Nicolas Krief

Nicolas Krief is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec. ^[1] He is most noted as co-writer with Henry Bernadet and Isabelle Brouillette of the 2023 film Gamma Rays (Les Rayons gammma), for which they received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the 13th Canadian Screen Awards in 2025. ^[2]

He previously directed a number of short films, and was cowriter of the films The Decline (Jusqu'au déclin) ^[3] and Very Nice Day (Très belle journée). ^[4]

His short film Opération Carcajou won the Prix Télé-Québec at the 2021 Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival. ^[5] In the same year, he began developing Carcajou, an expansion of the short film which will mark his full-length directorial debut. ^[6]

Filmography

• Séfarade - 2012, director and writer
• The Notion of Mistake (La Notion d'erreur) - 2016, director and writer
• Games of Patience - 2017, director and writer
• Skynet - 2018, director and writer
• The Decline (Jusqu'au déclin) - 2020, writer
• Opération Carcajou - 2021, director and writer
• Very Nice Day (Très belle journée) - 2022, writer
• Gamma Rays (Les Rayons gammma), 2023, writer

References

1. Frédéric Bouchard, "Nicolas Krief prépare son premier long métrage". Qui Fait Quoi, October 8, 2021.
2. Charles-Henri Ramond, "Écrans canadiens 2025: les nominations". Films du Québec, March 27, 2025.
3. Rob Hunter, "Preppers Are People Too In the Thrilling and Effective ‘The Decline’". Film School Rejects , May 4, 2020.
4. Marc-André Lussier, "Tout est dans le style". La Presse , May 6, 2022.
5. "Tombée du rideau et dévoilement des lauréats au 40e FCIAT". CHLM-FM, November 5, 2021.
6. Andrew Mack, "Frontières 2021: Shorts to Features Projects, Taking Small Ideas And Making Them Bigger". Screen Anarchy , August 5, 2021.

External links

• Nicolas Krief at IMDb