Léa Pool was born and raised in Switzerland, before emigrating to Quebec in 1975 at the age of twenty-five. After studying communication, she taught cinema and video at UQAM, while producing TV programs and her first films. Esteemed by the public and the critics alike, the works she produced in the 80’s (Strass Café, La femme de l’hôtel, Anne Trister, À corps perdu), stood out at international festivals and already bear witness to the filmmaker’s favorite themes: quests for individual meaning, feminine trajectories, intimate relationships… Her fiction work of the 90’s cemented her place in Quebec cinematography while she started to veer towards documentary cinema. Over the past two decades, Léa Pool has produced several international co-productions, as well as her greatest public success: La passion d’Augustine (2015). Her work has been regularly honored around the world, earning her prestigious distinctions
Filmographie
HÔTEL SILENCE, Fiction, 2022
DOUBLE PEINE, Documentary, 2016
ET AU PIRE ON SE MARIERA, Fiction, 2016
LA PASSION D’AUGUSTINE, Fiction, 2015
PINK RIBBONS INC., Documentary, 2011
LA DERNIÈRE FUGUE, Fiction, 2009
MAMAN EST CHEZ LE COIFFEUR, Fiction, 2008
THE BLUE BUTTERFLY, Fiction, 2022
LOST AND DELIRIOUS, Fiction, 2000
EMPORTE-MOI, Fiction, 1999
GABRIELLE ROY, Documentary, 1998
LETTRE À MA FILLE, Fiction, 1996
MOUVEMENTS DU DÉSIR (DESIRE IN MOTION), Fiction, 1993
RISPONDETEMI (SEGMENT DU FILM MONTRÉAL VU PAR…), Fiction, 1992
LA DEMOISELLE SAUVAGE, Fiction, 1991
HOTEL CHRONICLES (DANS LE CADRE DE LA SÉRIE « PARLER D’AMÉRIQUE » DE L’ONF), Documentary, 1989
À CORPS PERDU, Fiction, 1988
ANNE TRISTER, Fiction, 1986
LA FEMME DE L’HÔTEL, Fiction, 1984
STRASS CAFÉ, Fiction, 1980
LAURENT LAMERRE, PORTIER, Fiction, 1978