Two university students walk through a forest to complete a photography assignment.
Denise Zhang, Osman Kalay
Canada
2026
English
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Credits & Director
Producer
Antoine Bourges
Screenwriter
Antoine Bourges
Cinematography
Jeremy Cox
Editor
Lindsay Allikas
Antoine Bourges
Antoine Bourges is a Paris-born filmmaker whose work blends documentary and fiction, often examining human relationships within institutional settings. His films, including East Hastings Pharmacy (2012), Fail to Appear (2017), and Concrete Valley (2022) have screened at festivals including the Berlinale, TIFF, the Viennale, BAFICI, and Art of the Real, and have been released theatrically in Canada and internationally. In 2024, Bourges’s work was the subject of a retrospective at New York’s Metrograph Cinema.
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