Nadia Louis-Desmarchais
Nadia Louis-Desmarchais is an Afro-feminist director who aspires to give a voice to those who are too often unheard. She has directed several documentary short films, including Raconte-Moi mon corps, Urban, and the controversial Rated X, which where selected in many festivals. She directed her first webseries, Les météorites, who was also awarded at the prestigious Festival de la Fiction de La Rochelle. Recomposées is her first documentary feature that she both directed and scripted. With a deep and unique sensitivity in her artistic approach, Nadia writes and directs intimate narratives that she believes give cinema its universal power.
FILMOGRAPHY
Le monde est à Elles - 2023
Nid d’Oiseau - 2022
Dors-tu - 2021
Urban - 2020
Rated X - 2019
FILMS SHOWN
Raised in a white adoptive family, a young Métis filmmaker explores the internalized and normalized racism that surrounds her, in an emotional and introspective quest through which she seeks to recompose the identity and family puzzle that is hers.
CSE 2022
Short documentary film about Naila Rabel and her relationship with her body as she had to navigate the stigma that fat people face in our society growing up.