THOSE WHO COME, WILL HEAR

Simon Plouffe

Directed by

Simon Plouffe

Languages

Abenaki, Atikamekw, Innu, Mohawk, Naskapi, Inuttitut, French, English

Produced by

Les Films de l'Autre

77 min, documentary, Quebec, Canada, 2017

“Those Who Come, Will Hear” proposes a unique meeting with the last remaining speakers of several indigenous languages of Quebec – all threatened with extinction.

Synopsis

Those Who Come, Will Hear proposes a unique meeting with the speakers of several indigenous and inuit languages of Quebec. The film starts with the discovery of these unsung tongues through listening to the daily life of those who still speak them today. Buttressed by an exploration and creation of archives, the film allows us to better understand the musicality of these languages and reveals the cultural and human importance of these venerable oral traditions by nourishing a collective reflection on the consequences of their disappearance.

 

Credits

Script and Direction : Simon Plouffe

Photography : Simon Plouffe, Stéphanie Weber-Biron, Gabriele Kislat

Editing : Natalie Lamoureux

Sound Design : Simon Plouffe

Sound Mixing : Jean Paul Vialard

Music : Geronimo Inutiq

Sound Recording : Lynne Trépanier, Cyril Bourseaux, Mélanie Gauthier, Shikuan Shetush Vollant, Simon Plouffe, Simon Léveillé

Production : Les Films de l’Autre

 

Financial Partners

Les Films de L’Autre

SODEC

Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Aide au Cinéma Indépendant Canadien (ACIC)

PRIM

Simon Plouffe

Simon Plouffe lives and works as a filmmaker in Montreal / Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang. He studied screenwriting at UQAM and cinema at Concordia University. His film Others’ Gold (2011) was shown at Dok.Fest Munich and Big Sky Film Festival. Those Who Come, Will Hear (2018) won the Jury Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and Best Sound at the Gala Québec Cinéma in 2019. His short exploratory documentary Forests (2022) was screened at festivals including Krakow Film Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival, and was featured at the Hong-gah Museum in Taiwan. It won the Art and Experimentation Award at Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma and the Jury Award at Trento, Italy, in 2023. His latest documentary, Seeing Through the Darkness, is set to be released in 2024.

 

Filmography

SEEING THROUGH THE DARKNESS, 93 min, Documentary, 2024

FORESTS, 16 min, Documentary, 2022

THOSE WHO COME, WILL HEAR, 77 min, Documentary, 2017

OTHERS’ GOLD, 60 min, Documentary, 2011