Denis Côté - Director
BioBorn in New Brunswick in 1973, he began making short films after completing his studies in Cinema. While working as a film critic, Denis Côté finished his first feature-length film in 2005, Les états Nordiques (Drifting States). The film won the Golden Leopard Award at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland, and after three years, All That She Wants won the Silver Leopard Award. Carcasses (2009) was presented at the Directors’ Fortnight at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
His films have been shown at more than twenty retrospectives throughout the world. Wilcox (2019) will be Denis Côté’s 12th feature-length film, following great films such Vic+Flo ont vu un ours (Vic+Flo Saw a Bear), and A Skin So Soft, previously presented at TIFF.