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Nancy Grant is a French-Québécois Canadian film producer. She was born in the small village of Petit-Matane, on the Gaspé Peninsula in the north of Quebec, Canada. She has produced multiple projects with several Quebec filmmakers including Maxime Giroux, Xavier Dolan, Denis Côté, and Anne Émond. Her recent productions include Tom at the Farm (2013), Mommy (2014), and Félix et Meira (2014), which have received numerous awards at institutions including the Toronto International Film Festival, Alfred Bauer Berlin International Film Festival, Academy Awards, and Cannes Film Festival. In 2014, she was awarded Best Motion Picture for Mommy at the Canadian Screen Awards.
Birthplace
Matane, Quebec, Canada
Filmography
46 films, 1 show


Closing Night
2026
country: Canada
A celebrated actress's life begins to unravel on the eve of her greatest performance. When her sister April arrives in New York after a 30-year estrangement, the stage is set for a tense family confrontation.


The Nature of Love
2023 · 1h 50m
country: Canada
Sophia is a philosophy professor in Montreal and has lived as a couple with Xavier for 10 years. Sylvain is a carpenter in the Laurentians and must renovate their country house. When Sophia meets Sylvain for the first time, it’s love at first sight. Opposites attract, but can it last?


Falcon Lake
2022 · 1h 40m
country: Canada
A shy teenager on a summer vacation experiences the joy and pain of young adulthood when he forges an unlikely bond with an older girl.


Matthias & Maxime
2019 · 2h
country: Canada
Two childhood best friends are asked to share a kiss for the purposes of a student short film. Soon, a lingering doubt sets in, confronting both men with their preferences, threatening the brotherhood of their social circle, and, eventually, changing their lives.


A Brother’s Love
2019 · 1h 57m
country: Canada
Sophia, a brilliant doctoral student, has always maintained a symbiotic relationship with her brother Karim. The arrival of a new lover in Karim’s life significantly alters their dynamic.


The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
2019 · 2h 3m
country: Canada
A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces about the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.


The Great Darkened Days
2019 · 1h 35m
country: Canada
While a world war rages, Philippe, a draft-dodger from Quebec, takes refuge in the American West, surviving by competing in Charlie Chaplin impersonation contests. As Philippe makes his long journey home, he encounters various characters under the sway of a destructive madness borne of the chaotic times. His voyage, both violent and fascinating, is a hallucinatory initiation to the darker side of the American dream.


Pisces
2017 · 14m
country: Canada
Two childhood friends, each held captive in time by a tragic moment, travel through the world of memory to find their respective path to freedom.


Lira's Forest
2017 · 9m
country: Canada
As the end of her life approaches, an old woman encounters a strange spirit from a nearby forest.


Shambles
2017 · 1h 31m
country: Canada
Caught stealing drugs from the wrong people, 27 year old Vincent is in trouble and on the run from the local mob. Fleeing to the backwoods, Vincent unexpectedly reconnects with his brother Michel with whom he’d cut ties many years ago. As he tries to maintain the semblance of a normal life hanging out with friends and playing in his band, Vincent witnesses his brother's own turbulent downward spiral.


It's Only the End of the World
2016 · 1h 39m
country: Canada
Louis, a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying.


Boris Without Beatrice
2016 · 1h 33m
country: Canada
Living somewhere in present-day Quebec, Boris Malinowski has achieved all his goals. A freethinker, open-minded and proud, he also displays a certain arrogance when it comes to his successes. For some time now, his wife Béatrice, a Canadian government minister, has been bedridden, suffering from a mysterious depression. To escape from his wife’s agony, Boris begins a relationship with a colleague, Helga, and gets close to Klara, a young woman who works as a maid in Boris’s home. The sudden appearance of a stranger in his life forces Boris to come face-to-face with the world, with everything he takes for granted, with all his certainties.


Our Loved Ones
2015 · 1h 42m
country: Canada
1978. In a small village in Bas-St-Laurent, Guy’s tragic death is a shock for the Leblanc family. For many years, the real cause of his death is kept hidden from some members of the family, including his son David. The latter in turn starts his own family with his wife Marie. He lovingly raises his children Laurence and Frédéric, but deep within him harbours a persistent melancholy.


Felix and Meira
2015 · 1h 45m
country: Canada
A young married woman from Montreal's Orthodox Jewish community finds freedom from the strictures of her faith through her relationship with a young man who is mourning the death of his estranged father.


Mommy
2014 · 2h 18m
country: Canada
A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.
Jeu d’enfant
Jeu d’enfant
2014
country: Canada
At dawn, Catherine follows her father in the wood. Under his command she works. Forced by the family heritage, she is tired by injustices. With immature mischiefs, she yells her misfortune to the face of an overwhelmed father. This little girl’s fierceness and bad temper will lead the discovery her true being. Thinking of herself as invincible, she will soon be alone, left at the mercy of her fears.


Joy of Man's Desiring
2014 · 1h 10m
country: Canada
Que ta joie demeure is not a documentary about being a slave to the machine, alienation, dehumanisation or exploitation. Sound and image, editing and dramatic structure are merely employed to transpose workshops and factory floors into the cinematic space so as to explore the bizarre environments that workers adapt to and with which they skillfully interact, as if humanity had never done anything else since time immemorial.


An Extraordinary Person
2013 · 29m
country: Canada
A 30 year-old scholar, intelligent and beautiful yet socially crippled, is forced to attend a bachelorette party where her quest for authenticity leads to an unavoidable confrontation with old acquaintances.


Diego Star
2013 · 1h 31m
country: Canada
A cargo ship is stuck on the Canadian Saint Lawrence River for repairs. Traoré, an Ivory Coast mechanic is unjustly accused of causing the damage.
Head Down
Head Down
2013 · 28m
country: Canada
Head Down casts an atypical view on the solitude, melancholy and marginality in the daily life of three girls.


Acrobat
2012 · 30m
country: Canada
The fixations and the consequences of our pursuit of instant communication and popular culture are exposed as a plotless panorama of our daily obsessions, desires and identities captures a sense of things slowly slipping out of control.


Struggle
2012 · 24m
country: Canada
Ariane lives in Val-d'Or. Soon, she'll be moving to the big city. She's preparing to leave everything behind. As she bids farewell to her brother, the sexual tension that has always hung between them seems to be taking over...


Night #1
2011 · 1h 29m
country: Canada
It starts as a one night stand that evolves in a long discussion with infinite subjects between a québécoise and an immigrant.


Laurentia
2011 · 2h
country: Canada
A young quebecer descends into alienation and depression.


Nothing Else
2011
country: Canada


Silence Lies
2010
country: Canada
Depuis une sérieuse dispute avec son frère Fred, qui lui servait de modèle, Viviane, photographe professionnelle, a mis en veilleuse ses ambitions artistiques. Or, le hasard lui fait rencontrer Guillaume, un jeune mécanicien dont la photogénie naturelle l'inspire. Réticent, ce dernier se laisse convaincre de poser pour Viviane qui, retrouvant son énergie créatrice, fait de lui le sujet d'un projet d'exposition. Bientôt, l'artiste constate que le jeune homme, qui vit toujours chez ses parents, porte les stigmates d'un douloureuse expérience familiale, qui le rend asocial et autodestructeur. Tout en cherchant à percer le mystère de Guillaume, Viviane tente un rapprochement avec son frère.


Opening Up
2010 · 19m
country: Canada
Gabrielle is 16. She inflicts pain to herself, cut herself. Her father doesn’t understand why. At the hospital she meet Étienne, who suffers from an accidental injury. With him, she doesn't have to explain anything.


Cinema for the Blind
2010 · 20m
country: Canada
Driven by an image which will not leave him, Philémon takes a room at the Hôtel de la Mer. This unseemly boarding house contains a «cinema for the blind«, where the interior drama of the residents is secretly projected. Philémon slips, step by step, into a mute dream, where he attemps to lose sight of himself.


Félix et Malou
2010 · 15m
country: Canada
Felix and Malou are two neighbors in a small village with large fields. Each family, each with its problems of adolescents of thirteen. But between the two houses, through their differences, Felix and Malou are found ... and survive.


Will You Be Home Tonight?
2008 · 26m
country: Unknown
Suzanne is nearly fifty. She lives alone with Raphaëlle, her twenty year old daughter. Despairing that she will never again find love, Suzanne resolves to have plastic surgery done on her breasts. Raphaëlle is disturbed by her mother’s decision, while Suzanne worries about her daughter’s romantic life.