Breathe
FrenchRespire
Directed byOnur Karaman
Written byOnur Karaman
Produced byPatrick Bilodeau
Onur Karaman
StarringAmedamine Ouerghi
Frédéric Lemay
Mohammed Marouazi
CinematographySimon Lamarre-Ledoux
Edited byOnur Karaman
Music byFrédéric "Paco" Monnier
Production
companies
UGO Média
Karaman Productions
Distributed byK Films Amérique
Release date
Running time
90 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Breathe (French: Respire) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Onur Karaman and released in 2022.[1] The film centres on a Moroccan family of immigrants to Quebec, who have fallen on hard times when patriarch Atif (Mohammed Marouazi), a professional engineer, cannot secure a job in his field due to his lack of Canadian work experience and has been reduced to managing a restaurant; one day, however, his teenage son Fouad (Amedamine Ouerghi) is drawn into a racially-motivated conflict with Max (Frédéric Lemay), a pure laine québécois who blames immigrants for his lot in life.[2]

The cast also includes Claudia Bouvette, Vincent Fafard, Guillaume Laurin, Roger Léger and Houda Rihani.

The film premiered at the Cinemania film festival on November 7, 2022,[3] before going into commercial release on January 27, 2023.[2]

Awards

At Cinemania, it won the award for Best Quebec Film.[4]

Marouazi received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Performance in a Film at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Charles-Henri Ramond, "Respire – Film d’Onur Karaman". Films du Québec, January 22, 2023.
  2. 1 2 Jean Siag, "La rage au ventre". La Presse, January 27, 2023.
  3. ↑ "Les coups de cœur du programmateur du 28e festival Cinemania". Ici Radio-Canada, November 2, 2022.
  4. ↑ "Les films lauréats du festival Cinemania dévoilés". Ici Radio-Canada, November 14, 2022.
  5. ↑ Etan Vlessing, "Canadian Screen Awards: TV Drama ‘The Porter’ Leads With 19 Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter, February 22, 2023.
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