Where I'm From (2014)

1h 22m
Running Time

January 24, 2014
Release Date

Where I'm From

Where I'm From (2014)

1h 22m
Running Time

January 24, 2014
Release Date

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National Film Board of Canada
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Plot.

A CHILDHOOD. A NEIGHBORHOOD. AN ODE TO LIFE One-of-a-kind autobiography narrated and filmed with great sensibility and beauty. Its exceptional cinematic quality offers a visual treat to a Quebec rarely seen before. This poetic take on childhood memory transcends simple nostalgia for a sincere celebration of life. Claude Demers returns to the working-class district of Montréal where he grew up, and immediately wonders: Why? The rest of Where I'm From forms the answer. Demers tries to relive all the experiences he had for the first time as a child, or at least understand them: the first novel he read and the power of language. His first awareness of death. The question of what is normal and what isn’t. The idea of wanting to leave, of having to leave.

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Cast & Crew.

Janie-Luc Beauchamp-Francoeur

Janie-Luc Beauchamp-Francoeur

Bastien-Xavier Landy-Miron

Bastien-Xavier Landy-Miron

Pavel Pugachev

Pavel Pugachev

Colette Loumède

Colette Loumède

Producer

Esther Hageman

Esther Hageman

Alexandre Corbeil

Alexandre Corbeil

Composer

Benoît Poirier

Benoît Poirier

Karl Fontaine

Karl Fontaine

Details.

Release Date
January 24, 2014

Original Name
D'où je viens

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 22m

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Wiki.

Where I'm From (Original French title: D'où je viens) is a 2014 National Film Board of Canada documentary by Claude Demers, exploring his childhood in the working class city of Verdun, Quebec and contrasting his experiences with life today in Verdun, now a multi-cultural borough of Montreal.

Where I'm From focuses on two neighbourhood boys who serve as stand-ins for Demers as a child, as well as a variety of local characters. The film explores the changing face of Verdun as well as the filmmaker's anger and unhappiness as a child, due in part to his being adopted. The film also explores the powerful role that the Saint Lawrence River, which borders Verdun, has played in his own imaginative life growing up, as well as the lives of the children in his film.

Demers has stated that it also represented a creative risk to make a documentary film not based on interviews, as he had previously done, but rather a personal film that attempts to see life through the eyes of child.

Demers, who now lives in Mile End, Montreal, rented an apartment in his old neighbourhood for three months to regain a feel for the neighbourhood as he planned his shoot. During that process, five key themes emerged that became central to the film, according to the director: "Childhood. The relationship with nature. Faith. The words. And struggle. That was my guideline."

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