Jules au pays d'Asha

Sophie Farkas Bolla

Born in Montreal in 1983, Sophie FARKAS BOLLA developed an early interest in the visual arts. She earned a degree in Film Production from Concordia University in 2006, during which she directed four short films, including the award-winning Visageôscope (2005) and Once Upon a Time, I Can’t Remember (2006). Between 2009 and 2015, she directed three more short films: Les Chroniques de l’autre, Istvan et la truite à fourrure, and Au temps des montres (2015).

In parallel, Sophie wrote two feature-length fiction scripts: Nagypapa, a family saga with wild and quirky humour, and Jules au Pays d’Asha, a tale for all ages about a young boy in 1940 caught between reality and imagination. The latter was filmed during the summer of 2021 and is set to be released in 2022.

When not working on her own projects, Sophie also works as a film editor. In 2018, she was nominated for an Iris Award for Best Documentary Editing for Danae Elon’s P.S. Jerusalem. Among the many fiction and documentary films she has edited are the award-winning Antoine (2009) by Laura Bari, Angry Inuk (2016) by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Ma fille n’est pas à vendre (2017) by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, Les routes en février (2018) by Katherine Jerkovic, and more recently, Beans (2021) by Tracey Deer.