Ailleurs la nuit (Elsewhere at Night)
Le Foyer Films / h264 Distribution
From countryside stillness to urban insomnia, strangers' lives intersect, torn between staying and leaving. Bound by dreams and silent longings, they search for a new beginning.
✼ Best Screeplay Award, Feature Films Competition, Torino Film Festival — 2025
✼ New Directors Competition, Mostra International de Cinema de São Paulo — 2025
✼ National Competition, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma — 2025
✼ FeatureLab 2023 — Torino Film Lab
✼ Coproduction Forum Europe-Amérique latine, San Sebastian 2022
✼ TIFF Filmmaker Lab 2021 — Recipient TIFF Worb Filmmaker Fellowship
✼ Rencontres de Coproduction Francophone, Bruxelles 2021
✼ Pitch Netflix X FNC 2021
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Back Home
In post-production, Metafilms X Archipelago ︎ Coproduction CAN/PH
Back Home explores the reality of migrant mothers from the Philippines living in Montreal, through the observation of the balikbayan tradition, a big cardboard box containing gifts sent to their families overseas. The film takes an intimate look at the notion of care, separation and sense of belonging to their native land.
✼ Talent Lab RIDM 2020 — Recipient of Developpement Grant
Le Foyer Films / h264 Distribution
From countryside stillness to urban insomnia, strangers' lives intersect, torn between staying and leaving. Bound by dreams and silent longings, they search for a new beginning.
✼ Best Screeplay Award, Feature Films Competition, Torino Film Festival — 2025
✼ New Directors Competition, Mostra International de Cinema de São Paulo — 2025
✼ National Competition, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma — 2025
✼ FeatureLab 2023 — Torino Film Lab
✼ Coproduction Forum Europe-Amérique latine, San Sebastian 2022
✼ TIFF Filmmaker Lab 2021 — Recipient TIFF Worb Filmmaker Fellowship
✼ Rencontres de Coproduction Francophone, Bruxelles 2021
✼ Pitch Netflix X FNC 2021

Back Home
In post-production, Metafilms X Archipelago ︎ Coproduction CAN/PH
Back Home explores the reality of migrant mothers from the Philippines living in Montreal, through the observation of the balikbayan tradition, a big cardboard box containing gifts sent to their families overseas. The film takes an intimate look at the notion of care, separation and sense of belonging to their native land.
✼ Talent Lab RIDM 2020 — Recipient of Developpement Grant
(c) Ariane Falardeau St-Amour