



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