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. 

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.

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 (Josué Suero), 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

Photo du realisateur

Bruno Chouinard

SEE COMPLETE PROFILE

A grad­u­ate of Uni­ver­sité de Mon­tréal and Georg August Uni­ver­si­ty of Göt­tin­gen, Bruno Chouinard is a visu­al artist and com­mit­ted film­mak­er. Author of four inter­na­tion­al­ly acclaimed doc­u­men­taries, includ­ing Pao­lo Ramoneur and Poud­ing Chômeurs, win­ner of the Jury Prize in Vicen­za, 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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