The film is sensitive, steady, but also quite funny in parts, with Bourges careful to balance the ever-present anxiety of Rashid and Farah’s marriage with the gentle humour that can come from, say, attending dry-as-paint English lessons or struggling to connect with neighbours who are just as lost as anybody else.
“I tried working in production companies back in France, but the fact is that the films I want to make are, let’s say, less traditional,” says Bourges, who moved back to Canada to study film at the University of British Columbia, where he now teaches film production.premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival and featured a lead performance from future Canadian cinema indie star Deragh Campbell – Bourges began to consider what his next production might be.