Homles

HOMLES fol­lows Steeve, a for­mer Jeho­vah’s Wit­ness cast out by his par­ents, who now lives and works as a bar­ber from his van on the streets of Montreal. 
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SYNOPSIS

When Steeve was a young adult, his parents — members of Jehovah's Witnesses — isolated him from the rest of the world before abruptly throwing him out on the streets. Today, he is still there. This unconventional barber lives and works out of his van, named HOMLES, which he parks here and there — sometimes more or less legally — in and around Montreal. His clients and friends gather around it, forming a community in his image: musicians, skaters, punks, and other outsiders who populate his daily life of freedom and wandering, bad luck and gratitude. A portrait of a resolutely free nonconformist, HOMLES speaks to resilience and one individual's quest — a former member of a religious cult — and offers a meditation on uprootedness, rupture, and nomadism.

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Thématiques : Portrait, Precarity, Urbanity

DETAILS

Director | , Bruno Chouinard
Year | , 2026
Country | , Québec
Duration | 96 minutes
Original language | , French
Subtitles | , English
Sound design | Bruno Bélanger
Music | Boundary (Boundary), Jessica Moss, Mathieu David Gagnon, Reuben And The Dark, Reuben Bullock
Editing | Bruno Chouinard, Marc Boucrot
Screenplay | Bruno Chouinard
Cinematographer | Philémon Crête
Producer | Bruno Chouinard

RÉALISATION

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Bruno Chouinard

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Grad­u­ate of Arts & Let­ters from Uni­ver­sité de Mon­tréal and Georg-August Uni­ver­si­ty in Göt­tin­gen, Ger­many, he is a visu­al artist who has exhib­it­ed in gal­leries and muse­ums in Que­bec, Cana­da, the Unit­ed States, and Ger­many. Bruno Chouinard has direct­ed and pro­duced five films. In 2010, he direct­ed the exper­i­men­tal short film No Man’s Land. In 2012, Pao­lo Chim­ney Sweep trav­eled inter­na­tion­al­ly across four con­ti­nents. Fol­low­ing a World Pre­miere at RIDM in Mon­tre­al in 2015, Requiem for Unem­ploy­ment won Best Fea­ture Film in the Jury Prize cat­e­go­ry at the Work­ing Title Film Fes­ti­val in Vicen­za, Italy, in 2016.

In Novem­ber 2021, Stray Ducks had its Nation­al Pre­miere at RIDM and its Inter­na­tion­al Pre­miere at the Fes­ti­val dei Popoli in Flo­rence, Italy.

HOMLES is his fifth film.

CAREER

Festival de Cinéma de la Ville de Québec (FCVQ), 2026
Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, 2026

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