Directing

Kacim Azouz Steets

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Someone's Daughter poster
NR

A criminal defence lawyer, Sam, (Pascale Bussières, Ma Vie en cinémascope, When Night is Falling), finds herself kidnapped and abandoned on a remote island along with former client Paul (François Arnaud, Heated Rivalry, Fucktoys, The Borgias), who she previously cleared of sexual assault charges. As they make their way through the unrelenting Canadian wilderness, Paul’s behaviour forces Sam to question the man she once defended. As doubt gives way to fear, she finds herself facing a choice no lawyer should ever have to make.

Someone's Daughter

2026

FOG poster
NR

Lost in a fog-shrouded forest, an amnesiac man becomes trapped at the border of two imaginary countries. Confined to a tent in the no-man's-land while authorities try to identify him, he begins to sense a mysterious connection between the officers guarding the line. Through this liminal standoff, Fog examines the absurdity of borders and identity.

FOG

When Love Digs a Hole poster
7.5

A troubled teenager falls in love with Florence, his 73-year-old neighbor.

When Love Digs a Hole

2018

Hurricane F.Y.T. poster
9.0

Montreal, 1991. Delphis, 11 years old, grows up in a disadvantaged neighborhood and an unstable family environment. One evening, he decides to take control of his life and becomes The Hurricane. Armed with a lightning bolt on his headband and his middle finger held high, he flees a world that has no place for him. With the police and the Youth Protection Services on his trail, he leaves a mother in distress and has significant encounters in the street. Conquering himself, his adventure is like a road trip, from Hochelag' to Berri, from one family to another. Under the impetus of a hasty adolescence, his freedom thumbs his nose at the indifference towards the marginalized. Social etiquettes burst forth in an assertive tone and sustained rhythm. Between punk music and Marjo, The Hurricane hits us in the face, without waiting to die!

Hurricane F.Y.T.

2024

What We Inherit poster
NR

After discovering his ancestors were both pioneers and enslavers, Kacim journeys through the complexities of his American and Algerian heritage, confronting histories of conquest, slavery, and the weight of an inherited legacy.

What We Inherit

2025

I Think You've Been Looking for Me poster
NR

After 48 years of emotional longing, a mother meets her son who she relinquished at birth. In the months after the reunion, Dorothy and Joe must overcome nearly five decades of separation in order to reconnect.

I Think You've Been Looking for Me

2018