and the preparing of wonton soup, the piece investigates the mechanics of capture and the interwoven resonances between film and poetry.
Maison du bonheur
About to turn 30, with 30 rolls of film, a Bolex, and a sound recorder in her suitcase, a woman (Sofia) decides to capture the domestic day-to-day in the Maison du Bonheur over the course of 30 days. The guardian of this good home is Juliane, an astrologer who has lived in the Haussmannian apartment for over 50 years. Her balconies are drenched with hydrangeas to cheer onlookers and to keep the...
Never Eat Alone
Joan has a dream and shares a secret with her granddaughter: before she met her grandfather, she loved a man with whom she starred in a TV show in the 50s. He almost followed her to the altar. Joan wants Audrey to find this man. Written by the two actresses, Joan Benac and Deragh Campbell, and filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz, \*Never Eat Alone\* is a film that navigates the spaces of loneliness and...
A Drownful Brilliance of Wings
A Drownful Brilliance of Wings
Duration: 16 minutesBased on the poem _Arriving_ by Gillian Sze, the film delves into her family’s history and studies the relationship between her father, grandfather and herself. Through the examining of an inherited stamp collection, the cultivating of plants and the preparing of wonton soup, the piece investigates the mechanics of capture and the interwoven resonances between film and poetry.
Maison du bonheur
About to turn 30, with 30 rolls of film, a Bolex, and a sound recorder in her suitcase, a woman (Sofia) decides to capture the domestic day-to-day in the Maison du Bonheur over the course of 30 days. The guardian of this good home is Juliane, an astrologer who has lived in the Haussmannian apartment for over 50 years. Her balconies are drenched with hydrangeas to cheer onlookers and to keep the...
