People

Marianne Métivier

Canada

Biography

Marianne Métivier is a Canadian-Filipina screenwriter and director from Montréal. Her short film She Who Wears the Rain (2019) was selected at the Berlinale Shorts Competition in 2020. She is currently developing her first documentary Back Home and her first fiction feature The Splendour of Life, selected at the TIFF Filmmaker Lab 2021, where she received the TIFF Worb Fellowship and at the FeatureLab 2023 - TorinoFilmLab. Her work mainly explores the sense of belonging to places and our relationship to the intangible.

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