Breathe (2022 film)

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Breathe
French Respire
Directed by Onur Karaman
Written byOnur Karaman
Produced byPatrick Bilodeau
Onur Karaman
StarringAmedamine Ouerghi
Frédéric Lemay
Mohammed Marouazi
CinematographySimon Lamarre-Ledoux
Edited byOnur Karaman
Music byFrédéric "Paco" Monnier
Production
companies
UGO Média
Karaman Productions
Distributed byK Films Amérique
Release date
Running time
90 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Breathe (French : Respire) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Onur Karaman and released in 2022. [1] The film centres on a Moroccan family of immigrants to Quebec, who have fallen on hard times when patriarch Atif (Mohammed Marouazi), a professional engineer, cannot secure a job in his field due to his lack of Canadian work experience and has been reduced to managing a restaurant; one day, however, his teenage son Fouad (Amedamine Ouerghi) is drawn into a racially-motivated conflict with Max (Frédéric Lemay), a pure laine québécois who blames immigrants for his lot in life. [2]

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The cast also includes Claudia Bouvette, Vincent Fafard, Guillaume Laurin, Roger Léger and Houda Rihani.

The film premiered at the Cinemania film festival on November 7, 2022, [3] before going into commercial release on January 27, 2023. [2]

Awards

At Cinemania, it won the award for Best Quebec Film. [4]

Marouazi received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Performance in a Film at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023. [5]

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