DENIS CÔTÉ

Denis Côté is a Canadian filmmaker with a background in journalism and film criticism. He has made fifteen short films which have screened at numerous festivals around the world. His first feature, Drifting States (2005) won the Pardo d’oro in the Video Competition at the Locarno Festival. Next, he directed Our Private Lives (2007), and All That She Wants (2008) which won the Best Direction Award at Locarno, as did Curling in 2010. Carcasses (2009) was screened in the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes while Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (2013) won the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize in Berlin. His work has been the subject of more than twenty international retrospectives.