| Breathe | |
|---|---|
| French | Respire |
| Directed by | Onur Karaman |
| Written by | Onur Karaman |
| Produced by | Patrick Bilodeau Onur Karaman |
| Starring | Amedamine Ouerghi Frédéric Lemay Mohammed Marouazi |
| Cinematography | Simon Lamarre-Ledoux |
| Edited by | Onur Karaman |
| Music by | Frédéric "Paco" Monnier |
Production companies | UGO Média Karaman Productions |
| Distributed by | K Films Amérique |
Release date |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | French |
Breathe (French: Respire) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Onur Karaman and released in 2022.[1] The film centres on a Moroccan family of immigrants to Quebec, who have fallen on hard times when patriarch Atif (Mohammed Marouazi), a professional engineer, cannot secure a job in his field due to his lack of Canadian work experience and has been reduced to managing a restaurant; one day, however, his teenage son Fouad (Amedamine Ouerghi) is drawn into a racially-motivated conflict with Max (Frédéric Lemay), a pure laine québécois who blames immigrants for his lot in life.[2]
The cast also includes Claudia Bouvette, Vincent Fafard, Guillaume Laurin, Roger Léger and Houda Rihani.
The film premiered at the Cinemania film festival on November 7, 2022,[3] before going into commercial release on January 27, 2023.[2]