
Emilie Mannering
Directing
Biography
Emilie Mannering is a self-taught filmmaker from Montreal. Her award-winning short films have been screened in over 100 local and international competitions. She has been nominated twice at the Canadian Screen Awards for Best Canadian Short Fiction (STAR and Mahalia Melts In The Rain) and once at the Gala des prix Iris du cinéma Québécois (STAR). Emilie has also participated in the TIFF Talent Lab and her most recent film Jarvik recently won the Region Skåne Short Film Award in Sweden and was selected by TIFF Canada's Top Ten.
Known For
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La base : Lex & Wasiu

Dara returns home to reconnect with her husband and her young daughter, whom she left two years earlier. When she arrives, she discovers that a woman who is seven months pregnant has taken her place and that her daughter no longer recognizes her.
Like a House on Fire

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Les Brutes

Jojo, a widower and single father, divides his time between the barbershop and his sons Olivier and Randy. When his life turned upside down again, he will have no choice but to confront his reality. Inspired by the memories and words of a loving mother, the trio will try to rebuild.
Ça prend pas la tchas à Papineau

A teenager who longs to just be a teenager must instead spend the last days of summer helping her family cope with a recent loss as well as her younger brother’s health crisis.
Jarvik

Championed in her sporting activities by her teenage brother, Pierre-Amelia’s innocent world shatters when her experience among an elite soccer team of older girls precipitates her sexual awakening and reveals an unsuspected desire for her brother. 'Blaze' delicately explores the taboo of forbidden desire in an adolescent world where nascent passions are often at odds with social norms.
Blaze

Following a hard break up, Cesar feels nothing. On the day of his 30th birthday, he asks one thing and one thing only, from the people he meets: their testimonial on unconditional love in front of his camera. Throughout his interviews the young artist tries to understand a question that haunts him: how to love?
À la vie à l'amor

Tito and Jay are two brothers living in the Montreal neighborhood of Park Extension. Accompanying these young people in their daily life marked by complicity and intimidation, Star tackles themes dear to teenagers: identity and friendship.
Star

Mahalia, a timid 9-year-old black girl, feels different from the other girls in her ballet class. Hoping to boost her confidence, her mother brings her to the hair salon to get her hair straightened for the very first time.