Directing
Yohann Thiou
Known for
Directing
Credits
9 titles
Yohann Thiou is a filmmaker based in Montreal. Their practice is rooted in Quebec’s independent film scene, where they develop an offbeat, sensitive, and deeply empathetic approach to storytelling. Drawing equally from genre cinema and the intimacy of mumblecore, their work moves between humour, strangeness, vulnerability, and the desire for connection. A child of the 1980s born a decade too late, Yohann is interested in characters on the margins, identities in motion, and the sometimes awkward ways people try to understand one another. Whether fictional or documentary, their stories foreground emotion, listening, and human complexity. Yohann graduated from the Institut des Métiers de l’Im…
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6.0It's wintertime and the sun isn't coming out, so Elisa is depressed. Her friend, Vincent, does not hear it that way. He thinks she just needs to get out of her darkened apartment. Determined to prove he's right, Vincent kidnaps an elderly psychiatrist and forces her to give Elisa a "therapy session".
Seasonal Depression
2019
1.0A fantasy anthology of 15 segments each dealing with a specific neighbourhood of Montreal and its signature idiosyncrasies. This terrifying tour-of-the-town captures neighbourhoods, buildings and iconic locations from North America's Amsterdam, shedding the straightforward storyline for a narrative melting-pot filled with demons, shadowy humanoids and disgusting otherworldly beings.
Montréal Dead End
2018
NRChristine has a weird dream, from which she may never wake up.
A Nightmare on Chocolate
2019
NRA retired superhero gives an interview.
Super Monsieur
2019
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Night Prowler
2017
NRLéanne spends the "Great Lockdown" at home, far from Gabrielle.
Contained
2020
Film credits
2010s · 1 titles
Behind the camera
6.0It's wintertime and the sun isn't coming out, so Elisa is depressed. Her friend, Vincent, does not hear it that way. He thinks she just needs to get out of her darkened apartment. Determined to prove he's right, Vincent kidnaps an elderly psychiatrist and forces her to give Elisa a "therapy session".
Seasonal Depression
2019
1.0A fantasy anthology of 15 segments each dealing with a specific neighbourhood of Montreal and its signature idiosyncrasies. This terrifying tour-of-the-town captures neighbourhoods, buildings and iconic locations from North America's Amsterdam, shedding the straightforward storyline for a narrative melting-pot filled with demons, shadowy humanoids and disgusting otherworldly beings.
Montréal Dead End
2018
NRChristine has a weird dream, from which she may never wake up.
A Nightmare on Chocolate
2019
NRA retired superhero gives an interview.
Super Monsieur
2019
NRA retired superhero gives an interview.
Super Monsieur
2019
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Night Prowler
2017
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Night Prowler
2017
NRLéanne spends the "Great Lockdown" at home, far from Gabrielle.
Contained
2020