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Lea Pool

With her very personal vision, imbued with emotion, Léa Pool has established herself as one of Canada's great filmmakers. Her career is marked by major achievements, including The Woman in the Hotel, Anne Trister, invited to the Berlin Film Festival in official competition, À Corps perdu, La Demoiselle sauvage and Mouvements du désir which garnered 8 Genie Award nominations. Emporte-moi won several awards, including the Special Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 49th Berlin Film Festival and Lost and Delirious was presented at several festivals. With The Blue Butterfly, starring William Hurt, she made her first family film. Subsequently, she directed Maman est chez le coiffeur presented at the San Sebastian Film Festival, La dernière fugue based on the novel Une belle mort by Gil Courtemanche and Pink Ribbons Inc., a feature documentary for the NFB. La Passion d'Augustine in 2015 was critically acclaimed and a huge box office success. And at worst, we will get married, based on the novel by Sophie Bienvenu, was released in 2017. Hôtel Silence, adapted from the novel Ör by Audur Ava Olafsdottir, a Canadian-Swiss co-production, is his most recent work.