Justine Gauthier
Editing
Biography
Justine Gauthier is a Montreal-based director and editor. L'appartement, her first short film, was rewarded at Regard festival and traveled around the world. As an editor, she collaborated, among others, with Monia Chokri (La Femme de mon frère) and Philippe Falardeau (Le temps des framboises).
Known For

Sophia, a brilliant doctoral student, has always maintained a symbiotic relationship with her brother Karim. The arrival of a new lover in Karim’s life significantly alters their dynamic.
A Brother’s Love

Against the voracious concrete and a ruthless developer, a poet stands tall, the last bulwark against oblivion, like a Gaul defying Caesar. He gathers voices from the past, revives memories, and weaves an ode to Ville Jacques-Cartier's working-class heritage, a haven where hopes and struggles once echoed.
Cardboard City

Sisters of Wrestling paints an intimate portrait of Azaelle, LuFisto and Loue O'Farrell, three ring warriors for whom wrestling is both a passionate love and an outlet from everyday life.
Sisters of Wrestling

During the holidays, Denis finds himself spending Christmas dinner with his lover Carl's family. Fiercely Catholic and stubbornly traditional, Carl's family are completely unaware of their son's relationship with Denis. However, a psychological cat and mouse duel takes place between Denis and Ruby, the six-year-old spoiled rotten niece of Carl.
Ruby Full of Shit

Lili, a feisty 10-year-old girl, has always swam topless. When her parents force her to wear a bikini top for a trip to the water park, she rebels: why should she hide her flat chest when her friends, all boys, don't have to?
Death to the Bikini!

The film follows Rémi, a man in his fifties who raises bison in the Laurentides region. One morning, while working, he comes across a six-year-old boy in pajamas, Hugo, on his land, who claims to be looking for his father among the bison.
BIGFOOT

Johanie, the single mother of a dysfunctional family, takes a dim view of the arrival of Ian and his dog in the neighborhood. Like a trench dividing the two camps, the back alley becomes the witness of a rivalry where prejudice, fascination and frustration mingle slyly with the sound of barking.
Mad Dog

Nathalie, an 18 year old babysitter from Montréal, is looking after a little girl in the Ontarian countryside. The clerk at the local video rental store gives them a mysterious tape. When they finally come home to play it, a horrific and frightful night begins for The Babysitter.
The Babysitter

Gabrielle and Yoan are 18 years old. Even though they both grew up in Temiscamingue, their aspirations are opposite. While Yoan wants to leave the area to break away from his loneliness and explore his homosexuality, Gabrielle is torn at the thought of going over a hundred kilometers away from home to carry on with her studies.
Passage

The Benevolents (Les bienveillants) takes us into the world of Tel-Aide Montreal call center, as we follow a group of future volunteers. Through an intimate treatment, the film seeks to recall the importance of vigilant ears in a society of loneliness.
The Benevolents

It’s Halloween season and Lucy wants to prank her sister Maggie by giving her a good scare. However, Lucy is the one who’s about to be terrified.
No One Will Ever Believe You

Mamita returns to Peru in order to attend her daughter’s wedding. She will soon have to go back to work in Montreal and provide for those she cherishes.
Mamita

Lisa is spending some quality time with her boyfriend in a cabin in the woods. She doesn't suspect that an angry witch, jealous of her ingenuous beauty, is about to strike her with sadistic violence.
Vicious Are the Ways of a Witch

Followed by a mysterious stalker dressed in a motorcycle suit, Lisa seeks the security of her old family cabin. Unfortunately, she can’t escape her dark memories.
The Eight Fingers of Death

Between tension and tenderness, a mother welcomes her two children in her new and modest apartment for a weekend.
L'appartement

Living Here is a story made of solitude and wind, told with the poetry of Nunavik's stark tundra and the beauty of young Martha's words.