Denis Côté

Denis Côté

Born in 1973 in New Brunswick, Canada he produced and directed 15 independent short films while working as a journalist and film critic from 1995 until 2005. His first feature film Les États Nordiques (2005) was awarded the video Golden Leopard in Locarno International Film Festival. Vic+Flo Saw A Bear won the Silver Bear for Innovation at Berlinale in 2013. Hygiène Sociale won the Best Director Award in the Encounters section at Berlinale in 2021. He was in competition at Cinéma du réel with Bestiaire (2012) and Joy of Man’s Desiring (2014).
In 2024, he received the Albert-Tessier Prize, the highest cinematic honor in Quebec, in recognition of his entire body of work.