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Telefilm Canada invests $17.8 million in 12 feature films for the French market

01 May 2025

Telefilm Canada has announced the titles of 12 feature-length films receiving a total of $17,750,000 in funding, under its Production Program for the French market, in both the big budget and low budget streams. The selected projects appeal to a wide range of audiences, from children’s films and historical dramas to comedies and dramas. This represents 65 per cent of Telefilm’s annual budget for financing French-language films. The balance of the budget will be allocated following the second application deadline. 

Ce qu’on respire sur Tatouine (comedy)
Screenwriter and director: Ian Lagarde
Production: Gabrielle Tougas Fréchette
Distribution: Maison 4:3 and Best Friend Forever  

Créatures du hasard (drama)
Screenwriter and director: Nadine Gomez
Production: Rocio Barba Fuentes and Giacomo Nudi
Distribution: H264

Folichonneries (comedy)  
Screenwriters: Alexandre Auger and Éric K. Boulianne  
Director: Éric K. Boulianne   
Production: Hany Ouichou, Laurie Pominville and Éric K. Boulianne  
Distribution: Entract Films  

Hantée (comedy)  
Screenwriter: India Desjardins  
Director: Rafaël Ouellet  
Production: Guillaume Lespérance  
Distribution: Immina Films  

Histoire de fous (action/adventure)  
Screenwriter: Émilie Rosas  
Directors: Émilie Rosas and Christine Dallaire-Dupont  
Production: Nancy Florence Savard  
Distribution: Maison 4:3  

La fille du manguier (drama)  
Screenwriter and director: Marilyn Cooke   
Production: Kélyna N. Lauzier
Distribution: H264 

Le prince (mystery/crime/police)
Screenwriter and director: Nicolas Krief  
Production: Julie Groleau, Toufik Ayadi, and Christophe Barral   
Distribution: H264 
*Canada/France Coproduction 

Le sablier (drama)   
Screenwriter and director: ​Kim Nguyen 
Production:​ Pierre Even   
Distribution: ​Les Films Opale   
*Canada/Spain Coproduction 

Les filles du Roy (historical drama)  
Screenwriters: Pascal Plante and Dominique Dussault  
Director: Pascal Plante  
Production: Dominique Dussault and Stéphanie Morissette  
Distribution: Entract Films 
*Canada/France Coproduction 

Pauline Julien : Femme pays (historical drama)  
Screenwriters: Véronique Côté and Anaïs Barbeau-Lavallette 
Director: Anaïs Barbeau-Lavallette
Production: Étienne Hansez
Distribution: Axia Films

Sortie de zone (comedy)  
Screenwriter: Jean-François Léger  
Directors: Louis Morissette and Rachel Graton  
Production: Marie-Claude Beaulieu and Louis-Philippe Drolet  
Distribution: Les Films Opale / KO Distribution  

Violence du corps de l’autre (drama)  
Screenwriter and director: Denis Côté  
Production: Guillaume Vasseur 
Distribution: H264

Telefilm continues to receive an increasing number of applications for its Production Program year after year. To date, a total of 85 applications were assessed under the big budget and low budget streams in the French market, representing over $131 million in funding requests.

Telefilm will announce other funding decisions, including films titles in the English-language market, in the coming weeks. Statistics on all films funded in the year will be published in the 2025-2026 Annual Report. 

An advisory committee composed of external and internal representatives has evaluated the projects and made its recommendations. The decision-making process is designed to ensure that Telefilm funds a balanced production portfolio reflecting a variety of genres, budgets, company sizes, regions of the country, and perspectives. A list of the selection committee members will be posted on Telefilm’s Project Financing Advisory Committees page once all funding decisions have been made.

About Telefilm Canada 

As a Partner of Choice, Telefilm Canada is a Crown corporation dedicated to the success of Canada’s audiovisual industry, fostering access and excellence by delivering programs that support cultural resonance and audience engagement. With a lens of equity, inclusivity and sustainability, Telefilm bolsters dynamic companies and a range of creative talent at home and around the world. Telefilm also makes recommendations regarding the certification of audiovisual coproduction treaties to the Minister of Canadian Heritage, and administers the programs of the Canada Media Fund. Launched in 2012, the Talent Fund raises private donations which principally support emerging talent. Visit telefilm.ca and follow us on LinkedIn,  X, Facebook,Instagram and Letterboxd.  

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Media contact: 

Joyce Richards   
Advisor, Strategic Communications
Telefilm Canada    
Joyce.Richards@telefilm.ca